Course Overview
Effective teamwork skills are essential to success as a technical artist, as a core member of the production team, or as the team lead. Developing a strong team and improving team performance leads to better project outcomes. Students will participate in the various stages of team development and learn decision-making and conflict resolution techniques, as well as how to solve problems and collaborate effectively with others.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
3.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Review the communication process and factors that form the critical elements of a team environment that can lead to misunderstandings, and how to resolve differences.
- Employ communication strategies to deal with different types of personalities, diverse opinions, values, stereotypes and descriminiatory behaviour while working in team situations in the visual effects, animation and game industries.
- Categorize different roles, responsibilities, and skill sets needed to form an effective production team for a variety of projects.
- Analyze the different roles that technical artists would be expected to undertake and oversee in a production pipeline.
- Demonstrate self reflection and evaluation of interpersonal communication strategies of effective interpersonal interaction.
- Develop criteria and establish methods for evaluating the effectiveness of teams.
- Establish performance goals based on team objectives.
- Analyze the team effectiveness and cohesion with self reflection, non-defensive bheanviour, conflict resolution, and thinking skills to anticipate and solve problems.
- Prepare a strategy for building the task, process, and relationship aspects of the team.
- Plan and track team progress.
Effective as of Fall 2019
Related Programs
Team Skills for Technical Arts (TECA 6600) is offered as a part of the following programs:
- Indicates programs accepting international students.
- Indicates programs eligible for students to apply for Post-graduation Work Permit (PGWP).
School of Business + Media
- Technical Arts
Advanced Diploma Full-time
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