Team Development

Team Building Events

These recreation-based play events, here or at other locations; are 3-5 hours in length. Groups have a host who guides discussion on goals, expectations, and our challenge by choice philosophy. Floor problem solving with debriefing often encourages participants to consider behaviors and goals here and relate them back to their organization, work, or study sites. Ropes course and/or Climbing/Rope Holding/Coaching roles and strategies may be included. Those people who choose to climb may also try blindfolded climbing, or try being tethered to another climber of different ability. Those people who choose more passive roles may choose to coach, cheer and encourage co-workers or fellow students.

Team Creation Seminars at Rock Ventures

Seminars are education-based, here or at other locations, and feature one to multi-day sessions with amazing results. Those groups looking to create more effective teams that have consistently improved communication, cooperation, and trust. A team looking to gain an appreciation of one another’s communication style, abilities, and personalities should select this option. Company culture, language and goals are studied and woven throughout these sessions. Some of the end products include: Mission Statements, Vision Statements, Points of Culture, Strategic Action Objectives and Individual Professional Plans for carrying out agreed upon goals. Our professional facilitators are certified to use the Shared Adventures curriculum and tools. OutComm® Facilitation uses a visual mapping system, neutral “guides”, and playful consensus-decision making process to achieve powerful, long-lasting results. The DiSC Personal Insights Profile is often administered in advance and results are used to gain appreciation for one another’s differences and strengths. Visit Shared Adventures for more information.

Teambuilding or Team Creation?

Often groups just want to laugh, get to know one another and play with Recreational Teambuilding here.

Other groups want to improve communication, trust, cooperation, and awareness of individual strengths and styles for increased productivity. We call this Educational Teambuilding. We can use the DiSC Personal Insights Profile and OutComm ™ Visual Mapping Facilitation skills to assist you in the development of Vision Statements, Mission Statements, Points of Culture, Strategic Planning and much more. AND/OR we can ask your team to anonymously to identify team goals and next, tell us the barriers, or what’s holding you back from achieving them. Participants ARE NOT EXPECTED TO CLIMB; other roles include coaching, cheering, rope holding, back-up rope holding, and problem solving. Playful floor activities with professional debriefing and tie-ins to team goals and barriers are facilitated. Blindfolded or tethered climbing brings people together who usually do not interact much. A final activity has the team considering strategies for removing those barriers that may prevent goal achievement. Personal accountability is the final focus.

So, how do you decide which option to choose? Honestly answer these questions (we will keep all information confidential):

1. What are your team goals?

2. What are the barriers or potential barriers to achieving these goals?

3. Numbers of people?

4. Date, day and time for teambuilding (educational seminars should be minimum of 4-5 hours; not including break times)

5. If we could guarantee improved communication, cooperation, trust, appreciation of one another’s different styles and communication preferences would this be more valuable than a play day here?

6. Would it be useful if we came to you? Last summer we assisted the University of Virginia with a kick-off event, in the Shenandoah Mountains, to begin a $500 million development campaign and recently, we facilitated a two-day session at Black Creek Park with Strong Hospital’s Cardiovascular ICU team.

7. Can you guarantee your group attending on time, staying the entire time, turning cell phones off, 100% participation even if some choose not to climb?

This information helps us to customize a Team Creation Seminar or to simply schedule a recreational option like Introduction to Climbing and/or a Ropes Course with Rappelling adventure session.

Thank you for considering these questions first; then let us assist you in meeting your teambuilding or team creation needs.

Kent Winchester

Owner and Senior Facilitator

585-442-5462

kentwinchest@yahoo.com