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BLUE RIDGE LEARING team building

Team Building is on the minds of many corporate training professionals today. How do I get my team to develop trust and better communication skills? How can we enhance our existing training and build our team up to be a high performance group? A simulation or experiential learning environment can be an effective tool, but only when it is facilitated properly. Professionals agree that an experienced-based learning retreat is most effective when properly front-loaded and debriefed. The transfer of learning is maximized when connections are made from the team building activities to the office environment.

Blue Ridge Learning provides a team building experience designed with your end-result in mind.   We work with your current training content or help you create a training foundation by:

• Assessing your teams strengths and opportunities.
• Customize the program to your needs by linking several experiential based tools and initiatives to the key traits you are attempting to change and strengthen.
• Review program proposal with you to ensure targeted objectives are met.
• Facilitate a team building program that allows participants to quickly come together as a team; and create the right learning environment to accomplish programming goals.
• We continue helping your organization after the program, through facilitator reports of the program and optional follow up programs.

Our corporate facilitators are specialists who understand the corporate culture. Our goal is to make your experience transferable back to the workplace to increase productivity. The parameters of our learning labs will reflect the issues you face everyday in your business - limited resources, changing specifications, budget constraints, client satisfaction and time deadlines just to name a few.   We want your experience to reflect real-world opportunities for improvement.

BRL Team Building Service Highlights

• Dealing and adapting to change
• Developing interpersonal skills
• Building trust and confidence
• Cross-team collaboration and cooperation
• Supporting cultural change
• Developing strategies for resolving conflict
• Defining individual roles for the success of the team
• Discovering the power of relationships in our work place
• Creating synergy through reaching a collective goal
• Developing cooperation through acceptance    

BRL Team Building Programs

Ropes/Challenge Course

Challenge courses are designed to create an environment that allows participants to explore and discuss team issues that occur in the work place. Utilizing experiential activities, over a hundred events are available for teams to engage in. The programs are designed to fit the needs of every team member. So whether we provide a sit down cognitive challenge or climb 50 feet up in the air, teams have an incredible opportunity to stretch the limits and break through barriers!

All programs are rooted in building relationships and creating synergy. This is accomplished by:

1. Creating an awareness of current behaviors.
2. Understanding the dynamics that influence our behaviors.
3. Discovering new skills to reach our goals.
4. Application of these new skills in the work environment.

Teams are immersed cognitively, emotionally, physically and socially into the training. Through this "Experiential Learning" model participants are able to simulate and practice working together, as opposed to only hearing or observing team skills necessary in the work environment. This hands-on approach allows for the learning to be fun and meaningful.

Overnight Retreats

Can your team set-up camp in the middle of the woods? Who will be the chef for the night? Who's going to tell the scariest ghost story around the fire pit? This highly interactive experience allows for deep relationship building and exploration of self-perceived boundaries by defining who people are as opposed to what they do in the work place. Your team will "wake-up" and realize new levels of success both for the organization and themselves!

Rock Climbing

Participants will spend a full day top-rope climbing and rappelling at one of the beautiful natural rock cliffs in the North Carolina Mountains. From the hike up, to the exposure, to the actual climbing, we promise an exhilarating day to remember. Supportive and experienced guides provide excellent instruction and ensure safety.

Team GPS/Orienteering Courses

Do you know where you are? How about where you are going? If so, do you know how to get there? Orienteering, the art of navigating by use of map and compass, is a critical skill for outdoor adventurous types. Do you want to learn how to hit the open trail and wind through rugged terrain? We explore the history, learn to use the tools of the trade, and then head off on a navigational adventure.