Team
Building & Leadership Development Workshops
Offering Individual
Sessions
and
Group Workshops
Our workshops utilize
an experiential learning approach to facilitate lasting change. These
workshops are active, introspective, and specifically examine how your
group interacts to accomplish goals. We partner with you to
custom
design a program that best fits your group's unique goals and
objectives.
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Is
this the right solution for you?
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Does your group
want a new approach to development - beyond role modeling and the
typical team building activities? |
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Are you looking to
better leverage your group’s unique communication, problem
solving, and leadership styles? |
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Do you need to
strengthen relationships and improve group dynamics? |
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Is it your goal to
ignite energy and excitement within your group? |
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The
Results
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Enhance leadership skills and
improve teamwork |
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Evaluate communication styles and
strengthen relationships for better collaboration |
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Examine cultural expectations and
how they impact results |
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Improve creativity and innovation |
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Ignite cultural change
through creating an environment that suspends judgment and increases integrity,
authenticity, trust, and
confidence |
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This is the
perfect solution to empower with lasting
impact.
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If yes, then
this unique program is for you! |
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All of these improve
focus, productivity, and effectiveness. |
"It is the relationship building
and bonding with these living creatures
that sets this development
experience apart from anything else available."
(An
Executive attending the Equine Adventure Program with his leadership team)
This Experience
Targets These Areas:
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Creative Problem Solving |
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Improving Self-awareness |
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Team Effectiveness |
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Communication & Interpersonal Styles |
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Organizational Cultural Change |
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Decision Making & Goal Setting |
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Gaining Confidence |
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Leadership Development |
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Celebrating Successes &
Having
Fun! |
Programs provided at any location with any horses
"I valued being challenged in such a
different way ... unlike ever before."
(Testimonial from an Equine Adventure Program
participant)
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For Groups: Each half day, full day or
two day workshop is custom designed for your group's unique goals and
objectives. This is our workshop planning and execution process:
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A pre-workshop assessment is conducted to identify key focus areas for
the workshop. Optionally, an individual assessment tool can be
used to develop awareness of individual styles, the need for style
diversity, and how to best interact with individuals with different
styles.
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Personality type or behavioral style assessment such as DiSC,
Myers-Briggs or Platinum Rule |
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Individual strength assessment with StregthsFinder |
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A program is designed by selecting the best activities that target the
group's goals and objectives. |
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During the workshop group
strengths are identified and action items are captured to improve the
group's day-to-day environment. After 30 to 90 days, there is a
follow-up discussion about the group's progress towards the goals they
established during the workshop. |
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Individual Sessions:
If you are interested in working
individually, we provide a great opportunity to examine your unique
leadership style, including how you communicate, achieve goals, and assert
yourself to get what you need. Your style will be reflected back by
a horse, without judgment or bias. You will learn when you are
effectively and ineffectively communicating. This process develops
self-awareness better than any other professional development experience
available. It is powerfully introspective.
Cost:
Workshop pricing is based on
the group's needs such as workshop length, food options, location (rental for an
indoor arena, the extent of travel), and other pre-workshop and post-workshop
requirements. We offer discounts for non-profit organizations.
Please contact us for specific pricing information
for your group.
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The Hardest Person You Will Ever Have to Lead is Yourself
This was the topic of discussion in
the April 2007 issue of Fast Company "Open Debate"
column. The article highlighted:
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Leaders need to be adaptable |
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Great leaders are excellent teachers |
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Leaders should focus on their authenticity and goals
rather than ego and power. |
Bill George, professor at Harvard Business School, said, "The key to growing as a leader is to narrow that gap (of how you
see yourself and how you want to be seen) by developing a deep
self-awareness that comes from straight feedback and honest exploration of
yourself, followed by a concerted effort to make changes."
How do horses
teach us about teams and leadership?
So you are wondering what horses have in common with us and our
organizational cultures. Horses communicate within their herd
hierarchy, other
animals, and with people through their nonverbal language of Equus.
They have honed their ability to perceive their surroundings as a survival
skill for millions of years as a prey species. This ability is so
profound that horses can understand our personalities, behaviors,
thoughts, and feelings even before we think we have expressed them.
Just like humans, horses live within a hierarchy where
each horse has its own role and responsibilities. The herd leader
guides through confidence, compassion, and respect - finding the perfect
balance of acceptance and using discipline only when it is absolutely
necessary. This enables the rest of the herd to trust in the
leadership and have a sense of security. The herd leader is always
working to watch over and protect the herd in times of need. Also,
the leader listens to the other herd members to create an environment of
acceptance, support, and growth. There is a tremendous amount we can
learn from the leadership and management style of a herd leader.
At Bella Terra, we find it is common for many to
misinterpret the behaviors of our herd leader, thinking he is distant,
aloof, and less accepting, when in fact he is doing his job and taking it
very seriously. Have you ever had the same perception of a leader
you have interacted with? At Bella Terra, our compassionate and masterful
herd leader is Peanut.
Horses differ from humans in that they don't see
socio-economic status and they don't care about our gender, race, size,
status, orientations and belief systems. They accept each person for exactly
who they are in terms of their honesty, confidence, congruency, level of trust,
assertiveness, and clarity in communication. Horses are totally
honest, incapable of hidden agendas, live in the present moment as well as
a place of discernment rather than judgment. Horses reflect back
their assessment of us and this creates the opportunity to learn how we
can develop our effectiveness. Again, there is a tremendous amount
we can learn from horses.
"This kind of experiential
learning has a profound impact and creates lasting results."
"The horse is a mirror of our inner
thoughts, beliefs, behavior and limitations. They have a keen sense of
intuition and an uncanny ability to sense the unspoken. Our job is
to learn to lead them effectively through trust and consistency, their job
is to tell us when we are effective and when we need to look within.
This grounded, truly empathetic and somatic approach to working with another being
develops a new paradigm in how we view ourselves."
~ Anna Twinney,
Reach Out To Horses
"Don't tell people how to
do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their
results."
~ George S. Patton
"Visualize it and then you
can create it."
~
Maggie
Garbarini
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