Safeguard, Monitor and Validate

The gaps in Outdoor Training and Team Building.

Not all firms offering training programmes based on motor activities validate them or choose them based on criteria that are appropriate for the benefits claimed.

Riding a horse, shooting a paint gun, taking part in a regatta or going up in a hot-air balloon, depending on how its done, when it's done and which group it's done with (not to mention the physical risks of the activity, which professionals offering these services need to have recognised, predicted, minimised and safeguarded against), may not have any use in training terms and may even lead to social, communication or business problems completely opposed to the benefits that were claimed. And in this case they are not recognised or predicted.


Serious cases

There have been cases of participants, in Paintball activities but also in others, that have been attacked from the rear by their own colleagues when the aim was to generate group cohesion and unity. This may seem funny but is, in fact, a very serious situation that can damage or identify a problem within the organisation itself. Many practiosioners can provide highly "imaginative" justifications for this happening in a training programme but those who resort to these explanations have not realised that the activity itself might be the problem. If they had realised this, then it would have been much less likely to happen in the first place. Paintball can be differently played like many other activities to achieve the right goals.

To help improve and avoid these problems, a Forum has been created to identify cases and problems, where members, associates and friends can all report wrong doings or negative examples of application of such activities.

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