Welcome to TeamWorks!
What is TeamWorks!?
Inside TeamWorks!
The Birkett Mills/Keuka College Challenge Experience is a fun-filled approach to team building. At the core of TeamWorks! are low and high ropes programs, featuring 27 different elements and a wide variety of on-the-ground activities.
TeamWorks! approaches education, communication, leadership, development, conflict resolution, and team building in an engaging, active, challenging, and fun environment.
The program places a high level of expectation within an atmosphere of support and caring.
Your group will realize a significant benefit from TeamWorks!, achieving cohesion and cooperation with surprising speed. The individual develops clearer insights and a fuller appreciation of self.
TeamWorks! can help your group:
- enhance leadership skills
- promote cooperation and teamwork,
- build trust in yourself and others,
- encourage group bonding,
- improve strength and communication of working groups,
- strengthen motivation to persist,
- enhance coping mechanisms,
- sharpen risk-taking skills, and
- move individuals beyond their self-imposed limitations and perceived willingness to try.
Programs typically range from 3 to 7 hours in length. Programs spanning more than one day may be scheduled. Facilitators tailor each program to meet the needs and objectives of the group.
Participation in a TeamWorks! Challenge Experience has been demonstrated to lead to positive outcomes for individuals and groups. Among those of significance are the following:
- Builds sense of self-esteem.
- Promotes trust and respect for others.
- Develops group unity and cohesiveness - encourages working together for a common goal.
- Down plays negative competition while encouraging competition within oneself.
- Allows conceptualization of the limitlessness of human abilities.
- Teaches handling of and benefiting from outcomes which are lower than expected.
- Builds sense of compassion for others.
- Encourages informed risk-taking in a positive manner.
- Develops problem-solving abilities.
- Commitment without certainty of results leads to healthier decision-making processes.
- Increased sense of personal confidence.
- Increased appreciation of one's own agility and physical coordination -- an important outcome for the non-athlete.
- Learn to experience and handle a wide range of emotions and feelings -- fear, anxiety, stress, fatigue, joy, excitement, anticipation, compassion, pride, pain, exhilaration, frustration, etc.
- Development of hidden leadership potential.
- Brings about a healthy sense of challenge.
- Creates feeling of pride in accomplishment.
TeamWorks! programs are available to Keuka College students, faculty and staff, classes, athletes, student clubs and organizations, non-profit and profit organizations.
For more information, or to schedule a program, contact:
Joshua Ficks, TeamWorks! Manager teamworks@mail.keuka.edu or (315) 279.5274. You can also download the necessary reservation materials here.