Work in a team environment
What the exam tests
This domain tests coordination inside a multi-trade event crew: lighting, audio, video, rigging, and electrical personnel who share power, space, and schedules. The exam looks for role clarity, briefings, feedback, conflict handling, and clean handovers.
Core rules
- Put the team goal ahead of individual preference: a safe, on-time show.
- Know your role and the limits of your authority; do not direct another trade's workers unless assigned.
- Use toolbox talks or pre-shift briefings to align tasks, hazards, and sequences.
- Give feedback on behavior and facts, not personality: "The cable crosses the walkway" rather than "You are careless."
- Resolve conflict at the lowest level first; escalate to the supervisor when safety or schedule is affected.
- Respect communication differences: language, shift fatigue, and experience level.
- Hand over with written notes: what is done, what is pending, what is isolated, and what is unsafe.
Worked example
Lighting and audio crews both need the same 30 A outlet. Instead of arguing, the team checks the load schedule, confirms total demand, agrees that audio uses the outlet first for line-check, then releases it for lighting focus. The decision and sequence are written on the board. Reasoning: the conflict is a resource conflict, not a personal one; measuring load and agreeing a sequence protects the circuit and the schedule.
Traps that cost marks
- Staying silent when you see an unsafe practice.
- Blaming a person instead of describing the hazard.
- Bypassing the supervisor to "save time."
- Assuming another crew has isolated a circuit.
- Leaving a shift without a handover note.
Key points
- Align tasks and hazards in a pre-shift briefing.
- Keep feedback factual and behavior-focused.
- Resolve conflict at the lowest level, then escalate.
- Never assume another crew isolated a circuit.
- Always leave a written handover.