For organisations where groups are at risk of forming islands, we now have a training course for leaders who want to build bridges. The challenge for a manager: making sure your team actually does move together towards an end goal. Where striving together to achieve a viable vision is the end result. But how can a team deliver a collective end result if it is slowly falling apart? If people continue to think primarily from the perspective of their own set of tasks, getting annoyed at each other and being less apt to build on the results of each other’s work? What if they fail to meet their deadlines and increasingly lose their focus on what the final result should look like? How do you deal with that as a manager? By making use of insights from film-making, you can remain the director of the end result.  

 

In the world of film, it’s all about creating that one shot where everything is right. Everyone on the set, sometimes even up to 80 different individuals – from stylists to lighting technicians to actors – has to interact in perfect coordination with each other. Otherwise, the end result won’t be what you had envisioned. Film director Johan Timmers and trainer & actress Saskia Rinsma believe that you can only achieve that end result if you involve the three key ingredients: vision, synergy and focus. You need a vision whereby everyone understands and gets excited about the common goal. And synergy whereby everyone appreciates each other’s potential, so that together they form a whole. It is up to the manager to create that basis: Connecting Leadership.