Description
Bushsports provides orienteering, leadership and navigation skills training courses using Maps and compasses as well as GPS coordinates. Designed and facilitated to get you or your staff on or off track with the ability to search and retrieve remote and wild locations.
Including team building activities, corporate training to overcome challenges and outdoor adventure skill development.
Get your staff bearings and team bushwalking in or around Sydney, Blue Mountains, Southern Highlands, Central Coast. Navigation and Orienteering in the Gold Coast on private properties or around the Hunter Valley.
As Paddy Pallin exclaimed navigation is uncertain at times, “but never truly lost!”
Navigation and Orienteering Activities area ideal for improving teamwork and staff connection:
We cover all the basics of orienteering and navigation + provide excellent activities to practice your map reading and compass skills. 
- skills developed using maps and compass
- reading topographic maps; legends, scales from 1:1 to 1:25,000 scale bushwalking maps
- GPS Global Positioning Systems; understanding the longitide and latitude coordinates
- overcoming reliance on GPS positioning tools
- bonding a new team
- developing and improving teamwork
- providing problem solving teamwork outdoor adventure activities
- complete individual navigation skills
- work through team initiatives
- strengthen communication skills
- find your strategic direction
- improve decision making skills
- leadership development
Teams learn hands on ‘experientially’, the skills of orienteering and navigation by maps, features, topography, geography, compass bearings, navigation by sun, iPhones and GPS systems.
Orienteering or Navigation Skills Staff Training for Strategic Direction coupled with Decision Making and Problem Solving
Ever wonder why people have different perspectives and the most explicit directional instructions still have people getting lost? Bushsports Orienteering activities will reinforce your teams focus.
Team Building Orienteering & navigation skills are learnt and practiced before teams set off to locate checkpoint markers set in a bushland, city or urban setting.
Secure marker information, locating checkpoint markers, planning distance and terrain over time.
Accomplish a fun team development challenge with outdoor activities.
Teams intersect to complete teamwork scenarios with facilitators.
Mix n Match desired activities
- negotiating electric fence
- avoid hazards
- clearing through spiders web initiative activities,
- problem solving puzzles
- overcoming obstacles
- bushwalking to selected navigation and checkpoint route markers.
Never GET LOST Bushsports Provide you and your Staff the best fun Orienteering and Bushwalking Navigation Courses
- Skilled staff trainers and Facilitators who teach you the fundamnetal skills of navigation with and without devices
- Maps from 1:7,000, 1:10,000, 1:25,000, 1:50,000 scales
- Compasses Silva
- GPS devices and smart Phones
- Great team building fun to bond the team
- Accomplishment of learning life-long navigational and survival skills
- Unique shared team experiences in bushland or urban settings around Sydney or The Gold Coast.
Navigation Course Team Building Skills Training Outcomes
- Planning systems
- Map Reading skills
- Legends & Scale
- Map & Grid References
- Latitude & Longitude
- Contour Lines & Interval
- Map Orientation
- Feature based route planning
- Landform Identification & Topography
- Time Management
- True, Magnetic & Grid North
- Bearings & Back Bearings
- Compass work
- Basic Navigation by Sun and GPS
- Geo Caching
- Search and Rescue navigation Scenarios using orienteering skills.
Orienteering exercises are taught and practiced before teams set off to locate checkpoint markers set in a bush-land or urban setting. Securing marker information in a sequence of time over distance and terrain.
Teams intersect to complete teamwork scenarios, i.e. negotiating a spiders web, problem solving a puzzle, linking support to overcoming obstacles. Scenarios are integrated to develop and build team spirit, communication, trust, project planning and time management.
Succeed in fun orienteering activity challenges in a location to suit your team.
- Develop teambuilding and problem solving skills
- Coordinating teams with clear Communication & Cooperation strategies
- Leadership Training and leadership Skill development
- Project & Time Management
- Strategic Planning
- Shared team experience, Building team spirit.
- Strengthening inter-personal relationships
Bushsports SOS Search and Rescue scenarios challenge, train and develop teamwork with navigation skills, staff problem solving ability, strategic planning, collaboration and leadership skills
Encouraging trust and improving communication within teams. We challenge your group to perform under pressure!
Fully facilitated, briefed and debriefed scenarios – aligned to your companies strategy.
Unfold an exciting team building quest in which you build cooperation and communication literally.
Process: Initially learning the art of navigation hands on, team members apply their skills immediately.
Completing approximately 5-6km of on & off track walking in bushland areas.
Rebuilding a communications tower through the unscrambling of messages and retrieval of lost equipment.
Participants are briefed on map reading techniques, they are then given several sample exercises in a controlled environment in which to practice orienteering skills.
HELICOPTER RESCUE / PLANE RESCUE / PARAGLIDER RESCUE / CLIFF RESCUE OR RETRIEVE Cached Components to Build a Communication Tower
Communication components have been lost on a airlift mission to the rendezvous site.
The hold cargo net frayed spilling vital items landing scattered in a 5km radius. The helicopter navigator has noted estimate map positions. Your teambuilding mission is to recover all necessary components and rebuild a communication tower within the time frame provided. Utilise orienteering and navigation skills to accomplish the team building mission urgently.
Other scenarios are modified according timing, terrain, abilities and team building requirements of the group.
What will you learn?
Techniques of using maps and compasses with four examples:
- how to orient a map to the 3 Norths; True North, Magnetic North and Grid North
- plot an orienteering or bush navigation course
- how to walk that course using compass bearings
- determine your specific location referencing grid map via triangulation and terrain elevation.
BUSHSPORTS Navigates your next Staff Team Training Day; Call m 0459 1111 29
