Corporate Teambuilding and Corporate Leadership Programs

Set Sail to Build Leadership and Inspire Your Team!

Many years ago, corporations and associations started coming to Offshore Sailing School for “outings” to renew team energy, inspire employees to do more, and give them a break from the daily grind.

Steve and his faculty put together corporate leadershjp 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 South Seas Island Resort because of our sailing programs and combined annual meetings with half-days of corporate teambuilding activities under sail.

Two university business schools – Wharton and Emory – 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 corporate teambuilding programs in the British Virgin Islands have been eye-openers to both the graduate students and their professors.

Everyone succeeds

Then in 2008, the Center for Creative Leadership forged an agreement with Offshore to combine our corporate teambuilding concepts with the Center’s acclaimed leadership development curriculum. Companies that were considering ropes courses and Outward Bound survival programs that tend to separate the old from the young, the weak from the strong, are now turning to sailing and corporate teambuilding activities with Offshore Sailing School instead. There is no ‘‘joy in Mudville” when one of your employees is mortified by failure or fright.

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.

Click here to get a quote on your next corporate teambuilding event. 

Call 888-454-7015 to find out more.