Outdoor Training

When in a study the CEOs of several companies were asked what qualities they most valued in the members of their company, knowing how to “work as a team” was the one that scored the highest, and was ahead of others such as experience, dedication, or communication skills.

The high-performance teams stand out for having a good leadership, a good communication, a clear distribution of roles, a lot of cohesion and a good plan of action that guides them and focuses them towards a very specific objective. At the same time, they operate in business environments that offer them challenges and opportunities for their continuous professional and personal development.

Is your team a high-performance team? Have you analyzed it? Have you thought about what you could do to improve the way of working of the different teams of your company? Have you thought about Outdoor Training?

They are designed especially for teams of managers, these training courses also called Outdoor Training, combine outdoor challenging activities with reflection sessions that enhance, through practice and experience, the change in the way of feeling, thinking and acting of the participants, focusing on those aspects of the group that need strengthening: leadership, decision making, teamwork, communication, personal improvement, etc … Each team is a world and, although everyone has much to improve in their way of teamwork, each team has its particularities.

Outdoor training is a training activity that differs from traditional theoretical methods by encouraging the improvement of the participants’ skills through personal experience, overcoming certain challenges and outdoor exercises and the subsequent vision and reflection on what happened.

In outdoor training, participants are invited to live an experience that requires a lot of “teamwork” to overcome each challenge and thus achieve a final goal.

The organizations hire individuals so that they can join the company and work in one or more teams (groups of people who work in coordination to achieve certain results).

At Dreams & Adventures, we have the tools and experience to analyze and diagnose the behavior of your teams and then train them to learn to work better. And we do it through Outdoor Training.

What does “Outdoor Training” mean?

We all know that Outdoor means “outdoors” and “training” training. An “Outdoor Training” is a training course where through a series of outdoor activities and exercises followed by an analysis session, participants discover, learn and incorporate the knowledge, skills and specific behaviors that will lead them to develop personally and improve the performance and efficiency of the team.

Why carry out a course with outdoor activities, ie an Outdoor Training?

Creating a high-performance team is neither an easy task nor is it achieved overnight. The outdoor training methodology is facilitated through the advantages offered by the learning based on direct experience and practice, the subsequent analysis and the obtaining of conclusions through the group discussion of the experience.

What is experiential learning?

No lesson is better learned than the one to which each individual comes by himself. With the experience of a series of unique and exciting experiences, we will be able to prepare the individual for change, impact and that he himself reflects and learns in an active, natural and lasting way. This is what is called “experiential” or “experiential” learning and that type of learning is nourished by Outdoor Training.

Why Dreams & Adventures to improve the performance of your teams with an Outdoor Training?

A high-performance team does not usually do it by itself. For the creation of a team with these characteristics, it is necessary for someone to encourage team members to reflect and analyze how they are working together, what they are not doing well, what are their strengths and weaknesses, They can do it to make it better and once analyzed this helps them create an action plan to implement new and more effective forms of collaboration. You could do that yourself, but many times it is more effective for someone outside the company to do it. And in an environment outside the thousand and one interruptions that are in the usual work environment.

At Dreams & Adventures, we are specialists in guiding you through this process. We are a company that has been working for more than 20 years for the most important companies in the world, leaders in the Outdoor training sector in Spain and ready to carry out the best “Outdoor training” programs for your company.

Together, we will help your teams learn for themselves. We will invite you to solve certain problems and, while they solve them, we will observe things that you do not normally observe with such objectivity and detail: body language, communication processes, leadership, coordination, etc … to then make a series of questions, comments and observations about their individual and group behavior that will invite them to reflect and explore new alternatives to improve their work as a team. That is what we pursue and achieve with our Outdoor Training.

What types of Outdoor Training do Dreams & Adventures offer?

Yes, we have a catalog of activities. But not standardized courses of Outdoor Training. An Outdoor Training is not a Team Building event. It is something that requires a more personalized treatment. We design programs adapted to the needs of our clients. With our programs, participants can improve various facets of their teamwork: solving problems, developing a mentality without self-limitations, having confidence in themselves, improving communication with others, adapting to change, developing a spirit of improvement, make decisions more effectively, etc. But to present a program before, we’ll have to talk to you. Each team is different and for each team, there is an ideal place, some suitable exercises and a facilitator with a certain profile and experience. We do not know what your problem is and what your objective is. And we cannot promise you the sky without first knowing what your case is and what you need. What we can guarantee 100% at the outset, whatever the team, is that with our Outdoor Training they will come out more cohesive than they entered and tremendously motivated. We have lived it on many occasions and we can guarantee a remarkable and appreciable improvement in cohesion, awareness of the importance of teamwork, mutual knowledge and motivation of the participants.

We would love to meet with you to understand the culture, philosophy, and particularities of your company and its teams and together, determine what are the attitudes and managerial skills on which we can base ourselves to encourage an improvement in their managers. Based on these desired objectives, we will prepare an Outdoor Training program, with specific activities and analysis sessions, tailored to your needs and tailored to your team.

Conclusion

The participants in our Outdoor Training courses respond much better when the activities designed have life, are varied, participatory, innovative and full of surprises. And this is precisely our specialty.

Our experience has shown us that outdoor games and exercises and Outdoor Training can be a magical antidote to boredom, help draw feelings and emotions and lift the spirit of the members of the participating teams. Part of the success of our Outdoor Training programs comes from the wonderful environment where they are developed.

Our “Team Building” courses using experiential learning and “outdoor training” methodology will help you learn new and better ways to work as a team and translate these reflections, conclusions, and plans to your usual workplace and your own life.

We will be happy to help you. We are passionate about our work. And we are excited about Outdoor Training. It is fantastic to work on something and see with our own eyes how we inspire people to improve and feel better about themselves.