Learning to lead with horses: From animals - 10 tips

Armani suit or sweatpants, Porsche or small car, Breitling or gumball clock - all that does not interest the horse. How does the horse distinguish between appearance and being?

Identify the true core

In the course of personal development, people develop two bowls around their “true self”. The inner shell "What I fear to be" consists of the emotional world of all restrictions, prohibitions, experiences and the associated fears and reservations.

The outer shell “What I pretend to be” consists of the behaviors that are used towards others. Communication usually takes place from the outer shell depending on the situation. The horse is not impressed by these bowls, but communicates with the “real me”.

Can the horse look into our souls?

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Horses don't respond like we do act want, but they feel what is happening inside us, even if I z. B. have learned to consciously behave in a dominant way.

If the horse perceives the smallest spark of insecurity behind this "façade", it will react immediately. In the Contact I'm learning with the horses, what I've learned up to now Behavior to reflect and thus initiate changes in myself.

The horse as Spiegel

Horses help us to reflect directly on our own actions. The following exercise based on skills we provide Guide from People need. The immediate sense of achievement comes from XNUMX% presence and intuition.

"Life means not waiting for the storm to pass, but learning to dance in the rain." I don't know who this saying came from. But I made it my motto in life. I learned to dance in the rain by constantly adapting to new situations and learning.

What horses taught me

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One Vocational Training After becoming an assistant in tax and business consulting professions, she worked for many years in administration and management of payroll and financial accounting in a medium-sized company Companys, Afterwards - accompanied by a variety of training courses in management and leadership - came successful years in service management.

Today I am the managing director of Cheval Trainings because I learned the most from horses. Always familiar with them, I wanted to know what management training with horses is all about and signed up for training as a “horse coach”.

Dancing with the horses

I had a completely new experience. After the HorseDream Concept I now give these together with my management know-how in my seminars in my own company Executives further. I "dance" with horses."

If a horse follows a man without a knit or halter, without a train or pressure, without words or commands, this is an impressive statement on the subject of leadership.

Perspective change - the horse as a coach

Horse-assisted management training is based on a change of perspective. The horse becomes a trainer and holds us humans together through his behavior Spiegel before. That requires Courage, but leads to surprisingly new insights and insights.

Executives can transfer this absolutely honest horse-human communication in their companies to the interpersonal leadership.

It depends on the experience

However, it is not that Objective from horse-assisted seminars to give general explanations as to why leadership works or not. Rather, it is about your own experience.

Control is good, Trust is better! Whether in Private– or business life: trust is an important building block for success, because leadership competence is based on trust. And horses can help with that.

What can we learn from horses?

Horses are like one Spiegel for the people. They give us an honest Feedback about charisma, self-confidence and natural authority. In short: you can tell exactly whether you mean well with them. You don't let anything fool you.

Horses are from home on herd animals with a social structure, in which is determined, who leads and who follows. In the wild the Alphatier can not be determined in a dangerous situation. The safety of the herd is ensured by the trust in the reliable management.

Lead - only possible with pressure?

In encounters between man and horse, a new “mini herd” arises from the perception of the horse, in which the tour must be clarified. They follow the one who actually takes the lead. The pure claim to leadership is not automatically rewarded by “follow-up behavior”.

Horses only follow when they have confidence. You can sense very clearly whether I have a plan and clear and appear coherently. Horses are a perfect one Spiegel to reflect on one's own leadership behavior. With targeted exercises, seminar participants learn to build trust and Respect to demand.

Why is mindfulness and presence so important?

Horses are flight animals. You live and decide always in the moment. If I change my behavior, the horse reacts accordingly. Awareness plays a big role. If I don't pay enough attention to it, it immediately turns to other things.

This property makes horses honest, direct and unbiased. This experience often lacks executives due to their role.

What can man learn from the horse?

In professional life there is often no other Choice than that Executive to follow, because otherwise there will be consequences. When humans and horses meet, humans can only take on the leadership role if they offer themselves as an authentic and honest leader.

The horse does not pretend and thus becomes a trainer. When managers learn to treat their employees in the same way, this corresponds to communication eye level. The claim to leadership is not based on pressure, but on trust.

Exercise instruction: distance and proximity

The participant is together with the horse in the “Picadero” - a square with a side length of almost 11 m - and lets it run in a circle.
The horse is propelled forward with a flag.

Your own pace determines the pace of the horse. energetic steps and the use of the flag create a claim to leadership.

Respect or not?

If, after two or three laps, the participant has the impression of being respected by the horse, he can drop the flag behind him.

• Does the horse stop?
• Or is it the participant?
• Or is it halfway?

Learning to trust with horses

Now the participant hangs the leader in the halter and guides the horse in the loose loop through the square.

• Does the horse voluntarily follow?
• Does it react to human body movement?
• Does the participant communicate with the horse?

I train with horses. The reactions of the animals help to get to know each other better. Through targeted exercises, seminar participants learn how to expand their behavioral repertoire and transfer them to their own management / work.

Horse-supported training at a glance in 10 points:

1. Training of the observing power: Since horses can not speak, it is important to keep an eye on the big four-legged animals: Are they on the point? Are they unwilling? Or maybe they even fear?
2. Review of the body language: horses react to the smallest physical signals, whether someone radiates authority and serenity or is more anxious and excited.
3. Unqualified feedback: Horses do not pay attention to rank and title: Their feeadback is based on the here and now. Past performance is uninteresting.
4. Remaining images: Anyone who has once worked with a horse will not forget the key scenes so quickly.
5. Confrontation with new ones: In trainings with horses, executives can check how they react to new situations.
6. Emotional response: The exercises with the animals speak on an emotional level whose effect no one can escape.
7. Promoting a trusting charisma: horses follow the one they trust and treat them with respect. If you want to force them over, they will not succeed.
8. Individual work: The exercises with horses lead to individual insights. Everyone can discover their own resources and work on their own subject.
9. Easy Transfer: How people live horses in a social network. In many behaviors parallels can be found. Suggestions of the moderators help with the self-interpretation of the experiences
10. Recognize unconscious behavior: Trying out your own strategies, also brings unconscious behavior to the day. Thus, there are explanations for certain patterns from the workplace.

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