e-Communication
The 5 Guarantees
All students will learn and be evaluated on Communication, Collaboration, Leadership, Project Management and Technical Skills

Communication
- Read/Write/Speak/Listen
- Audiences – speak and communicate with different audiences
- Professional dress
- Reading and writing
- Through different mediums
- Literate in all mediums and industry languages (appropriate to the audience)
- Presentation skills to different audiences
- Articulate their own skill sets
- Sell yourself: Resume, elevator speech, admission reps, interview, talk as an expert
- Storytelling – beginning/middle/end
Critique your own and other’s work – accept feedback - Collaborate as a team – communicate with others
- Communicate with a client and team
Social cues/discourse - Tech – writing and social media writing/presence
- Use different mediums (video, web, animation, graphics)

Communication
- Read/Write/Speak/Listen
- Audiences – speak and communicate with different audiences
- Professional dress
- Reading and writing
- Through different mediums
- Literate in all mediums and industry languages (appropriate to the audience)
- Presentation skills to different audiences
- Articulate their own skill sets
- Sell yourself: Resume, elevator speech, admission reps, interview, talk as an expert
- Storytelling – beginning/middle/end
Critique your own and other’s work – accept feedback - Collaborate as a team – communicate with others
- Communicate with a client and team
Social cues/discourse - Tech – writing and social media writing/presence
- Use different mediums (video, web, animation, graphics)
Leadership
- Know when to take the lead
- Assign roles
- Accept responsibility
- Conflict management
- Manage projects
- Initiation
- Seek out/identify problems (identify the solution)
- Know how to ask for/find help
- Know available resources
- Listening (take notes)
- Lead by example
- Inspire a shared vision
- Enable the heart
- Challenge the process
- Decision maker
- Understand/value/manage different styles/personalities/abilities
- Identify your strengths and constraints—not let it come through
- Surround yourself w/ others that complement yourself

Leadership
- Know when to take the lead
- Assign roles
- Accept responsibility
- Conflict management
- Manage projects
- Initiation
- Seek out/identify problems (identify the solution)
- Know how to ask for/find help
- Know available resources
- Listening (take notes)
- Lead by example
- Inspire a shared vision
- Enable the heart
- Challenge the process
- Decision maker
- Understand/value/manage different styles/personalities/abilities
- Identify your strengths and constraints—not let it come through
- Surround yourself w/ others that complement yourself
Collaboration
- See team members as a resource.
- Put team goals first.
- Know themselves, their capabilities, personalities.
- Seats on the bus – put people.
- Collaborate with different strands.
- Meets deadlines.
- Be accountable to the team.
- Professionally agree/disagree – compromise.
- Brainstorming – working toward solutions.
- Collaborate with different audiences and stakeholders.
- Understand the strengths and weaknesses of others – know your team.
- Be flexible.
- Know if a project is working or not.
- Show that you care about the success/ideas of others using verbal and nonverbal cues.

Collaboration
- See team members as a resource.
- Put team goals first.
- Know themselves, their capabilities, personalities.
- Seats on the bus – put people.
- Collaborate with different strands.
- Meets deadlines.
- Be accountable to the team.
- Professionally agree/disagree – compromise.
- Brainstorming – working toward solutions.
- Collaborate with different audiences and stakeholders.
- Understand the strengths and weaknesses of others – know your team.
- Be flexible.
- Know if a project is working or not.
- Show that you care about the success/ideas of others using verbal and nonverbal cues.
Project Management
- Understanding the process
- How to lead or listen within your team
- Awareness and Understanding the Project Schedule
- Understanding your team’s Strengths/Weaknesses
- Deadlines
- Stick to them
- Prioritizing
- Client Interaction
- Listening and Taking Notes from the Client
- Communicate the Ongoing Process with both team and the client
- Stay Connected (Phone/Checking in, Follow up emails/Documentation)
- Understand
- Direction/Purpose/Why/Goal
- Vision of the End Goal – Big Picture
- Time Management
- Accountability
- Understanding Vs. Application
- Define each job role and know the responsibilities of each
- Put into application the ones you are assigned
- Quality Control
- Content Management.
- A mistake will cost money.

Project Management
- Understanding the process
- How to lead or listen within your team
- Awareness and Understanding the Project Schedule
- Understanding your team’s Strengths/Weaknesses
- Deadlines
- Stick to them
- Prioritizing
- Client Interaction
- Listening and Taking Notes from the Client
- Communicate the Ongoing Process with both team and the client
- Stay Connected (Phone/Checking in,
- Follow up emails/Documentation)
- Understand
- Direction/Purpose/Why/Goal
- Vision of the End Goal – Big Picture
- Time Management
- Accountability
- Understanding Vs. Application
- Define each job role and know the responsibilities of each
- Put into application the ones you are assigned
- Quality Control
- Content Management.
- A mistake will cost money.
Technical Skills
- Need to teach Quality Control
- Industry program terms
- Software Knowledge
- Hardware Knowledge
- Creative Problem-Solving Skills – Push kids to find answers.
- Shortcut Keys
- Understanding the capability of the programs and pushing the limit.
- File Management.
- Equipment care/management

Technical Skills
- Need to teach Quality Control
- Industry program terms
- Software Knowledge
- Hardware Knowledge
- Creative Problem-Solving Skills – Push kids to find answers.
- Shortcut Keys
- Understanding the capability of the programs and pushing the limit.
- File Management.
- Equipment care/management