Overview

The purpose of the Team Success_tm Specialty is to guide a team of 2-8 people through a multi-faceted challenge that engage the mind and the body. Each challenge typically takes 4 dives, including a debriefing session before and after each.

Focusing on the group process, teams progress through a series of creative problem-solving challenges that require intensive teamwork.  The Team Success_tm specialty emphasizes creative problem solving and teamwork across a variety of underwater challenges, which bring new insights at the individual and team levels. Emphasizing group process, the instructors lead a discussion after each dive so that the team can recognize its strengths and seize immediate opportunities to improve.

The goal is to:

·         Recognize the team's characteristics.

·         Determine and identify the task skills and process skills needed to achieve the challenge.

·         Begin developing the highest-priority process skills by exploring new ways of working together.

·         Develop team problem-solving abilities plus strategies for continuous improvement.

Advanced Open Water certification from any training agency, and Search and Recovery specialty certification from any training agency.  (Diver’s participating in Team Success_tm MUST BE certified in these two courses.)  Peak Performance Buoyancy specialty certification from any training agency, Nitrox (Enriched Air) specialty certification from any training agency and Underwater Navigator specialty certification from any training agency is highly recommended.  The Teaching status PADI Instructor is to ensure that the individual has the appropriate certification.