Ah, what do I say, the growth pangs of a young company are torture indeed. I’m in the process of negotiating a deal for outbound soft skills training for a BPO. Money is a crunch, and they want the world as always, but what’s more annoying is that they want really safe “high
adventures”.
In the clients words, “Most of us have never been in the outdoors, so we want to experience something really dangerous and spectacular” and in the same breath, “it shouldn’t be too scary”.
I think they want to have some kind of a good time in the outdoors, but as usual, the focus is on the adventure rather than the learning.
That’s fine. I guess I’ll just need to show them some fancy pictures
and some explanations on actual and perceived risk.
Let’s see how it goes.
by Why in the Outdoor World? | Footprints on the Mountainside, on August 15 2008 @ 11:36 pm
[...] Really safe dangerous adventures. This post talks about a client request, but in the outdoors, there are many clients who don’t want to sit peacefully and stare at the world. They want you to rig up something dangerous and exciting, but it should be safe…. what ever that means. Last year, a man wanted his team to climb a difficult rock face without assistance from adventure professionals as a team challenge. They wanted my team to ensure no accidents happened. And how do we do that without going near the clients or telling them anything at all? [...]