Customer Need

Following a huge merger and acquisition that created a global organisation employing 36,000 people worldwide and operating from 60 different locations the new organisation had to deliver phenomenal results and fast.

The president recognised that this had to begin with his senior team and wanted Evolve International’s help to work with the team to:

• Agree a common set of objectives for the short term

• Get to know and understand each other and build a deep trust with each other

• Create alignment and cohesion within the team

• Develop the belief in the whole team that they can achieve the goals that
had been set over the coming years

As highly experienced business leaders many had previously been through other coaching/team working programmes so one of our criteria was to create a different kind of experience that would have a lasting impact.

In developing the right programme we had to consider the two different cultures that currently existed within the team and in order to create an aligned, cohesive team we needed to devise a way to break these down and rebuild the team as one.

Our approach

We took the team to a remote area in the North of Scotland for a six day SAS style adventure.

This consisted of a combination of extreme activities, created to stretch the team at both a mental and physical level and facilitated workshop sessions to embed the learning and commit to actions.

With the team living together in a small, basic environment with none of the home comforts they had become accustomed to everyone was equal.

The extreme activities were all focused on achieving success as a whole team. For many these were highly challenging and took them way out of their comfort zones which meant that they achieved things they never believed possible. It also taught them the importance of pushing personal boundaries to discover what they were truly capable of, both as individuals and as a team. The team also learned a lot about themselves and each other and how they react to stressful and different situations. The team experienced the benefit that comes from the support and encouragement of their team members, along with having a common goal the team achieved high levels of success.