Development Training
Team Building
Leadership
Communication
Devon Adventure Training have been providing personal development courses since 1990. These courses have evolved to be informative and interesting but also fun and exciting. Participants can gain a sense of personal achievement and develop teamwork, leadership and communication skills that are relevant to the workplace.
The outdoors is a stimulating and safe environment where decisions and actions are distanced from the workplace. Job related knowledge and ability no longer decide results and participants see the effects of their actions and behaviour more clearly.
By introducing participants to a series of short structured tasks, teams can discuss their achievements in review sessions following the activities and can then reflect on their performance.
Adventure Activities during courses include Climbing, Caving, Abseiling, Canoeing, River Crossing Exercise and Gorge Scrambling.
Courses can be one to five day, residential or non residential and can be adapted to fit your requirements, on content and duration.
Day Courses
Dewerstone Challenge • Pengelly Challenge
These Team Challenges involve solving many different
types of problems, with the overall objective of finding a hidden
prize. These training days enable teams to work on their group skills
and allow participants the opportunity to practice leadership.
Dewerstone Challenge
This challenge involves two teams navigating through a series of locations. At each location the team must complete a team exercise or challenge before obtaining a clue to the next location. At the last location after completing an activity the team find a hidden prize.
This day is mainly team orientated but with a chance for all the participants to practice leadership, as this role is rotated around the team during the day. This also makes The Dewerstone Challenge a good one off team building day.
Outdoor activities inclusive in the day are Climbing (or Abseiling) and a River Crossing Exercise.
Pengelly Challenge
Requires the team to solve a number of exercises and problems before navigating their way to a hidden prize. The exercise is based at the Pengelly Centre at Buckfastleigh.
This challenge is good for team building, but is more involved for the team leader. The team leader role is not rotated but remains with the same person throughout the challenge
Residential Courses
A choice of accommodation is available, from moorland hotels to bunkhouses of varying standards. Course duration can be between 2 and 5 days, during the week or at weekends.