Montana Team Building and Corporate Rafting
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Program Options:
- Fun retreats to just achieve nothing but commradrier, a thank you for hard work and achievement, and a darn good time. We can provide day trips with a custom menu, half day trips or luxury dinner floats. We want to meet your time and financial budget.
- Team building on or off the river, at your site or the site of your choice. These are shorter experiential activities designed to enhance the bottom line of your meetings. We have a long list of activities to choose from but need to discuss your needs and goals first. We will then make a recommendation of activities for your desired outcomes.
- More in-depth programs these can include such issues as high performance team development, executive leadership development, culture change, and organizational diagnosis and design. These can be structured as one day to multi-day programs. Learning and change are actually most effective when classroom and carefully designed activities are combined to strengthen each other.
- What we are most aware of is the need to translate what is learned and experienced back to the work place environment. If training cannot achieve this goal and impact the bottom line then it is a waste of money. All desired results should be measurable.
We would like to start this section with a short summary of some relevant issues. Today’s global business environment is fast moving, unpredictable and unforgiving. The half-life of technologies is ever shrinking, markets fluctuate from day to day and mergers and acquisitions change the competitive landscape. Some managers have responded to this market turbulence by taking short cuts economically, legally and ethically. But then, desperate times call for desperate measures, don’t they? No, desperate times call for leadership. True leadership is the ability to focus everyone’s energy on achieving the same goal. What makes leadership such a difficult task is trying to meet the different (often opposing) needs that an organization’s stakeholders have.
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For instance:
- Your customers want more for less…right now.
- Your shareholders want a better return on their investment… right now.
- Some associates want more challenge, more responsibility and more sharing of the wealth, while others don’t want to change a thing.
The true work of leaders is often invisible. Real leaders create the conditions where commitment, ability and alignment all come together.
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The tangible bottom line of leadership can be seen as follows:
- Everyone in the organization knows what the most critical stakeholder needs are that they must fulfill.
- Everyone knows what is helping and hindering the fulfillment of these stakeholder needs.
- Everyone sees how their efforts are contributing to the organization’s success.
- Daily work systems enable people to work productively.
- Everyone can work successfully in their role.
- Everyone wants to do the right thing.
Many of our clients are proving that leadership can be developed and expanded in a large organization. Usually it begins with one or a few leaders becoming passionately committed to some worthy purpose. It gains momentum as these leaders succeed in gaining the commitment of others to the same purpose. Leadership becomes mainstream when the organization’s culture, work processes and systems all reinforce doing purposeful work.
Our program material is developed by David Hanna a senior consultant with Research Based Leadership, a professional services firm dedicated to strategic HR development. Dave was with the Covey Leadership Center 1991 to 1999, after 16 years with the Procter & Gamble company in both line and consultant roles. During his P&G career he worked in the United States and Europe consulting with organizations in numerous manufacturing plants, foreign subsidiaries, Research & Development technical centers, and the corporate headquarters. Dave consults with organizations to improve their results through the integration of principle-centered leadership and high performance work systems. He has extensive experience in the fields of principle-centered leadership, strategic planning, organization diagnosis, high performance work design, executive development, and team development. He has worked with clients in North and South America, Asia, Europe, Australia and Russia. His list of clients includes Merck, Eastman Chemical, Allied Signal, Conoco, Xerox, Marriott, Saturn, Corning, Shell, S. C. Johnson, Duke Energy, Johnson Bank and Metro Cash and Carry in Europe. He is the author of Designing Organizations for High Performance (Addison-Wesley, 1988), considered one of the top 50 Quality books in America. His newest book is Leadership for the Ages.
We invite you to discuss alternative ways of expanding the leadership corps in your organization. Meanwhile, the market is marching on…
The River Classroom: The River is a complete system and an energizing classroom. Because it is a complete system all organizational issues are present on the river. Each organization has its own very unique characteristics which define and shape it; and it also contains similar elements to every other organization. The river elements also include unique characteristics and consistent elements. This is why the river acts as a perfect metaphor for organizational issues. Our list of clients on the river includes such organizations as: Ritz-Carlton, S.C. Johnson, Boardwalk Financial, Metro Cash and Carry, Brigham Young University MBA program, Johnson Financial Group, and Congressman Chris Cannon’s office. Our river clients have come from the Americas, Europe and New Zealand.
Please call us at 888-655-5388 to discuss ways in which we can assist you in improving your organization. Rates are based on the number of participants and activities chosen. We will post periodic articles on organizational issues on our blog.
