SuperSizing Development Teams
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SuperSizing Development Teams is TRC’s creative development programme for indies, is returning for a second year.
An off-shoot of SuperSizer, our signature training programme for Development Executives in the Nations and Regions, SuperSizing Development Teams aims to maximise creativity and embed and nurture the development process across your full team.
This course will provide companies with a framework to create stronger ideas of scale, provide solutions to challenges, build confidence in their creativity, and empower the development output across the whole team.
We recognise indies are facing significant challenges during the current production downturn. Now might be the perfect opportunity to develop a fresh perspective, disrupt existing brainstorming methods and explore new ways of creating ideas, ready for the anticipated up-turn.
SuperSizing Development Teams is an intensive short course which aims to maximise creativity across the entire development process within a company.
SuperSizing Development Teams is a tailored consultancy programme run by TRC and facilitated by experienced trainer Alex Dalton.
SuperSizing Development Teams will look to embed the role of Development Executive and maximise creativity across the entire development process within an indie by addressing four key areas:
- Creative Leadership: the qualities and principles needed to lead great creative teams
- Creative Facilitation: developing new and innovative ways of working to get the best ideas and create a network of skilled facilitators that can work across the whole company
- Pitching: working with your whole development team on the art of the perfect pitch and developing a compelling story to help you sell your ideas
- Communication and Ideation: How to develop ideas across your team in a constructive and collaborative way. How to give and receive feedback and the importance of developing resilience across the whole team.
SuperSizing Development Teams will run from Tuesday 16th April till early June 2024 approximately. The training sessions will be held both online and in-person.
SuperSizing Development Teams is open to independent production companies based in Scotland. Due to the very limited places available, priority will be given to companies who are currently supporting, or have previously supported a development executive, through SuperSizer.
Whilst this iteration of the programme is only for companies in Scotland, if it is something you’re interested in being made available in your Nation or Region, please register your interest here.
The course fee is £500.
The programme will consist of a mix of in person and online training. Some of the training will take place in a small group with one other company. Other training will be specific to your company and take place at your company premises with your development team.
Key topics covered:
- Creative Leadership – 1 day, in person, in Glasgow
- Creative Facilitation Day – 1 day, in person, in Glasgow
- Developing Ideas/Storyboarding – One 3 hour Zoom session
- Giving Feedback – One 3 hour Zoom session
- Resilience – One 3 hour Zoom session
- Pitching Consultancy – Each company selected will receive a tailored pitching consultancy day which will take place at your premises between Tuesday 28th of May 2024 and Friday 7th of June 2024 – exact date to be agreed between your company and the trainer.
The available training dates for the course are listed below.
Each company will receive:
– 2 in person training days in Glasgow
– 1 in-company consultancy day, to take place at your premises
– 3 x 3 hour Zoom training sessions
If your application is successful, we’ll confirm your company’s allocated dates once we know the exact number of people taking part in the programme.
Before applying, please check below and make sure that your whole team will be available to attend training on the following dates.
- Creative Leadership – Tues 16th OR Wed 17th of April 2024 – 1 date only per company, in person in Glasgow
- Creative Facilitation – Tues 30th of April OR Wed 1st of May 2024 – 1 date only per company, in person in Glasgow
- Developing Ideas/Storyboarding – Tues 7th OR Wed 8th of May 2024 – 10am till 1pm on ZOOM – 1 date only per company
- Giving Feedback – Tues 14th OR Wed 15th of May 2024 – 10am till 1pm on ZOOM – 1 date only per company
- Resilience – Tues 21st OR Wed 22nd of May 2024 – 10am till 1pm on ZOOM – 1 date only per company
- Pitching Consultancy – Each company selected will receive a tailored pitching consultancy day which will take place at your premises between Tues 28th May 2024 and Friday 7th June 2024 – exact date to be agreed between your company and the trainer.
The company must have between two and five staff from across development and senior management, who are instrumental in winning business and can participate fully in the training. The minimum requirement to apply is one staff member from development and one from senior management.
The company must be based in Scotland.
Places are limited, so please make sure you make a strong case for why you want to do this programme.
Your team must be available to participate on the stated course dates.
Applications for SuperSizing Development Teams can be submitted via this form. The deadline for applications is Friday 26th January 2024.
If you have any questions about the course, please contact theresa.ellen@trcmedia.org
Jane Rogerson, Red Sky Productions
“What I’ve found most valuable is the time and space for us as a team to share challenges, experiences and personal time away from the day to day. As a result, we’re even more open and trusting of each other than we were. This course has reinforced that investment into our core team makes all the difference, it’s a tough market and tough times but taking part in SuperSizing Development Teams has made our team more valuable than ever.”
Elspeth O'Hare, Firecracker
“SuperSizing Development Teams has been a fantastic experience for Firecracker. It’s given us space to grow as a team and enabled us to identify new and innovative ways of working together and collaborating creatively. As a result, confidence levels within the team have been boosted and we feel invigorated and excited for our next pitching challenge!”
Andy Ashworth, Cut Media
“It was so so good to have Alex with us in the studio and bring in the wider Cut Media team to sit in on the session. Firstly it introduced everyone to Alex (they’d been hearing a lot about her!) and secondly it was great to have everyone feed into the session and get a great sense of what pitching is all about and how we can all play a part. Particularly enjoyed the practical elements of trying out some pitching and exploring different approaches.”
Seumas Mactaggart, MacTV
“Thought-provoking, and great to take a step back from the chaos of the day to day and look at where we are and where we want to go and put things in place to meet these goals.”
