Custom Designed Solutions - All of our work is custom designed to meet your goals. We have no packages to sell you. We first sit down and listen to your needs. Then we partner with you to create solutions to get you on the way. Here is a list of the territory of our work (an * indicates only available in North Carolina):

6 Types of Training Solutions

Long Term Engagements - A Process, not an Event

Coaching and Leadership Conversations^©

Challenge Courses*

Off Site (Indoor or Outdoor) Sessions

Adventure Hunt (urban orienteering)*

Giving Back to the Community Teambuilding Experiences

Large Group Interactive Team Building Sessions (100 to 1000+ participants)

Assessments: DiSC and SDI

Diversity Awareness

Strategic Planning

Motivational/Keynote Speaking

Party with a Purpose

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Long Term Engagements - A Process, not an Event - At Competitive Edge, we believe that Cultivating High Performance is a process, not an event. We see higher return on investment when we can partner with an organization over a period of time as opposed to a single day event. High team performance and sustainable change do not happen overnight. Through listening and assessing where your team is, we can partner with your team and help design a plan that can lead to the goals you set.  Contact us about opportunities to partner with your organization.

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 Off Site Learning Experiences - A majority of our programs are delivered in an indoor setting (classrooms, conference centers, office complexes, etc.). Others are outside. We custom design all programs in a way that allows us to offer them anywhere you want (we will travel with you to Hawaii!).  Our off-site programs are just as challenging, creative and fun as our challenge courses. They provide a powerful option to get the results you want.

Challenge Course/Ropes Course Experiences - We offer custom programs at our Mint Hill challenge course near Charlotte, North Carolina. Our programs are designed to invite participants to learn valuable team principles through active participation in problem solving and trust building exercises. We are members of the Association for Challenge Course Technology, and often receive requests to bring our expertise to other challenge courses.

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Adventure Hunt in downtown Charlotte, NC -  A unique urban  program that challenges participants to work together to solve problems and communicate effectively in order to navigate a course throughout the city. The current programs have been designed for Charlotte, NC, but Adventure Hunt can be designed to fit any city.  

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Giving Back to the Community - The Playground or Bike Building programs are a great addition to any Team Development process or event. They offer a unique challenge for team members to work together to complete a highly complex, yet fun, task. Communication, planning, execution, time management, coaching, and leadership all come into play in this exercise.  The added bonus of the Playground or Bike Building programs is the community service it provides, since the team donates the completed bikes to a charity or non-profit organization of their choice.

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Large Group Facilitation / Keynote . We bring the energy, creativity, and intimacy of our smaller programs to our work with large groups of 100 to 800+ people. The more the merrier - come to us with your needs and we will partner with you to design and deliver an experience participants will be talking about for years to come.

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Assessments- Developing effective, authentic relationships with others begins with a clearer understanding of one's self. Self-awareness, understanding the real you, is key to building relationships.  There are several inventories out on the market that provide tools for self-discovery - Meyers-Briggs, Firo-B, The Big Five, Herman-Brain Dominance Inventory, DiSC, The Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI), are a few of the options.  Though, all of these instruments have their strengths, we most often use and recommend DiSC and SDI . (back to the top)

DiSC^®

○The DiSC^® model provides non-judgmental language for exploring behavioral issues

across four primary dimensions: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness. Detailed, personalized information helps people apply DiSC® learning to specific business situations, including sales, leadership development, customer service, and conflict resolution. For more information clear here. For 4 Square DiSC Model click here.

SDI^® (Strength Deployment Inventory)

○The SDI^® provides participants with a greater understanding of the motivations behind

behaviors, which helps build more effective relationships. Because people remember

and identify with the results, they can easily integrate their insights into their lives and improve their relationships. For more information clear here.

Coaching and Leadership Conversations^© - Coaching people one-on-one or facilitating Leadership Conversations in small groups is a powerful and integral part of our approach in helping individuals and teams perform. Our coaches care and create dynamic relationships with their clients - relationships that foster growth and achieve results. The coaches usually meet with their clients for two 1 hour sessions per month either on the phone or in person. As organizations grow and tasks get more complex, effective leadership is even more important. We offer many tools and ways to increase the emotional intelligence of any type of leader on their journey towards ever increasing excellence.

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Hot Air Ballooning - New ideas literally take off everyday with us, so we incorporated Charles' passion for ballooning with John's passion for team building and came up with tethered team ballooning. Call us for details.

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Motivational/Keynote Speaking - We don't do this, strictly speaking. Instead of us talking and groups listening, we design interactive conversations for groups to learn from each other. Or we get them up and playing which sets them up to learn. Either way, we find this strategy far more effective and engaging!

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Diversity Awareness - Diversity is such a huge topic. We believe that it

is more than skin deep. It is more than quotas. The more aware an

organization is, the more powerful it can be. We raise awareness by

inviting people to be vulnerable and share their rich stories. Once greater

awareness is created, then everyone has the opportunity to see with a new

perspective and begin building more access, inclusion, and equity in the

workplace.

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Strategic Planning - How do you get to where you want to go without knowing or having a clear image of what that is up front? Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. There are many processes to achieve this. We sit down with you first and seek to understand who you are, and then we design a process and help facilitate your organization's strategic development.

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Party with a Purpose - Tired of bowling, company Christmas parties, or parties with no energy at all, then come out and celebrate anything you want with us. We will custom design a high energy, fun get together which will not be forgotten!