Compass Course - NEW FOR 2010! - Outward Bound New Zealand

Direction and development for 20-30 year old employees

Compass is an 8 day professional development programme especially designed for 20 - 30 year old employees.

In April 2010 we surveyed over 70 managers and asked them to outline what skills they thought were most required from these employees. The results led us to develop the Compass course with the following four key focus area's

Key focus areas:

1. Developing the quality of decision making.

2. Communicating effectively with others.

3. Finding new opportunities to step up and display initiative.

4. Taking ownership and responsibility in your role.

What happens on the course:

Compass includes a combination of experiential activities and workshops.

The activities are often personally challenging and are designed to help students better their understanding of their role in a team. They also provide rich examples in which to draw learning from.

Workshops are delivered by instructors who have considerable experience facilitating the development of individuals and teams.

As with all of our courses the full course programme is not revealed to students before they attend. This is purely to ensure students can work with and become more comfortable with the unknown and to keep them focused on the content at hand.

There is a basic level of physical ability required from participants such as being able to run a distance of 3km in under 25 minutes.

This course usually starts on a Saturday requiring just one week away from work.

Setting up a scholarship

Many organisations set up yearly scholarships for employees to attend Outward Bound. Often these are a very successful way to publically reward and recognise great employees and of course provide excellent training and development for the lucky recipient.

We make it easier for you by providing a couple of downloadable and editable examples of scholarship application forms. We hope you find these useful in getting your scholarship set up!