This document discusses how the team-building aspects of playing Dungeons & Dragons can be applied to maximize coherency in the workplace. It notes similarities between D&D roles like the game master and players, and job roles in companies like developers, writers, and managers. It argues that D&D fosters benefits for teams like developing unique skills to contribute to shared goals, setting collaborative tones, and improving ways of working through reconsideration.

1. Maximising Team Coherency
Through Shared Trauma

4. Jonathan Pay
Consultant,
Holistic Email Marketing
@jonathanpay
jonathan@holisticemail.com

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Woll
Matt Damon
Joe Manganiello
Stephen Colbert
Vin Diesel
Ben Affleck
Dwayne
Johnson
Elon Musk
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Dench
Joseph Gordon-
Levit
Stephen
Spielberg
Mike Myers
Wil Wheaton
Joss Whedon
Jon Favreau
Drew Barrymore
Anderson
Cooper
Stephen King
Wayne Brady
Robin Williams
Kumail Nanijani

10. Dungeons & Dragons
or
Departments &
Developers?

11. the email community
is a lot like
the D&D community

12. The Game MasterThe Players

13. …Each have agency over a
single character…

14. …Character Classes are a lot
like Job Descriptions…

15. …Reacts to situations
presented by the Game
Master…

16. …Contribute to the goal of the
party and campaign in a
unique way…

17. …The narrator and rules
adjudicator…

18. …Sets the tone of the game…

19. …Decides if an action requires
a roll for success…

20. …Controls everything except
the Player Characters (PCs)…

22. STRENGTH
DEXTERITY
CONSITUTION
INTELIGENCE
WISDOM
CHARISMA

24. Benefits of D&D as a Team Activity

25. Rogues
Wizards
Fighters
Bards
Game Masters
Developers
Designers
Writers
Managers
Data Scientists
Account
Directors
Campaign
Managers
Strategic
Consultants
Data Scientists
D&D Party Brand Team Agency Team

26. Benefits of D&D as a Team Activity

28. “Everyone has the right to
doubt everything as often as
he pleases and the duty to do
it at least once. No way of
looking at things is too sacred
to be reconsidered. No way of
doing things is beyond
improvement.”
Edward de Bono, The Use of Lateral Thinking

29. Benefits of D&D as a Team Activity

30. Benefits of D&D as a Team Activity

31. Benefits of D&D as a Team Activity

36. Hire me to run a
session or more
for your team

37. Join the fun! There’s
an open, casual play
campaign ready for
you…
o Tuesdays at
Borough
o Thursdays at
Limehouse
meetup.com/londonRPGcommunity