Move Your Team to the Next Level!
​Equine Assisted Corporate Team-Building and Leadership Development

The arena provides an opportunity for Experiential (versus Passive) Learning

What Outcomes Can My Team Expect?
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TEAM BUILDING: 
  1. Creation of a more cohesive team via teamwork exercises.
  2. Clarify and define team goals.
  3. Greater motivation to tackle work challenges as a group.
  4. Enhanced opportunity to come up with "Out of the Box" solutions to problems.
  5. Clearer communication among team members.
  6. Strategies to increase productivity in the workplace.
  7. Positive conflict-resolution skills.
  8. Increased sense of personal and team accountability.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT:
  1. Identifying and building upon individual leadership strengths.
  2. Increased sense of personal confidence leading to greater confidence in leading a team.​
  3. Enhanced communication skills.
  4. Strategies to elicit greater team cohesion, motivation, accountability and productivity.
  5. Learning ways to create a sense of meaning and purpose for the team.
  6. Opportunity to explore ways to increase employee retention and minimize staff turnover.

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A herd of horses and a team of humans. 

​What could they possibly have in common?​​
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Horse herds have a complex social dynamics that utilize teamwork, cooperation and loyalty.

A strong herd has clearly delineated roles and responsibilities, yet its members are flexible enough to step in to a different position if needed. 

In order for a herd to survive and thrive, a horse herd requires strong and consistent leadership along with predictable routines and responses. 

Horses will only follow a leader that they can trust and respect. 

The herd trusts that its leader will provide a means for survival via food, shelter and protection from predators, and sometimes, in order to protect the herd, the leader will send away a member who is undermining the survival of the others. 

Members of a horse herd communicate with each other via verbal and non verbal cues, much as humans in the workplace do. 

​Horses instinctively maintain a healthy balance between work, play and rest.

Has your boardroom become a "Bored Room?  Come spend a day out in the fresh air, and propel your team to the next level via Equine Team Building and Leadership Development.
During a corporate team-building workshop, the arena
becomes a venue for employees, managers, directors,
​and owners to discover individual strengths and challenges.
"Developing a more cohesive team" becomes more than just a catch phrase during a team-building workshop.  Accomplishing a goal with a horse requires clear communication, utilizing individual team member's strengths, and strategic teamwork.  
Activities are specifically designed around the goals of your company. Team members learn ways to accomplish goals and solve problems with the horses, which easily translates to the workplace.
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This team had to develop a clear strategy with small attainable goals in order to get the horse to go through the course.  When they encountered problems, they worked together to come up with out of the box solutions.