The Grand Teton Mountaineering venture provides an opportunity for Wharton undergraduates to enhance team leadership skills in a spectacular and challenging environment. The venture focuses on the development of key team leadership skills including working effectively as a member of a small group, demonstrating individual and mutual accountability, developing a vision, articulating it and inspiring others to achieve it, communicating complex information clearly, learning new and unfamiliar skills in a challenging environment, setting a significant team goal, making rapid decisions, giving and receiving feedback, and managing individual and team outcomes. The venture also emphasizes continuous learning through individual and group experiences, readings, evening discussions, guest speakers, a team-based service/consulting project for a local organization, and personal reflection. The core components of the leadership venture include a two-day course of mountaineering instruction conducted by world-class mountaineers and a two-day guided team summit attempt of the Grand Teton.
