5 Game-Changing Ideas for Your Media Production Team
First – let me define “successful”. I believe that success with production teams is measured in a few different ways.
- Whose leader is not a one-man band.
- Whose focus is not on technical perfection, but the lives being changed through the Worship Experiences they are creating together.
- That is intentional about growing spiritually individually and together.
- That cares and spends time with each other.
- That is intentional about training for and executing quality Worship Experiences.
With these things in mind, let me offer 5 game-changing ideas for your media production team. If you focus your time and energy on these 5 things in the next 12 months, I promise you will see spiritual growth in your team, a stronger sense of community and excitement in your culture and better executed Worship Experiences.
1. Being intentional about raising up leaders.
- Swallow your pride. When I walked into Newspring Columbia as the Video Coordinator, I had the experience of directing literally hundreds of worship services, tv shows and video shoots. But I told myself – “You’re not directing for 1 year”. I forced myself to not bail myself out. I had to use what I had and raise up more people or the service didn’t happen.
- Operate on a 70/30 Rule when it comes to Perfection. Know that, unless you’re hiring skilled, professional audio and video technicians, and you’re working with volunteers, there will be mistakes. I tried to operate on a 70% / 30% Rule – When using volunteers to execute our service, I can guarantee about a 70% accuracy rate. Mistakes like missing a lyric or missing a cue are going to happen – the trick is to minimize them and have as few ‘audience noticed’ mistakes as possible.
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2. Make your space a fun place to hangout.
Make your spaces awesome! Food, games, comfortable seating, figurines, decorations, or anything else you can think of to make the spaces in which your team serves a really cool place, the better. Your environments matter – especially the spaces in which you serve and hangout the most.
Does your control room have an empty space for a nice table to sit around and put candy, mints, cards, board games or anything else on?
Do you have a room or space you can renovate into a Volunteer Headquarters?
Make your spaces awesome.
3. Do a full Run-Thru during the week.
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4. Take time to train effectively. Give opportunities until they were comfortable.
In addition to service rehearsal, provide training workshops, training sessions with veterans, time to observe other positions and other opportunities for your team. When you train your team consistently and effectively, it will be a game-changer.
5. Know and act that LOVING God and people is the most important thing.
Above all else – Love God and Love People. Your volunteers will feed off your spiritual walk. Be intentional about spending time with Jesus yourself. Be intentional about Loving People. Is it on your calendar each week to spend one on one time with your volunteers? Are you praying for their spiritual growth? Are you aware of where they are in their walk with Christ? The most important game-changer for your team is this – to Love God and Love People with everything you got.
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