NEWTON, Kansas, Aug. 21, 2007 -- Trust, communication and leadership are traits we all need on the job. One Newton group says it can help you find it with a little trip outdoors.

The "flying squirrel" is a pretty neat contraption -- you attach yourself to a cable and your "teammates" run away from you pulling a rope that flings you into the air.

We met up with some students from Kansas State that have been hired as residence hall supervisors. They spent a day flying, tossing and ultimately "trusting" at an adventure course with Prairie View in Netwon.

So how can flying from a cable help these co-workers back at K-state, or any other employee back at the office?

"We're all going to have to work together during the school year," said participant Lauren Richardson. "This just helped us get on the same level and kind of figure out how everyone works and how to work together the best way."

Jamie Remsberg is a counselor at Prairie View. "Groups come. They have goals in mind and we create an environment where learning can take place. And we try to mirror that progress through goal-monitoring partners and group goals as well as individual goals."

Each activity at Prairie View forces the individuals of the group to depend on each other. They need to work as a team to accomplish their physical tasks. After each team building activity, the group gets together and they discuss what they learned, how they had to depend upon each other and trust each other.

Employee communication can affect the profitability of a company. In many businesses, employees have very little direct, face to face interaction any more. They communicate by computer or phone.

The camp helps participants "work as a team, trust each other, communicate in order to find success in either the task or the process."

The adventure course at Prairie View brings back the human element. It stimulates good communication and team work. The objective is to improve a business' bottom line through activities that will arm employees with the tools to be more effective.

The cost of the course is dependent upon the involvement of the facilitator. A business or non-profit entity could spend a few hundred dollars for a half-day course -- on up to a few thousand dollars if they requested multiple days of training and follow-up.

Who says that positive interaction and learning can't be fun?