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Adventure Learning Newsletters
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Newsletter: April/May/ June 2003
What's
New! 2003
continues to prove that Experience Based Training continues to be
an effective vehicle for building team skills to achieve specific
organizational outcomes, even in times of retrenchment and crisis.
To that end, in collaboration with Real
Life Systems, we have developed a new and completely unique Experiential
Simulation: Rebuilding a Nation. This two day, outdoor
based simulation, was designed as a vehicle for building cohesion
in large organizations with differing cultures existing under the
umbrella of the organization's common goal. This is a dynamic program
designed specifically to highlight ways in which organizations can
harness the dynamic aspects of a different cultures/common goal to
achieve excellent performance. This simulation is like no other team
building/experiential program that we know of. For more information
about Rebuilding a Nation, please call us at 800-551-3210.
Among
other highlights this year are, the continuation of a major team
training initiative with all levels of a large government agency
in which we continue to design and build challenge courses in a number
of different training centers, continued development of our Professional/Executive
Coaching practice, and the continuation of our commitment to be a
global provider of teambuilding programs. The last year also
marked continuation of our membership in the Association
for Experiential Education and membership in the Association
for Challenge Course Technology. Our membership in these and
other professional organizations greatly enhances our ability to
offer cutting edge programs and services to our clients.
Staff Profile: Meet Lisa Revere
Lisa
Revere has been an instructor/facilitator for Adventure Learning
Associates for the last two years. Lisa has been an international
corporate facilitator and wilderness educator for over ten years. Her
experience includes lecturing, leading wilderness and urban learning
expeditions, and facilitating corporate development programs. She works
with diverse groups in a wide range of settings, from executive board
rooms to the wilderness, facilitating positive growth for executives,
administrators, teachers and adolescents. Lisa holds master's
degrees in psychology and sociology and has worked with organizations
in Sweden, England and the U.S.
She
brings to her work energy, insight, and multi-cultural experience,
which in turn impel her clients into new perspectives and methods
of problem-solving that create positive results both individually
and organizationally. Lisa says her favorite
client/work/program experience is when the group perceives the ah
ha moment. "It really makes me feel like the process and
what I strive to deliver are working".
Lisa
is based in New York City and is available to bring her unique programming
skills to clients in the New Jersey, New York and Connecticut area.
What's
New! 2002
continues to prove that Experience Based Training continues to be
an effective vehicle for building team skills to achieve specific
organizational outcomes, even in times of retrenchment and crisis.
Among the highlights this year are, the continuation of a major team
training initiative with all levels of a large government agency
in which we continue to design and build challenge courses in a number
of different training centers, continued development of our Professional/Executive
Coaching practice, and the continuation of our commitment to be a
global provider of teambuilding programs. The last year also
marked continuation of our membership in the Association
for Experiential Education and membership in the Association
for Challenge Course Technology. Our membership in these and
other professional organizations greatly enhances our ability to
offer cutting edge programs and services to our clients.
Highlighted
Program Offerings:
- New Responses
to New/Old Problems
Is your team just going through the motions? Are you finding your team lacks
the resources to come up with the creative solutions to the ever changing
problems generated by our current crisis oriented business environment? Or,
is your team in crisis denial, thinking if they ignore what's happening around
them, it will just go away? If you have answered yes to any of these questions,
then your team may be a good candidate for our new Team Jump Start Program.
This newly developed two day team program has the deliverable/outcome of
increasing your teams creativity/ability to develop new solutions to complex
problems and to get your team out of analysis paralysis and to find the internal
resources it needs to actually develop realistic action plans to take on
the important issues. Team Jump Start is two days of increasingly difficult
problem solving activities culminating in a complex activity that requires
teams to dig deep into their creative resources to be successful. The program
ends with a half day action planning activity that should generate the jump
your team needs to move the next level. This is the ideal program for a new
team, a retrenched team, or a team that just can't seem to get going. Please
visit our Services page for more information.
- Celebrating/Challenging/Motivating
Teams to do More With Less
The layoffs and cost cutting are over and you've retained the best and the
brightest, now, the big question remains: How can you get fewer people to
do more with less? One possible solution to this dilemma may be our half
day Team Spirit Program. Team Spirit is a large group rejuvenation/motivation
program. This program focuses on creating a high spirited, can do approach
to teamwork. Teams compete against each other to successfully complete physical
and cognitive challenges while identifying team skills/processes and best
practices that can lead to increased productivity in the work environment.
The teams compete for a donation to their favorite charity. The Team Spirit
program ends with a high energy, multi-media, celebration and appreciation
of team contributions. This is an ideal way to create an atmosphere of appreciation
in an era where bonuses and other percs that have been standard in the past
have been temporarily eliminated for economic reasons.
Frequently
Asked Question Page
In response to your requests, we have now developed a Frequently Asked Questions
page on this site to answer your questions on teambuilding, Coaching, and the
rest of our products and services. This page will increase and change from
month to month. You can reach this page by clicking here,
or by clicking Frequently Asked Questions at the bottom of the page.
Portable
Equipment
We are now offering portable initiatives designed by Executive Edge/Virtual
Adventures. These "high tech" initiatives can bring an additional
level of challenge and fun to your next event. They can be shipped to your
program site and include many options. Please contact us for our ever changing
list of portable equipment and current prices.
Personal/Professional/Executive
Coaching
For over five years we have been offering personal and professional/executive
Coaching services as part of are overall service offerings. We developed our
Coaching services as a response to needs expressed by our clients for increased
interpersonal effectiveness and to be able to develop strategies for goal achievement
that were practical and attainable. Our Coaching services are designed to help
our clients pay attention to the true issues in their professional and personal
lives by changing their structure of interpretation of events, rather than
just focusing on our emotional reactions to perceived problems. Our Coaching
programs consist of clarifying interviews and discussions and then the establishment
of self correcting practices that enable our clients to use their own resources
to generate sustained effective responses to personal and business challenges.
Please use our form or contact us at 800-551-3210 for a free initial coaching
session.
Train
Your Staff
One way to save on facilitation fees for large programs is to have Adventure
Learning Associates' staff train your employees to lead and facilitate a specific
program that is tailored to the needs of your organization. Depending on the
length and complexity of your program we can train you and your co-workers
in as little as one day. On the day of the program our staff can supervise
and monitor your employees as they actually lead the program and can assist
as needed. Please use our form for further information.
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