Looking for a day away from
the office that is fun as well as educational, relaxing as well as inspiring? From indoor activities to climbing our alpine tower, our Teambuilding Retreats offer a range of events tailored to your team’s abilities and goals. Past participants in Louisville and beyond include non-profit and church groups, small businesses, and large corporations ranging in size from 6 to 160 participants.
Our Teambuilding Retreats program is designed to engage participants in discovering solutions to unique challenges. A key concept involves developing awareness of our habitual ways of responding as individuals and groups. With increasing awareness, teams learn to minimize negative patterns and reinforce positive ones.
Depending on your time and interests, a program could include one or more of the following experiential learning tools: indoor and outdoor simulations, facilitated discussion, our low ropes (teams) course, an Alpine climbing tower, and the Conflict Dynamics Profile ®. The CDP-I is a short instrument that identifies workplace behaviors that contribute to constructive conflict resolution and offers practical tips for strengthening conflict management skills.In addition to general teambuilding, the Forest is partnered with Jeff Peden of Great Ideas LLC to present:
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Experiencing Take It To The MAX—The Ultimate Strategy for Maximizing Profits and Growth
A leadership development program that provides practical, hands-on strategies and experiential exercises to engage, build, and inspire teams, create outstanding customer relationships, and tap into the kinds of ideas that gives leadership an edge in making the best decisions for organizational growth and success.
The program includes both classroom learning and hands-on application. The first segment supplies the information and strategies to successfully achieve organizational priorities—focusing on employee engagement, customer development, and essential leadership initiatives that drive success. The second segment engages participants in experiential exercises that put the strategies into practice and provide personal perspective. Participants leave the program with strategies that can be immediately applied back at work to generate exceptional outcomes.
Participants will walk away knowing:
- How to maximize their organization’s two biggest assets
- How to fully engage their team, and increase morale and productivity
- How to know exactly what their customers want
- The One Rule that maximizes organizational success
- How to successfully answer the Five Questions every customer has about you
- The Leadership Priority that makes it all work
Organizations have the option of either a half-day or full-day format, with frequent breaks. Both formats include the educational and experiential components. |
Most groups combine their program with rental of the Horine Conference Center. This elegant 1940s-era manor house boasts seating for up to 35 participants, a multimedia system, kitchen, den with fireplace, and additional rooms for breakaway meetings. Let the Conference Center serve as your team's "home base" during a teambuilding program -- providing an excellent site for a catered lunch, rest breaks, discussions, and shelter from inclement weather. Visit the Facilities page for a photo tour of the Conference Center.
To find out more about our corporate teambuilding programs, contact Shawn Nevins at (502) 366-5432.
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Patience, coaching and
awareness in action! |
Helping out on a tower build |