Corporate Teambuilding and University Leadership Programs
Set Sail to Build Leadership and Inspire Your Team!
Many years ago, corporations, associations and universities started coming to Offshore Sailing School for productive programs de
signed to renew team energy, inspire employees to do more, and create leadership skills.
Steve Colgate and his faculty put together corpoate team building and university leadership programs, knowing from vast experience that sailing is the perfect platform to encourage good leadership and create teams out of divergent personalities.
Achievable results!
Offshore Sailing School’s popular Corporate Sail-Race Challenge®, one of our Corporate Teambuilding Activities, has attracted hundreds of corporations and associations over the years that understand the value of introducing an achievable activity to reach company goals and evaluate team members.
“In our industry, we need people who are bright and talented, with the ability to work well as a team. Your program helps us identify those who exhibit hard work and leadership qualities. We will definitely return next year.”
Liz Naylor – former Campus Recruiter, UBS Investment Bank
Inspiring and rewarding 
First there were 96 doctors in a week that combined our Learn to Sail course with an American Medical Association CME program. Then, the Boston Red Sox managers (who were not getting along well together) skeptically arrived for one of our day-long corporate teambuilding programs that impressed them so much, one of the managers stopped everyone he could in the airport on his way home saying, “Do you know what we just did? We went sailing!”
Dr. Pepper/Seven Up and Mannington Mills brought large groups to Florida's South Seas Island Resort because of our sailing programs and combined annual meetings with half-days of corporate teambuilding activities under sail.
MBA Leader
ship programs
Two university business schools – Wharton and Emory Goizueta Advanced Leadership Academy (GALA) – worked with Offshore Sailing School to combine and expand Corporate Sail-Race Challenge tenets into a highly successful component of their leadership programs for graduate students. These one-week leadership and teambuilding programs in the British Virgin Islands have been eye-openers to both the graduate students and their professors.
Emory is returning in 2012 for its fourth year of intense leadership development, working with Offshore's expert instructor-coaches. At least five boats will be run by Emory Goizueta students, accompanied by their own facilitators. Read the Emory Magazine cover story of Emory's 2010 GALA week at Offshore Sailing School.
Ask Steve Colgate how your group can benefit by participating in
these intense, result-driven leadership weeks.
Steve@OffshoreSailing.com – 239-985-7505 direct – 888-454-7015
No barriers! Everyone succeeds . . .
In 2008, the Center for Creative Leadership and Offshore Sailing School joined forces to combine our corporate teambuilding concepts with the Center’s acclaimed leadership development curriculum.
Companies considering ropes courses and Outward Bound survival programs that tend to separate the old from the young, the weak from the strong, realize sailing is the perfect, forgiving yet challenging platform for teambuilding and leadership activities.
Sailing presents no physical or gender limitations. It doesn’t matter if one of your team members is out of shape, or has minor physical limitations. They can sail, contribute, and be an equal part of your group’s success. Everyone shares in the achievement that comes with learning to give and take commands, working together to make a sailboat reach its maximum potential – just as they would, or should, in a corporate structure.
No sailing experience needed
And most important of all – no sailing experience is necessary! Even if your group has never set foot on a sailboat, in minutes they’ll learn the thrill of harnessing the wind. This is the ultimate of corporate teambuilding activities.
Whether you are looking for an activity to complement a successful meeting, or in-depth corporate leadership programs or teambuilding as the focus for developing your company’s next steps, Offshore’s Corporate Sail-Race Challenge® is the catalyst that brings team success in achieving your goals.
Camaraderie and goals lead to successful teamwork
When Interstate Hotels put their management and sales team through a half-day Corporate Sail-Race Challenge, as usual we asked everyone to rotate positions in each race. That meant each would have a chance to be skipper and in command. One of the women did not want to take command when her turn came around; but her male team mates cajoled her into doing it . . . and they won that race! Thanks to Offshore's leadership development program, they had become a true team – eager to help one another to get to the top, to achieve the stated goal.
Working with many companies each year, the people skills of Offshore Sailing School instructor/coaches shine in molding crew members into true teams and helping them identify leadership qualities. You just won’t find a more strategic yet FUN way to ignite the spark in your crew.
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