Bulletproof Cupid | Stronger collaboration under pressure

Background

For a new film production, a team of around ten professionals came together. Some participants already knew each other, others were working together for the first time. In an environment with a high workload and close interdependence, it is important to quickly learn each other's strengths, preferences and way of collaborating.

The wish was therefore to consciously pay attention to team dynamics in advance and to stimulate a constructive dialogue about collaboration.

Approach

DEPLOY prepared the workshop with individual intake interviews and a Belbin self-assessment. Based on the personal profiles, a team analysis was made, with attention to the strengths present, complementary roles and possible tensions in the collaboration.

During a joint workshop day, participants explored their own preferred roles and discussed how their strengths can complement each other. The Belbin method offered a practical language to make differences in behaviour discussable, with attention to collaborating under pressure.

The session focused on personal reflection, mutual understanding and making useful agreements for the collaboration during the production.

Result

The workshop gave the team a shared starting point for the production. Participants gained insight into their own team roles, the different strengths within the group and the possible meaning of these for their collaboration.

By discussing these differences explicitly, space emerged for an open dialogue about expectations and effective collaboration. The value of the intervention therefore lay not in an extensive change programme, but in a targeted investment in team development at an important moment.