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NOLS Professional Training offers innovative, customized NOLS courses for businesses and organizations, focusing on
any aspect of the NOLS core curricula—leadership, technical skills, risk management, or environmental studies. Our
program coordinators help you select course dates and an optimum group size to meet your desired outcomes. Then, we
build a curriculum and progression around concrete learning objectives. To meet these objectives, our many operating
locations offer unique opportunities to utilize various technical outdoor skills, from backpacking to mountaineering
to sea kayaking and sailing. Additionally, NOLS consultants can train administrators in program risk management,
review programs, and train your staff. We can bring our expert educators to you or you can join us in one of our wilderness
classrooms around the world.
NOLS PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Find client outcomes stories at www.nols.edu/nolspro/clients.shtml.
Dave Anderson
Brian Fabel
Working together in a high-performing team is one expected outcome of NOLS Professional
Training wilderness expeditions. Sinks Canyon, Wyoming
Invest in your people. Invest in their leadership. The payoff is a highly functioning
team that spends more time driving your mission. Lander, Wyoming
CUSTOM WILDERNESS EXPEDITIONS
NOLS Professional Training teaches leadership on multiday
wilderness expeditions. Unlike many guided travel adventure
programs, our expeditions focus on learning and practicing
your own travel and camping skills and environmental studies
as part of leadership training. These expeditions include
our most complete leadership curriculum, using the same
model with which we train NASA astronauts and shuttle
crews. Participants rotate serving as designated leaders each
day, while others learn active followership to help make an
optimal team. Time is prioritized for individual and group
reflection about effective situational leadership. The NOLS
curriculum provides a shared language and real-time experience
for examining personal leadership skills and improving
team performance. Research shows the skills most valued by
NOLS participants after their courses are as applicable in the
boardroom as they are in the backcountry.
DETAILS
Duration: 7–30 days
Dates, locations, and tuition vary by client. Contact our program coordinators to
design your custom course today: nolspro@nols.edu or 1-800-710-NOLS, ext. 3.
Curriculum: see pages 6–7
Facing page: NOLS Professional Training custom courses focus on helping your
team reach its potential. Wind River Range, Wyoming
LEADERSHIP NAVIGATION CHALLENGE
The Leadership Navigation Challenge (LNC) is a focused team
leadership development program. The training delivers core aspects
of the NOLS leadership curriculum customized to your work
context and needs in a facilitated environment. The culminating
activity of the LNC requires participants to practice their skills
and actively engage in an outdoor GPS orienteering mission that
requires in-the-moment decision-making, collaboration, analytical
thinking, and strategic planning. This hands-on condensed
expedition mimics challenges that teams face anywhere: making
expedient decisions, balancing task achievement with group development,
blending distinct individuals to form a cohesive team, and
working through unforeseen hurdles. Through group coaching
that includes shadowing and debriefing, our clients see increased
functionality in their teams and return to their organizations more
resilient, productive, and efficient. The LNC is highly portable
and can be delivered in a classroom and green space near you. Your
team is removed from the distractions of the daily routine in order
to focus and examine critical work issues, processes, and patterns.
DETAILS
Duration: 1–3 days
Dates, locations, and tuition vary by client. Contact nolspro@nols.edu or call us at
1-800-710-NOLS, ext. 3.
Curriculum: see page 7
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