Getting it right

93% of senior managers depend for their own success on the success of their teams.

To perform well, teams need team-specific knowledge, skills and peer-to-peer commitment.

We propose that these qualities are best developed socially, as a team.  So Dunlop & Brown does three essential things:

  1. Introduces teams to exceptionally good experts, coaches & inspirational teachers (Inspired Guests),
  2. Creates the best environment for teams to learn and thrive,
  3. Designs, prepares and facilitates business-critical team meetings to perfection.

In other words we use a tried and tested methodology  for getting the meeting right.

We work for team leaders - CEOs, directors & senior managers - to help them improve the chance of success in their role by inspiriting their people and, simultaneously, giving the team new skills and critical knowledge.

There are good psychological reasons why some teams gel, learn, and perform more under some conditions rather than others. You have probably experienced being in a team that really clicked and enjoyed viscerally its remarkable success. It doesn’t happen all the time but the right conditions contain three essential elements:

  1. RISK: a degree of shared personal risk or perception of threat or the limited window of a golden opportunity;
  2. LEARNING: the motivation to learn with high quality advice from colleagues and leading experts; and
  3. SOCIALIZATION: the opportunity to socialize and properly click with peers.

The D&B formula subtly recreates the conditions for senior teams to learn and socialize. The way we do it is theoretically robust, according to psychologists. But more importantly, what we do is developed from deep experience of engineering successful teams.

Our methodology is tried and tested, and whilst there are common steps whichever the team, each team is unique. Our design is therefore always bespoke.

If you would like your team to have their next meeting with a top class expert in an informal, productive & enjoyable setting, please contact us now.

Risk is necessary because it provides obvious motivation but, less obviously, without risk team members can get too comfortable and quickly form relationships (roles) that inhibit productive thinking, development, and learning. And a team that doesn’t learn is a team that won’t perform.
Exposing an existing team to risk changes temporarily the rules and the roles making it much more likely they will learn more effectively. The risk should be personal (not physical) and equal for everyone.
Socializing, the third element, we all know to be important for teams but it has to be done well, at the right frequency, be positive and aligned with business values, so as not to work against them.