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Training Solutions

With more than 25 years of business and management experience, GCTS offers a wide variety of services which focuses on effective training in both traditional and non-traditional settings.  Regardless of your training needs, all keynote addresses, workshops, and seminars can be done on your site.  Groups who are from the Baltimore/Washington area or who can travel, have the option of training on pre-chosen activity specific adventure locations.
 

Training  Programs Available Corporate Training Camp, Youth, Retreat Center Services Team Building Adventure Activities

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Corporate Training  
Whether you are implementing new programs or refreshing old ones, it is extremely effective to train staff through the use of creative information sharing.  In addition to custom workshops and specialized training, you may want to consider introducing interactive learning as a part of special functions.  GCTS will help you create staff trainings, interpret new programs, facilitate team building, build trust, design orientations, and achieve staff goals.
 

For training done in traditional settings, you can choose a topic or topics from a list of pre-designed workshops or you can request one of your own.  If the subject on which matter you need training on does not appear in the list, simply contact me to discuss custom workshops.   

If you have the ability to travel and you would like your training done using a ropes and initiatives course, or you want an adventure activity to be included, please contact me for off-site training options.  It is very common for corporations to want half-day workshop/half-day adventure, or half-day team building/half-day keynote with breakout sessions. 

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Camp, Youth, Retreat Center Services-

Defining Your Organization
With more than 30 years in the camping business as a camper, counselor, specialist, director, section board member, National Board Member, and consultant, Greg will help you to define the essential elements in your camp program or retreat center.  Each aspect will be discussed and evaluated to determine whether they support the organization’s mission.  Every program has the opportunity to design what it offers based on geographic location, natural resources, size, client expectations, and staffing.  Since each facility is unique, every effort should be made to capitalize on the specific elements which make up its core curriculum.  This service is beneficial to programs that are expanding, just starting, or going through change.  

Staff Orientation Pre-Camp
Each year, camp leaders agonize over the difficulties of presenting a thorough pre-camp orientation (some call it staff training).  A quality orientation incorporates all the elements necessary to get camp up and running on day one. This includes everything from learning traditional procedures, to cabin assignments, to staff bonding.  Greg’s interactive training techniques are insightful, practical, and effective.  You can choose to have him come for one day or multiple days depending on your training needs.  While there, he will work with your staff on a variety of specific topics (insert workshop page here) from general procedures to skill development.

During the Season Staff Trainings
Many camps want staff trainings to be conducted after camp begins.  This innovative thinking is extremely effective for a lot of programs who need reminders one or two weeks into the season.  After the kids arrive is when the real staff training begins so it is often more beneficial for staff to work on counselor or youth development skills (insert workshop training list here) after they have some basis for comparison.   For increased application of the staff’s ability to demonstrate skills learned on pre-camp orientation to everyday use, many camps combine Greg’s orientation visit with additional scheduled workshops in late June or early July.

Counselor-in-Training/Leaders in Training
If you have campers who are too old to be regular campers but do not have the qualifications to be regular staff, you may want to consider creating or revamping a leadership development program.  This program provides a critical link between campers and staff by allowing young people the opportunity to develop the necessary skills required for position advancement.  If you are interested in this type of program, GCTS can help you with goals, staffing requirements, curriculum development, program implementation, or evaluation. 

Programming
In addition to determining core activities, successful camps and retreat centers have pre-planned activities for special occasions like rainy days, days which are too hot, special event days, ceremonies, assemblies, transition times, meals, nights off, overnights, etc.  Greg will help you to determine which activities are applicable to your situation and how they should be implemented.  These discussions are wonderful for middle management, program directors, or off-season supervisor meetings.

Accreditation
Are you about to go through the American Camp Association (ACA) accreditation process or are you thinking about becoming accredited? Greg is a current standards visitor and former camp director who has been through the process more than 40 times.  He will help you develop written documentation, conduct a site inspection, or organize general information.  Successful visits require a lot of written documentation which address specific questions as outlined in the standards. To become accredited, your camp must meet ACA eligibility requirements and go through the 5-step visit preparation process.  Please allow at least four months to complete this process.

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Team Building
Greg is a skilled facilitator with more than 25 years of team building experience.  During that time he has worked with groups as small as eight and as large as three hundred.  Effective team building requires participants go through a progression of skills which are modified in accordance to group size, age, ability, and goals. Workshops are normally a half-day, full day, or multiple days, depending on the organization’s needs. Quality team building produces amazing results and can be used by itself or in conjunction with other training models.  Many organizations request a portable team building option, which can be done on or in your facility.  If you have the ability to travel or you are based in the Washington DC/Baltimore area you can opt for conducting your team building on a local ropes course.

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Adventure Activities
To Book a Trip Through GCTS
Greg is a registered raft guide with 30 years of training and trip leading experience.  While on the river he goes by the nickname of “Moose.” If you are interested in going on a trip and you want Moose as a guide, email GCTS as soon as you know your trip dates so we can discuss river options.  You can choose flat water or whitewater trips with rapids ranging anywhere from Class I (the easiest) to Class V (the hardest).

Whitewater or Flat Water Guide Training
If you are an outfitter, camp, or organization who runs flat or moving water trips, proper guide training is an essential part of quality organizational development. . Because all companies are different in scope and purpose, each training Greg “Moose” conducts will require some custom elements mixed with some fundamental essentials. The time required for skill development will vary with the staff’s experience and the chosen body of water.  Organizations must have everything required to successfully run the trips prior to my arrival.  Universal to all trainings will be: safety, client
interaction, proper care of equipment, terminology, understanding the resource, skills, and information specific to your location.  

Backpacking/ Camping
Greg is an Outdoor Living Skills Instructor and former Wilderness Instructor who has been teaching camping and hiking fundamentals for more than 30 years.  As an avid hiker, he has been on the Long Trail, the Santa Fe Trail, and completed over 1,800 miles on the Appalachian Trail. In addition to learning best practices, you will be given information on “how to” for every phase of your experience.  If your organization wants to turn this training into a day long interactive learning experience, you can choose a self-guided discovery option which will maximize participant skill retention.

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