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TeamBuilding Orienteering & Navigation
- Sydney, Blue Mountains, Southern Highlands
Avoid geographical embarrassment!.Download PDF
Bushsports provides strategic direction and bearings to get your team on track!
Ideal for employee retention, skills development and serious fun team building activities.
Teams learn hands on 'experientially', the skills of orienteering and navigation by maps, features, topography, geography, compass bearings, sun, iPhones and GPS systems.
ORIENTEERING and NAVIGATION - Strategic Direction & Decision Making Skills.
Ever wonder why people have different perspectives and the most explicit directional instructions still have people getting lost? This program will reinforce your teams focus.
Team Building Orienteering & navigation skills are learnt and practiced before teams set off to locate checkpoint markers set in a bushland or urban setting.
Secure marker information & locate checkpoint markers, planning distance and terrain over time.
Accomplish fun team development challenge, accomplishing fun team development activities.
Teams intersect to complete teamwork scenarios with facilitators.
Mix n Match desired activities;
ie negotiating a electric fence, nuclear hazards, spiders webs, problem solving puzzles and overcoming obstacles whilst bushwalking to the selected navigation markers. Provided is Facilitator/s, Maps, Compasses, Bandanas, survival satchels, great teambuilding fun, accomplishment of learning life-long skills, navigation and unique shared team experiences in fantastic bushland or urban settings.
Covered in Team Building Orienteering Courses by Bushsports
* 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 GPS. * Geo Caching * Search and Rescue Scenarios.
Team Building Orienteering & Navigation 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 fun orienteering activity challenges in a location to suit your team.
Team Building Orienteering and Navigation Benefits
Develop teambuilding and problem solving skills
Coordinating teams with clear Communication & Cooperation strategies
Leadership Training and leadership Skill development
Project & Time Management
Planning
Shared team experience, Building team spirit.
Strengthening inter-personal relationships.
Team Building Orienteering Reference
..." A high level of satisfaction from the program with 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
Teambuilding Orienteering Scenarios & Initiatives
Bushsports SOS Search and Rescue scenarios will challenge and develop navigation techniques, leadership skills, problem solving ability, team strategic planning techniques, interpersonal and negotiation skills. Encouraging trust and improving communication within teams.
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.
Team Building Orienteering Scenario II
Communication components have been lost on a airlift mission to the rendezvous site. The hold cargo net frayed spilling vital items landing scattered in a 5km radius. The helicopter navigator has noted estimate map positions. Your teambuilding mission is to recover all necessary components and rebuild a communication tower within the time frame provided. Utilise orienteering and navigation skills to accomplish the team building mission urgently.
Other scenarios are modified according timing, terrain, abilities and team building requirements of the group.
