GLC Team Building

Many groups request team building services from our team. We can support your organization, department, athletic team or company needs through our Group Development Program.

The Group Development Program provides customized workshops to support individual and group leadership development. Workshops are participatory, focused on helping your group achieve its potential and are led by highly trained staff members. Some common outcomes from our programs whether they are held in a classroom or on the Challenge Course:

• Maximize team member engagement.
• Increase participation towards problem solving.
• Resolve communication challenges.
• Realize the strengths of your members.
• Have more fun working together.

We offer fully customized team building workshops developed through a collaborative design process. Here are some example workshops that we offer.

Complete this form to request a workshop.

We train students how to lead groups through our Group Facilitation Fellowship program.

Questions? Contact our team at glc@gettysburg.edu.

Challenge course

We call our ropes course a Challenge Course. It is a place where individuals and groups are invited to reach past perceived limits and discover potential.

Each experience is designed to provoke discussion, reflection, and provide insights into your group's strengths, processes and culture. You will depart from the course with a common experience to build from, a better understanding of preferences and strengths of your team, and renewed energy to bring back to your organization.

Each half day, full day, or multiple day course is individually tailored to meet the unique needs of your organization.
 

Highlights of our on-campus programs

• Situated in a picturesque location on campus with a large-capacity pavilion, our challenge course consists of seven low elements, and 12 high elements and can accommodate groups of 5 to over 100
• Complemented by an indoor climbing facility for inclement weather use, on-campus catering options, classrooms for break-out discussions, and affordable nearby lodging
• Experience with a diverse client base that includes many campus partners, the White House Fellows, State Agencies, School Districts, and non-profits.

Schedule a workshop

Complete this Group Development Request form to start a conversation about scheduling a Challenge Course workshop.

Group Development Workshop Examples

We customize every workshop. These examples provide ideas to consider as we begin a design conversation.

Introductions and Expectation Setting for new groups

A primary task of groups with new members is going beyond surface level introduction and developing shared expectations. Attending to these group needs is a great foundation for group and team development. This workshop uses a variety of games, initiatives and challenge course activities to enhance the connection amongst the group.

Values Affirmation Workshop

This workshop provides individual group members the opportunity to affirm their personal values, how those values show up while problem solving and the opportunity to more deeply know others in their group. The outcomes for this workshop include an increase in self-awareness and the ability to articulate uniqueness to others.

Failing Forward

We rarely experience organizational encouragement to fail. However, failure can provide rich incite that leads to innovation. This workshop provides the opportunity to experientially use the lessons learned from challenge and failure to be more successful in future problem solving.

Advanced Facilitation

Facilitation is a process of using what you see, hear, and notice then assisting a group to synthesize the experience into coherent and transferable skills. Whether in a classroom, office, or an outdoor venue, it takes time to learn how to develop an effective approach to facilitation. There are many factors that can influence an individual's success while facilitating an experience and this workshop will provide hands on experience and group feedback to develop and enhance facilitation.

Experiential Learning Classroom

Have you thought about complementing your classroom instruction with adventure? Think about a language class communicating in Spanish or German while participating in a team building initiative, or a physics class calculating mechanical advantage and then physically experiencing friction differential. There are many ways a classroom experience can be enhanced by deeply engaging students through experiential learning.

Leadership Beyond the Position

All members of a group have the opportunity to demonstrate leadership. This workshop explores how group members and positional leaders alike can provide leadership unlocking talents and incites from all group members.