July 2009
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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 nots plastered [...]
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 objectives” [...]
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
Monsoon Hike to Rajmachi Fort
You wanted a more “trekking experience”, we bring it to you. Be prepared to go to Rajmachi Fort on the 15th and 16th of August 2009!
This is a more basic experience than our usual vehicles from Mumbai to Mumbai and resort stays that happen in open programmes.
We will be meeting at Karjat station ticket window [...]
The Changing Nature of Leadership
Gone is the time when a leader had a clear role. Where it was a relatively simple matter of finding out requirements from the source, explaining them to the team and getting the job done. When a lot of the work could depend on previous work for reference, when statistical data was nearly perfect.
Today, a [...]
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