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Case Study: The Home Depot
Home DepotThe Home Depot culture, which is a significant strength of the Company, emphasizes a decentralized approach to management, and it encourages entrepreneurial innovation and high levels of commitment, teamwork, and enthusiasm by its associates. In the midst of an unprecedented expansion, doubling the number of stores to over 1,000 by the year 2000, the need for highly effective assistant store managers, who are able to provide leadership and coaching to store associates, is essential. The Home Depot turned to Outward Bound Professional to provide vital skills to these managers in the management of their most critical resource—their associates.
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Would you like a program delivered at your site, or other convenient area such as a conference center or park? Outward Bound Professional is ready to work with you to design a one- or two-day Insight Program at the location of your choice.

Insight programs, introduce you to the characteristics of a high-performing team through a series of problem-solving initiatives.

Activities help your team actualize current working styles, and then focus on ways to improve skills such as problem solving, effective communication, leadership styles, decision making, and dealing with change.

Sample Itinerary: 1-Day Insight Program

Welcome and Introduction - Review program goals, expectations, safety and set tone by senior organization representative.
Mental and Physical Stretching - Initial warm-up activities and review of characteristics of high performance teams.
Trust Sequences - Group initiatives strengthen trust and explore the limits, benefits, and applications of trust in the workplace. Facilitated discussions follow each exercise to insure learnings are captured.
Mountain Climbers Problem-Solving Initiatives - Tailored problem-solving activities that increase in complexity and explore issues of teamwork, effective communication, work processes and leadership.
Debrief Morning - Discuss/document AM learnings: key individual and team skills, obstacles that impede individual and team success, key learnings to be carried into PM.
Lunch - Check in to insure pace, approach, and objectives are in alignment with expectations.
Project Based Teamwork - A series of increasingly complex tasks to focus on team performance and assessment.
Day Review - Evaluation of the successes and challenges of the day and lay ground work for individual and Team Action Plans to apply learnings to the workplace.

If you are interested in learning how our programs can Increase your team’s potential, call us toll-free 1-888-84-NCOBS, or complete our “Request For Information” online form.

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