Taos Pueblo Staff Ride - Taos and Taos Pueblo, New Mexico 

​LOGISTICS:

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

​Lodging:  Sagebrush Inn and Suites.

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 various stands in and around Taos.  Wheeled motor transportation is needed from the hotel to each site (15 passenger vans recommended).  We'll walk about a mile in downtown Taos to various stands, and about a half mile during a guided tour of Taos Pueblo, and another half mile at the Rio Grande Gorge bridge.  

Price and payment:  Contact OMNA for scheduling, pricing, and payment options.  For groups looking for more high adventure team-building options in the area; we can offer optional day hikes to the summit of Wheeler Peak or skiing at Angel Fire, or other options in Carson National Forest or at nearby Philmont.

The history of the North American Southwest is one of developing cultures, religion, agriculture, trade, and continuous conflict.  We will be looking at one incident within an incident that occurred in the winter and spring of 1847.  However it was only one of a long litany of violent cultural conflicts affecting the people of this region, and echoes of this incident, and others, reverberate to this day.  Since pre-Columbian time (and even further into the reaches of history) the American Southwest has been the home to many diverse and unique peoples.  They lived in proximity, but maintained their own culture, languages, religions, and economic livelihoods.  Our overall theme is: "Complexity of Command in Different Realms - 1540 to 2040."

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

• When a problem becomes a crisis, and order descends to disorder, what can the senior leader do to regain the initiative?  We’re all surprised sometimes, what can the leader do to assist in restoration of normalcy?

• What do you do if you don’t know what to do?  How do you start to develop a strategy and vision during an emerging crisis? 

• As a senior leader, where is your personal focus?  Where do you position yourself to guide and direct the accomplishment of your vision? 

• The best teams in the world can produce amazing results, tactically.  But does that win the fight?  Have you ever “won the battle, but lost the war”?  What did you learn?