Looking to improve your corporate, sports team, organization, or group's success and achievement? Our Team Development programs provide a unique, fun and meaningful learning experience. We utilize experiential activities as metaphors for developing leadership and team skills. Our General Manager, Frank Hassler and Program Director, Zachary Pichette, plan and prepare the curriculum to match your group’s specific needs, demographics, goals, desires, and learning objectives. We specialize in providing a wide range of challenges including everything from group communications exercises in a well appointed conference room at The Essex Resort and Spa to walking on 3/8 inch galvanized steel cables suspended some 42 feet off the ground on our challenge course with your teammates. We can easily accommodate teams in size from 8 to 100 or more individuals. We have worked with small upper level management teams to entire departments of large corporations. Our clients have included, Vermont Air National Guard 158th Communications Flight, United States Veterans Administration Leadership Training, General Electric Health Care, General Dynamics Corporation, KFC Corporation, Eveready Battery Company, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Unilever Corporation, Green Mountain Power Corporation (pictured above). Our programs can range from a couple of hours to multi-day events that are coordinated with your other business consultants.
The first step is to give us a call at 802-316-3300 and schedule a tour of our amazing challenge facilities located on the campus of The Essex Resort and Spa. Our Address is 14 Freeman Woods Road, Essex, Vermont 05452. We are open year round and have activities for every season of the year.
The second step would be to fill out our Online Group Assessment that will help us to learn about your group and what type of program you are looking for.
Many of our clients find their programs so beneficial that they return year after year in an ongoing relationship that we value highly. As part of that process of continued growth and improvement we ask our clients to give us their feedback by filling out a Post Program Survey.
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Your company’s program could include exciting activities such as the world's first and only permanently installed Webmaster from RSVP Design, Colourblind, Link Line, Geocaching, games and initiatives and our low challenge course. These activities are all low to, or on the ground and are very accessible for all ability levels. They challenge your team to communicate, problem solve, take risks, and develop trust. We offer our new Inner Passage and our High Challenge Course as amazing team development tools as we move your entire team (in groups of 8 or 9 individuals) through various challenges at height. Other Elements such as The High All Aboard, The Leap of Faith, and The Giant Swing involve your entire team and allow all to participate whether they climb or stay on the ground to belay others who do wish to climb. Everyone stays engaged and involved! In addition by utilizing our Ice Climbing Wall and Entre Prises Rock Pinnacle climbing and belaying serve as powerful experiential learning tools that can profoundly increase self efficacy and trust levels of your team.
Northern Lights Rock and Ice is an experiential education / "challenge by choice" facility. We ask participants to choose challenges that are right for them i.e. getting them outside of their comfort zone but not so far they are frozen with fear. Stepping out of your comfort zone, whatever the challenge is will provide an awesome experiential learning experience. At the start of your program NLRI will help your group to create it's own Full Value Contract, a verbal agreement and checklist of ideas and concepts that will help all participants stay "on the same page" as far as behavior, attitude, participation, and safety are concerned. Creating the FVC also serves as a model for each team to take back into their work environment to enhance their on-going team development. Our goal is to provide fun and powerful learning experiences that through facilitated reflection will increase your team's
Half day (3 hours) and full day (6 hours) programs require a minimum of 8 people. Groups 45 or larger, a full day is highly recommended due to activity duration. Average instructor ratio is 1:8; this figure is dependent on the activities and how many total participants.
Ask us about our custom catered meals to suit your taste. These functions can include a cash or hosted bar and range from a fancy, intimate sit-down dinner in the NLRI log cabin, to a casual BBQ buffet.
