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Photos: Brad Christensen and Brian Fabel |
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The Leadership Navigation Challenge helps teams develop targeted leadership skills through interactive classroom work. Classroom work can focus your team on current priorities from facilitation and peer problem-solving to examining perspectives on risk or decision making.
The theory is then applied in an experiential context
through an outdoor Global Positioning System (GPS) orienteering course. Real-time coaching as groups navigate the
course, as well as facilitated debriefings, focuses learning for this practical experience in situational leadership.
Course participants are exposed to theory and discussion of leadership and communication topics most
pertinent to your current goals.
Each participant is expected to:
- Actively practice group decision-making, leadership, and communication skills to reach group goals
- Learn critical briefing and debriefing techniques to build and manage effective teams
- Learn intervention skills to mitigate group and interpersonal problems
- Learn to set and maintain an optimum work environment
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| Course Schedule |
| Two days | recent client: Bering's Retail Store |
Day 1 of 2
Introduction, 30 minutes
• Meet and greet
• Explanation of purpose
• Alignment of NOLS' goals with those of the organization
• Explanation of expedition simulation
Morning curriculum, 5.5 Hours
Choose three of the following topics:
• NOLS 4-7-1 leadership curriculum
• Continuums and self-inventory of how you see the world
• Extracting and learning about personal leadership styles
• Decision-making module
• Conflict models
• Communication models
• Team dynamics in high functioning teams
Expedition Simulation GPS Course, 2.5 hours
Small group debrief, 30 minutes
• Facilitator shares observations
• Participants talk about behaviors from the GPS course vs. their regular work patterns
• Explore similarities or differences with work interactions
Large group debrief, 30 minutes
• Role analysis and observation: how decisions were made, general communication patterns, group interaction toward common goal |
Day 2 of 2
Morning review, 6 hours
• First day check-in and review
• Situational decision making
• Advanced communication skills
• Facilitation skills
• Leadership styles and conflicts
Afternoon Curriculum, 3 hours
• Client Organization’s Growth Goals
• Action planning and implementation of client organization’s strategies
• Active discussions on group action-planning, concrete steps for the future
Additional curriculum options
• Instruments
• Thomas-Killman Conflict Styles
• Brain Map
• Experiential component
• House of cards |
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"If it weren’t for the NOLS training, we would have been hit really hard by the economic downturn."
