Our Programmes
We take pride being in the forefront as Sri Lanka’s most experienced company’s for team development activities, adventure facilitation and out-of-the-box corporate experiential outdoor initiatives. With experience of servicing local and foreign corporate clients, over 1600 adventure seekers, over 65 program formats, and operations in 7 locations island wide, we bring in the experie
nce and the expertise that you were looking for. Training Overview
Team performance is driven by members who can quickly align and coordinate their actions and perform efficiently to achieve a common objective. They are consciously aware of how each member contributes to the team’s overall success and the importance of communicating clearly. They deal with issues and problems openly and remove barriers to success. In team building programs, the entire program focuses on improving the group dynamics of the target team. Therefore, first of all, all the team members of the group should be present for such team building programs. Benefits
More productive and effective team performance
Team meeting time used more efficiently
Better alignment of team-member strengths and work deliverables
Increased confidence and satisfaction with personal contributions and team results
More timely achievement of project objectives and work deliverables
Improved team deployment and performance capabilities to meet goals and respond to challenges
Faster performance transition from individual to team-oriented behaviors
Deepened individual commitment for achieving better team-quality output
Improved participation/motivation of team members on assignments
After the training, participants are able to:
Utilize the Team Development model to guide and improve team performance
Identify and overcome the barriers to team success
Establish the team's basic beliefs and determine the team’s purpose/vision
Complete and evaluate a team development assessment to identify strengths and areas for focus
Improve and enhance individual and team communication skills
Identify, recognize and resolve common team problems
Conduct focused, productive team meetings
Develop action schedules and monitor progress using various quality tools
Plan and conduct team reviews and follow up on actions and achievements
Explore and use team decision-making tools
Self-regulate by dealing with unwanted counter-productive behaviors on the team
Celebrate team progress and results
Present team results to senior management
Program Length
Building High Performance Teams - Building High Performance Teams is an interactive skills-based team development program that focuses on the team principles and practices of effective teamwork, and how to apply this knowledge to real-time business challenges. Team development program formats include, half day programs, one day and two day team development programs, depending on your objectives. Team Performance Initiatives - Team Initiatives are team development programs that include experientially-based team exercises to enhance communication, trust, problem-solving and collaboration, and to break down barriers that prevent people from engaging with each other. Team Development formats include half day and one day programs, and can be integrated with other team development programs and corporate retreats. Building Senior Leadership Teams - Building Senior Leadership Teams is a highly interactive team development experience for senior teams that blends the principles of high performance teamwork with customized facilitation or breakout groups on important organizational challenges requiring executive collaboration. Teamwork Skills - Teamwork Skills is a modular team development program that provides teams with a comprehensive system of team development skills that involve team communication, decision-making, problem-solving, action planning, process improvement, and more. Developing Team Leaders - Developing Team Leaders is a modular team leadership development program that provides team leaders with a comprehensive series of leadership and supervisory team development skills to lead and manage teams. Team Coaching and Facilitation - Team Coaching & Facilitation provides professional team development facilitation and team development coaching services to build and sustain any type of organizational team. This team development facilitation and coaching is especially helpful where achieving high performance and results are critical to the business, such as sales teams, project teams, process improvement teams, and many others. Paintballing
White Water Rafting
Amazing Race
Soft Skills
PAINTBALLING
Searching for something new and different for your next company event? Tired of the same old activities you’ve been doing for years? Paintball is bold, different, and guaranteed to capture everyone’s interest. Paintball is a TEAM BUILDING event full of action-packed excitement, attracting people from all professions and walks of life. Our Corporate Paintball Shoot-out is designed for groups that want to combine TEAM BUILDING and LEADERSHIP training with adventure, excitement, and competition. Two teams are selected and given a set of objectives: to develop the best strategy for capturing and controlling the oppositions’ territories and flag stations, while simultaneously defending their own flags and their co-workers. Paintball Adventures combines relaxed fun with demanding situations, allowing participants to demonstrate and develop their LEADERSHIP, COMMUNICATION, and PROBLEM-SOLVING skills, while having an exhilarating time. Our Corporate Paintball program enhances group dynamics, breaks down employer/employee barriers, erodes gender barriers, improves morale, and develops company camaraderie. Co-workers return refreshed, rejuvenated, and infused with a new sense of personal ability and corporate team spirit. Since the goal is Corporate Team Building, our games naturally inspire enhanced leadership, cohesion, and camaraderie. And they provide the best team alliance exercise that our clients have ever experienced. It’s a sport where men and women compete on equal terms. Physical size and strength does not determine the outcome of the game. A winning team comes from team members’ ability to think fast and act decisively, while interacting and cooperating with teammates. Keeping all this in mind, We invite you to join the many thousands of “Cowboys” and “Cowgirls” who have had the opportunity to experience Corporate Paintball Adventures. WHITE WATER RAFTING
