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CORPORATE ADVENTURE TRAINING PROGRAMS
"It is always the adventurers who
accomplish great things."
- Montesquieu, French philosopher, 18th century
Introduction
Our corporate adventure training programs focus on executive team
building, leadership development, and special teambuilding events for sales teams, project
teams, management teams and company-wide meetings. Fun, challenge, and action learning are
the trademarks of these trainings. Your team will be presented with a very unique
integration of adventure learning activities, cutting-edge teamwork and leadership
concepts, a powerful action-reflection process and spectacular outdoor classrooms. Whether
sailing, adventure racing, negotiating a ropes course, rock climbing, canoeing or
participating in an experiential simulation game – you will be challenged to develop
and practice a superior level of leadership and teamwork.
The Adventure Learning and Training
Classrooms
Following an assessment of your group’s needs and objectives,
PEI consultants will recommend and co-design a program with you that will address your
desired outcomes.
Whatever the chosen adventure experience may be, the areas of focus
may include:
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Team Building
Conflict Management
Communication Excellence
Stress Management
Fun & Celebration!
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PEI Adventure Training Staff
PEI staff are seasoned veterans of the experiential & corporate
adventure training industry. We bring the unique combination of extensive business &
professional experience, unequaled adventure resumes, and advanced degrees in the fields
of business, psychology, education, counseling and international studies. We are longtime
graduates from such schools as Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership School
– and we continue to be driven by our passion for bringing out the best in people
through adventure. (See Meet Our People for more
information.)
PEI’s Adventure Learning Model
"The road to adventure leads to wisdom."
- Celestial Seasonings
The powerful action-reflection model that we use in our adventure
training programs is described as follows:
The What
Engage
in action-learning / adventure activities
Explore
cutting-edge leadership, team & personal development concepts / models
Reflect
& renew through solo time
Dialogue
with fellow participants
The Gut
What
are my reactions to the activities & ideas presented? What excites me? What empowers
me?
What
disempowers me? What intrigues me? What challenges me?
What
ideas and feedback fit for me, make sense to me?
The So-What
The Now-What
The Power of Corporate Adventure Learning and Training: Key Concepts for
Business
Ad-‘ven-ture: moving into the
unknown; a bold enterprise with an uncertain outcome; a remarkable and exciting
experience….What better word to describe our personal and professional lives as we
begin this new millenium? The adventure classroom is designed to simulate the real world
of uncertainty, unpredictability and perpetual change in which we work and live.
Experiential: Our coporate adventure
training programs are based on an experiential model. The basic beliefs underlying this
model are: (1) You are your own best teacher, and (2) People learn best from experience
– and from reflecting on experience to gain insights for personal, professional and
team development. While we will introduce you to a number of leading-edge theories and
concepts, our primary goal in these programs is to create an environment where you will
discover and create for yourself your own outcomes. Out of your experience in our programs
you will create your own powerful model of effective leadership, teamwork, and /or self
mastery.
The Action/Reflection Process: In
today’s organizations, most of us focus our energies on "acting" and
"doing" in order to get the job done within restricted time frames and limited
resources. We find little - if any - time for reflection. Warren Bennis, author of On
Becoming A Leader, notes however, that reflection may be the pivotal way in which leaders
learn: "Reflection is a way of making learning conscious. Reflection gets to the
heart of the matter, the truth of things….Reflection permits us to process our
feelings, understand them, resolve our questions, and get on with our work." Action
is essential for "getting the job done" – but practicing the skill of
reflection is what takes us to the next level of leadership and teamwork. In our programs
you will sharpen your reflective skills - individually & collectively - to reap the
greatest benefit from all of your life/work experiences. You will also practice the
balance between action and reflection, between doing and being – a balance that is
translatable back to your everyday work-world.
Play: So what do such activities as
sailing, climbing, canoeing, playing games or doing a ropes course have to do with
personal, professional or team development? Are not such activities simply recreational
endeavors or "play"? Peter Senge, America’s foremost champion for
"learning organizations" notes that "learning often best occurs through
‘play’, through interaction in a transitional medium where it is safe to
experiment and reflect…. When a team goes whitewater rafting or engages in some other
outdoor team-building exercise, they are creating a microworld to reflect on and improve
the way they work together." How you approach rappelling off a cliff, climbing a
mountain, sailing a boat, playing a simulation game – provides a mirror for how you
and your team approach other challenges back in the "real world". Through astute
observation of yourselves and how you interact with one another during adventure
activities – and through a process of reflection & discussion afterwards –
you gain significant insights for application at work. Skillful facilitation by PEI’s
seasoned facilitators turns each adventure activity into a powerful learning and
development opportunity.
Wilderness: The wilderness,
out-of-doors environment is "wild". It is uncontrollable, constantly changing,
and it is far from the routine of our daily lives. This is it’s power in serving as a
catalyst for breaking up habitual patterns of thinking and behaving while stimulating new
perspectives and new ways of being– both personally and professionally. Outside the
bounds of your office, your home, your everyday world – you become energized to
recreate yourself and then return to your world on a new bearing.
See Also:
Team BuildingTeam Building Team Fest! Leadership Development and Training
Leading From Within
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