Newcomer

• Understands and abides by structures, procedures and rules
• Runs individual activity taster sessions
• Runs sessions within tightly prescribed organisational procedures, in closed environments
• Takes responsibility for completing their own work to the standards required by their workplace

Session Leader

• Works with a range of client groups, mainly in one context and environment
• Leads groups in controlled environments
• Adapts programmes designed by other people, for delivery to different groups
• Responsible for own work, with some requirement for working with others
• Some understanding of and contact with the outdoor field outside their workplace, in order to share good practice.

Consolidated Practitioner

• Works in more than one context with overall responsibility for groups and/or individuals
• Leads groups in challenging situations
• Some responsibility for client liaison, needs analysis and programme and/or expedition design
• Responsibility for implementing programmes
  and/or expeditions and for carrying the can when they go wrong
  
• Some responsibility for the work of other staff (not necessarily in a management role)

Leading Practitioner

• Develops new ways of working to take advantage of/prepare for what may happen in the future
• Creates opportunities for others to get closer to their adventure threshold
• Demonstrates good judgement, based on an appreciation of the wider field of outdoor learning
• Leads other practitioners
• Decision-maker who gets things done that make a difference inside and outside their workplace
• Major role in influencing how things get done in their workplace
• Influences outside their
  workplace

Fellow

Examples of possible areas of achievement:

• Major national figure in performance and training
• Major publisher of research, books or articles
• Leader of major national programmes or expeditions
• Leader of major national innovations in outdoor learning methods
• Leader of major national project, taking personal role in driving innovation in outdoor provision and/or professional
  practice