Philosophy
Our Simple Business Philosophy
“Tell me, and I will forget.
Show me, and I may remember.
Involve me, and I will understand.” – Confucius
For our team building, leadership and management development programmes the “Involve me and I will understand‘ principle is the one we follow. All our courses are designed to offer hands-on experience by doing and not just listening, using a metaphoric approach to explore particular aspects of team building and management training.
Call of the Wild’s objective is to create powerful learning experiences to bridge the gap between high potential and high performance for your teams and individuals. We seek to unlock that latent potential to allow people to achieve and sustain high performance.
Our Approach
We adopt a holistic approach that balances physical, intellectual and emotional aspects of personal development. This is characterised by the use of a wide variety of physical, creative, intellectual and reflective activities. This holistic approach allows us to offer inclusive programmes so everyone gets involved and no individual is excluded.
Experiential Learning
The Call of the Wild approach to all training and development has its origins in Kolb’s learning cycle. We believe that this action based approach, through experiential learning programmes, is the most productive in terms of retention of learning. Our programmes can contain a mix of classroom based sessions and outdoor practical based challenges to develop theory and highlight desired competencies such as communicating, motivation and empowering. Our programmes are designed so as to have relevance to the workplace with these key lessons being drawn out by skillful review, reflection and facilitation. From this review comes participant driven self-learning. The underlying objective is for this learning to be taken back to the wrokplace for a real return on your investment.
Blended Learning
Call of the Wild is firmly committed to the concept of blended learning. We believe that this approach truly offers our clients the best of both worlds; we are currently delivering a graduate leadership development programme for Barclays Finance using this method, the programme consists of 6 main elements;
- Pre and post course visits
- Online development academy
- Experiential learning
- Team profiling
- Coaching
- Action Learning
Using this methodology means that time away from the business is reduced to a minimum, as delegates are able to work through a body of leadership and team theory, before the experiential phase. They are therefore are able to work with the facilitation team to maximise and consolidate any learning via group discussion, action learning sets and experiential learning.
Call of the Wild’s unique online development resource the Call of the Wild development academy is fundamental to our blended learning approach. This exciting new product sits alongside our core leadership and team development services and offers a blended learning solution, which aims to maximise the benefit of our programmes by supplementing our facilitator-led developmental inputs.
We encourage clients to think of the academy as a body of knowledge, a motivation to explore management, an advice and help centre, a monthly magazine, an intelligent dictionary, a reference tool, a set of challenging thoughts and ideas, a set of guided and unguided learning opportunities, a reward system, and a community for learning about management.
Blended learning is an attempt to combine the claimed strengths of e learning and the human facilitator and overcome the weaknesses of both
Accreditation
We can accredit qualifications using our web enabled e-learning facility where you can obtain a Foundation Degree in Leadership from Staffordshire University. Alternatively as an ILM Accredited Centre we can design and deliver ILM level 3 to level 7 awards and certificates in leadership
Delivering Outstanding Return on Investment
We believe that through cost effective management development training we can facilitate long lasting behavioural change in the workplace. This is the only way of delivering a measurable return on your investment. We can offer a number of tools and services to meet individual client needs. Your organisation wants the experience to deliver lasting results in the workplace not a temporary solution.
