Team Success Program Syllabus

Objective

The purpose of the “Team Success” 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 briefing session before and debriefing after each dive.

Overview

The Focus is on the group process, dive teams progress through a series of creative problem-solving challenges that require intensive teamwork.  The “Team Success” 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.

Goals

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. 

Prerequisites

Prerequisite certification(s): PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or another training agency’s equivalent certification, the PADI Underwater Navigator specialty or another training agency’s equivalent certification and PADI Search and Recovery Diver or another training agency’s equivalent certification.  (Diver’s participating in Team Success MUST BE certified in these three courses.)  Peak Performance Buoyancy or another training agency’s equivalent certification is highly recommended.  The Teaching status PADI Instructor is to ensure that the individual has the appropriate certification.

Minimum age requirement: 15 years.  Student-to-instructor ratio: 8:1.  Dive data - four scuba dives - recommended depth for open water training is 25 feet to 70 feet.