e-Communication

The 5 Guarantees

All students will learn and be evaluated on Communication, Collaboration, Leadership, Project Management and Technical Skills

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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