Acte Sept

Takeda: Getting to know each other better and working together better

We ran the Medical and Pharmaceutical Affairs Department seminar for the French subsidiary of the Japanese group Takeda. The common theme of these two days: to share the first chapters of a new shared story together in order to work better as a team. Following the consolidation of the two entities and much recent recruitment, the 45 employees who make up this new management are facing the challenge of group cohesion. As is often the case in Acte Sept's solutions, to respond to the issue, usefulness is combined with a pleasurable experience.

The first aspect of the programme is acting and storytelling workshops to facilitate getting to know one other, while working on oral communication skills. Participants put themselves in the shoes of stand-up artists by telling a story to share their professional pride, refining it with their coach and then returning it to the stage. In the tradition of improv contests, the winners were chosen by the applause meter, in an electric atmosphere.

Barely recovered from their emotions, a new challenge awaited the participants: an escape game. 60 minutes immersion. Their mission is to save the planet. That’s all. Without a second to lose, personalities are revealed. Only the most coordinated teams can triumph.

The next day, there was an opportunity to operationalise a proposal to decipher individual and collective operations. Through an evaluation questionnaire, everyone was able to identify and experiment with their own communication style. Behaviours observed the day before during the game, fun experimentation, meeting situations were a good basis for allowing everyone to step back and work on their positioning within the team. In conclusion, each operational unit took the time to translate these contributions into concrete commitments: what we will stop doing, what we have put in place, what we will strengthen.

Authenticity, discovery, facilitation: these are the shared words of these two great days!