New Adaptive Team Building Workshop Features Equine Facilitated Learning

Jan. 21, 2011 - PRLog -- Performance Transformation announced today the launch of its new Adaptive Team Building workshop.  Grounded in more than two decades of real-world, executive experience, the workshop represents three years of research, development, and validation.  

"We saw the market looking for something more substantive than traditional game-playing or ropes courses for their team building needs." said Terry Murray, Managing Partner of Performance Transformation.  "While these historical approaches may have helped build self-confidence and esteem, they also tended to marginalize less aggressive personalities.  Today's competitive world requires teams of knowledge workers to come together and leverage every skill and perspective available in order to capture fast-moving opportunities."

The customized workshops are built around specific business objectives, enabling an accurate return on investment to be calculated for each client.  Employing the company's proprietary Accretive Coaching Process^TM, the workshops integrate tools that impart social competencies specific to each participants particular learning style.  Evidence-based constructs from Applied Behavioral Economics, psychology, and neurophysiology also broaden the teams' perspectives towards their own engrained behaviors.

"Our approach is highly inclusive," adds Mr. Murray.  "It is designed to fully engage individuals with their team by building self-awareness, social awareness, self management, and relationship management skills.  In doing so, we help impart insights enabling empathy to arise throughout the team.  This lowers barriers to communication and creative cooperation."

Adaptive Team Building employs Equine Facilitated Learning, an experiential learning approach that sparks powerful shifts in perspective.  The safe, ground-based exercises allow individuals and teams to experience how they connect, communicate, and motivate horses to accomplish various tasks, without the need for dominating behavior.  The process models all four modalities of the Learning Style Inventory while providing a shared experience to emerge.  Professionally trained facilitators guide the teams through the various business and relationship metaphors that inevitably arise, drawing the team members' attention back to immediate opportunities within their business.

"Enabling teams to immediately apply the new tools through experiential exercises while drawing correlations back to specific business objectives anchors the learning process," comments Terry.  "That's what differentiates Adaptive Team Building from game-playing or activity-based programs."

Equine Facilitated Learning is rapidly gaining notoriety and acceptance.  Performance Transformation's "Warriors in Transition" program for veterans and families of Iraq and Afghanistan was recognized for its effectiveness by General David Petreaus.  The General formally commended the program for facilitating "successful returns, reunions, and reintegration for service personnel and their families..."  The General's certificate went on to add, "Programs such as this do much to build strong, resilient families and are much appreciated."

To view a short video on Adaptive Team Building please visit http://www.teambuilding-eq.com or on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWz-bWqlvic.



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