Developing your organisation and your people through innovative outdoor programmes.

• What we Do
• Programme Design and Consultancy
• Activities
• Venues and Locations

Peak Mountain Adventures provides outdoor development events to help you develop your organisation, teams and people - whether you're in the private, public or voluntary sector.

We get your people outdoors and out of their conventional hierarchies and ways of thinking - challenging them to excel and break the boundaries of the possible.

With the right level of challenge and support from our highly experienced activity supervisors and facilitators, your people can break the patterns of thought and action than hold them back from true excellence - achieving things they never thought themselves capable of.

Outdoor development creates enjoyable, memorable and confidence-building experiences that are quite unlike run-of-the-mill "training".  It’s a fun, inclusive and, above all, effective way to develop your people and your organisation.

What's more, outdoor development reflects the complexity and challenge of the modern business environment in a way that classroom-based training cannot, presenting real problems with real consequences that require real solutions - and learning that has real relevance back at the workplace.

At PMA we don't believe in "off the shelf" packages; we'll design a unique event or programme to fit your organisation's specific objectives. Our events can support development in areas such as:

• leadership (and followership!)
• people management
• team building and development
• planning and organising tasks and projects
• change
• inclusion and diversity
• communications
• attitude to risk
• creativity and innovation
• problem solving and decision making.

At PMA we bring along a combination of tried & true and innovative approaches to outdoor development, based on our own research. These approaches help to ensure that your events-and programmes won't just be "corporate jollies" but will produce real learning, awareness and performance improvement.

Using approaches such as 360 degree feedback and self-assessment to build self-awareness, coupled with active review and feedback, we work to ensure that participants don't just have an "experience", but learn from that experience and transfer their learning back into the workplace.

A recent survey* indicated that 95% of participants found that their experience of outdoor management development was directly transferable to the workplace; 79% stated that it had resulted in increased effectiveness at work.

We also believe that learning is a process, not a one-off event, and we'll work with you and your people to create a programme that will embed job and organisational performance improvements, for example with coaching and action learning.

Our consultancy approach ensures that solutions fit your needs, rather than expecting you to fit in with ready-made solutions.

We'll meet you to establish your needs, agree objectives and an outline design before going further. We'll then maintain our consultation along the way, ensuring that you get the programme and outcomes you need, including agreeing evaluation and follow-up.

And we'll be honest with you - if we don't think that outdoor development will help your organisation, we'll let you know and provide alternative solutions if appropriate. We don't want to do it if it won't add value!

At PMA we can provide a wide range of activities to support an equally wide range of needs. These can be combined in a variety of ways to produce events and programmes of different durations, levels of challenge and complexity.

Example activities include:

• climbing
• abseiling
• low-level and high-level rope work
• canoeing and kayaking
• caving
• orienteering
• treasure hunts
• stand-alone and scenario-based problem solving
• wilderness/survival challenges
• indoor-based exercises

Unlike most outdoor development organisations, PMA isn't tied to a single location. We'll come to you! As part of our initial consultation we'll discuss your venue and location needs, then scout out suitable locations to meet those requirements. This means that you can make considerable savings on travel and subsistence, making PMA programmes more cost-effective.

*”Outdoor Management Development: Use and Evaluation”, Badger et al., Journal of European Industrial Training, 1997.