Part 1 - Delegate tasks and meet with your team

Background

Culinary Food Competition for Star Casino

You are the team leader and part of three (3) member team whom have to compete in an annual Hotel competition at Star Casino.

The competition takes place every year and this year it's your turn to compete, as this showcases the skills and talent in our Kitchens and as part of professional development, we encourage staff and team members to participate.

As contestants In the Competition (Chef's), you will demonstrate your skills in a rich mixture of flavours, colours, textures and aromas that has a distinct character and is as unique as Queensland meats, produce and seafood. the various destinations the Region comprehends. Culinary competitions constitute a perfect vehicle to foster the evolution of the food and beverage sector. They also represent a unique opportunity to learn from other countries and colleagues. More importantly, these competitions contribute to showcase cuisine as a vehicle to promote the Hospitality and Culinary industry better understanding of domestic and international tourists and visitors.

It will take place in 12 weeks starting from today and is going to be held at the Sunshine Coast Arts and Exhibition and Convention Centre.

Your team for the competition

• Team Leader (you) Head Chef
• Team member 1 (Jane) Deputy Chef
• Team member 2 (Bobby) Junior Chef
• Team member 3 (Maria) Junior Chef

Context

The first round of the competition has arrived. Your team and you have arrived on site at Star Casino. As the team leader, you need to meet with your team prior to the competition starting to go through the team plan (shift schedule at was development in AT2 of 2_Case Study, Part 2 - Develop a team plan) in order to discuss the delegation of tasks, providing them with information with how you have planned and organised the work for this round of the competition.

This will require to be a positive role model when interacting with your team in a positive and positive manner, and show commitment and support to the organisational plan or objectives that you established in AT2 of 2_Case Study, Part 1 - Develop team commitment and cooperation.

Policy for Competition

All candidates must follow the Rules for the competition, if anyone is not following the rules they may-be disqualified from competing.

Procedures of the Competition

Registration must be completed and all paperwork submitted prior to competition starting.

Rules of the Competition:

1. Correct Uniform must be worn at, all time's
2. Team leaders must demonstrate communication with all team members
3. Considers work flow timing and follow up
4. Chemical and SDS must be used correctly
5. Considers exactness, quality, creativity, quantity, consistency, uniformity, portion size.
6. Creativity, knowledge of culinary skills, and fundamentals, uniformity, knife skills, proper use of ingredients, display of various techniques.
7. Food safety must be followed at all time
8. Correct temperature control is required
9. Correct method of cookery must be used
10. Flavour, texture, ingredient compatibility, nutritional balance, right temperature internal Hot food hot Cold food cold.

Chef(s) Equipment:

Will have access to station/kitchen. Stations can have two three 3mtr. tables covered with waterproof cover.

• 1 set of HACCP Colour cutting boards
• 4 burner stoves
• Combi oven
• Mixer
• Fridges/coolroom/freezer
• 2 trash containers one for trash, one for food surplus.

4 hours preparation will be available, and the end of which the first course must be served. 20 minutes after the first course, the second course will be served. 20 minutes after the desserts will be served. The time will be checked at the beginning of the service time. At the end of service, a further 15 minutes will be available for cleaning and final kitchen judge's inspection.

Marking/Score:

Item	Points
Menu Presentation and Execution Sanitation Organisation and Leadership Organisation and Support Service expedience Service support Presentation Use of specified ingredients Professional skills Taste and texture Time to complete the dishes	15 5 5 5 5 5 5 10 10 10 10

Observation requirements

For this part, you will need to be observed leading and managing a team in a simulated environment conducted onsite at Queensford Restaurant, participating in a Culinary Food Competition for Star Casino. As you are leading and managing a team, your assessor will assign groups of four (4) for this observation. You are to role the play of the team leader, the other three (3) participants are to play the role of your team, similar to the team members' roles that you assigned in AT2 of 2_Case Study, Part 2 - Develop a team plan.

The allocated time for the role play is four (4-5) hours. Your team will need to prepare an entre, main and dessert course.

Your assessor will arrange a time with you to observe you completing the following:

• Delegating tasks to a team
• Appropriate decision-making through the discussion on the team plan
• Providing information to your team about the task that you have delegated to them, including how you have planned and organised tasks for the first round of the competition
• Seeking and responding to feedback from your team around:
  • The allocation of work with the team plan
  • The effectiveness of your communication has within the team
  • Any efficiencies or deficiency in the way you have planned and organised for the first round of the competition
• Acting as a positive role, interacting with your team in a positive and professional manner
• Showing support and commitment for team and the organisation
• Showing open and supportive communication with your team
• Represented the team and their interest at the competition
• Providing coaching and mentoring to your team in order to complete the tasks for the first round of the competition
• Overcome any communication barriers with communicating with your team in order to ensure you were effectively supporting and motivating them.

Part 2 - Evaluate and monitor your performance

The first round of the competition has finished and your team and you performed well throughout the first round of the competition.

You now need to evaluate and monitor your performance.

For this activity, you will need to complete a Personal Performance Self Evaluation which is outlined below.

It is important that your responses reflect an honest review of your current leadership skills and you establish both areas of achievement and improvement. When completing the self - evaluation you must address each question in detail. Include examples where possible as this will support your evaluation.

Delegation of tasks, planning and organising and decision-marking (Written Assessment and Role Play Observation Assessment (this is referring to the above role play))

How do you address barriers you face when delegating tasks planning and organising for the first round of the competition, including the decisions that you made? What steps do you take to ensure that a mutually agreed outcome is achieved?

Information provision and feedback (Written Assessment and Observation Assessment)

From the information that you provided to your team, regarding allocation of work, provide examples on how you will use this feedback from team members to improve your performance.