Program Spotlight

 

Corporate Teambuilding at the Joe C. Davis YMCA Outdoor Center

The success of any organization ultimately depends on how efficiently its team works together toward a common goal. Communication, trust, self-confidence and defining goals are the cornerstones to building a great team.  The Joe C. Davis YMCA Outdoor Center provides a unique setting to create functional, unified teams. READ MORE

 

Corporate Teambuilding at the YMCA of Cool Springs

 

Everyone has heard the leadership principle that you shouldn’t ask someone to do something that you aren’t willing to do yourself, even if that means being hoisted over a 12-foot wall by your employees. Terry Butler, CEO and President of Pinnacle Financial, lives this out on a regular basis at the Cool Springs YMCA. READ MORE

 

 

Corporate Teambuilding at the Joe C. Davis YMCA Outdoor Center 

 

The Center provides an environment where your team will work together to develop shared responsibility, individual accountability and mutual support during each activity. The YMCA's rustic outdoor setting allows you to step away from the tensions of the office or school and begin to work as a team at a basic level. Discussions may be led by our facilitators or your group leaders to help teams discover fresh, innovative approaches to working together to achieve organizational goals. Useful parallels are drawn to the workplace and other life situations. Teambuilding participants leave the Joe C. Davis YMCA Outdoor Center with a springboard to transfer the unity, cooperation and teamwork experienced during the teambuilding exercises back to their organization. Best of all, the laughing, playing and working together promote a sense of camaraderie and pride that lasts well beyond the day's experience.

 

The objectives of this program are to increase self-confidence, multiply team efficiency and productivity, develop conflict resolution skills, develop creative problem solving skills, instill leadership and "followership" skills, change “I can't” attitudes to “can do” ones, promote communication and listening skills, develop appreciation of fellow workers and students, and stretch physical and emotional lines people have drawn for themselves.

The staff will work with your group to customize a program that addresses specific issues facing your organization. Challenges presented to your group will require teamwork to successfully accomplish the established goals. Some available activities include group initiatives, the alpine tower, a giant swing, high ropes course, team tree house, and Mt. Widji Team Climb.

Let the Joe C. Davis YMCA Outdoor Center facilitate the next conference, retreat or teambuilding experience for your group.  To check availability, make reservations or take a tour of our facilities, contact the Group Reservations Department at (615) 360-CAMP.

Corporate Teambuilding at the YMCA of Cool Springs

 

Terry and Pinnacle Financial are avid supporters of Build, the corporate teambuilding program offered through the YMCA of Cool Springs. Terry and the employees at Pinnacle go through the low-ropes experience as a finale to their three-day training program designed to initiate and bond new employees to the growing financial company.

 

For them, this program includes “the wall,” a 12-foot structure all employees must get over while following a series of guidelines. These guidelines include the fact that there can’t be any outside help from props or structures; all help must come from other employees. Accomplishing the wall initiative has become the top rated “all-time favorite memory” for Pinnacle employees.  

           

The Build program offers companies and organizations of all types the opportunity to experience a customized team building program that will serve to strengthen and grow the organization in ways that are specific to their needs.

           

The YMCA of Cool Springs in Franklin boasts a unique facility in their Rocks and Ropes Arena. The arena provides groups the opportunity to be hoisted over a 12-foot wall; free fall from a four-foot trust fall; and climb the 28-foot-high rock climbing wall. These notable features are just a few among the other low ropes and team building initiatives the program offers. 

           

Program Coordinator Katie Richards and the Build staff are highly qualified individuals who have a passion for seeing the change that can happen to a person and a staff through a quality teambuilding experience. They have seen individuals confront and take the first step toward overcoming lifelong trust issues through a simple trust fall. They have also witnessed employees comprehend business and leadership principles that have been explained to them in countless staff meetings but didn’t actually make sense until they picked up a rope and had to accomplish a task blindfolded with their fellow colleagues. 

           

Build offers employers an opportunity to give their employees a day away from the office that is not only fun but will produce lasting results in their company. Employees will learn business and leadership principles in a tangible, hands-on way. This ensures that these lessons will not be fleeting but will be ones that the employee takes with them back into the workplace for a long time to come.

          

The Build Program is a perfect fit for any company or organization no matter what your needs may be. If you are interested in a Build staff member coming to your staff meeting to lead a free teambuilding initiative or you would like more information about the program, please e-mail or call Katie Richards at the YMCA of Cool Springs at (615) 661-4200, ext. 28.