What drives us?

We are dedicated solely to creation, facilitation, and maintenance of highly effective teams. Whether the program takes place at your facility or ours, the programs we deliver are of the highest quality. Our staff has extensive experience in the both the academic and business world.

Our core learning principle is based on understanding that skill development and enhancement through discovery increases retention, and that practice leads to mastery.

All of our programs are experientially-based, combining traditional, interactive classroom techniques with creative challenges which capitalize on the power of metaphors, enabling participants to easily and effectively transfer what they've learned to the workplace.

Our programs are conducted in a challenging, team-oriented environment that will instill a higher level of awareness, confidence, and respect for the power of a highly effective team. With our repertoire of skills, our flexibility, and our experience we have provided extremely effective programs to a variety of corporations and businesses throughout the United States.

Some of our more popular programs include:

• The Keys to Communication
• Great Fabrications: The Great Boat Build Off
• Unity & Community Building
• Team Challenge events (relays, races, scavenger hunts)
• Conference Events including Playnote’s and Social Mixers

Why use an outside vendor for you team development programs?

All of our team building programs are experientially based, combining traditional, interactive classroom techniques with creative challenges that capitalize on the power of metaphors. This enables participants to easily and effectively transfer what they’ve learned to the work place. The truly effective facilitator - not just someone chosen because he or she happens to be handy - makes training relevant and meaningful and memorable. An ineffective facilitator - even if it is someone who has "always wanted to give it a try" - can still make the most critical issue seem unimportant to participants. Facilitation is a skill that, when mastered, maximizes training time and dollars.

Additionally, your subject matter may call for presentation and advocacy by someone who is not involved with the participants on a daily basis.

We provide you with a carefully chosen professional facilitator, ready to make your program come alive for participants. You benefit from:

• Access to our skilled facilitators
• Presence of a “third party” to deliver the subject matter
• A person who can represent the standards, values, quality, and spirit of your corporate culture.

The Petra Cliffs Center for Team Development:

In March of 2005 Petra Cliffs, Inc. was purchased by Mike & Megan Anderson (Campbell Anderson Holdings, LLC). Since then Petra Cliffs Indoor Climbing Center and Mountaineering School has grown into The Petra Cliffs Group encompassing an indoor climbing center, year round mountaineering school. Our instructor’s are WFR certified, our program heads attend and lead advanced training workshops for organizations such as ACCT, AMGA, AIARE and AEE.

About Mike Anderson: Mike holds a Bachelors’ in Recreation Administration from CSU Sacramento and a Masters’ in Education from Monmouth University. Mike is author of the Interact Curriculum, co-author to Teambuilding Puzzles and Setting the Conflict Compass, as well as a contributor to numerous other texts on adventure play including the Book on Raccoon Circles, A Teachable Moment, The More the Merrier, Affordable Portables 2 and two science based texts.

Mike's focuses much of his time on the advancement of adult teams and adult learners. Mike has presented workshops on associated topics and many others all across the USA, and internationally and has delivered pre-conference and general session workshops at many of the adventure and challenge industry's largest conferences including the Association for Challenge Course Technology, the American Camp Association, Teachers of Experiential and Adventure Methodologies, the International Alliance for Learning and the Association of Experiential Education.

Mike is the creator of many classic teambuilding exercises including the Table Web, Adventure Puzzle, Image Chips, the raccoon activity Believe it or Knot, Decomposition Line, as well as Phobia and the Web We Weave. Mike is also responsible for the adaptation of Cup Stacking to a teambuilding activity.

Mike is owner of The Petra Cliffs Group, Director of Program Development for Northern Lights Rock and Ice and Director of Training and Certification for Challenge Works.

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