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Personal Effectiveness Programmes
Albert Mehrabian was a Harvard professor, who did a lot of research into how someone's message comes across. He discovered there were 3 critical elements:
- Body Language - 55%
- Voice Tone - 38%
- Words - 7%
Dealing successfully with people, either in your business or personal lives, relies heavily on being able to communicate effectively.
Being able to get the outcome YOU want, depends on being able to get your message across successfully.
Our Personal Effectiveness programmes look specifically at this area.
Based on the Albert Mehrabian model of effective communication, they use simple exercises with horses to give you feedback on your skills.
The programmes will allow you to find out just how effective you really are, and to plan how to be even more effective in the future.
Leadership Programmes
- What kind of Leader are you?
- Are you the kind of Leader that
people are ready to line up behind?
- Are you able to engage both the minds and the hearts of your people?
- Do people trust you?
- What actually makes a good leader?
These are some of the concepts you’ll explore on the Leadership programme. You’ll receive valuable insights into your own leadership style, and the chance to discuss your skills and plan how to improve your chances of success in different situations.
Horses can provide open and honest feedback on these important skills. They are completely unbiased about who you are, your position in the company or status in life and will react and respond only to what they perceive from you. It’s a unique opportunity to find out how effective you really are.
Horses survive in the wild by choosing “good” leaders for their herd, and the herd hierarchy is established and maintained largely by non verbal communication. They are therefore an expert feedback mechanism for this type of behavioural development.
Learning with Evolutionary Training
- Activist - the person who learns by doing/experiencing.
- Reflector - the person who learns by thinking things through, listen and observe.
- Theorist - the person who leanrs by exploring concepts and models logically.
- Pragmatist - the persons who learns best when they can see how the learning can help them in their work.
We offer both bespoke and public programmes that cater for all types of learners.
The programmes are designed to include elements that appeal to all 4 learning styles in the Honey and Mumford model of learning:
The programmes are based on "Kolb's Learning Cycle" which suggests that although we all prefer to learn in different ways, to have a truly effective learning experience, someone should use all four styles.
So throughout each programme we'll ask you to complete some exercises (have an experience); think about what happened during the exercises (reflect on the experience),
Identify what went well / could have been better (draw conclusions), and plan how to use this in the next exercise or in the workplace (plan the next stage)
The exercises are simple, but effective, and involve using horses as the feedback mechanism, to provide honest and true feedback on your interpersonal and leadership skills.
They exercises are safe, simple and there's no horse riding involved or experience of horses necessary.