Corporate Team Building
Corporate Team Building is the perfect way to make your event a guaranteed success! Analogies between sailing and business are many:
- Techniques for maximizing a sailboat's performance are remarkably similar to maximizing a company's performance
- Changes in the marketplace compare to wind shifts on the water
- Successful completion of a job with participants working closely together carries the same issues onboard as in a work environment
- Sailing facilitates the strategic development process and enhances problem solving skills
- Sailing performance depends on interaction between skipper and crew who must react to rapidly changing conditions as a team
We have the perfect way for your group to enjoy a fabulous day on the water at our beautiful waterfront location! Groups of all sizes will find our certified instructors and expert staff a pleasure to work with. Over 20 years of experience in waterfront operations and an unending commitment to customer service makes Ultimate Watersports the perfect choice!
I want to thank you for a thoroughly enjoyable team building event last Friday. The kayaking activities challenged my staff and helped to bring them closer together. At the same time everyone had a great time. Your people were friendly, professional and knowledgeable, all qualities that we try to promote with our associates as well. You were exactly what the doctor ordered. And my team even won!
You should be very proud of your organization. They are top shelf. Any business could benefit greatly from the services you provide. I am also sure that you turned some of my staff on to the joys of kayaking. Finally, the buffet cookout was excellent as well. Keep up the good work. Thanks for helping to build Brick Bodies.
Yours in health and fitness,
C. Victor Brick
CEO/Brick Bodies Fitness Services
Team Building Through Sailing
- Highlight of corporate meetings or conferences
- Solidifies goals and issues addressed during meeting or conference
- Excellent for promoting teamwork and communication
- Enhances group spirit
- Allows for hands-on evaluation of individual character and qualities
- Strong emphasis on teamwork and communication
- Culminates in a series of races and other challenges to stimulate team interaction and achievement
- Tests new skills and ability to maximize performance as team
- Can be augmented by corporate group's in-house facilitator or a specialist suggested by Ultimate Watersports
- Minimum two boats – three to four participants per boat
- Fleets of up to six boats currently available
Half-Day Sail-Race Challenge
Typical Half-Day Schedule
10am - 2pm or 2pm - 6pm
- Starts ashore with welcome orientation, program overview and team building concepts highlighted by sailing
- Teams define goals with sailing staff facilitating program
- Sailing coaches conduct classroom session on sailing basics (20 minutes)
- Beachfront session familiarizes teams with their boats, basic sailing maneuvers and sail handling (20 minutes)
- On-water hands-on instruction (1-1/2 hours)
- Races and exercises to test team interaction (1-1/2 hours)
- Return to dock for final debrief (20 minutes)
- Awards can be pre-arranged for a festive ending to a fine outing
Full-Day Sail-Race Challenge
- Morning and afternoon sessions covering all aspects of half-day program in depth
- Morning concentrates on sailing maneuvers, boat handling, teamwork
- Afternoon racing involves efficient team interaction and leadership dynamics
- Participants gain sailing-savvy, apply drills to corporate problem solving
- Allows more time for leadership improvement
- Builds strong team communication and application of group dynamics
- Minimum two boats, three to four participants per boat
Typical Full-Day Schedule
10am - 6pm
- Starts with welcome orientation, program overview and team building concepts highlighted by sailing
- Teams define goals with sailing staff facilitating the program
- Sailing coaches conduct classroom session on sailing basics (20 minutes)
- Dockside session familiarizes teams with their boats, basic sailing maneuvers and sail handling (20 minutes)
- On-water hands-on instruction (2 hours)
- Lunch break ashore (1 hour)
- Races or other challenges test team interaction (3 hours)
- Return to dock for final debrief (20 to 50 minutes)
- Awards can be pre-arranged for a festive ending to a fine outing
Multi-Day Programs (2-5 Days)
- Customized to meet the needs of each group
- Facilitators conduct on-shore sessions relating sailing to corporate issues
- Lessons learned on the water relate to issues in closed-door sessions
- Achievements heralded in regatta or similar sailing challenge on final day
- Minimum two boats, maximum three to four participants per boat
Additional Services
- Business facilitator(s) specializing in team building, leadership or experiential corporate group interaction
- Accommodations, meals, beverages and snacks
- Team shirts, hats or other apparel
- Corporate banners displayed on boats
- Photography and awards
I just wanted to say thanks for such a great morning on Wednesday. I knew it would be great, and I'm so glad my staff thought so as well. Many of them have been thanking me for such a wonderful day. Even better, they've been telling all of the people who didn't come what fun they missed!
So, I just wanted to pass along the gratitude to you and your staff for making our day such a huge success! I look forward to working with you again some time in the future.
Linda Brandenburg,
Kennedy Krieger Institute
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