A market-leading leisure industry organisation was suffering a downturn in business, and during its analysis of the reasons why uncovered a culture of secrecy where departments didn't share information with each other and even people within the same team didn't share information.

There was very much a focus on the individual rather than the team, where knowledge was seen as power, and as such the organisation's performance was being negatively affected.

The reasons for this culture were deep-routed and embedded within the heart of the organisation, therefore it was obvious that a normal team-building event just wouldn't cut it. This is why the organisation approached Righttrack...

The solution was a custom designed redhotactive development programme called Bushcraft Adventure. This dynamic and engaging event was purposely designed to focus on the following learning outcomes:

The collective sharing of information, ideas, methods and skills are absolutely vital to success of an organisation. How often is information, knowledge and wisdom kept to individuals or propagated throughout your organisation? How often is the ‘wheel re-invented’? How well are tomorrow’s leaders and team members educated, mentored, and developed, so they are comfortable and competent in their environment?

This programme is designed to help delegates experience the importance of sharing and exchanging information, knowledge and skills, to benefit the whole team. The whole team's success is dependant on small groups of participants learning specific skills from our instructors, and then having to share and teach their fellow team members.

By mutual learning and sharing of skills the group are able to provide everything needed for a comfortable stay in the woods. Throughout the programme the group tackle skills such as:

• Shelter Building – improvised and natural
• Fire making – traditional and modern methods including friction fire lighting
• Food – Cooking over an open fire
• Camp food tucker – modern miracles and traditional classics
• Safe use of tools – knife, saw, crook knife
• Tool making – Mallets, spoons
• Making cordage from naturally occurring resources

This provides a very strong experience to review against the issues that helped and hindered the team's overall success. This is achieved on the second day with a comprehensive review facilitated to highlight the key issues observed. Parallels are made to the working world - how well information and skills are shared. The review concludes with participants making their commitments in the form of an action plan.