Words Frame Reality

So this week I felt the need to share something that I know is a challenge and we as professionals need to continually focus and strive towards mastery on. The use of clear and distinct language that is understood by those you are talking with, your peer group, and you…

Scaling Challenge of Choice. High Ropes Course Processing & Reflection

To frontload and increase the comfort zone for people on the high ropes course.
To develop a shared language and system for sharing external signs of comfort and reactions to challenge.
Completing the process with the group and individual being able to know and recreate situations where discomfort was addressed and through practice increase the person’s knowledge and skills to lessen reaction time from discomfort to comfort.

Hanging on the High Ropes Course

Working with a group on Leadership and team building. Part of the process is taking the group to a High Ropes Course to explore individual challenges.
Create-Learning leads team building & leadership programs with many High Ropes and Low Ropes courses.

Perceptions of Challenge Courses We have already done that

Working with corporate clients.Many of them have given me the pleasure of consulting for many years now. At this point know and have a good idea of my bag of tricks have dialed in to ask me the questions to receive the answers they need. How does this apply to Challenge courses and Ropes Courses … Continued

High ropes course useless for dysfunctional teams

Ropes courses have their fit with team building, leadership development
When properly facilitated any experience can be metaphorically tied-back to student and work life.The challenge for the consumer wanting a ropes course (challenge course) experience is to have realistic expectations of what can be done.

What team members should realize is that there are great team building activities out there that do not require a ropes course, that push your limits mentally and physically and allow the team to use all its power to replicate and solve work and organizational problems.