Team Orienteering - Sydney, Blue Mountains, Southern Highlands
Geocaching (one team sets up a course the other locates the checkpoints and retrieves the hidden caches).
Provide your team with direction and avoid geographical embarrassment!
Ever wondered why people have different perspectives and the most explicit directional instructions still have people getting lost? We provide strategic direction and focus people to get their bearings.
Learning hands on (experientially) the skills of navigation by maps, features, geography, compasses, sun and stars.
Covered
* Planning systems * Map Reading skills * Legends & Scale * Map & Grid References * Latitude & Longitude * Contour Lines & Interval * Map Orientation * Feature based route planning * Landform Identification & Topography * Time Management * True, Magnetic & Grid North* Bearings & Back Bearings * Compass work * Basic Navigation by Sun and the stars!
Description
Orienteering exercises are taught and practiced before teams set off to locate checkpoint markers set in a bush-land or urban setting. Securing marker information in a sequence of time over distance and terrain.
Teams intersect to complete teamwork scenarios, i.e. negotiating a spiders web, problem solving a puzzle, linking support to overcoming obstacles. Scenarios are integrated to develop and build team spirit, communication, trust, project planning and time management.
Succeed in an accomplishment of fun orienteering challenges in a location to suit your team.
Debriefed, speeches, awards and presentations.
Benefits
Develop team problem solving skills
Clarifying and coordinating with clear Communication
Cooperation and strategy
Leadership
Project & Time Management
Planning 7p's
Shared experience, Building team spirit.
Strengthening inter-personal relationships.
Escaping the city and entering the bush.
Reference
The was a high level of satisfaction from the program. There was significant positive discussion ... it certainly achieved the fun aspect and good banter within each team and across each of the three teams. It is difficult finding an activity that can satisfy the whole team, but this one achieved it. Peter Ellis, Team Leader Suncorp
Scenario
Bushsports SOS rescue scenario will challenge and develop leadership skills, problem solving ability, team strategic planning techniques, interpersonal negotiation skills and implementation methods. Encouraging trust and improving communication within the team.
Fully facilitated, briefed and debriefed scenarios – aligned to your companies strategy.
Unfold an exciting team building quest in which you build cooperation and communication literally.
Process: Initially learning the art of navigation hands on, team members apply their skills immediately. Completing approximately 5-6km of on & off track walking in bushland areas.
Rebuilding a communications tower through the unscrambling of messages and retrieval of lost equipment.
Participants are briefed on map reading techniques, they are then given several sample exercises in a controlled environment in which to practice orienteering skills. a scenario to find and re-establish a communication tower.
Scenario II
Communication components have been lost on a airlift mission to the intended rendezvous site. The cargo net broke and vital items are scattered in a 5km radius. The helicopter navigator has noted the map positions of instruments. Your teams mission is to secure all necessary components and rebuild a communication tower within the time frame provided.
Scenarios are modified according timing, terrain and abilities of group.
