Lead the Endurance: The Shackleton-Based Leadership Experience That Surfaces What 360 Reviews Miss (F8)

Lead the Endurance is the Learn2 Shackleton-expedition immersive leadership program where leaders make decisions under simulated Antarctic pressure and the gaps between their self-perception and their actual behavior surface in 90 minutes. Most 360 reviews never catch these gaps. A leader can score high on “inspirational” in a review and freeze the moment her team needs her to commit to a decision with incomplete data. Lead the Endurance creates exactly that situation — five times in one day — so the gap becomes observable, correctable, and practiceable.

The program is built on the Ernest Shackleton 1914-1917 Endurance expedition, which is studied a century later because Shackleton held a team together through two years of continuous catastrophic failure and brought every one of his 27 men home alive. The program uses that historical stakes structure to put leadership teams in compressed simulated versions of the same decisions — ice closing in, supplies running short, a crew member questioning the plan, a navigational call that cannot be postponed. The leader decides. The team responds. The debrief surfaces the real pattern.

Below is what Lead the Endurance installs that classroom leadership programs cannot, the named-client outcomes including Canadian Olympic Committee preparation for Vancouver 2010, and the design principles that make this a leadership development program rather than a team-building exercise. Book a demo at the LTE product site linked below.

Typically, companies are not capable of creating leaders and efforts to “teach” leadership often fall short. Rapid leadership development requires insight and practice in actual situations. Our Lead the Endurance program has helped countless companies instill the core elements of leadership into employees, resulting in increased engagement, improved morale and bankable assets. Experience The Greatest Leadership Challenge in The History of Humankind​ – Join Sir Ernest Shackleton’s legendary expedition as the crew of the Endurance, stranded in the harshest environment on earth during this one-of-a-kind employee development program.​

A LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM DESIGNED TO DEEPLY ENGAGE LEADERS AND HIGH POTENTIAL EMPLOYEES

History comes alive in this immersive leadership challenge experience. Designed to deeply engage leaders in an exploration of their personal leadership, Lead the Endurance™ refines your leaders’ ability to recognize and share insights about leading themselves, their teams, and the organization as a whole.​

A UNIQUE TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITY TO IMPROVE LEADERSHIP

Experience the cold darkness of Antarctica first-hand, and understand the leadership required to overcome such a profound challenge as surviving the harshest climate on earth! The teams face the circumstances along with Sir Ernest Shackleton, complete with lanterns, videos, seal, and penguin meat, as part of the Endurance leadership challenge. With Learn2 and Lead the Endurance, your leaders and teams participate in ways that stretch them to think outside the box in unique situations that challenge them to learn and what it means to be a leader. Your team is called upon to lead, work together and solve unsolvable problems differently. Your employees return to your company ready to give results and make an Impact.

FEATURES OF THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE

• Best Practice Learning Design: Engaging participant-centered exercises designed to focus today’s learners. No lectures!
• Certified Program Leader(s): You receive facilitator(s) skilled in connecting the experience to your work environment
• Simulation: One of the unique and exciting features of this program is the ability for leaders to see the big picture, while learning how to properly communicate it and avoid obstacles. This interactive team challenge is a fun and insightful way for the team to test their ability to apply what they learned back at work
• Full immersion through visuals, auditory cues, and supplies. Be prepared to experience the elements as Sir Ernest Shackleton did with his team

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FULLY IMMERSIVE LEADERSHIP TRAINING THAT GIVES YOUR TEAM IMPACT AND POSITIVE ROI – BOTH NOW AND LONG-TERM

With our program, you can choose to add Impact Coaching. At Learn2, we stay with your company after the leadership challenge has been completed to track the results of your organization’s implementation of your new skill set. By tracking your investment, your leaders and team will efficiently leverage communication to solve problems and collaborate on company objectives. They will design impact statements and form triad accountability groups to hold them accountable for the results. The best part is that – your new leadership strategies can be measured as an ROI for the company, providing direct evidence of the value of learning and development training. Lead the Endurance – A Leadership and Team Experience that’s at a Whole New Level Lead the Endurance helps uncover leadership potential in your team and immediately enriches existing leadership skills such as delegation, priority creation, resource allocation, long-term thinking and the ability to see the big picture. Your team has never had a leadership development experience like this.