Corporate Team Building
Horse training without riding a horse?
There is nothing like a 1200 pound teacher to tell you when you're getting it wrong! Equine programs have helped hundreds of corporations across Europe and North America in their goals of creating leaders and building successful teams. Corporate team building, using the values and experiences of equine assisted learning, has been making waves across the country as being one of the finest ways of fully engaging your employees and making a lasting impact on your entire business!
Our Approach
The science behind equine assisted learning is that horses are naturally intuitive, responsive, prey animals. Horses respond to strong, assertive and focused leadership. Now you may think that you have strong assertive and focused leaders in your sales force, but how many of them are from a place of authenticity? Brash and bold, does not get a horse to move forward. Calm and affirming will get a horse to race!
Our equine programs for corporate team building are designed to teach your team to, well, act like a horse! We want to help you establish a loyal, trusting herd with a powerful, trustworthy leader.
Horses can often be seen as stubborn and immoveable, much like human beings when forced with pushy sales people or weak leadership. Someone can be going through the motions of leadership and yet we instinctively do not respond to them because "something does not feel right". If we can feel it, the horses can feel it even sooner, and using equine assisted learning as a form of training has proven to be far more effective than the tomes of motivational books of learning in the classroom.
The Value of a Horse
The value of horses and how they interact with us cannot be underestimated as a form of learning and we can learn so much from the world around us. Horses pick up on internal levels of frustration and aggression, and they will not respond to it. If you are looking to improve the efficiency and the sales productivity of your team, then corporate team building through equine assisted activities is the most effective way.
With trained facilitators who are able to pick up on the key teaching points that are communicated by the horse, you will be able to learn about how you respond to different situations in your business dealings. Just from a physical perspective, horses are able to pick up on whether or not your stance could be perceived as aggressive, passive and weak, or passive and strong. You may not mean it, or feel particularly aggressive, but you can be sure that people are reading your non-verbal and subconscious communitarian. You may not feel you are projecting weakness, but your team has picked upon those non-verbal cues long ago.
Removing blocks such as these can free up your sales technique and allow you to perform on a more intuitive level than ever before. Much like horses, we look for strong leadership and mutual trust and respect is only given and reciprocated once there is a strong leader to follow. Using equine assisted learning as a corporate team building tool can give your business leaders the chance to learn how to be an authentic leader; a leader that people will follow and trust.
