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The Programs
In a time of economic crisis, structural change in our economy, and increased global competition, visionary leaders, forward-thinking managers, and effective teams are needed now more than ever. However, when times are tough, many organizations view professional development as a luxury. We, of course, disagree. We believe this is precisely the time when there is enough breathing room in your daily workflow to give your team the chance to better themselves and hone their abilities to be more effective! At The Nature Place, your employees, at all levels, will improve their leadership, team-building, collaboration, process ownership, innovation and focused future thinking, as they experience personal growth — training which will pay dividends.
All programs are customized to your needs and can be integrated into your existing education programs.
To learn more about specific programs, click on the titles below, or go to Leadership Training and Development.
Astronomy. Renew a sense of wonder and gain insight into the limits of human knowledge by experiencing this relatively new science. Visualize an open and endless future. Have fun looking at deep sky nebula, the rings of Saturn, the moons of Jupiter, and craters inside of craters on the moon.
Business Ethics & Values. Clarify your personal values and learn how they relate to the future of your organization. Align your personal and organizational values.
Change & Transition. Understand the relationship between an organization’s vision and organizational change. Clarify how organizations and people adapt to change. Develop a successful model for achieving organizational transformation. Understand the timing differences that individuals have while going through transitions, and how to help with this potential problem for your team.
Chaos & Order. Understand how a systems approach can help managers and leaders positively affect the systems in which they work. Develop focused personal commitments. Take in the long view and make clearly defined and tangible differences with your actions and decisions.
Five Billion Year Walk. Gain a new perspective on innovation, the rate of change in our world, and how recently we’ve actually achieved what we have now. Create a tangible timeline of actions to enhance your ability to achieve your desired future state.
High Ropes Challenge Course. Develop trust and effective team communications for support and empowerment. Distinguish real risk from perceived risk. Learn what we do to hold ourselves back and what it takes to break through this. Learn to and practice modeling the way, how to inspire a shared vision, to challenge the process, to enable others and to encourage other’s hearts. Discover why it is important to do so.
Insights Discovery System. Understand your personal style and how you can communicate better with others, given their different styles. Learn how others can communicate more effectively with you. Identify team blind spots, strengths and weaknesses and how to embrace diversity and use it to help your team achieve its goals more effectively.
Orienteering. Learn when to lead and when to follow. Develop problem-solving and collaboration skills, while achieving team goals. Enjoy our mountain scenery, get deeper into nature! And practice the newly learned Insights Discovery language.
Rock Climbing. Explore coaching styles and supporting roles during a meaningful adventure. Develop abilities to trust others on your team, how to support and coach another and enhance your team communications during an experiential activity in a breathtakingly beautiful place that has high perceived risk, but is actually very safe. Take pride in a personal accomplishment and learn to distinguish real risk from perceived risk.
Sawmill Business Scenario. Create, develop, administer and deliver a real product. Explores the efficient use of resources, ethics and values, sustainability, leadership, creativity, problem solving, organizational planning and effective communication. This program is very customizable to meet your goals for the group.
Team & Leadership Challenges. Discover the power of teams and the importance of a shared vision. Practice and learn about creative problem-solving, coaching and leadership skills, and learn how to improve group dynamics in order to achieve common goals more effectively.
The Forest Walk. Humans are only recently beginning to understand the need to work with the systems that surround us here on Earth. Learn how to adapt to change, use resources even more efficiently and create a climate for innovation. Learn about the interconnections of the natural world of the forest in order to improve our human and business systems that we work in, manage and lead. During the Forest Walk you will learn specific concepts of sustainability derived from the natural ecosystem surrounding our campus, which will tangibly enhance your ability to improve your business system.
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