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Corporate
The corporate workshops that have been developed by “On the Trail” focus on Team Building and Leadership Development. Our facilitators work with corporate groups in an experiential setting where the participants are presented with a variety of challenges that are designed to be solved with the assistance of certified Search & Rescue dogs and handlers. The challenges take on the form of rescue/find scenarios as well as a range of problem solving tasks. The dynamics that appear through the work with the dogs have an extra quality to them, that is often lacking in other settings. Just the simple fact that participants have to cooperate with and rely on such an “unknown” entity as a working dog opens up possibilities of engagement and levels of participation that surprise everyone involved.
Individual leadership styles will affect the dogs differently – just like it does for colleagues and staff. The dogs will show their reaction in a very up-front manner, without any of the masks that humans have learned to use throughout their lives. Feedback from the dogs can prove highly effective at showing managers how a specific leadership style puts up blocks they weren’t aware of until the dogs showed them. In our debriefs and follow ups we get deeper into reasons for the dynamics around different leadership styles.
The success of working with animals is unequivocal when working with individuals, however it’s use in a corporate environment has been rare up to recently. We believe that the combination of skills and expertise in working with people and animals, as well as our commitment to excellence in providing a valuable and unforgettable learning experience offers today’s leading organizations an opportunity to explore Team Building and Leadership Development at it’s leading-edge-best!
For more information, please contact us by phone at: (403) 678-5262,
or by E-mail at: frans@onthetrail.ca
"The workshop was very successful; the dogs added an element of adventure and surprise, and the participants were more engaged because of that. The participants are still talking about the dogs, 4 weeks after the workshop. All in all a unique approach that seemed very valuable to the management team."
- Alain Latulipe,
- General Manager, Windtower Lodge & Suites, Canmore, AB
NEW: “ON THE TRAIL” Corporate Events NEWSLETTER
Please note that the complete newsletter, including pictures of past workshops, can be sent to individuals upon request.
Leadership Development & Team Building; Programs that Pack
Since 2002, “On the Trail” Corporate Events has been delivering a unique style of experiential Leadership Development and Team Building programs that make a real difference for organizations and companies.
Most of our programs are built around challenging scenarios with our Search & Rescue tracking dogs in wilderness and/or urban settings - often exposing interesting dynamics around communication and trust.
The high level of engagement the dogs bring out leads to a marked increase in insight and learning for the participants. Our follow up seminars ground these learnings in a framework of personal growth.
POWERFUL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS,
GIVING YOU BETTER LEADERS AND MORE EFFECTIVE TEAMS
Every organization is unique, and our custom-designed programs deliver on your specific challenges and needs. At the same time, every organization is similar, in that strategic and operational challenges expose shortfalls and weaknesses in personal and institutional leadership and teamwork. The backbone of our programs has been designed to maximize these challenges and to address the resulting dynamics. The result are programs that are fun yet challenging with very in-depth debrief sessions. Most programs are built around specific challenges that need to be solved with the help of our Search and Rescue dogs, adding an “unknown entity” and providing the opportunity to explore issues around communication, feedback, trust and intuition that are left untouched in more conventional scenarios. There is always a role for those who are physically or otherwise unable to engage in the actual Search and Rescue activities.
Another unique feature of our programs is the follow up seminar. In this optional 3-6 hour boardroom session we work on personal growth, applying the insights and learnings of the previous experiential work to the participants’ daily life. We provide a fact-based framework around systematic personal development, giving everyone a handle on how to become more effective at the art of living, leading to increased productivity in all areas of life. This seminar creates allegiance to the organization and can be transforming for the participants.
PROGRAMS THAT ARE 100% UNIQUE IN SCOPE AND VISION, RESULTING IN BOTH PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE INSIGHTS AS WELL AS PROVIDING GREATLY ENHANCED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES.
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“ON THE TRAIL” CORPORATE EVENTS
Canmore, Alberta,
P: (403) 678-5262
F: (866) 525-0686
E: frans@onthetrail.ca
www.onthetrail.ca