July 2009
You are browsing the archive for July 2009.
A Unique Ourdoor Adventure and Experiential Learning site
What is the difference betweent Wide Aware and the hundreds of sites out there about adventure travel? Purpose Every site about adventure will tell you about what they sell. Wide Aware sells things as a business, but the site is purely about information. You will not find “rush to book nows” and “discounts” and what [...]
Outcomes of Leadership Trainings
When planning leadership training, it is important to have certain outcomes in mind. While speaking with clients, one thing I find useful to do is to ask them to describe the improvements they imagine and then work with those to refine them to specific objectives of the training intervention. This helps, because very often, “stated [...]
Greenpeace and the turtles
Last year, I had shared an article I found on the greenpeace site about how the port being build by TATA was being harmful to the Olive Ridley turtles.I was not aware of this issue at all, and I had felt that it was a rather black and white stance taken, so I shared it [...]
Pitfalls on the way to task focus
I had written about an incident years ago, from a programme where I was not a trainer, but providing outdoor activity support for a programme for CapGeminii conducted by Dr. Dilip Panniker. In that post, I spoke of an incident where Fr. Panniker intervened with the group