We have provided leadership and team building to many companies and organizations at our new facility at the Hotel Hacienda Taboada where the tradition of quality hospitality meets leading edge experiential training and development.
Join the list of new companies that have climbed and learned with us at Santa Fe Learning Centers:
ThyssenKrupp, San Miguel de Allende
Eurogas,Eurollantas Mexico
Industrias Gill
Lego Mexico
Argo, Construcciones Industriales
Jovenes Adelante, San Miguel de Allende
Un gran programa con Galika y Argo Construcciones Industriales. Este es su segundo programa aquí en el curso de retos del Santa Fe Learning Center, Aprendizaje Vivencial. Una secuencia efectiva comienza con rompehielos, incrementar la confianza y luego desafíos de equipo en los eventos de alta. Más allá de límites personales y romper barreras ineficaces para cambiar y crecer.
A great program with Galika and Argo Construcciones Industriales. This is their second program here at Santa Fe Learning Center’s challenge course. An effective sequence begins with ice breakers, trust building and then team challenges on the high events. Over coming personal limits and breaking down ineffective barriers to change and grow.
We are coming upon our 20th anniversary in Mexico. Santa Fe Learning Centers started in 1997 in Malinalco with Terrela, Aprendizaje Vivencial and co-founder Adalberto Palma. We are very grateful for all the companies, universities, teachers, students, CEO’s, Human Resources Directors, families, moms and dads. And a special thank you to all the young people from whom we have learned so much.
For Semana Santa weekends, April 7,8,9 and 14,15,16 we are open 11am to 4pm. $100 pesos to climb. To climb the wall we need several climbers to help belay and climb. Let’s CLIMB….LOVE….LEARN….!!!
It’s been nearly 15 years since Patrick Lencioni published “Death by Meeting”. Lencioni says we need more conflict in our meetings and it is a leadership skill to identify conflict and bring it into discourse. As we become more polarized as a society, this becomes more challenging because we are not reading much about great back and forth discussions and the exploration of win win solutions. A recent article in Knowledge @ Wharton applies the idea championed by Lencioni to marketing. read more here
Here is a chart of the key ideas from a summary of Lencioni’s book.
Meeting Type
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| Daily Check-In
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5 – 10 minutes | Share daily schedules and activities.
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| Weekly Tactical
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45 – 90 minutes | Review weekly activities and metrics, and resolve tactical obstacles and issues.
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| Monthly Strategic
(or Ad Hoc Strategic)
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2 – 4 hours | Discuss, analyze, brainstorm, and decide upon critical issues affecting long-term success.
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| Quarterly Off-Site Review
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1 – 2 days |
Review strategy, industry trends, competitive landscape, key personnel, team development. |
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The idea of teaching others and then having them eventually take on the role of teacher is perhaps one of the most effective ways to insure you have a learning organization. Until I taught someone else, and listened to their questions and concerns, I didn’t really have mastery over the knowledge or technique. Hear are the basic 5 steps of reproducing yourself and insuring you support a learning organization (family or team)….
I have studied the “Course in Miracles”, I substitute in my mind different words at times to make it more “secular” as I do not consider myself strongly religious and like to keep this separate in my life so that learning is more fluid and open. In our Children as Teachers Program (“C.A.T.S.) the kids teach their parents how to use harnesses, ropes and carabiners. This strengthens relationships both in the work world as well as at home in the family.
Maria Konnikova, writer for The New Yorker recently quoted Emmy Werner as saying “perhaps most importantly, the resilient children had what psychologists call an “internal locus of control”: they believed that they, and not their circumstances, affected their achievements.” Werner has been conducting a longitudinal study on a large group of children in Hawaii and is looking into strength factors that help children “at risk” succeed despite their circumstances.
At SFLC we have been doing strength-based programing for nearly 20 years and have known that developing an internal locus of control in our participants is one of the key benefits of experiential learning approaches. It doesn’t matter if you are 6 or 60, when you express your authentic self, look inward for a reward or take a breath and ask yourself a question or apply your decision making steps to the issue at hand, you find alignment and strength abound.
We have moved our ropes course and operations to Hotel Hacienda Taboada. Our challenge course is in a beautiful spot just behind the hotel and thermal hot water pools next to the tennis courts. Lots or room for activities on the grass and of course the high events will get your adrenaline flowing. “Climb, Love, Learn” with us with an experiential program for any group, team, family or friends.
“‘Here’s what I’ve been trying to tell you. Making products is hard. But what’s really hard is making a great team that will continue to make great products.’” Jobs said the best thing he ever did as an innovator and leader was to create a great team. Go here.
Do you work together and include your children in the household chores?
Do you set goals together or plan trips that include input from everyone?
Do you sit at the table and listen to each other with empathy and attention?
Does your family explore a common vision about who you are as a family?
A family is no different than a team at work. The advantage that a family has is a history of building trust, deeper knowledge of each other and no changes in who is on the team (even as kids leave home, you can still work together).
So why don’t families work more like a team? Is the term “team” too cold or business like? Santa Fe Learning Centers has worked with many mexican companies and organizations. We have also delivered many programs to families who want to be stronger, communicate better and be more successful in their family life. At SFLC, we have found no difference in this work and only age appropriate language needs to be developed but the concepts are the same. Let’s make a test of this theory.
Stakeholder Maps
In business your stakeholder map is an important tool and often a starting point when working on change initiatives, vision statement review or new product development. What is the family equivalent? Extended family such as grandparents, schools and teachers, aunts and uncles and cousins, coaches for soccer and baseball, dance instructors and after school tutors are all part of a families stakeholder map. Who feeds the family? Where do you buy your groceries? These all sustain and support a family. Make a “family stakeholder map” with this “mindmap” technique shown above. Decide what to include by listening to each other.
Secondly, talk about who they are to each of you. Some family members are close to a grandparent, others are close to an uncle. Others may respect a teacher at school. So talk about who they are and understand each of them better.
Third, prioritize them by talking about:
How close you are to them?
Do you trust them?
Do you spend a lot of time with them?
Have they given good advice before?
If you include them would the family be stronger? more cohesive? more successful?
Use the “Influence Quadrant” map to place them in the map according to how each of you feel. This can be an individual feeling and also a family agreement on their placement. Younger children with growing verbal skills can express their feelings with pictures and short expressions. Imagine how adept at this mapping they will be later when the verbal skills increase and their ability to understand complexity increases.
We at SFLC work on these maps with families in our parent/child programs, C.A.T.S. (children as teachers) programs and whole family gatherings. With pens, markers and glue sticks this becomes a fun project that can be integrated in our innovative activity-based learning model or done at home facilitated by a family member.