Hands-on working sessions. No slides.
Architect your mind. Lift your team.
You know your team is capable of more. We'll show you how to make it happen — in a room, with your people, where nobody opens a laptop.
No PowerPoint. No jargon. No lectures.
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. Because people are far more likely to own something they've discovered than something they've been told.
Ideas arrive through story, honest conversation and exercises people actually do. Everything is usable tomorrow. High energy, straight-talking, and built on what we've lived rather than what we've read.
People learn more about themselves in a day than most do in a decade. There is a biscuit tin. It matters more than you'd think.
The point is what people take back into the team.
People leave BBTM more able to:
Better teammates create better teams. That's the idea.
Yourself → others → the team
The inside work
You can't be a great teammate to anyone else until you're one to yourself. Understanding why you think, feel and react the way you do — and having the tools to do something about it. Not therapy. A practical toolkit.
Empathy as a performance tool
Not a soft skill. One of the highest-leverage things a team has. When people genuinely understand each other, camaraderie builds — and performance and fun grow out of that.
Where it all meets
Teams aren't built by mission statements. They're built through hundreds of small interactions — what gets said, what doesn't, how people respond under pressure. High performance and genuine enjoyment, held together.
The mind runs the show. The greatest work we can do is learn how to run the mind.
Dave Pounds
What happens in the room tends to stay with people
“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
Time to go deeper. A high-energy day that moves — the core arc from self → others → team, unpacked at pace, with room to go deep where it matters most to your people. The recommended place to start.
From insight to changed behaviour. Four to ten weeks, shaped around your team — covering more ground, in more depth, for teams that want a deeper level of change.
Lived experience and proper science.
BBTM is built from lived experience — Dave's own story of overcoming significant adversity, and years of putting what he learned into practice with real teams. Everything we talk about is underpinned by science — how emotions are built, stored and drive behaviour, and what it actually takes to change how you feel.
Nobody sits through a lecture. You'll use a five-foot brain. You'll work with models and maps, try things, test things, challenge each other. The ideas land because you've experienced them, not just had them explained. Most people leave wondering why nobody told them this sooner.
Two very different journeys. One shared question — how do we help people become better teammates?
Lived experience · Self-leadership · Behaviour change
Dave didn't set out to become an expert in how the mind works. Life rather forced the issue. Following significant adversity early in his life, he spent decades trying to understand himself — working with over sixty practitioners and thirty different approaches. Some helped. Some didn't. Some changed everything. BBTM takes what he's learned the hard way and turns it into conversations the rest of us can use. Not theory from a textbook. Learning from a life.
Experiential learning · Teams · Organisational change
Simon has spent his career helping people and organisations navigate change. He runs a consultancy delivering large-scale change programmes for Volkswagen Group, Mercedes-Benz and Jaguar Land Rover — one COO described his approach as "consultants without ego". He's a strong advocate of heuristic learning: experiences that get people thinking and doing for themselves, not sitting through slide roadshows. For BBTM, he brings that experience back to one question — what helps ordinary people become better teammates when things get difficult?
Between them, Dave and Simon have worked with
If you're curious about whether Be the Best Teammate could work for your team, let's have a short conversation. No pitch. No commitment.
If it feels like a fit, we'll agree a taster — your people experience BBTM rather than us trying to explain it.
15 minutes. Two humans. No slide deck.
hello@bethebestteammate.co.uk