Creating Future Leaders

Call of the Wild for Panasonic Future Leaders Focus – Developing Staff with Potential to become Future Management Objectives - Place people in a pressured unfamiliar environment whilst learning and applying principles of team dynamics and leadership Delegate Number – 30 Venue - Call of the Wild Training centre and venues in close proximity Background After tendering for the this work against 6 of the top development training companies in the UK Panasonic selected Call of the Wild to help design and deliver some of the key components of their in-house future leader programme opertaed by their assessment centre. This was the inaugral event organised for the futre leaders programmes. Objectives Place people in a pressured unfamiliar environment whilst learning and applying principles of team dynamics and leadership. Areas to be developed were:- •Leading the business – Direction and innovation •Managing buisness relationships – Communication, influence •Leading people – team leadership, people performance •Managing self – Self motivation The Programme The programme required delegates to consider their strengths as individuals and as a team, their ability to plan to achieve a pre-determined goal, assess their performance whilst solving problems requiring creative thinking. Delegates were given a matrix of information relating to the tasks; time taken to complete the tasks, level of challenge, difficulty, points gained upon successful completion. Information was also be received at separate times as to the nature of each of the tasks and the primary skills involved in completing the tasks. Creating Future Leaders During the planning phase of this task, the teams needed to consider it?s strengths, direction and performance. At various points during this phase, information relating to the overall challenge changed, enabling participants the opportunity to re-evaluate their position and amend their planning accordingly. A series of challenges were offered to the teams, varying in difficulty and also in value. Teams were required to collect as many points and as much information as possible for the challenges the following day. Whilst each phase and challenge was reviewed upon completion, delegates considered the elements of leadership and skills required to build a successful team. What Did Our Clients Think of the Future leaders Programme? “On arrival and introduction to our dormitories and bunk beds it was straight into the action – an introduction to Call Of The Wild staff was followed by night time orienteering. If you wanted the clues for your team?s activities the following day, you had to go find them. Into the dark went the 4 teams armed only with torches a map and a compass. Surprisingly all returned – a little muddy, tiered but clutching those precious pieces of paper. At the “debrief” it became clear that the 4 teams, A,B,C and D would have to work as two larger teams A+B and C+D if they were to complete the tasks for the next two days, and so began the team building process. The whole Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing theory of team building process was fascinating to be involved in and to watch, but perform those teams eventually did! Following a couple of “ice breaker exercises” the real tasks of the day began. Each team with its partner team would have to complete tasks, each successful completion would give them part of their “vehicle” for the final days “race”. Between these stages, the teams would also have to approach the potential sponsors, and complete their unknown tasks to secure funds for race entry, transport, training and technical advise. These tasks ranged from designing a new children?s game, inventing a new country and identifying the emotional response to change! They would also have to complete all safety training and the training that they decided to buy, clearly this was going to be a very very long day, but you could already see that the

For more information on Creating Future Leaders talk to Call Of The Wild Development