The use of adventure activities within training programmes provides unique situations where the processes involved in effective teamwork can be explored effectively in a restricted time period. The scenarios designed by Rock Steady Adventure enable individuals to experience the pressures of time and resource management, information gathering and problem solving in an unfamiliar setting, where no roles are prescribed. We are able to monitor the behaviour of individuals and teams and the processes involved.

Rock Steady Adventure designs and delivers programmes which present a challenge to any group. Only through the use of effective teamworking skills can the objectives be achieved. The group is presented with an objective which can only be achieved through the successful completion of interim tasks based around activities such as climbing, abseiling, caving, kayaking/canoeing, raft/coracle building, gorge scrambling, sailing, Tyrolean traverse, archery and initiative exercises. Unfamiliar resources, pressures of time and quality, communication issues, motivation, information gathering and processing and decision making can all be recreated in the outdoors, where the learning is monitored and outcomes reviewed. Valuable skills are obtained and carried with the participants throughout the task, and back into your organisation.

Since information is the key to successful skill acquisition effective debriefs form a major part of any programme. After each exercise, delegates have the opportunity to discuss their thoughts and experiences in a constructive and non-threatening environment, discussing the consequences of their decisions and the value of effective skills and productive methods for personal development. The outcomes of the reviews are then related back to the workplace.