Andersonville Staff Ride - Andersonville National Historic Site, Andersonville, Georgia

​LOGISTICS:

​Travel:  Recommended travel days on either side of the staff ride day.

​Lodging:  Any hotel of your choosing within striking distance (2 hour drive) of Andersonville, GA.  Choose one that has a viable venue for icebreaker the evening of the arrival day, and an integration dinner the evening of the staff ride day.

Schedule:  Travel day with icebreaker in the evening, staff ride the next day with integration dinner that night.  Return travel the following day.

Group size:  Minimum 8 people per conference group; maximum of 14 people per conference group.  Maximum of 4 groups at a time.  OMNA will provide one retired senior leader either a U.S. Marine or a Firefighter to facilitate learning for each conference group.

Transportation:  Groups provide their own transportation to the site (usually a full-size charter bus with DVD capability).  Wheeled motor transportation is needed from the hotel to Andersonville (a three hour drive from Atlanta, Savannah, Tallahassee, or Montgomery - Andersonville is a long way from everywhere - recommend lodging within 2 hours of the site).  OMNA will show supporting DVDs and make presentation during the long transit.

Price and payment:  Contact OMNA for scheduling, pricing, and payment options.  

This one-day staff ride is built around the theme of "Moral Imperatives for Senior leaders."  We use Andersonville as a metaphor for the consequences of bad leadership and bad management. This happens all too often in the course of human history when leaders abandon their personal values – or perhaps value their own livelihood to be of greater import than the lives of those entrusted to their care. As good leaders and planners, how do we avoid having an “Andersonville” in our lives?​

LEARNING OUTCOMES:  Leaders leave with more questions than answers, having discussed questions such as these with their colleagues...

 Does your organization have a bias toward “accumulation” or “distribution” – toward “concentration” or “dispersion”?

 Do you have discussions with those entrusted to your care about topics such as: “Fog and Friction”, “Order and Disorder”, “Good and Evil”, “Adversity and Prosperity”, “Life and Death”?

 Are your employees anxious about the future? What are they anxious about? How do you help them through their anxiety?

 What is the difference between “Leadership” and “Management”? How are they related to “Faithfulness” and “Successfulness”, to “Education” and “Training”?