Outdoor Induction Programmes for new recruits
Education and the working environment
Where is any similarity you ask? That is exactly the point. Education in India (in particular) is heavily structured and based on information more than experience. This is good, and the Indian education system has provided the world with outstanding brains in almost every profession. Where it fails, is in providing a "working knowledge" of the subject. When a company hires from fresh graduates without working experience, even the highest scoring among them have little idea.
There are vast differences in how a professional achieves goals and how a student does it, and the differences are learned only with experience. Even the goals themselves are different. Training for corporates with an aim toward facilitating the plunge into professional life is one way of merging boundaries. By virtue of making the awareness anxiety free, outbound training tends to have a deeper impact.
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As a student, goals are about personal performance. As an employee, the bottom line is whatever works for the company. Naturally, the method of achieving these goals is also different and moves from individual effort to team effort. It takes time for a person who has only experienced individual effort to be comfortable with the idea of collaboration. The methods of achievement so carefully guarded against "copying" in education are to actually be shared for the benifit of the team.
It takes experience for a person to trust that letting go of the "intellectual solo" they have been doing is actually a good idea. Outdoor experiential programmes for induction purposes provide this experience in a highly enjoyable manner and help participants develop skills that can empower them toward this new style of goals that they will constantly be encountering in their professional life.
Induction programmes
Induction programmes offer a quick and ready way of helping young people who were until recently students, to adapt to the thinking patterns in a collaborative work environment. They also are an excellent opportunity for the recruits to open up and develop trust and bonding with other members of their group, which forms the foundation for comfortable relationships to follow at work.
Benifits of Outdoor Experiential Programmes in Inducting new recruits into the organization
- Differences between the competitive and collaborative approaches can be explored
- An actual idea of practical capabilities can be developed
- Some self confidence about personal capabilities is formed from concrete experience
- Vulnerabilities are identified for further attention
- Team spirit is developed among new employees
- Familarity and trust is developed
- Serves to connect participants together and open channels for communication
- Brings about an awareness of the differences in "stakes" in education and work
- Helps formulate a game plan for dealing with the stress of unfamiliar expectations from an unfamiliar environment and performing.
If you can provide us with a profile of intended participants and any specifically desired objectives, we can design a programme to ensure maximum effectiveness.