Another year comes to an end and we want to offer you our thanks for taking the time to engage with us and hopefully having visited had a great experience with memories that will last a lifetime! We hope to see you all again soon. Have a great Christmas and an even better 2018! See you the other side.
Call of the Wild Ltd, are thrilled to announce they have won the Team Building Experience of the Year Award at the Conference and Incentive Travel Awards 2017 (C&IT). The judges were impressed by our Elite Team Performance work with Worcester Warriors English Premiership Rugby Team. The team were in danger of being relegated from the English Premier League to the First Division. This would have been financially disastrous.
We are pleased to announce that our innovative work on Reflective walking has been noted by The Institute of Leadership and Management’s ‘The Edge’ magazine. Managers are being advised to amble outside of their normal working environment to help solve problems.
‘Reflective walking’ sounds like the kind of New Age fad favoured by Highgate Mums in between their juice cleanse and taking little Petronella to ballet classes. But taking some time out for a meditative stroll could help you solve problems and become a better leader or manager, according to leadership training company Call of the Wild.
It is within the geographical liminal space of a leadership walk that our particular interest lies. This is the effect of the environment on the mental processes of the delegates and the facilitators alike, what Will Self would term as psycho-geography. Psycho-geography relates to the playfulness and naturally occurring impact of outdoor environments on the human ability to think and reflect. The act of walking offers the walker a “place and space” to reflect and consider the experiences that await them as leaders back in the workplace. The concept of a liminal space in this context may be therefore understood as a place where ideas and concepts of the phenomenon we call leadership are in various stages of flux and negotiation.
For the full article on Reflective Walking and Leadership Development click here
Snowy start to the day in the Brecon Beacons today. Lets hope we can get to the venue on time for the leadership course we're delivering today. Great view though!
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In the June 2012 edition of the Wales Business Insider magazine, Call of the Wild Ltd are featured. The Wales Business Insider magazine for Wales contains news, commentary on Welsh business and business life, insights into the movers and shakers together with business advice and profiles of Welsh companies.
The article focuses on how we as a management team balance the potential tensions of business, helping the community and working with old friends. Can friendship be an obstacle to running a successful business?
We are an independently-owned, limited company set up by three friends who grew up together. Geraint, Mark and Kevin are all local lads who have known each other since school. Having the same background and knowing each other since childhood means we all have the same core values which builds trust and respect within the management team.
In our opinion working with old school friends helps the business. Even in the most heated argument you can defuse the situation because you have known that person so long - for example by using nicknames from years ago. That raises a smile and can break the tension.
Read more about the article on Call of the Wild here
This is the team last week on a visit to the Penderyn Welsh Whisky Distillery. A good time was had by all and a visit we'd highly recommend
21 degrees here last week and snow this week! What next?
The "Director" magazine published in September 2011, mentioned call of the Wild alongside the Eden project in an article about corporate social responsibility. You never know how many people actually read these articles and not only read them but also resonate with them. It's therefore been interesting to gauge the response to this article. You'd think by now that it's impact would have wained but this is not the case. Only last week at an Institute of Directors Wales event in Cardiff one of the attendees came onto me and said that he'd seen this article and had remembered the name even though we had never met or done work before.
Therefore the moral of the story is never underestimate the power of print as you never know who's going to read it and who it's going to resonate with.
Here's an extract:-
"Placing corporate responsibility at the heart of your business is, of course, a brilliant way of helping local communities in these challenging times. But did you know it can also boost your books? We spoke to three companies reaping the benefits
A year after the 1981 riots in Toxteth and Brixton, the UK was suffering high unemployment and inner-city unrest. These events informed the creation of Business in the Community (BITC), a business charity dedicated to regenerating local economies. Its slogan was "healthy back streets make for healthy high streets".
"Following the riots businesses realised that what happens in the community impacts on them," says Andy Melia, CommunityMark manager at BITC. "They understood that working with communities is a sensible and responsible way to do business and that it has benefits for them as an organisation."
Mark Goyder, founder director of business-led thinktank Tomorrow's Company, believes that some of the reasons that led to the launch of BITC are resurfacing. "There is a danger of a growing divide between business and society through a lack of trust. Look at the recent riots, the vandalism of Fortnum & Mason during the spending cuts protest or Rupert Murdoch being splattered with shaving foam. It is a symbol of people saying business stinks," he says. The withdrawal of public funding from charities and community projects adds to the problem. "There is a big gap to be filled. Businesses are stepping up and saying we can make a contribution here," he adds."
For the full article on corporate social responsibility click here.
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