PROGEN02 - Communicating and working with others

 

Overview

This standard covers the need to go beyond the immediate requirements of the job, and to view work as more than just utilising technical skills.  It is about maintaining good working relationships with all colleagues in the working environment by using effective communication and support skills.

 

Outcomes


Performance Criteria


You must be able to:   

1.         treat people in a way that maintains good working relationships

2.         bring to the attention of colleagues information that might have an immediate effect on their work

3.         carry out requests from other people promptly without holding up the course of the work

4.         refer requests that cannot be met to an appropriate person

5.         make available to others the resources that are required to achieve work activities

6.         share information internally and externally using a range of different methods 

7.         treat people’s property with care and respect, and comply with security procedures wherever necessary

8.         restrict any adverse impact of your own work on other people

9.         provide information to other people as soon as possible after they have requested it

10.       ensure information provided to other people is accurate and contains sufficient detail to meet their requirements

11.       provide information in a way that is appropriate to the person requesting it

            

Knowledge & Understanding


You need to know and understand:

1.         why it is important to develop good working relationships with colleagues and customers

2.         security procedures for dealing with property

3.         who should be informed of problems in working relationships

4.         the grievance and disciplinary procedures that are available

5.         how to report problems in working relationships that cannot be resolved to an appropriate authority as soon as possible

6.         what information systems should be used

7.         who needs information, and for what purpose

8.         the most appropriate sources for different types of information

9.         the procedures for exchanging different types of information

10.       why sharing information with colleagues is important 

11.       the consequences of exchanging inaccurate or incomplete information

12.       the types of problems that could occur

13.       how different types of problems can be resolved