Ropes courses in Kendal, Cumbria

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GENERAL INFORMATION

Ropes courses - Rob Kelly and Associates is a leading performance development consultancy with the knowledge and capability to assess, enhance and expand your strategies for organisational development. RKandA cooperates with VerticalAir, a Lake District-based specialist in delivering outdoor programmes. Their fully qualified and experienced staff use their unique ropes course in the woods of a nearby hotel together with activitives such as abseiling and using a zip-wire to challenge and develop teamwork, unleashing a sense of adventure and risk taking that can then be applied back in the workplace.

leading performance development consultancy with the knowledge and capability to assess, enhance and expand your strategies for organisational development by focusing on your most important asset - people. It's important to ensure that the benefits of outdoor experiences are properly identified and analysed. All of our programmes achieve the right balance of experience and reflection to ensure the relation of learning back to work situations.

Our strength lies in the specificity of our solutions, each one of which is tailor-made to suit each client. We offer flexibility of venue and of length. We can provide one-to-one coaching and group work, based either in the workplace or off-site.

Most solutions weave together the elements of Self, Team and Leader. These subjects are closely interrelated, and have an impact on each other; a programme aimed at improving teamwork will inevitably cover issues around leadership, for example, and personal development is key to working in a team. Our programmes use a balance of groupwork, individual reflection and discussion to explore the links between these elements.

A solution might include components from: Understanding self, Personal impact, Working with others, Leading your team, Coaching and mentoring, Managing and leading upwards, Dealing with difficult people, Managing change, Real time issues, Networking

We then use this information to draw conclusions and formulate plans and strategies to use this knowledge in the working environment.

Leaders make things happen, which is vital in today's uncertain and changing business climate. People who can motivate and lead others are extremely valuable and should be encouraged - at all levels of a company.

Good leadership requires a range of skills, methods and styles and is an essential quality for any manager in any organisation or department. These skills, methods and styles can be learned.

Team Building Work today involves contact with other people. Most people work with others, or at least, have dealings with colleagues on a regular basis. Some are part of formal work teams, with a definite structure and purpose.

Our 'Team Building programmes' are aimed at existing or newly formed teams working on either short or long term projects.The programme goals are to build trust, co-operation and commitment, encouraging open and honest relationships. Using an experiential approach, they develop effective problem solving methods and working practices, clarify roles and relationships and develop appropriate processes in order to ensure practical application back at work.

Personal Development begins with a knowledge and understanding of oneself. At the core of all development initiatives is the need for self-knowledge. Developing the potential of the individual is fundamental to our work. All development starts at the self, and then leads to how we behave in teams and as leaders in an organisation. As people understand themselves better they increase in confidence. This benefits other areas such as working relationships, delegation skills and decisiveness.

Leadership Development programmes are custom designed to respond to the needs of managers in your company, providing them with the opportunity to assess and develop their leadership ability.

Through a combination of practical project leadership, theoretical input and review, participants explore the critical processes of leadership, and then form an action plan to take what they have learned back into the workplace.