The common acronym for TEAM (Together, Everyone, Achieves, More) may sound a bit silly, but it is entirely true! Whitewater rafting trips are superb group activities. Not just for the sport itself, but for the amazing scenery, sheer adventure and the unity that make up a proven recipe for a successful group experience. Whether your objective is to enhance performance, communication, initiation or simply rewarded others for a job well done, there is no other activity like whitewater rafting! Whitewater Challengers offers a Team Building Program that takes advantage of the natural learning environment provided by a whitewater rafting experience. This program is ideal for any corporate group that wants to (1) have an enjoyable outdoor experience together, and (2) develop communication and other interpersonal skills that provide long term benefit and value to the group. Helping to guide a raft down the Kelani River is a challenge that can be met through determination, creativity, communication and teamwork, and so is expanding your bottom line! Our high-impact experiential learning provides immediate results to your most valuable asset, your employees. Through this whitewater adventure, teams learn not just in theory, but in practice: innovation, planning, follow-through, leadership and stress reducing fun. Challenges are tangible, and they trigger immediate consequences. Teams learn communication, trust, risk-taking and reaching common goals through team support. Each person will have an opportunity to be the rafting captain and to be a part of the crew. Whitewater rafting is an excellent and proven activity for having a blast and in the process developing valuable team building and leadership skills. When the experience is shared amongst co-workers and peers, a regular RIVER trip is an exhilarating and effective tool for increasing productivity, teamwork and community! We offer trips that can enhance your organizations communication, leadership issues and team building. Whether it is simply a department within your organization, work party or even the whole company, a whitewater rafting trip will be one that they remember! AMAZING RACE
This teambuilding activity is a team-based race that showcases collaboration, risk vs. reward and other gratification techniques. Based on the TV hit The Amazing Race, teams are required to seek out and solve a series of different challenges. Once solved, the next clue and challenge becomes clear. However, you'll never know where you’re going next or what you'll have to do once there. Each team’s relationship will be forever changed by their experience in this once-in-a-lifetime adventure. Each leg is a non-elimination / elimination leg and the teams soon discover that cooperative competition can bear more fruit than a “dog-eat-dog” approach. Amazing Race entails cryptic and mentally challenging activities that takes in famous sites, monuments and places of interest. This multi-activity event utilizes cryptic clues, problem solving challenges, orienteering, resourcefulness, teamwork and intelligence of your team. The event will reward teamwork, team building skills, leadership skills, creativity, out-of-the-box thinking and taking calculated risks. Amazing Race will really test each team's ability to practice these team building skills:
High levels of communication
Planning - executing the plan with flexibility
Emotional intelligence
Collaboration & Trust
Strategy Performance under pressure
Team work
SOFT SKILLS
Leadership Coaching
This is a highly personalised long term program, purely directed by the objectives of the coachee, where the Coach/Mentor will guide and facilitate the coachee to achieve his/her coaching objectives. Typically the coaching objectives are a mix of organisational and leadership (be it strategic or operational) and personal objectives. The process focusses on the development of the coachee, whereby he/she is empowered and skilled to act confidently, authentically and effectively. Organization Development
We work with organisations in strategy and operations, with people and technology, with systems & processes and cultures, to transform the way organisations work readying them for the future. Our approach is holistic – in tune with the internal and external systems. A piece meal approach is shunned for one in favour of a long term systems approach, building in sustainability and efficiency to initiatives in change management, team building, Human Resource Development (HRD) and Human Resource management systems and cultural transformations. Team development and coaching
Team development is a long term organization development initiative. It is typically to develop departmental teams, cross-functional teams, project teams, virtual teams. This is done through a combination of
team planning and visioning
team review and reflection
team building
inter-personal and team relationship building
skills development (leadership, communication, problem-solving, inter person skills, coaching and mentoring
team coaching
one-on-one coaching
Training & Development
Our primary focus in training is in skilling managers and executives to realise their inherent potential through the learning of new skills and competencies in leadership & management skills, team building, self development, communication and coaching skills. Our approach to training is based on experiential learning and reflective practices. Therefore our training programs are not limited to one or two day sessions, but is carefully designed as long term sustainable processes from the needs identification to, class room training, to real world application to follow-up on learning experiences. Some of our popular training and development programmes and interventions:
Executive and Leadership Coaching – one-on-one for CEOs and Senior managers:
Team development and coaching - a combination of team building, interpersonal and team relationship building, skills development and one-on-one coaching for cross functional and departmental teams
Leadership skills development – ethical leadership, New leaders taking over teams etc. Communication skills – from listening skills to good business writing skills
Crucial Conversations and Dialoguing – a very popular and powerful program that helps people improve their skills in communication especially in difficult and conflict conversations. Coaching skills development – equipping leaders and managers to become coaches and mentors to their team members, helping them inspire and manage performance and give constructive feedback. Presentation skills – also combined with using performance arts as a creative way of engaging participants to develop their presentation skills
Empowering women managers – Enabling women in the workforce to find an effective balance between home and work, and find their authentic voice and take empowered action in the work place. Gender at work – Helping women and men learn to understand each others strengths and gifts and learn to work as equal partners with respect towards each others
Learning Balance – Stress management, energy management and finding work and home balance
Emotional Intelligence at work – Helping leaders become holistic and emotionally intelligent
Self and personal development – helping participant find their own inner motivation, personal life vision and action plans for development
