A winning corporate team is one that continually self-evaluates, adapts to new situations, and is comfortable making changes. These skills do not simply emerge—workgroups learn these skills through challenging programs like ours. The training that we offer will help teams learn to constantly improve their efficiency, their products, their services.

Our programs are designed for both existing groups and newly created teams. Our supervised outdoor activities require participants to identify and solve problems, work as a unit and as individuals. Through tailored group activities that may include rock climbing, backpacking, orienteering, and project-based initiatives, we assist the individuals and the group, provide a framework for self-analysis, and help apply outcomes to the actual work environment. We offer customized courses and a variety of environments.

Our facilitators represent a wide spectrum of backgrounds, including management consulting and organizational development. The combined experiences of our team range from human resource consultants to business management specialists to team process facilitators. Our team’s vast technical skills, acquired through years of experience in the outdoors, will challenge your group and lead them safely and effectively through our programs.

Our approach to our programs involves the following:

Warm-up activities.
A review of the characteristics of high performance teams
Group projects that stretch the limits of the individuals, and that strengthen and rely on trust.
Facilitated discussions follow exercises and reinforce the learning process.
Discussions that give emphasis to applying lessons to the workplace.
Opportunities to give feedback on the program’s process.
Problem-solving activities that increase in complexity. These activities rely on teamwork and communication, and encourage leadership

...Creating experiences that unleash human potential and positive change in the workplace.

CORPORATE PROGRAMS
EDUCATION THROUGH ADVENTURE CORPORATE PROGRAMS ARE TAILORED TO YOUR SPECIFIC GOALS AND OBJECTIVES AND CAN VARY IN LENGTH.

SAMPLE 4 DAY PROGRAM

OBJECTIVE: To improve team efficiency and improve skills. The exact content will be based on pre-program assessment. Our team will assist you in improving your group’s performance while focusing on problem-solving, leadership styles, effective communication, decision making, and coping with change.

ACTIVITIES:
Day 1. Travel to base camp accommodations or wilderness area, followed by
orientation and discussion of program goals and objectives.

Day 2. A combination of team initiatives and/or backpacking, rockclimbing,
or canoeing. Facilitated discussions on learnings as they apply to the work environment.

Day 3. A full day of orienteering and/or project-based team initiatives focused on improving ways the group works together.

Day 4. Final team project, individual and Team Action Plan, departure.

...Creating experiences that unleash human potential and positive change in the workplace.

CORPORATE PROGRAMS
Insight Program 1 & 2 Day – Team Action Programs

OBJECTIVE: Through this program, we will assist your group in learning to
function as a team or improving a well-working team’s performance by
teaching skills that encourage self-evaluation and improvement. The activities
will help you stretch and improve your problem-solving techniques and
group communication.

OUTCOME: Review program goals, expectations, safety and set tone by senior
organization representative.

Appoach:

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
MENTAL AND PHYSICAL STRETCHING
TRUST SEQUENCE
PROBLEM-SOLVING INITIATIVES
DEBRIEF MORNING
LUNCH
PROJECT-BASED TEAMWORK
REVIEW

Process: Initial warm-up activities and review of characteristics of high performance teams. Group initiatives strengthen trust and explore the limits, benefits, and application of trust in the workplace. Facilitated discussions follow each exercise to insure learnings are captured. Tailored problem-solving activities that increase in complexity and explore issues of teamwork, effective communication, work processes and leadership. Discuss/document AM learnings: key individual and team skills, obstacles that impede individual and team success, key learnings to be carried into PM. Check in to insure pace, approach and objectives are aligned with expectations. A series of progressively more complex tasks designed to focus on team performance and assessment. Evaluate the success and challenges of the day and lay groundwork for individual and Team Action Plans to apply learnings to workplace. Discuss follow-up sessions.

...Creating experiences that unleash human potential and positive change in the workplace.

CORPORATE PROGRAMS
Sailing Challenge 1 & 2 Day

OBJECTIVE: Circumnavigating Long Island, your group will be challenged to work efficiently as a team. Like all our programs, the Sailing Challenge is designed to meet your needs and is based on a pre-program assessment. Guided by our facilitator and sailing instructor, you will learn to improve communication, encourage leadership within small groups, and evaluate and solve problems in a rapidly changing coastal environment. The skills learned and used on the water include navigation, sail trim, docking, and course plotting. They also include teamwork, goal setting and planning, and open communication.