One Day per week for six weeks
Many leaders are struggling with the leadership challenges emerging from the current economic climate. Some are driven by demand, some by fear and some feeling totally inadequate - not sure what to do! They all have one thing in common, they could all benefit from a more flexible leadership style that enables them to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
Horses are masters of sustainable, flexible and effective leadership. Their natural equine instincts have enabled them to survive, and survive remarkably well, for the past six million years.
NZ-HALO has evolved a powerful and profound equine assisted leadership development programme, which is, by far, the most effective, flexible and sustainable programme available.
NZ-HALO is a powerful training modality that utilises the leadership skills of horses to enable people to learn these skills at a profound level. Course participants work with the horses in carefully constructed exercises to hone existing skills and develop new ones. The horses provide fast, simple feedback to the participant on their leadership performance. This facilitates an extraordinarily fast and profound sense of learning.
These NZ-HALO leadership programmes presents the leader as designer in the context of the ongoing dynamic interchange between leadership and knowing when to follow. Productive, sustainable organizations result from sound design principles. Design principles that recognize the organization as an interdependent network of living, dynamic human beings.
You will learn and practice the leader's role in human/business system design, learning to create organizational structures that clarify shared vision and smoothly guide the collective capability of the work force toward the company's goals. You will become more clear on what you deeply care about, helping the organization to focus on essential human/business issues.
Shared responsibility and coordinated action will increase. You will develop intuition and learn to trust it as a hard skill. You will learn how to achieve common ground with more genuine support for the shared vision. You will learn the art and practice of equine centred leadership. As a mentor you will learn to take on the role of conscious oversight learning to be in service to the natural balance of your organization.
Fragmentation is the enemy of the healthy organization. Leadership must help others become aware of interdependency through system structure while leading the way in creating wholeness of values, purpose, knowledge, skill, and vision. The organization that honors and practices true continuous generative learning will be the one that attracts and retains dedicated employees.
The learning environment is often ignored because its structure is invisible, or thought to contain too many soft skills. You will practice building the learning environment, learning to design, tune, and maintain it to maximize trust, collaboration, shared vision, creativity, and organizational effectiveness. A properly crafted learning environment can take the heat, whether internally or externally generated and turn it into creative response as opposed to dysfunctional conflict. The organization that learns through the next challenge the quickest will be the one with the competitive advantage, the organization with the most choices.
You will learn to rehearse the future. It's common to rehearse for a speech or a play. Athletes imagine running the race and breaking the finish-line tape. It is equally important for leaders to help their organization rehearse its desired future. By doing so, your organization will be more confident in day-to-day choices, systemically accessing more of its wisdom, experience and skill.
