Set Your Sails for Success
On Course to Excellence is a total learning environment that provides a first hand look at how you operate as a team. Just as in business, while sailing, you learn how to plot a course, set your sails to get underway, work as a team to overcome obstacles, and balance strategy with tactics. Communication and planning are critical, and dovetail into developing actionable plans back at work.
These sessions range from a half-day to 5 days in length and require no sailing experience. While most of these programs are conducted at offshore locations, inland lakes and waterways can be equally as effective. Each session is custom designed and may include multiple boats, land-based activities, classroom sessions, or other possible program components.
Just as in business, we often choose a course where the destination is known, but the tools and strategies for getting there are not yet in place. This is a unique business simulation that uses sailing as a model for our work environment. From the moment that your team sets foot on the boat(s), they are challenged to define their objectives and to leverage their experience. With minimal training, they must quickly develop a plan. It’s now time to get the boat underway and learn to work together to navigate through a variety of challenges. The group learns to read environmental indicators that are critical to success, plot their course, and develop a plan for reaching their destination, while dealing with the unexpected that can rock the boat and throw the team off-course. Activities become progressively more challenging, as the team becomes more of a working unit.
The following sample activities illustrate how we address specific business issues. The final design is determined after further discussions with you and one of our consultants.
SAMPLE ACTIVITIES
The Planning Process & Getting Underway
Skill Focus: planning skills, group process and cooperation,
leadership, working with alternative plans
Various Navigation Exercises
Skill Focus: the power of clear common goals, cooperation, decision-making,
dealing with change, delegation & division of labor,
rewarding success, appreciation of different roles
Getting Prepared to Weather a Storm
Skill Focus: creative problem-solving & decision-making, innovation, recognizing alternatives, critical evaluation, risk-taking
Anchoring Exercises
Skill Focus: trust, communication, sharing of resources for a common goal,
integrating new members into an existing team
Climbing to the Top
Skill Focus: trust, teamwork, group support, risk-taking, working under stress
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