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After a couple of trips to the Wall, Mark Lucas asked Willoughby to take
a party to East Africa for a Warrior School with the Maasai. They
travelled deep into the bush over dirt tracks to stay in a remote camp.
The workshops followed much the same pattern as on the Wall,
except the experiential parts of the trip involved working with the
Maasai against the backdrop of spectacular views of Kilimanjaro and
elephants wandering through camp.
“It is quite extraordinary,” Lucas says. “Again, it is about getting people
out of their comfort zone. At night it is so dark you actually feel as if you
will never find your way back to the tent, even if it is only 100 yards
away. The smells, the sounds of the wild animals, the solitude and the
remoteness all serve to pull people out of themselves and open up.”
So successful have these courses been that they are to be integrated
into Tenon’s business model.
"It's one thing attending a leadership course in a London hotel but it’s a
totally different experience bringing our clients together to learn about
leadership on the Great Wall of China,” Tenon Chief Executive Andy
Raynor says. “As the leading advisers to entrepreneurs, we provide our
clients with challenging and alternative ideas on how they can grow
their businesses. Our clients have shown their entrepreneurial spirit by
embracing our Great Wall of China leadership course to ensure they
adopt the very best strategies to succeed. Many entrepreneurs feel
very lonely at the top of their organisations and this course provides a
perfect platform to debate those crucial issues with other like-minded
individuals. The leadership course is also an excellent team-builder for
our staff and we are planning to incorporate it into the curriculum of
the Tenon Academy, our in-house training school that teaches
employees the soft skills of business and client care.”
Sources:
Marc Lucas, Director Corporate Finance, Tenon
Andy Raynor, Chief Executive, Tenon
www.tenongroup.com
Warren Sadler, Lamb Brooks
www.lambbrooks.com
Anthony Willoughby
www.territorymapping.net
www.iwnc.com
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