Outward Bound Trust Teams and Leaders Award

Why this award?

This 5-day residential is SCQF Level 6 credit rated with 6 credit points and is recognised by Insights Scotland for those with an SQA candidate number. The Award builds on personal development of the participants and develops their understanding of how high performance teams work, how they develop, and how they can be fostered using basic Business and Psychological modelling to explain team and team member behaviours.

The Award supports learning within SQA Leadership, Higher Business Studies and Psychology and comprises of 10 units:

• Improve confidence and apply understanding of your reactions and feel increased control
• Develop skills in setting and achieving personal goals.
• Increase self-awareness and personal responsibility.
• Increase awareness of other people and utilise this to develop self and others
• Improve ability to work with other people, and foster high performance team development
• Increase concern for and awareness of the natural environment and the leave no trace principles
• Develop an action plan.
• Design and implement your own learning
• Identify your values and act on them
• Understand how effective teams work in reality

Who is it for?

The Award is designed to be suitable for senior phase S5 or S6 pupils or equivalent within workforce or youth development organisations.

What time commitment is required?

The award is completed during a five day, Monday to Friday, residential programme at our Loch Eil Centre, near Fort William

Is the award externally accredited?

The Award sits on the SCQF at level 6 with 6 credit points. 

The assessment is continuous and incorporates not just the activities but journeying, community living and formal classroom work as well.

The learning is evidenced as follows:

1. Performance evidence: the instructor completes an activity log for groups indicating what activity they have engaged in.
2. Written evidence: the candidate completes a learning journal which asks participants a series of questions guiding reflection around the use of psychological and organisational models.
3. Written evidence: the candidate writes an action plan at the conclusion of the residential course.
4. Product evidence: photographs are taken of the work which has been produced in the review room.

Performance indicators range from evidencing participation in session reviews to photographs of feedback given and received. The Teams and Leaders Award embraces every aspect of the Loch Eil experience and requires engagement throughout, and a demonstration of willingness to develop.