HR Outbound Training
Human resources outbound training involves taking a team to an outdoor location where various activities are combined to help improve teamwork and team-building skills. Typical activities involve rope- and rock-climbing, kayaking, team challenges and trust-building tasks. Goals for outbound training are to complete numerous scenarios and challenges, together as a team, using techniques that are useful when participants return to the workplace. Challenging team-building and bonding experiences lead to cooperation and effectiveness on the job.
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Trust Activities
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Trust activities are designed to produce cooperation and teamwork back on the job. One of the most commonly used activities is to have one participant fall backward into a group of team members who catch the trainee before she hits the ground. It takes a lot of courage for the participant to rely completely on her fellow participants. Another activity involves leading a blindfolded teammate around an obstacle course. Both these activities are frequently a major portion of outbound training activities.
Team Challeges
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Team-building is a major goal for outbound training and team challenges are an important part of all programs. Tug-of-wars are frequently used in most human resource outbound programs. Another popular activity is the obstacle course. Teams compete against each other to complete a difficult obstacle course. Team members help each other over walls and across streams and other barriers. Paintball games have also become an important activity for outbound training programs.
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Ropes and Water
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Human resources outbound training is often called ropes training. While there are many ropes training variations, most ropes courses involve getting people across, over and around various obstacles. Every team member must complete these ropes courses and considerable assistance from the entire team is required. Water challenges are also used during outbound courses; these frequently use kayaks or boats to complete complex courses. Recent outbound training has incorporated sailing into water challenges.
Making the Training Work
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Once you have selected a human resources outbound training program, begin planning how to make it work once everyone has returned to the workplace. If your program is successful, you will have a more cohesive and open team, ready to use its newly developed skills. Plan for a feedback session shortly after everyone returns. Answer questions and provide your thanks and support to everyone. Encourage action plans from all participants about how they intend to use what they have just learned. Recognize and reward employees who use their new skills.
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