Training and Consulting
At The Warren Conference Center & Inn, we use a blend of experiential approaches to improve working relationships and create a sense of collective focus. Physical or non-physical the challenges of each program are designed specifically to build the results that you are looking for. We emphasize the organization-specific goals, profile, and concerns of the team. Each group is unique so each group receives the full benefit our customizing expertise.
All programs are provided by The Warren Conference Center & Inn with the TrainingPath Team & Leadership Development (Formerly TDI). TrainingPath can provide programs at The Warren Conference Center & Inn or at the location of your choice.
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(Cooperative Games are physically active, non-competitive activities which help to "break the ice;" creating an atmosphere where healthy risk-taking is fun.) |
| Beach Ball Hackey Sack |
Benefits: Creativity rules this exciting game where the group has to work together to achieve a common goal. |
| Categories |
Benefits: This mix of high-energy fun and discovering commonalties with colleagues helps people expand their relationships beyond day to day work associations. |
| Human Bingo |
Benefits: Your group will be energized by this game which encourages networking and mingling, while learning new facts about each other and just having fun. |
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(Group Problem Solving Activities develop and refine many critical performance and team competencies. The participants must work together and communicate well in order to succeed at these activities.) |
| Corporate Dilemma |
Benefits: Communicating a common goal, keeping the big picture in mind while making small decisions and training and empowerment. |
| Kaizen |
Benefits: Goal and parameter clarification, effective brainstorming, continuous improvement and strategic collaboration. |
| Maze |
Benefits: Problem solving on the move, non-verbal communication skills, team learning and quality assurance. |
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| The Spider Web |
This perplexing problem solving activity is the right mix of challenge and fantasy. The object is to move your entire group through a nylon-fabricated Spider Web without touching the web material. |
| Nitro Crossing |
The objective of this activity is to transport a group and a container 7/8 full of "nitro" (water) across an open area using a swing rope. Participants must swing over a "trip wire" at the beginning and end of an open area without knocking either obstacle off its support. |
| The Zip Line |
Our most popular activity offers high-speed action and excitement for those who want to climb and zip down an elevated cable, also offering intensive team support for those who want to help. |
| The Mohawk Walk |
The objective of this initiative is to move a group from a safe area, over a series of tautly strung cables to another safe area. |
| The Flying Squirrel |
Teams and individuals gain greater confidence, better communication skills and a sense of a shared mission on this element. |
| Giant's Ladder |
The Giant's Ladder provides high climbing action on a giant ladder that is made of beams and cable. The team has 90 minutes to plan, implement, review and make changes to their climbing strategy. |
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| Team Orienteering Challenge |
The orienteering program is a business simulation designed for teams that want to function more effectively in the workplace. It involves strategic planning, resource allocation and utilization, goal setting, and communication. |
| Orienteering |
Orienteering is a sport requiring the use of maps and compasses to find "points" at specific locations.
Benefits:
- Formulate a vision and a goal for the organization
- Determine who will work together in smaller sub-teams while adhering to the working parameters
- Create strategies for each individual sub-team and the larger group as a whole
- Execute their strategies to capture goals and gain revenue dollars for the organization as a whole
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| Team Building |
Creativity brainstorm, plan and build a raft as a team for use in competitive activities and races. |
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At the most basic level, a team is defined as individuals who come together for a period of time to achieve a common objective. The DiSC™ and Myers-Briggs™ instruments provide seminar participants with a better understanding of their own work-style preferences and how understanding their and others preferences creates a better team environment. |
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Can your team turn ideas into action? This workshop showcases cutting edge tools that will help teams drive ideas from the drawing board into implementation. Igniting Innovation in Teams uses real examples from your workplace to demonstrate current and cutting edge tools for brainstorming, idea implementation and stimulating creativity. The workshop is highly interactive, practical and fun. |
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Do you want to infuse your team with the energy and optimism to not just "think outside the box" but to truly shatter it? This fast-paced workshop will put your team through a series of high-energy and engaging experiential exercises that will stretch their ability to think creatively. Along the way they will be learning essential tools for maximizing their creative potential at work and infusing a new innovative energy into the entire workplace. |
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The Virtual Team (n). 1. Any group that must work together to accomplish goals without close physical proximity. 2. A team whose only means of communication are electronic (phone, fax, e-mail, pager). This activity simulates a day in the life of a virtual team. From conference call meetings to e-mail agendas, your team must work together, while apart, to reach your goal. Under the guidance of our facilitators, teams will race against the clock, sharing ideas and information, in order to meet deadlines. As any real-life Virtual Team, your team will face financial and time limitations.
Whether it's production deadlines, marketing plans or budget reviews this real time simulation will enable your team to simulate the challenges of your daily routine in order to develop new and innovative ways to increase productivity and profitability. |
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Companies continue to embrace the popular FISH!™ principles to boost morale and performance. This is a high-energy interactive workshop showcasing the FISH!™ philosophy. Participants are taught the FISH!™ principles of how to raise morale and energy at work through a series of engaging and informative mini-exercises and discussions.
Participants are given the opportunity to craft their own version of the FISH!™ principles to take back and implement at work. |
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Does your team embrace change? Change Management: The Cheese Maze is based on principles found in the best-selling book Who Moved My Cheese.
Participants navigate a simulated maze in search of "cheese" on a changing path that leads to the "ultimate cheese". This fast-paced workshop will expose your team to a variety of critical team competencies including:
- Developing strategies for communication
- Learning effective ways of dealing with change
- Collaborative problem solving in high-pressure environments
- Finding clarity in turbulent times
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This workshop blends experiential and classroom instructional methodologies to achieve direct and tangible improvements in communication. Depending upon the results of a needs analysis, your seminar may include the use of:
- Innovative classroom exercises and activities
- The Warren Conference Center & Inn Ropes Challenge Course or waterfront activities (seasonal)
- Peer and video feedback
- Case studies
- Assessment tools
- Job related assignments
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Rules for work are changing. Outstanding leaders are not simply defined by their IQ or their "job" skills, but also by their "Emotional Intelligence" (EQ); a set of competencies that distinguishes how people manage feelings, interact with others and communicate.
Analysis of 500 corporations concludes that EQ is the barometer of success on virtually any job.
This workshop will examine 12 personal EQ competencies and 13 key EQ relationship skills. Unlike IQ, EQ can keep growing; it continues to develop with life experiences. |
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Growth, change, current trends, e-mail, project deadlines and traffic. These are a few of the stressors that inhibit productivity. How you perceive and manage these and other stressors can make a difference in your professional (and personal) life. This program identifies these stressors and recommends strategies for dealing with them.
Through a combination of team problem solving activities infused with large doses of comedy and laughter, participants learn to deal with the unrelenting wave of stressors in everyday life.
Participants learn the following methods for coping with stress:
- Changing environmental factors
- Building resiliency
- Humor
- Modification to diet, exercise and sleep habits
- Brainstorming
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