Team development
Is your team performing effectively?
Are you bringing together a new team, or restructuring an existing team or teams?
Getting the best out of your team is vital for your business to succeed – but when the pressure’s on, it can be hard to step back and see where the stumbling blocks are and how to overcome them and move forward.
Equine Assisted Coaching is an effective way to tackle a number of challenges faced by teams and their leaders, including:
Are you bringing together a new team, or restructuring an existing team or teams?
Getting the best out of your team is vital for your business to succeed – but when the pressure’s on, it can be hard to step back and see where the stumbling blocks are and how to overcome them and move forward.
Equine Assisted Coaching is an effective way to tackle a number of challenges faced by teams and their leaders, including:
Positive, lasting change based on objectives.
While we hope you and your team will find our Horse Sense coaching hugely enjoyable, Horse Sense is about achieving positive and lasting change within your organisation. We establish your objectives before the session and use these to structure our activities for optimum results.
Horse Sense is aligned to Kolb’s learning cycle; teams gain real experience of their issue as they play out the scenarios we set that replicate the challenges they face. We get to see their behaviours and attitudes played out and coach them in real time whilst they reflect on what has happened. Then they can try again and see immediate results and understand how the learning will improve performance back at work.
Horse Sense is aligned to Kolb’s learning cycle; teams gain real experience of their issue as they play out the scenarios we set that replicate the challenges they face. We get to see their behaviours and attitudes played out and coach them in real time whilst they reflect on what has happened. Then they can try again and see immediate results and understand how the learning will improve performance back at work.
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Faster results than traditional coachingBy observing how our horses react during the activities, how they co-operate during tasks, we get right to the heart of the matter, immediately. We don’t need to rely on what people tell us (which can sometimes be coloured, either consciously or subconsciously by insecurity or lack of confidence). The horses really do tell us all we need to know, there and then.
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More effective than traditional coaching
It may surprise you, but experience has shown us that our clients take feedback from a horse far more readily than they do from their manager or even an external facilitator! Perhaps it’s the surprise of seeing what they are really feeling mirrored by the horse’s reaction, but it makes people accept the truth far more readily than personality tests or talking.
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Equine assisted learning is transformational. It shapes people, changes them at a deep level. During a Horse Sense session, our coach will invite both individuals and the team as a whole to challenge their current reality. Working with the horses, they will see for themselves how their own actions and attitudes towards each other play out, as the horse gives them immediate feedback, through his levels of co-operation. This prompts the team to reconsider openly the beliefs and perceptions they hold about themselves and their co-workers, delivering immediate results which translate directly to a work environment.
Enhanced learning environment
Equine assisted learning not only offers the benefits of the remarkable insight horses can deliver. Horses also allow us to access an optimum learning state, a balance and co-operation between heart, mind and emotions. People with high ‘Cardiac coherence’ (as it is known), feel, think and perform better. Horses experience high levels of cardiac coherence, and just being around them has a beneficial effect, enhancing the learning process.
A Flexible Offering to Suit your Budget
Your team can take part in a ‘standalone’ session with the horses, or we can incorporate a Horse Sense equine assisted learning session with a selection of additional team development tools to create your own blended solution. These tools include on-line personality profiling assessments, distance learning, coaching for the team leader and 1 or 2 day workshops where the team shape their vision and working approach.
A big thank you to Karen, Siobhan and the team at Horse Sense for what turned out to be a valuable, insightful, exciting and highly enjoyable day. It was great to meet Bully, Brandy and Star and came away reflective and invigorated. For anyone working as part of a team, closely with clients or on any sort of collaborative project I would highly recommend checking this out. A total step away from stuffy and textbook team building exercises. This is an awesome and valuable experience.
K Watson, Watman & Worth
The Location
Our team development days are held at Berriewood Farm just a short distance from Shrewsbury and with easy access to the M54. With it’s purpose built indoor arena and integrated toilets, kitchen and training area, Berriewood offers our corporate teams a high degree of comfort and the space they need to work on their individual and collective development.
Smaller teams are invited to experience the great outdoors and a superb and peaceful setting at our smaller yard in Knowbury, just outside the historic town of Ludlow.
Our team development days are held at Berriewood Farm just a short distance from Shrewsbury and with easy access to the M54. With it’s purpose built indoor arena and integrated toilets, kitchen and training area, Berriewood offers our corporate teams a high degree of comfort and the space they need to work on their individual and collective development.
Smaller teams are invited to experience the great outdoors and a superb and peaceful setting at our smaller yard in Knowbury, just outside the historic town of Ludlow.
