The IPS BUSINESS SCHOOL Trekking Challenge is all about working as a team to achieve the top spot. To do so, the team members need to establish good communication among themselves. They must effectively distribute tasks so that the contribution of each member contributes their best skills to use to reach the common goal. The teams need to achieve organizational efficiency and learn to cooperate with each other.

Resource management is another important skill to be gained from the Trekking Challenge. The students learn to work with limited resources: they are given only the basic amenities and must learn to make do with them. Each team is a mix of people with various skill sets, aptitudes, and physical fitness. In this arduous task, the team members must design a plan of action in consideration of three points: the individual skill and potential of the team members, the physical challenges imposed by the mountain, and the rules and criteria set by the program managers.

Decision-making and critical thinking are some of the other important skills honed in this experiential learning program. The outdoors are never easy on anyone. The conditions can change drastically which might call for the complete abandonment of the set strategy. Or a team member cannot perform their tasks so others have to make up for that. One must stay calm and think rationally through such high-tension circumstances. The skill of knowing when to advance, when to retreat, and when to stay put is tested and learned during this program.