Team Building
STRENGTHEN YOUR CONNECTIONS
Looking to Enhance Your Overall Team Experience?
Our team building and leadership development programs help to identify team member’s strengths and weaknesses while allowing for deeper understanding of other’s styles. Through this, individuals and teams learn to adapt communication style to create better connections with others. The facilitated activities provide a space to practice these skills. Through enhanced self-awareness and greater
understanding of team dynamics, we can help to reduce frustration
and increase effectiveness within the team.
1 – 2 hours
ICEBREAKERS
Introductory games that begin to break down barriers, set norms for the retreat space, and create opportunity for team bonding.
2 – 8 hours
LOW ROPES ACTIVITES
The group works together for team challenges. Teams problem solve together through various challenges. Activities are designed to help strengths culture, communication and unique objectives of your team. Growth opportunities are presented for the individuals and team to work through to develop various skills that can be applied back in to work or life.
3 – 8 hours
HIGH ROPES COURSE
Many of our Colorado corporate retreats use the High Ropes Course to provide a safe environment for groups to experience exciting team challenges and to discover unknown capabilities. With qualified and seasoned facilitators, teams work through obstacles 20 to 30 feet above the ground. Unforgettable experiences in commitment, effective risk taking, and group support help expand personal limits, create self-confidence and build real deep trust within the team.
3 hours to 1 day
ORIENTEERING
Clearly communicating an identified goal and the ability to reach it together are hallmarks of highly successful people and organizations. Orienteering is the process of finding one’s way through the forest and meadows of The Nature Place property using compass, topographic map, effective teamwork, dynamic communication, strong leadership skills, and one of our trained facilitators. This exercise can also be paired with Insights Discovery exercises, other team and leadership challenges, or designed as a competition.
4 - 8 hours
ROCK CLIMBING AND RAPPELLING
With expert instruction and safe technical climbing gear, rock climbing and rappelling is an enormously rewarding personal and team experience to share with your teammates. We have several wonderful natural climbing and rappelling sites on the property, all with amazing views.
4 hours
CHANGE AND TRANSITION
Creating organizational change is a leadership skill; it is the means of transforming a leader’s vision of the future into concrete reality. It requires the skills of guiding an organization, and its individuals through a process of adapting to the change: a process known as transition. This course teaches a well-researched model and uses practical, useful tools that will reduce resistance from others, and increase the speed of the transition toward completion.
2 - 8 hours
ETHICS AND VALUES
To attract and hold onto a creative staff and to have sustainable growth, an organization needs goals that go beyond salaries and benefits. Shared values are what define who we are now and what we strive to become. Your clearly expressed ethics & values motivate people to move in the same direction. This program is designed to clarify personal and organizational values, leading to better ethical decision making and mission alignment. Newly formed and merging organizations define and agree on what their shared values are.
