How does Corporate Outbound Training work?
Outdoor training is a proven and effective method to train and develop sales staff, irrespective of their level and responsibilities within the organisation. Outdoor methods differ from standard training strategies in several important ways:
• Outdoor training tasks are a direct and clear means by which group interaction is assessed and developed.
• The impact of decisions and actions participants take is immediate and directly relates to the success of the team.
• When outdoors, the familiar influences and the ‘support culture’ within the workplace are removed and the participants are able to concentrate on the activity and the training. By removing of the daily work environment, the explicit aim of the method is to provide an effective, enjoyable and challenging experience.
The design of each exercise has been developed keeping in mind specific learning objectives. ‘Learning’ by participants will be ensured through the post-exercise ‘review’ and / or ‘evaluation’ of the ‘process’ and ‘behaviour’ demonstrated by the participants while going through the exercise/s. The review will be conducted at the end of each exercise and will be done either by the participants responding to a questionnaire, by small group discussions or through a syndicate approach.
Each exercise is meant to provide the participants with a certain amount of self-discovery, self-examination and self-understanding along with its intended outcome of self-development. There is also, of course, the joy and thrill of participating in such outdoor activities which will refresh and rejuvenate the participants, both physically and mentally. In addition, the activities present a challenging environment, which stretches the “normally assumed" capabilities of the participants and helps them break out of their self-imposed ‘limitations’.
All these effects become evident by the physical and mental ‘high’, which the participants exhibit in their work place after they return from the Outdoor Development Programme.
