Equestrian Team Building: Corporate Events On Horseback

One quite successful approach to raise output is team building. Under a horse-facilitated experience, the team has special chances to collaborate and gain knowledge on successful interpersonal communication. Herd animals, horses are naturally inclined towards seeing hierarchy and leadership. For participants, they offer quick, precise physical feedback on their interactions with one another.

1. Communication Skills

Horse-based team development activities foster leadership, unity, and open communication. This is not how corporate training is often done—that is, not how the typical ropes course or wordy motivational speaker does. The innate nature of horses makes them natural leaders and interpersonal skill teachers. They can enable you to identify your own areas of strength and the behaviours stifling your development. Working with horses, for instance, teaches you how to shift your weight and how to use nonverbal body language. This helps you to respect others and yourself as well as to be proactive in work. a fundamental business ability! It also teaches you to grow in trust.

2. Problem Solving

By using horses' innate curiosity, we can assist groups to remove obstacles in the way of efficient communication and teamwork. Our courses employ light-hearted exercises to foster interpersonal problem-solving abilities that would find application in the workplace. Horses are naturally inclined towards understanding hierarchy and most crucially a qualified leader for their own survival. Therefore, depending on the person's behaviour, feelings, and body language, they give quick and honest physical response. Through self awareness, emotional intelligence, and problem-solving techniques, this helps teams learn to own their actions and offers chances for developing their leaders. TBWH provides a range of team and leadership development initiatives that you could specifically create to fit the requirements of your business.

3. Teamwork

Regarding riding horses, cooperation is quite important. It takes a team to accomplish it well whether your riding for a trophy in a competition or collaborating to prepare the barn shipshape before a clinician visits. Horses are sociable creatures that, like people, depend on group efforts for survival. They are also quite sympathetic and answer nonverbal signals. Equine Facilitated Learning lets professional groups grow in a variety of leadership, emotional intelligence, and teamwork abilities fit for the workplace. These exciting and interesting pursuits do not call for any knowledge of riding horses.

4. Decision Making

Working with horses challenges teams to consider their collective communication and thinking process. Together, they will finish a set of team-oriented projects teaching good communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills by learning to interpret the body language of the horse. Teams that reach their objectives get energised and motivated to keep on their onwards march. Being around individuals who are driven and dedicated to achievement is contagious, much as it is for athletes whose friends support them. Additionally motivating cooperation and teamwork in the workplace are these positive attitudes. More productive teams are thus the result. This is a tried-on approach to create a good and efficient workplace.

5. Decision Making Skills

Equine aided learning activities inspire participants in a team building or leadership conference to make decisions fast and wisely. The horses teach most of the lessons; a facilitator is simply there to offer direction. Horses are individuals and react to their own set of physical signals, much as people do. Teams learn how to interpret a horse's body language and nonverbal cues through this procedure so they may properly coordinate and solve difficulties together. Great Escape Stables provides half day individual and full day group experiencing equine aided training courses. These include one-on-one effective communication and leadership skills with a horse, interpreting a horse's body language, and first-hand introduction in safety around a horse!

6. Leadership

Naturally seeking leadership, horses are herd animals. Being strict and polite with them can help you to become a leader. Otherwise they will act anyway they like. Riding a horse on a trail ride or even through an obstacle course calls for actual leadership abilities. Professionals can learn a range of personal and business development skills from working with horses including self awareness, emotional intelligence, leadership and collaborative abilities. It can also increase trust and help nonverbal communication. Get in touch with us now to learn more about how Equine Facilitated Learning might help your company or sector. You will not be let down!