Adding The Wow Factor
At HPD we are continually exploring new and exciting ways of making training inspiring and memorable. Whether joining the Royal Marines for a week, sailing a 72ft Global Challenge Yacht or landing a Boeing 747.
The challenges put your team under adverse conditions and high pressure. They will find themselves working outside of their comfort zone where excellent leadership and teamwork is essential.
These experiences of a lifetime leave a strong bond between team members that has huge benefits for teams who work in high pressure environments.
Established business partnerships and a dynamic team of consultants allow us to develop training programmes with a difference.
The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Experience
Britain’s elite armed services perform at incredibly high levels of professionalism. Pride, strong leadership, excellent teamwork and incredibly high working standards are key elements to achieving outstanding results on a regular basis.
HPD’s links with The Royal Navy and The Royal Marines means we can offer teams and leaders the amazing opportunity to experience a flavour of the professional training and unique facilities that make British sailors and commandos the best in the world.
Commando Training
Does your team have what it takes when the going gets tough? Can they still perform at exceptionally high standards when under pressure
Do your leaders have the courage and confidence to lead your organisation through difficult times making the right decisions when working outside of their comfort zone?
Put your teams and leaders through the challenges that will push them further than they’ve been pushed before. Individuals will come away from the experience understanding a great deal more about themselves, how they behave under pressure outside of their comfort zone and the power of teamwork.
The Sinking Ship
This truly memorable experience requires strong leadership and supportive teamwork to achieve the desired outcome of saving the ship from sinking.
Delegates will find themselves working outside of their comfort zone which will require strength of character and the realisation that the power of teamwork is key to success. The sense of achievement from this task will be remembered forever.
High Ropes Challenge
Are you at the point where you feel you cannot go any further? How does it feel wanting to take the next step but not sure if you can? It could be a lack of confidence, self belief or a lack of team support. Whatever the reason, we can help you gain the confidence to make that next move.
Our high ropes challenge demonstrates to delegates that they can achieve the goals they have set themselves through self belief and supportive teamwork. They will also push themselves to go one step further and help others to do the same.
The feeling of achievement that individuals and teams get when successfully completing the high rope challenges makes them realise they can achieve other goals whether it be back at work or in their personal life. Delegates come away with stronger self confidence and an understanding of the power of a supportive team.
High Performance Development joins forces with The Arrows Experience
High Performance Development are very excited to announce their new partnership with former Red Arrows Pilots Rod Player, Al Hoy and Steve Johnson who run the unique Arrows Experience.
This new and exciting partnership enables HPD to link in the teamworking and leadership lessons with examples of working at the highest levels of performance. Flying with The Red Arrows demands excellent teamwork and leadership skills, HPD and The Arrows Experience link personal experiences and lessons into the daily issues business and sports teams face and discuss how to improve performance.
Experience it for yourself;
HPD and The Arrows Experience offer the opportunity to experience teamwork at a truly unique level. Delegates can fly with Rod, Al and Steve carrying out team aerobatic manoeuvres as performed by The Red Arrows in the dynamic Pitts stunt biplanes. This exciting experience allows delegates to understand the need for trust, communication and attention to detail when working in a team. The exercise is followed by a facilitated debrief linking lesson learnt back to their working environments.
Yachting Challenges
Sailing, especially on large yachts, demonstrates the need for excellent teamworking and strong leadership skills.
Using 72ft ex Global Challenge Yachts, or 52ft Farr high performance racing yachts, teams race against each other, calling upon a range of skills including strategic thinking, tactical planning, decision making, clear communication and supportive teamwork.
The programme can be tailored to demonstrate many issues, including communication, conflict and collaboration, trust, working to team strengths and support under pressure.
Teams will understand the importance teamwork plays in achieving success as well as learning to sail a yacht efficiently and experience live onboard a racing yacht.
Red Sky Sailing
A tall ship provides a complete venue for the training programmes offering accommodation on board in the ship's comfortable cabins, classroom and presentation facilities in the saloon and an exciting, challenging environment to put the theory into practice on deck. By working together with Red Sky Sailing High Performance Development run memorable team development programmes with a difference.
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Commercial Aircraft Simulator
Planning, decision making, leadership and teamwork are key elements in successfully carrying out this day-long workshop where teams will plan and carry out a flight plan putting the lessons they have learnt into practice.
Delegates will get the opportunity to fly their planned route in a £30 million simulator that is used by The CAA to train and test commercial airline pilots. They will be debriefed throughout the day on their planning and communication as well as how well they implemented their flight plan.
Alternatively, the simulator can be used as a fun team challenge activity, where delegates will get the opportunity to fly the simulator, but without the planning phase. This package gives your team an amazing experience and makes a great reward and incentive option
RIB Raids
Rigid Inflatable Boats (RIBs) are extremely fast, fun but safe, high-speed powerboats that we use for this exciting strategic exercise. It involves competing teams working collaboratively to achieve successful results.
Whether you choose this challenge to take place on The Thames or on The Solent the exciting event requires good planning, teamwork and communication.
Teams find themselves solving cerebral problems that enable them to navigate their way from point to point, collecting valuable clues and information that will help them solve a larger team task.
RIB Raids are a very enjoyable way of demonstrating the need for collaboration and cooperation, breaking down silo mentality and communicating effectively.
Alpine and Canadian Adventures
For the ultimate in teambuilding experiences, the French Alpine or Canadian Outback challenges offer you a teambuilding adventure that pushes you both mentally and physically. A three or five day team challenge that requires the team to carry out exciting high adrenalin tasks combined with strategic and cerebral problem solving tasks.
White water rafting down challenging rapids, canyoning through waterfalls, paragliding, rock climbing and mountain biking in some of the most breathtaking parts of the world is an amazing experience but, the challenge is all about thinking strategically, using individual strengths and planning effectively to solve difficult mental and practical team tasks.
At the end of each day you will either live together in a five star luxury chalet or camping out in the wilderness, sharing stories and the lessons learnt from the day over dinner.
Thorough facilitated debriefs throughout the programme as well as individual feedback and personal action plans, ensure that valuable lessons learnt are implemented back into their working environment.
Business leaders to the South Pole
The Beyond 89 South Programme is for you to experience the serious challenge of Antarctic exploration. During this incredible journey you will discover first hand leadership and team working challenges that faced the likes of Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton - lessons still relevant today. With personal development learning along the way you will travel by ski the last 60 nautical miles to the most southerly point on earth - the geographic South Pole.
Kilimanjaro!
Imagine the feeling; you’re standing on top of the highest peak in Africa, the sun is rising, dawn breaking over the ground below. Your team are around you sharing the moment having achieved this amazing feat together.
Working and living together over this short but demanding time will teach you a great deal about you and the others around you. Understanding how you and your team behave when the going gets tough, when you are tired and working outside of your comfort zone is key in this challenge.