Case Studies

Kurt Salmon Associates is an international consulting firm that specializes in the retail and consumer products industries. Consultants working for KSA spend the majority of their own time working at the client’s site in small project teams including both KSA and client employees.

Over the past three years, Kurt Salmon Associates has undergone rapid growth requiring the hiring and training of a proportionately large number of new consultants. To most effectively bring these new players into the KSA organizational culture and accelerate their start up learning curves, these new consultants all participate in a two-week orientation and training program during their first six months at KSA. With these objectives in mind, Kurt Salmon Associates turned to Outward Bound® Professional to help their new consultants develop team skills to use on project teams and build relationships within the company.

In the format of a dynamic, action-oriented design, the high-level objective of these on-going one-day custom programs is to accelerate the start up time of these new employees, by creating awareness and insight into two key areas. The key areas are:

Teamwork
Camaraderie

Based upon the end of program evaluation results, Outward Bound® Professional exceeded Kurt Salmon Associates expectations in every category including meeting their objectives, providing a premier program, and having outstanding facilitators. Specific outcomes included:

More Effective Team Skills: - The new consultants reported being better able to function in a team work environment both in theory and in practice. They have a better understanding of what the characteristics of highly effective teams are and how to develop these traits with their project teams.
Developed Strong Sense Of Camaraderie: - Participants came away from the program feeling a much stronger connection to their colleagues and very willing to utilize one another as resources in work situations. Many reported that getting to know their colleagues in a different environment than the workplace, was not only enjoyable, but also very useful in building important professional relationships.

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