Elements and Performance Criteria

Work involves managing personal presentation, learning and career options, developing personal conflict management skills and health and fitness plan
Career planning includes researching personal expectations and potential career paths within and beyond the team including national and international opportunities. This includes career paths associated with the motorsport industry
Managing personal learning includes research into different learning styles, determining personal preferences and devising strategies to use these preferences to increase the effectiveness of personal learning
Health includes principles of fitness in a motorsport environment, nutrition, the impact of legal and illegal drugs on body functioning and performance and stress management
Conflict management strategies include those related to workshop and event environments

OH&S requirements include State/Territory and Commonwealth legislation, material safety management systems, controlling body requirements, manufacturer specifications and local safe operating procedures
Work requires individuals to demonstrate discretion, judgement and analysis skills in determining personal needs and preferences and evaluating personal input

Controlling body rules, category rules and supplementary regulations
Team policies and procedures relating to representing the team in public
Team procedures relating to reporting and communication

Critical aspects of evidence
Interpret and apply team standards and expectations

Demonstrate personal presentation and conduct to team expectations for a minimum duration of one (1) day on at least three (3) occasions in motorsport environments including:

workshop
competition event
promotional activity
Each environment must be covered at least once

Produce a personal resume including detailed statements of:

qualifications and training
experience in the motorsport industry
relevant experience beyond the motorsport industry
testimony from employers, colleagues or training bodies

Produce a personal health and fitness plan including detailed statements of:

a minimum of three (3) strategies for managing nutrition needs. Each strategy must demonstrate a knowledge of recommended nutritional intake
a minimum of three (3) strategies for increasing personal fitness. Strategies must address at least one (1) of flexibility, cardio-vascular fitness, muscular strength and endurance
a minimum of three (3) stress management strategies

Develop a minimum of three (3) conflict resolution strategies, in situations covering:

tight timeframes or extended working hours
differing expectations
different working styles
appropriate persons external to the team
Working with and around other team members
Work effectively with others
Modify activities to cater for variations in workplace context and environment

Underpinning knowledge
Team roles, responsibilities and relationships
Motorsport sectors and categories
Goal setting methods (e.g. SMART - specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timely)
Personal presentation (including hair, clothes, personal hygiene, posture, body language and speech)
Resume/CV development
Learning styles and the impact of appropriate persons with different learning styles working together in normal and pressure environments
Positive and negative effects of personal attitudes in a motorsport environment
Communication principles and techniques
Group dynamics in high-pressure environments
Conflict management strategies and techniques
Human nutritional requirements, food groups and their effect on the human body including specific nutritional requirements for functioning in a motorsport environment
The impact of legal and illegal drugs on the human body and their implications in motorsport
Principles of physical fitness and fitness requirement for functioning effectively in a motorsport environment

Specific key competencies, underpinning and employability skills required to achieve the performance criteria
These include a number of processes that are learned throughout work and life, which are required in most jobs. Some of these are covered by the national key competencies, although others may be added. The details below highlight how these competencies are to be applied in the attainment of this unit.

Application of the key competencies in this unit are to satisfy the nominated level in which:

Level 1 - relates to working effectively within set conditions and processes;
Level 2 - relates to the management or facilitation of conditions or processes; and
Level 3 - relates to the design, development and evaluation of conditions or process.
How will the candidate apply the following key competency in this unit? The candidate will need to:

Collect, analyse and organise information
Collect, organise and understand information related to team roles and relationships, learning styles, health and nutrition, communication and conflict resolution.
(Level 2)

Communicate ideas and information
Communicate ideas and information to enable development of conflict management strategies and effective ways for working with other team members.
(Level 2)

Plan and organise activities
Plan and organise activities including research into learning styles, career options, conflict management strategies and nutrition and physical fitness requirements.
(Level 2)

Work with others and in a team
Work with others and in a team by recognising dependencies and using cooperative approaches to optimise information flow and communication.
(Level 2)

Use mathematical ideas and techniques
Use mathematical ideas and techniques to estimate the financial and time wastage impact of inefficient working strategies.
(Level 1)

Solve problems
Use scenario planning techniques to assist in determining career choices and knowledge of group dynamics to anticipate potential conflict situations and plan management strategies.
(Level 3)

Use technology
Use workplace technology to assist research and store information.
(Level 1)

Resource implications
Access to job/role descriptions and documentation of team procedures and processes

Method of assessment
Assessment methods must confirm consistency of performance over time and in a range of workplace contexts
Assessment should be by direct observation of tasks and questioning on underpinning knowledge
Assessment should be conducted over time and may be in conjunction with assessment of other units of competence

Context of assessment
Assessment may occur on the job or in a workplace simulated facility with process equipment, material, work instructions and deadlines
Assessment of this competence may include project related tasks and require portfolios or other forms of indirect evidence of process