C.I.H.E.R.T. Leadership Skills

In every relationship horses search for strong leadership. If they don't find it, they will make an effort to lead. By knowing the true nature of the horse, C.I.H.E.R.T. has specifically designed this program series that will provide your leadership team and those they lead with this unique experience.

We welcome this opportunity to introduce you to the C.I.H.E.R.T. Equine-Assisted Learning BuildingBlock™ Program Series©. LEADERSHIP; Going Beyond the Boardroom is a program series specifically designed to provide businesses with an innovative, yet practical approach to the process of motivating individuals and developing strong leaders.

When you think about the way you come across to those you work with, do you like what you see? Do others? While leadership is easy to explain, leading effectively is not easy to practice. Yet Business relies on leaders whose behaviors will posititively or negatively impacts those they oversee. Generally speaking, strong leaders are followed mainly because they are trusted and respected rather than by the leadership skills they possess.

HOW CAN MY BUSINESS BENEFIT?:

Sales Teams: Communication is at the heart of every sales department’s success. Through C.I.H.E.R.T. horses’ extreme sensitivity, participants will find a new awareness and respect for the power of communication.

Department Heads and Leaders: Strong leaders possess passion, determination, confidence, positivity, commitment and realize the importance of maintaining personal integrity, honesty, courage, sincerity, compassion and sensitivity. Exercises are designed to bring out and fine tune these qualities as individuals work with the reflective and transparent nature of the horse.

Team Building: Horses seek to find trusting and respectful leadership when charged to interact and a teams success depends on respectful relationships. Therefore, when assigned to work through a task, horses will immediately pick up on the internal stress that individuals try to hide but negatively impacts productivity. The relevant skills horses force us to use in order to find success; keen observation, effective communication, active listening, productive negotiation.

Employees, Staff and Personnel: Two facts: (1) productivity is a key element to a successful business of any size and (2) re-training is costly and impacts more than just the position held. Companies that motivate their workers find up to 50% increase in productivity and 60% reduction in turnover than companies who don't invest in their workers. The C.I.H.E.R.T.s EAL program series has proven to encourage workers to take a vested interest in their job by "getting engaged" and clearly identifies the value of "every workers position".

Negotiating conflict series: Conflict is a natural occurrence in every work environment but sometimes goes deep enough to undermine a team’s effectiveness. Before a situation becomes terminal C.I.H.E.R.T. has found they can positively impact many awkwardly difficult circumstances. Horses are innately astute and immediately identify anxious, aggressive and nervous energy. This unique ability provides and experienced facilitator with a number of skill based options. Superseding and incident at the moment the horse identifies the source of contention or facilitating the conflict as it runs its course are two possibilities; another comes by learning to respect each other for the value we bring to the position we hold.

EQUINE-ASSISTED LEARNING PROGRAMS:

Participants work through a specially designed building block curriculum, formatted for each to work on their team building skills, known in the horse world as, "becoming herd savvy". As they learn how to put aside "the manure" that typically block a teams overall productivity, each group will become more successful throughout each course. The C.I.H.E.R.T. EAL facilitators break down how to identify specific communication components to compliment each participant’s individual strengths for the betterment of their team. Thus, working toward effectively functioning as one unit.

The C.I.H.E.R.T. equine-assisted learning programs have the ability to be a powerful journey of learning and understanding. Horses in this program are powerful teaching tools that immediately respond to what the participant is doing. Trained facilitators watch for "teachable moments" that horses identify.

WHAT EXACTLY IS EQUINE ASSISTED LEARNING?:

Equine-Assisted Learning (EAL) is an effective approach to human and leadership development through the eye of the horse. It is a proactive approach to empowering the individual through group interactive exercises with a focus on, "everyone matters".