Prelude Consulting Limited

The Road to Davy’s Bar

The Wicklow Mountains lie just outside Dublin in Ireland. It is an area of wild beauty, a place to which, as an Irishman born near there, I return as often as I may. It is still a bare and lonely place, with unmarked roads, and I still get lost. Once, I stopped and asked the way. ‘Sure, it’s easy,’ the local replied. ‘Just keep going the way you are, straight ahead, and after a while you’ll cross a small bridge with Davy’s Bar on the far side, you can’t miss it!’ ‘Yes, I’ve got that,’ I said, ‘straight on to Davy’s Bar.’ ‘That’s right. Well, half a mile before you get there, turn to your right up the hill.’

Duration: 2 hours

Materials: Flip-chart, pens, post-its pads, brains, commitment, willingness to participate

Outputs: To involve the team in creating a vision for the function, to use this session to help bond the team

Pre-Session reading for all: ‘The Sigmoid Curve’

Pre-Session reading for leader: ‘Leader as Designer’, ‘Sand, buckets and stones'