Graduate Development

Fasttrack your graduates' abilities to adapt to the workplace, be a collaborative and valuable team member and develop their leadership potential.

An Outward Bound graduate development program fast-tracks your graduates to deliver the outcomes your organisation values. They will become ‘work-ready’ faster, developing the capabilities you want to see in your emerging talent, and:

  • Equip graduates with the right attitudes, behaviours and values from the outset, meaning you can spend less time managing your young talent
  • Improve retention – you’ll have a committed and engaged cohort, who understands your values
  • Improve cross disciplinary/department communications – new recruits develop strong connections, providing a business-wide support network to assist with interdepartmental collaborations.
  • Make significant cost savings – by investing in the candidates who have accurate expectations of their progression
  • See improvements in productivity – your graduates will become economically productive at a much faster rate.

An Outward Bound graduate development program, builds these core elements:

  • Adaptability and resilience
  • Communication skills
  • Lateral and critical thinking capabilities
  • Adaptive management
  • Compassion
  • Teamwork, and
  • Connectivity to community and self

Core Outcomes of Outward Bound Programs

The recently released Outward Bound International Global Impact Report 2020 revealed the centralizing theme of CONNECTIONS across all regions and 5 CORE OUTCOMES of Outward Bound programs consistent across the worldwide network of Schools. Connections to:

  1. Self
    • Resilience
    • Confidence
  2. Others
    • Compassion
    • Social Competence
  3. The Natural World
    • Environmental Responsibility
Why Adventure Learning for a Graduate Development Program?

Like all Outward Bound adventure learning courses it’s the real-life scenarios with real-life consequences that enables personal development. It’s really hard to teach a concept. People relate to:

  1. People
  2. Objects
  3. Concepts, in that order.

Experiential learning demonstrates concepts and the behaviours associated with them. It enables people to understand concepts better and allows people to make the connections at a neural level.

How do you teach compassion, i.e. having empathy and being motivated to show it? At Outward Bound we create scenarios where showing compassion is essential to gain the desired group outcome. We then transfer this back to real-life work situations. It’s this transfer of learning that makes an Outward Bound graduate development program so powerful.

Read what our corporate partners say about our professional development courses and more about experiential learning for your graduate program.

Outward Bound UK have been delivering successful graduate programs for decades. They partner with aerospace, energy, nuclear, transport and finance organisations.

Read about Outward Bound graduate program success stories at Outward Bound UK case studies.

People
Adventure Learning
Providing access to real-life scenarios with real-life consequences will enable personal development opportunities, improved communication techniques and goal setting. With a greater understanding of those around us, great things are possible.
Objects
Scenario Setting
At Outward Bound we create scenarios where showing compassion is essential to gain the desired group outcome. We then transfer this back to real-life work situations. It’s this transfer of learning that makes our Graduate program so powerful.
Concepts
Motivation to Succeed
The unique blend of theoretical, experiential and real-life scenario teachings demonstrates concepts and the behaviours associated with them. It enables people to understand concepts better and allows people to make the connections at a neural level.
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