Partner with Skills Ignite: Improve efficiency and boost business performance
At Skills Ignite, our mission is to build New Zealand’s workplace capability by partnering with organisations to develop high-performing teams. Ignite can help you equip your team leaders with the knowledge, techniques and tools they need to drive growth and organisational success.
About the qualification
The New Zealand Certificate in Business (Introduction to Team Leadership) Level 3 is particularly well-suited for individuals who are new to leadership roles or looking to formalise their existing leadership skills with a nationally recognised qualification.
It’s especially relevant for those who can apply the learning directly in their workplace, as the assessment requires workplace documentary evidence and manager verification.
The NZ Certificate in Business (Introduction to Team Leadership) Level 3 is an online work-based learning and assessment programme which allows the learners to receive learning material that is tailored to the assessment questions. The benefit of this is that learners can learn the fundamentals of leadership while using a work-based project to reflect on and reference while completing the assessment.
Benefits to your organisation
Support your staff to build on their capability in key areas of Team Leadership:
- Accountability
- Empowerment, coaching and performance management
- Communication skills
- Problem-solving and decision-making techniques
- Positive team engagement and diversity
- Professional, ethical and socially and culturally appropriate behaviours
Retain your staff by investing in their professional development at no cost to your organization.
Enable staff to complete with flexibility – anywhere, anytime.
Support your people on a learning journey with our various pathway qualifications.
What will I learn?
The NZ Certificate in Business (Introduction to Team Leadership) (Level 3) includes three e-learning modules to support learners through three assessments.
29041 – Apply principles for effective performance within a team in a business context
Key tasks:
- Explain principles of effective performance
- Describe how you communicated effectively with stakeholders
- Describe cooperative working styles
- Demonstrate positive engagement and respect for diversity within the team
- Describe problem-solving and decision-making used
- Provide examples of professional, ethical social and cultural behaviour
- Discuss how you demonstrated self-management
29042 – Develop objectives for a team in a business context
Key tasks:
- Describe the outcome the team is to achieve
- Write SMART team objectives
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders, including your team, during the development of the objective
- Use problem-solving and decision-making techniques
- Demonstrate professional, ethical social and cultural behaviour
29043 – Describe and compare different styles of team leadership in a business context
Key tasks:
- Describe team leadership styles
- Compare leadership styles
Workplace documentary evidence and manager verification is required for each module.
How much time will my staff member need to spend on this programme?
We recommend spending about an hour a week completing the learner and assessments.
Will I need to mark their assessments?
No. We have an external assessor who will be marking the assessments and supporting your team member. We also run monthly assessor drop-in clinics that your staff member can join.
How will I know how my staff member is going with their programme?
We will provide you with monthly progression reports that will allow you to track their progress.
What is my role in this?
You are likely to be their verifier. A verifier is usually the learner’s manager or team leader. A verifier should be someone who is able to observe the staff member in their usual daily workplace practices. They will need to engage with the staff member’s programme to complete short verification exercises. We recommend using your usual development processes such as one-on-ones to work through these together and check in on the progress of the staff member.