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Archives for August, 2008

As I had mentioned earlier, we are doing a Training the Trainer Programme for facilitators in the  outdoors.

Add value to your outdoor programmes with these skills and tools for facilitating active learning.

Empower Activity Camps and Wide Aware invite you to participate in a three day trainer-training programme designed especially for providers of outdoor training. Read more… »

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In a mood for mischief. Was looking around at various sites and blogs. The Mumbai Hikers Blog, Lonely Planet, wikitravel.org, Trekshitiz, Treks N Rapids…. and I was wondering what do I write on my blog. This is what came up - my intense need to know.

What is it in the outdoors and adventure travel that calls to people? Honestly there is mud, mosquitoes, snakes and other creeps. There are no easy lifts and clean beds. Food and cooking is primitive. We exhaust ourselves climbing a mountain and risk life and limb to come down again. So why?

Why is the world so passionate about (to quote some inquiry emails I get) weekend gateways, hicking, treasure hunt riddles clues, rapling, climbhing and so many other things that they don’t even know how to spell? What about those things tempts them? What makes them leave their warm and cozy homes in pursuit of strange hardships with even stranger people? Read more… »

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Empower presents a unique management development opportunity …

LEADERSHIP IN ACTION

A Powerful Learning Experience for Senior Executives

EMPOWER is proud to offer you a three day residential programme presented by Dr. Roger Greenaway – a widely experienced training consultant from the UK who specialises in experience-based learning. Roger’s doctorate was a study of ‘Powerful Learning Experiences in Management Learning and Development’ but this is no academic programme that we are offering to you. This is an experience-based programme that recognises that managers are already talented at learning from experience and it builds on those talents.

The programme works at 3 levels:

  • Enabling you to learn from team and leadership experiences during the programme.
  • Providing opportunities for peer learning through sharing workplace experiences in novel ways.
  • Developing insights, skills and techniques that you can take back to the workplace for further learning about leadership and teamwork – for yourself and your colleagues

Powerful learning experiences will include:

  • Experiencing a variety of team activities and team roles including team leadership.
  • Experiencing simple yet empowering ways of giving and receiving feedback.
  • Experiencing learning with and from your peers using a range of versatile reviewing techniques.

As a result of participating in this programme you will be better able to:

  • Play an influential role as a team leader or manager – in your own style.
  • Bring innovative learning processes into team meetings - to make them more effective.
  • Create useful learning from experiences in the workplace – for yourself and others

On this programme you will not be presented with theories of leadership or models of teamwork: you will be experiencing teamwork and you will be experiencing leadership. And through the guidance and facilitation of Roger Greenaway, you will be able to maximise your learning from these experiences and return to the workplace with the tools and the understanding that will make you a better team player, a better leader, a better learner and a better facilitator of learning.

Venue.

Empower Activity Camps, Sutarwadi, Off KOLAD on Mumbai Goa Highway. (See route map on our website www.empowercamp.com)

Dates

0800 hours Sat 18 Oct to  14 hours Mon 20 Oct 2008.

Your Investment

Cabins (twin sharing) – Rs 35000/- (plus 12.36% service tax)

Swiss Cottage Tents (triple sharing) – Rs 30000/- (plus 12.36% service tax)

Cost includes boarding, lodging, training, certificates, caps and stationery. It does not include transport. If collective transport is required, that can be organized at additional cost, as applicable.

Limited vacancies. Please register early to avoid disappointment. Last date for registration 15 Sep 2008.

For registration / queries, please contact

09423093607

Roger Greenaway is an outdoor facilitator and the person behind the immensely useful site on the subject - reviewing.co.uk - a man whose writings I have read on and off for the last three years, and emailed a few times with appreciation and link exchange requests, etc.

Imagine my surprise this morning to receive an email from him saying that he was planning to come to India for the first time in October to conduct an outdoor management training program at Empower Camps. Sushil Bhasin, one of the owners is someone I have known for years and we are in fact currently in a dialogue about doing some training programs together.

I promptly called up Sushil to gossip about this new coincidence. As we caught up with current stuff, I discovered that Sushil had set a goal for himself - that of being the first outdoor training organization in India to do work with international facilitators!!! How absolutely amazing.

In our busy lives, we are so fixated with creating our own images, and glorifying ourselves, it is rare to look for resources and opportunities to widen our experience, quality of work and talent sets. Not only did Sushil have this in mind, he actually pulled it through. This programme is tentatively scheduled for October. Read more… »

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I read this post Work Happy Now! » Give Employees the Power to Impress Customers and compared it with a really bad experience at a local coffee shop last month. Gauri, Ashish, Asha and I (friends from ISABS) went out for a coffee after one of our regular meetings. Should have been an uneventful situation, yet, it wasn’t a good service experience.

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Footprints on the mountainside is a blog about all things that are important to me, as an outdoor person, as a facilitator on experiential learning programmes and adventure sports.

The blog largely reflects things that come to my notice, experiences in day to day life and things I wish to say to the world at large.

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