Low Ropes Courses
The low ropes or challenge course is designed to bring your entire team together in a series of game-like tasks that exercise the mind and body. Light warm up activities encourage participants to have fun, learn, and take care of each other. Through learning to depend on each other and communicate with each other, your group will learn how to value each individual's unique input to the group while creating an integrative whole. By cooperating as one unit and taking care of each individual, the Low course will reinforce levels of trust and respect, and increase the problem solving skills of the group.
High Ropes Courses
The high ropes or challenge course elements involve two to three people working together at a time to overcome a problem 30 to 75 feet high, while the rest of the group is responsible for their safety using a rope and harness system. Learn hands-on about group and 1-to-1 communication, leadership, teamwork, trust, planning, risk taking, group and individual goal setting, and adapting to change.
After completing each activity on the high ropes course, you and your group members analyze your roles and the reasons why certain strategies did or did not work. Your team will see how each individual deals with stressful situations and innovates new solutions. Throughout the day, metaphors and analogies are drawn from the activities and your group will discuss how you can apply the principles you've learned to your everyday life situations.
Program Menu
Energize Your Team
This one-day adventure is an unforgettable orientation to experiential education. Participants will be introduced to the fundamentals of teamwork through new communication tools that are easy and exciting to transfer to the workplace.
You will:
- Discover the importance of a shared vision within a team
- Experience interactive activities that build team cohesion
- Have fun together and learn how individuals fit into the team
Leadership fundamentals
Leadership is easy to talk about, and really hard to do. We all want to be leaders, but how do we learn and practice leadership skills? This program will help your group explore leadership styles and principals and how to use them in everyday situations by getting a chance to practice and see the principles in action.
You will:
- Develop an understanding of several leadership styles
- Be challenged to put the theory into action through challenging activities and group feed back.
- Learn to work with other leaders rather than against them.
Making Personalities Work
Ever wondered why members of your work group react and function the way that they do? Have you ever done a personality or learning styles inventory and walked away thinking that the information was good, but wonder how things will change? This program allows you either to engage with customized team assessments for the first time, or to build upon the assessments you have already interacted with, such as DISK or Personality Dimensions. Then, we help you take this data and turn it into action! Strategize and learn how to make the most of your teams' strengths through a series of hands-on tasks. Discover how to make positive changes that build on the foundations of the assessment information and move your team towards greater success.
You will:
- Select an inventory / assessment that best fits your team dynamics and needs
- Develop a strategy as a group of how to use this information in the work place.
- Develop a strategy of learning to help others in tasks buy better understanding their needs.
- Learn to create synergy rather than conflict with different styles.
Solution Based Teams
This program will help any team focus on the issues at hand and develop a plan that truly address the issues that faces the team. The Team will learn a variety of tools to help them face challenges identify the problems, create solutions and implement solutions quickly and effectively.
You will:
- Learn to focus on the real issues, not perceived issues.
- Develop brain storming that works
- Develop methods for consensus and other practical decision making tools to take back to the workplace
- Have fun and learn lots!