In late 2001 we opened GO-AdventureSports, whose mission has been to introduce individuals and teams to enhanced teamwork and interdependence through the use of recreational team building and adventure instruction programming.

Over the years, and through our work with thousands of clients, we have evolved as a team building  provider.  We have honed our facilitation skills, fine-tuned our activities, and created a new way of facilitating team development programming. NEXTeams starts where traditional team building programs leave off.

NEXTeams is “the next step in team development…”

The culmination of a typical recreational team building program is the foundation of trust.  As we build trust, we are able to improve our communication, rely on other members of our team, and ultimately take risks that we might otherwise avoid.  The NEXTeams Process seeks to accelerate the foundation of trust, and thus create an environment in which teams can optimize their performance, and achieve their outcomes.

The NEXTeams Process

• Step One — challenge participants to get to the root of their ‘organizational identity’ and learn new ways to enhance that
  

  Professional Facilitator Eriq Powers

  self-conception. The goal is to get everyone on the same page about purpose – the ‘Real Mission‘ of the organization.

• Step Two — invite participants to explore their role within the organization – not only their job title and responsibilities, but the potential benefits that they can offer to the organization as a whole – the ‘Personal Identities‘ within the organization.

• Step Three — give participants a task to accomplish – exemplified through traditional team building challenges.  The goal is to show through tangible experience the interdependence of the group – the ‘TEAM‘ within the organization.

• Step Four — focus on transferring the lessons learned in the initial program back to the ‘real world’ of their day-to-day organizational functions. Simple steps the leadership can take to encourage cross-communication, innovation, an environment of openness within the team – the ‘TEAM Environment‘ within the organization.

• Step Five — Following the initial four-step process, NEXTeams facilitators will be available for follow-up consultations and recurring ‘FLUX Re-Energizers.‘ – a chance to get together in the learning environment and check-in about things that are working and things that need more attention.

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