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Outdoor

For any person learning depends on his / her readiness for it and the environment in which it happens. Being away from structured and routine surroundings can help in leaving behind the set ways of thought.

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Experiential Learning

There are various mediums of learning, and all have their effect. The experiential learning medium is effective for exploratory and developmental purposes. It is about real people, real experiences and real consequences
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Facilitation

Powerful experiences can create lifetime impressions and memories. When these experiences are reviewed through guided and interactive sessions, it enhances and facilitates the learning process.
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Impact and Expectations of an OMDP

Outdoor Management Development Programmes are about real people, real experiences and real consequences. The nature of the programmes can be open-ended and can address individual training needs.
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Possible Focus Areas

Today many objectives or focus areas are specifically defined and addressed using the OMDP modality. But fundamentally most of these are derived from the basic three areas of Self, Leadership and Team.
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Outdoor

For any person learning depends on his / her readiness for it and the environment in which it happens. Being away from structured and routine surroundings can help in leaving behind the set ways of thought. Outdoors is not just about wilderness, staying in tents, roughing out and adventure. It is about a way of life, about experiencing and exploring, and having a broader canvas of nature to learn from.
The outdoor ambience provides the essential space, openness, purity, intensity, and diversity that create the fundamental platform and enables being with oneself, reflecting, understanding, being aware of the various facets of life and self. In outdoors learning happens as naturally as it can and should. Because outdoors can offer one of the most effective, memorable and long – lasting learning experiences for self, teams and organisations.
An appropriate natural surrounding is soothing for the mind and body at the same time it evokes thought and action. And hence, for an effective outdoor intervention, its location should be wisely chosen. The place has to be in a natural setting rather than a crafted one and it needs to be clean, safe, spread out and should offer the right amount of challenge.

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Experiential Learning

There are various mediums of learning, and all have their effect. The experiential learning medium is effective for exploratory and developmental purposes. It is about real people, real experiences and real consequences that makes observation, exploration and learning extremely relevant and alive. It helps to experience self and the group in real time engagement that involves the physical, mental and social aspects of every being. The golden trio of ‘thought, feel and action,’ that create dynamics in self and in groups and work in tandem. Especially when engaged in carefully designed challenges and experiences in a safe, natural and distraction – free ambiance, combined with reflection and meaning making. The impressions and impacts of such powerful experiences have long-term retention. This makes it a powerful medium to inspire wilful change inside out.
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Facilitation

Powerful experiences can create lifetime impressions and memories. When these experiences are reviewed through guided and interactive sessions, it enhances and facilitates the learning process. Experienced and Trained Behavioral Facilitators from High Places offer vivid observations and perceptions, raise relevant questions to reflect and uphold the boundaries of purpose and psychological safety.The facilitator is responsible to identify, recognize and highlight the emergent realities that help in correlating phenomena in personal and/or work realities. This helps to make meanings and possibly experiment with behaviour to create desirable change and achieve transference of learnings to the organisational and personal contexts.
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Impact And Expectations Of An OMDP

The Impact
  • Offers a memorable learning experience.
  • Helps leave behind the comforts and take on a voyage of adventure, challenge, and the discovery within.
  • Enhances strengths through accomplishments.
  • Helps gain insight through the challenge.
  • Helps build lasting friendships / relationships through the support received and through the joy, the love of life.
Expected from an OMDP

Outdoor Management Development Programmes are about real people, real experiences and real consequences. The nature of the programmes can be open-ended and can address individual training needs. An individual is physically, mentally, emotionally and socially engaged in the programme. It helps overcoming personal fears, broadening horizons and making insightful connections. The ‘highs’ and ‘lows’ of the experiences through various activities and group review sessions facilitate learning. It offers a great opportunity to reflect, introspect, challenge, redefine and generate new meanings. The combination of challenge in a natural and unique ambience combined with reflection and a meaning making process helps in long-term retention of the learning.

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Possible Focus Areas

Today many objectives or focus areas are specifically defined and addressed using the OMDP modality. But fundamentally most of these are derived from the basic three areas of Self, Leadership and Team.

At the core the medium of Outdoors, primarily work can be done in these areas:
  • Self
  • Leadership– First Time Leaders, Leadership Coaching, Senior Leadership Alignment
  • Team– Creating Team Identity and Building The Way Ahead for the Team
Self

Self forms the integral part in all areas of exploration, be it Leadership, Team, or any other focus area. Because it is the self who is expected to finally create the desirable change either for the organization or the roles the person plays in personal or professional capacity. An OMDP planned for self-exploration, offers a vast canvas to identify and understand one’s behaviour and its patterns. It helps in building awareness, unlocking potential, identifying blocks and possibly deal with those blocks to bring in a change or make a shift.

Leadership

Leadership is a choice one makes and orients self to decide and drive purpose through effective management of resources and be responsible and accountable for the same. An OMDP helps explore Leadership in action, where the various facets like choice and decision-making, influencing, communicating, owning, delegating and many more can be experienced and explored. It helps understand one’s core behaviours that enable to lead and know the blocks that impede leading. It assists to realize one’s constructs of leadership phenomena and facilitates customizing behaviour so as to appreciate the leadership process along with its challenges.

Team

By its very nature of group working, an OMDP becomes an ideal platform to explore and develop teams. It is said ‘sharing and caring comes natural in outdoors’. Right from sharing space to engaging together in challenges, it creates an opportunity to experience self in a team context. It helps explore differences and commonalities, group dynamics, perceptions, connects and interfaces between team members. This provides a mirror to reflect and an opportunity to realign one’s behaviours for fruitful and enjoyable coexistence.

All interventions offered by High Places are customized and specifically designed to suite the requirements of the specific organization.High Places has also successfully integrated use of Outdoors with Specific Inventories and Tools like MBTI, CPI, BEI, FIRO – B, etc.

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