Excursion Learning^™

Team Development Team Building Excursion Learning^™ Facilitation

Companies invest millions of dollars in teambuilding and off-sites each year. And, over 50% of attendees report no direct impact on improving work performance or effectiveness. At Innolect, we ensure teambuilding achieves the results you expect with higher ROI to improve both work performance and team effectiveness.

What is Excursion Learning℠?
It is Innolect’s experiential, “Learn by Doing” approach that uses unique venues to stimulate collaboration, build trust, enhance communication and foster innovation. Not just another meeting, Excursion Learning℠ involves participants in activities and powerful conversations executive and their teams use immediately back on the job. The leaning offers value for weeks, months and years to come. Plus — it’s fun!

Representative Customized Experiences

Discover Your “HorsePower”

Using unfiltered, authentic insights from how horses respond to people, leaders discover subtle blind spots about how they’re perceived – because horses mirror leader behavior. Conducted at local equine facilities, Innolect’s facilitation team applies Equine Assisted Learning using hands-on activities on the ground to build self-awareness for personal learning and change. Participants:

Learn how behaviors of the “herd” mirror team behavior
Reflect on how horses and people respond to your leadership presence
Observe their natural leadership styles in building relationships and trust
Discover how “self-talk” works for or against leadership effectiveness

Go for the Greens: Win with Play

While professional golfers are experts, they are never satisfied with their “games.” Top golfers seek coaches who can “shave a few strokes off their rounds.” We use a “golf clinic” and professional golfers to help leaders learn specific coaching skills to drive high-performing development for themselves and others. Leaders learn what it means to play to one’s strengths, target coaching to individual needs, receive feedback and plan for future goal setting —all while improving their golf game. Learn to:

Improve individual effectiveness and lower team scores (drive, pitch and putt)
Apply what you learn with immediate feedback and reinforcement
Select and develop team members with differing skill levels
Navigate the course obstacles and rules of play
Evaluate and share assets to maximize performance

Navigate Organizational Whitewater

Leaders experience consistent change, uncertainty, and unpredictability. Like navigating a whitewater river, just when leaders think they have negotiated the last rapid, they hear the thunderous roar of another rapid ahead. This whitewater rafting event, at the US National Whitewater Center, provides opportunities for participants to learn how to navigate through organizational complexity and change. Leaders and teams learn how to:

Collaborate efficiently
Gain insight for how to keep “talent” in the boat during times of uncertainty
Address and navigate classes of “business whitewater”
Respond to questions from direct reports
Avoid “what ifs” and reduce fear of what might be around the next bend

Art at Work – Learning Agility and Collaboration

Art provides the ultimate test to put egos aside for the greater good. This excursion learning event builds collaboration practices within a studio setting. As participants co-design, co-create, and co-lead with experiential learning activities, they learn about workplace agility and collaboration. Teams learn to communicate and adapt in a dynamic, energizing environment. Participants learn how to:

Apply learning agility and collaboration best practices
Build mutual understanding and trust
Encourage new ways of thinking and seeing
Deepen relationships among individuals and teams
Rediscover a sense of playfulness and joy

Pit Crew Challenge: Driven to Perform

The key to racing success is the efficiency and effectiveness of their “pit crew.” We incorporate an authentic NASCAR challenge to pinpoint ways to improve enterprise performance back on the job. This highly interactive and physical program provides rich learning opportunities for work groups and leaders to collaborate with pit crew instructors and an actual NASCAR. Select this excursion to:

Explore best practices for building a high-performance team
Engage individual strengths and talents to achieve a goal
Form new team norms and expectations
Gain deep understanding of personal style and impact
Enhance precision, speed, discipline and communication

Sustainable Legacies^™ – Nonprofit Community Excursions

Companies often fail to capture ROI opportunities for volunteerism. While offering “feel good” engagement, forward thinking organizations can maximize the ROI from volunteer programs by ensuring the greatest impact of their CSR investments and “Paying It Forward.”

Innolect partners with nonprofits to create purposeful experiences that improve the lives of people and communities around the world. Our Sustainable Legacies^™ Excursions provide “learning with a purpose experiences” by partnering with nonprofit organizations to develop leaders and teams.

Make a Difference! Partner with local nonprofits to encourage volunteerism and corporate social responsibility.

Health and Wellness - Sole Hope
Put “closed” toed shoes on African children, one pair at a time to combat disease. Sole Hope provides shoes, medical clinics, and education, and offers jobs to indigenous people in Uganda. Participants build the components of shoes as individuals and teams work together in their self-designed production process. This valuable activity allows individuals to learn about their personal styles, collaboration, leadership and process improvement strategies.

Build and Integrate Team Members with Habitat
As a strategic nonprofit partner, Habitat for Humanity® offers an excellent venue for intentionally designed learning experiences to enhance team collaboration, build leadership talent and make a lasting impact. The Habitat experience provides excellent opportunities for teams and employee resource groups to develop skills and capabilities as leaders and leaders of leaders.

Customer Empathy: In Your Own Back Yard
Do you want your employees to develop more compassion and greater skill in handling low-income issues? Do you want to raise awareness among community leaders about the challenges that low-income individuals and families face? To make a lasting difference, engage Innolect to facilitate a “poverty simulation experience.” The simulation, not a game, helps participants begin to understand what it is like to live in a typical low-income family trying to survive from month to month as people who are newly unemployed, recently deserted, homeless, senior citizens, disabled, single parents and more.