It’s amazing how the outdoors and the experiences they offer can provide powerful metaphors for the professional world. Whether it’s gaining insights from something you do outside or seeing nature as analogous to an area of your work or life, the outdoors can be extremely beneficial. With this in mind, [...]
From time to time, we have the pleasure of helping companies celebrate major milestones and achievements. For Stein Collection, a resort and lodging management company, they were celebrating a record year in 2016. Not surprisingly, Stein Collection asked for the focus of the event to be creating a fun, enjoyable [...]
Given we're a big proponent of experiential learning, specifically through our Experiential Leadership Development and Team Building programs, we wanted to share this article from the 'Chief Learning Officer' online publication, which is part of Human Capital Media - a major human performance media outlet. The article shares the 10 benefits of experiential [...]
One of the coolest things that we get to witness is when companies and teams experience a team-build that benefits their local community. We find that these experiences seem to add another layer of meaning and purpose to the dynamics of the team build. Such was the case with a [...]
Harvard Business Review (HBR) recently wrote an article titled 'Why Leadership Development Isn't Developing Leaders.' It's a terrific read that highlights how too many leadership development programs are purely classroom based. As a result, the leadership training received isn't very applicable and is difficult to put into practice. We don't want to spoil [...]
Leadership Development can often be something that organizations overlook when it comes to investing in their business. Yet, Leadership Development can be one of the hallmarks of a healthy and sustainable culture as leaders and managers very much determine the makeup of a company's culture and workplace environment. We recently [...]
Staff and employee turnover can be one of the biggest if not the biggest challenges an organization may face. So many companies could avoid this plaguing problem by simply investing in their employees. We wanted to share this article from Entrepreneur Magazine as it offers some great suggestions for how [...]
At CBST Adventures, we like to share interesting and thought-provoking content that aligns with our values and outlook on leadership development and team building- even if we don't write it. We found the below article from Forbes magazine discussing the myths about working with millennials to be a great read. We highly [...]
Game on! This was the theme of a large natural food company’s annual meeting in Beaver Creek. While the meeting rooms were decked out with board games and large white paper with markers and crayons galore, when CBST Adventures arrived on the scene, we decided to take things outside for [...]
Have you ever been hungry? Even for just a little bit? You skipped breakfast and went out on a hike. You didn’t have time for lunch during conference calls. Or, perhaps, you went to the pantry, and nothing called to you. How did that make you feel? Were you short tempered? Feeling [...]