Effective Teams through Teambuilding
Usually these are half- to one-day teambuilding learning events that become part of your off-site agenda to complement your meeting goals. These programs are customized to your needs, and they include in-depth debriefing sessions that reinforce the link between the learning experience and your organizational issues.
Our learning processes are unique and engaging but it is the talent of our facilitators that make the learning impactful. (see team faciltator profiles)
InCourage Team Performance: Team Everest
Team Everest is an engaging multimedia program that simulates a team expedition to conquer the mighty peak of Everest. Before reaching the summit, the team needs to create a shared vision, decide who goes, resolve conflict and yes – take some chances. Your decisions determine your fate! Half-day | Indoor | 10 to 500 participants. Click here to read more
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InCourage Collaboration: Mission Possible
Your mission – should you choose to accept it – is to race against time and circumstances, and succeed against the odds. Welcome to the daily reality of accomplishing big goals with little time and resources. Hurry! Time is slipping away, and the consequences are grave. In your briefcase is a recorded message...Half-day | Outdoor or Indoor | 10 to 250 participants. .
"Great job facilitating by tying your presentation to our company's core values, strategy and vision."
- Priszm Brandz
InCourage Team Communication: Crossing the Chasm
This adventure-based Search and Rescue program gives teams an opportunity to discover and harness the diverse skills of team members. Everyone works together to find, treat and evacuate a “victim.” This complex initiative asks participants to think strategically before launching into action and to maximize resources that are, at times, scarce. Half-day | Outdoor | 15 to 150 participants.
InCourage Individual Talent: InGenius
The ancient Romans believed that each person had a genius. It represented that individual’s unique talents, gifts, skills or abilities. Organizations too often settle for “competencies” and neglect their employees’ most stellar abilities! InGenuis introduces participants to the concept that each individual possesses “genius,” and that it can be identified and utilized more fully for greater personal and organizational success, achievement and confidence. Half-day | Indoor | 5 to 250 participants. Click here to read more
InCourage Change & Renewal: Shifting Sands
Cross the Sahara and come to grips with change. Based on a real expedition, this program ponders the great expanse of organizational restructuring, and offers a compass for a safe crossing. We consider the traditional desert wisdom of such precepts as Choose the Right Vehicle and Moving at the Right Speed and Stop at the Oasis, and explore the dynamics of team cooperation in this unforgiving environment. Half-day | Indoor | 10 to 500 participants. Click here to read more .
Co-Creator Steve Donahue has also written Shifting Sands: A Guidebook for Crossing the Deserts of Change - InCourage offers this book to clients at below bookstore rates. You can order the prologue free or purchase the book. Contact info@incourage.com.
InCourage Conflict Resolution: Making Pax
Pax in Latin means peace. High performing teams are comprised of people that in authentic relationships, conflict is a fact. The financial cost of unwarranted and unresolved conflict to organizations is significant. Can managed conflict be a catalyst for positive change? This two day program based on Relationship Awareness Theory of Elias Porter focuses on the motivational orientation of people under conflict, as the way through it.
InCourage Sustainability: Easter Island Challenge
The Easter Island Challenge, an action based learning program, addresses seemingly disparate and competing challenges by having success determined when the environment is saved, customers are served, employees are esteemed and (not or) profit is sustained - for the long term.
InCourage Innovation: WonderWorks
We rarely consider ourselves “creative” yet all of us have an innate creativity that is waiting, even begging, to be tapped. This program offers a combination of lateral thinking and experiential activities that will unlock your team’s collective creative genius. Be prepared for laughs and spontaneous idea combustion as we explore “out-of-the box” thinking. Half-day | Indoor | 5 to 150 participants.
"Good experiential learning, exercise were creative and great to use for drawing analogies to organizational environment." CIBC
Team InCouragizers
InCouragizers are fun teambuilding exercises of 90 minutes or less that get people moving. InCourage can facilitate these activities as part of our half day/full-day program or as a series of stand-alone activities. Find out more about Computer Virus, International Orbiter, Corporate Maze, The Right Mix, Serve-ivor, Rope Push, Bobsleds, Space Eggs and Bridge Building – to name just a few! 90 minutes | Outdoor or Indoor | 5 to 250 participants. .