Outbound Training

Journeys that Matter

Watch photos from: Waterfall Rappelling at Kondana Caves

Great Adventure

Weekend hike to Rajmachi Fort
Two day adventure outing near Mumbai on the 15th and 16th of August 2009

Wild Adventure

White Water Rafting Adventure
Adventure Team Building getaway nead Mumbai - White Water Rafting on the River Kundalika

Outdoor Adventure Training

It is easy to underestimate the advantages of outbound training in creating positive change within teams and organizations. How can something that is so much fun and flows so easily have such great impact? Leadership coaching, executive training and development, Coaching development, executive leadership training and such Programmes for corporate teams have specific objectives. are essential objectives of HRD ventures in every industry.

Outdoor Management Development Programmes are a powerful tool for Human Resources Management. They were born from the observation of human nature and the need to find a method of quick and efficient personal and organistional growth in a world full of competition.

Experience is the most reliable way of increasing knowledge. According to David Kolb experiential learning in adults happens through a continuous cycle of learning from reviewing our experiences and analysing results that leads to planned changes in behaviour. This, when explored in a neutral environment results in quick understanding and practical learnings with a large number of associations with other related and unrelated challenges.

The bonus being that outbound training outcomes are long lasting. We can forget what we are told, what we read or what we are informed, but we remember what we go through. We base our future behaviour on what we have done and this forms a pattern we follow in doing everything. Thus, an experiential learning camp can be a resource toward addressing many needs in a company.

Corporate Training in the Outdoors

teamwork outbound The basic patterns we create are the ones that determine our behaviour. These can be changed. If we consciously examine what we do and are dissatisfied with the results we obtain, we can choose to change the factors that yield undesirable results. Our programmes are a tool for bringing about this awareness and focussing attention on the desirable aspects.

To explore and develop our learning through the experiential learning cycle games are an effective tool. Participants are assigned various leadership training activities to complete and their result is discussed.

The unfamiliarity makes an individual more conscious of their actions and thoughts as there are no previously set solutions. The outdoor environment emphasises this and ensures that they are actively creating solutions.

The highly enjoyable nature of the activities make the learnings less likely to be forgotten or ignored.

Discussions that follow the activities discuss these new solutions and serve to bring factors that promoted success into the spotlight. We carefully examine and highlight the qualities that add to or detract from the performance. The ones that work are identified and carefully implemented in following activities till they come naturally.

Outdoor Training Interventions for Positive Change

The participants are free to try changes that could cause improvements in the activities that follow and incorporate them into their method or reject them - depending on the results they get.

Team Building Activities

Team building activities Simple, unfamiliar activities

As these activities are basically games by nature, the stakes are low and failure is not a deterrent as opposed to the job environment. There is less hesitation in trying out new ways of doing things.

Reviews or Group Discussions

Reviewing

This is a learning pattern that gets created that can be applied continuously, or when required whenever they are dissatisfied with the outcomes anywhere, be it at home or at work or with friends... The possibilities are endless.

Corporate Programmes

Team Building

Which organization doesn't want teams that are 'healthy', happy, performing and motivated? Yet, it is easy to read and write these words, but a challenge to weave them into the organization's reality. Outdoor Training is exceptionally suited to addressing these objectives. >>

Leadership

Leaders can do jobs, or they can drive change and growth. Leaders in todays corporate environments have greater pressures and scrutiny than ever before. Outdoor programmes provide a space for them to focus on their potential as a leader leading to an empowered organization.

Communication

Communicating is more than conveying. It is more than the medium, sender or receiver. It is a process that brings alignment and common perspective. Discover how outdoor programmes can create that instinct for aligning perspectives in a most enjoyable manner. Miracle? Not really.

Creativity

Often, the vision for creativity gets described in bullet points on a 'to do' list as leaders wonder why they can't get out of that box. The free flow that knows no boundaries remains elusive as do the abundant free spirited unstoppable ideas that go along with it. Claim them.

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