Corporate Sailing: Learning Leadership Competence On Sea!

25 June 2008 No Comment

“If I really want to learn to know someone, I go sailing with him. Here it goes ten times faster than ashore. Regarding the processes in a company, I don’t know any other kind of sport which trains team spirit, responsibility and fitting in a community so excellently.”

A ship is the best place to extend one’s horizon. The participants are in the true sense of the word “on the same boat”. Values such as responsibility, reliability and teamwork are not abstract ideas any more.

Training on sailing yachts teaches key qualifications of leadership. It enables executives to optimize their effectiveness and to lead change processes. They connect the personal vision with the motivation of others and the practical implementation by the team and the whole organization.

For junior managers, special forms of our training, enabling them to become familiar with the leadership culture of the enterprise are offered; for senior managers, executives train to get help in rediscovering their resources and power.

It’s a holistic learning with head, heart and hand, and therefore increases the motivation and the readiness for changes. With regards to your specific objectives the following contents of training are made the main focus:

• Visions and goals;

• Communication, inspiration, motivation;

• Credibility, authenticity, confidence;

• Teambuilding, Teamtraining, stiles of leadership;

• Realisation, obligation and authorization, empowerment;

• Change Management;

• Intercultural competence and diversity;

• Collegial consultation;

• Personal ressources, work-life-balance.

Training takes place on sailing yachts, where the participants work and live together. All duties concerning the sailing of the ship are carried out by everyone.
Sailing and training lessons alternate, and each trainee is constantly required to bring in his whole personality.

The intended isolation on a ship and the intensive interaction gives no possibility to withdraw and it also demands full attention. The unusual situation on the ship evokes existing behavior patterns and new solutions; new perspectives and horizons are opened. The learning with all senses guarantees a lasting memory of the training contents.

The obvious parallels between leading a ship and leading an enterprise facilitates the transfer into everyday’s business-life.

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