You want to improve your team’s productivity, cohesion, and effectiveness, right?   You are considering a team building event, seminar or workshop.  You know what you want to achieve, but you are not sure the best way to do it.

An event or an “off-site” may be just what you need. 

The reason off site team building events can be extremely effective can be explained with common sense and with science.

Common sense tells us that if you get people away from their day to day and into a different environment, they can often take a step back and look at the bigger picture.  Getting away for a little bit can also promote relaxation and rejuvination as well as create bonds among team members who have fun together.

Science tells us that for adults to learn, and in particular, in order to acquire powerful shifts in perspective and powerful insights, we must dramatically change our mental and emotional outlook.

A simple way to do that is to dramatically change all of our external circumstances. 

Additionally, a well designed training event will be exciting, engaging and include some type of powerful “fear-inducing” activity.  The goal is not to make people fearful.  In fact, a properly designed program turns this fear into excitement. 

You see, the fight flight response-the body’s physical response we often associate with fear- is critical to powerful learning, emotional memory and paradigm shift/deep insight in adults.  It triggers brain chemistry and brainwave patterns that are very similar to those we consistently experience as a young child- the time in life where we absorb information and new skills like a sponge.

A program designed by someone who understands the complexities of cognitive neuroscience can be utilized to create a “super-learning” environment where you can literally absorb and retain nearly all of the information presented. 

Even more powerful, a properly designed and facilitated super learning event will allow the adult mind to extrapolate a significant number of additional insights. 

Further, it allows a reprogramming of base limbic system memories and responses leading to massive personal and emotional growth.

For those who are non-science minded, the bottom line is that an offsite team building event that includes powerful content and an exciting challenge activity like a Firewalk, board breaking, ropes course or other fight/flight inducing activity can produce powerful results that translate into improvements back in the workplace.

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