Corporate Sailing in Sydney Australia

Corporate sailing as it implies, involves participants from the corporate arena. These participants are usually employees and / or corporate clients.

Corporate sailing with clients can be a great alternative to corporate golf. Golf requires a certain minimum level of skill or in some cases, a registered handicap, to play at private golf clubs. At times, corporate golf can be cumbersome to organise for a large number of participants each with their own set of equipment and different tee-off times. It can also be time consuming and participants cannot interact with the entire field apart from those from the same flight.

In most instances, corporate golf would involve team and relationship building amongst both employees and corporate clients. However, more exclusive golf clubs would be reserved for the upper echelons of the corporate elite and would usually exclude any form of team building involving middle or lower management levels.

On the other hand, corporate sailing does not involve any skill on the part of the participants, who are free to mingle and build relationships, on a skippered yatch often sailing in spectacular harbour views.

Today’s competitive corporate environment means multinationals and businesses need to reinvent the way business is done. Most businesses will mention in their mission statement or the equivalent that its employees are their greatest assets. Whether they mean this or otherwise, it can remain a mystery in many organisations and many employees can be disillusioned by the messages of top management.

Sydney harbour with its natural coastlines, bays and headlands offers one of the world’s great locations for sailing activities. The temperate climate of Sydney means that it enjoys more than 240 days of sunny weather each year. Winter temperatures are mild, between 9 – 17 Celsius (or 49 – 63 Fahrenheit) and these elements offer a perfect day out on the harbour.

Therefore, it is without suprise that corporate sailing in Sydney is as normal as organising a Friday lunch with business colleagues. Many businesses and multinationals view corporate sailing as an interactive activity for team building in an open environment. This is in stark contrast to being stuck in the stereotype classroom setting.  Corporate sailing with employees also offer many parallels to those corporate values that top management strive to achieve in their people - employee development and empowerment, leadership development, corporate planning, problem-solving, building trust, co-operation and teamwork, especially among new recruits.

Therefore, many large organisations in Sydney use corporate sailing as an interactive team building activity for both employees and corporate clients. 

Most sailing clubs and yatch charter companies in Sydney offer a wide range of sailing packages which may include the following:

• Private lessons and sailing school
• Corporate sailing and team building
• International yatchmaster recreational course
• Professional sailing course
• Bareboat and skippered charter yatchs

Among the leading corporate sailing companies which offer such services include Sailcorp and Eastsail.

Corporate sailing implicitly gives a strong message to participating employees and clients alike ~ to achieve success, we need to sail towards the same goal and direction because, whether we like it or not, we are all on the same boat.

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