Understanding yourself
The inside work
You can't be a great teammate to anyone else until you're one to yourself. Why you think, feel and behave the way you do — and how to lead that on purpose, in the moments that actually matter.
A working session, not a course
Be the Best Teammate
Architect your mind. Lift your team.
For teams that want to perform better — and enjoy it more. We spend a day in a room with your people, and nobody opens a laptop.
Book a call about a taster
15 minutes. No slides in that one either.
No slides. No jargon. No death by framework.
This is a working session, not a course. We don't hand people someone else's answers — we build a room where they find their own. That's the bit that sticks.
Ideas arrive through story, honest conversation and exercises people actually do. Everything is usable by Tuesday morning. High energy, straight-talking, and built on what we've lived rather than what we've read.
There is a biscuit tin. It matters more than you'd think.
What we work on
Yourself → others → the team
Understanding others
Empathy as a performance tool
Not a soft skill. One of the highest-leverage things a team has. When you genuinely understand why someone behaves as they do, judgement gives way to curiosity — and trust becomes possible.
Building the team
Where it all meets
The small, repeated behaviours that build camaraderie and shared purpose. High performance and genuine enjoyment — the two things every team wants and very few work out how to hold at once.
The mind runs the show. The greatest work we can do is learn how to run the mind.
Dave Pounds
What a client said
“I guarantee this will be an experience that every person who attended will remember for the majority of their corporate life — because it was that different and that transformational.”
Simon Moger
Partner, Ernst & Young
How it works
Half-day workshop
The core ideas in one high-energy session. Good for a team that wants a jolt.
Full day
The whole arc, self to team. Time for the conversations that don't happen in an hour.
Programme
Four to ten weeks. This is the one that changes behaviour rather than mood.
Backed by the research
It's built on the neuroscience of behaviour change and the peer-reviewed work on team performance. We just don't make the room feel like a classroom.
54%
rise in engagement from regular, structured team check-ins — Gallup
2030
resilience and self-leadership among the most in-demand skills to 2030 — World Economic Forum
Who's in the room
Dave Pounds
Speaker and coach
Dave built a self-leadership system out of lived experience rather than a textbook — sixty-odd practitioners, more than thirty approaches, and a life rebuilt from the ground up after considerable adversity. What he learned on that road is the foundation of this programme.
Simon Knocker
Organisational change
Simon designs heuristic, experiential learning programmes. He graduated in the top 5% at Sandhurst, and has spent years on how organisations actually change and how people actually learn. His workshops run on one principle: people keep what they discover for themselves.
Dave and Simon have worked with
The simplest next step.
A short call. No commitment. If it feels like a fit, we agree a taster session for your team — a genuine working session, in exchange for your feedback and, with your permission, some footage or a testimonial.
Dave Pounds · Life Design School
hello@bethebestteammate.co.uk