Name: What horses can teach us about leadership | FT
Uploaded: 2020-03-07T16:15:08.000Z
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Modal verbs - A2

What can horses teach us about leadership?

To-infinitive

It's an Equine Guided Leadership Development Programme,

about presence, trust, and respect, both here in the barn

can learn the right skills to lead and avoid burnout.

I start the day thinking: this sounds great.

But unsure of how horses can show me the way.

Well, I have to do what they do and approach them

All of those behaviours are non-predatory.

You know, so often a lot of discourse comes from the fact

that, well, this is our culture, and if it's different to yours,

You know, it's kind of creating confrontation

When we can step into the world of others and understand it,

then it's far easier for us to engage with them in that way.

So if he's in my space and I don't want him to,

I can gently put my hand on the side of his face

Setting personal boundaries at work can be a challenge.

Well, horses show the benefits of making them clear early on.

A huge part of leadership is getting the boundaries right,

and setting them early, and being clear about them.

what people do is leave it, and leave it, and then get really

cross about it as opposed to just take action

You really feel like you're part of the Earth.

to pay attention to my breathing, balance,

You literally think better from this place.

choosing how you see the world, how you breathe,

So all I'm going to ask you to do is exactly what you did.

Once I feel centred, I share it with the horse.

This is so often what's lacking because we're operating

And we assume that that's the way you get stuff done.

Actually, you can get stuff done from here as well.

Because you're calm, but you're not whacked out.

I'm starting to realise why companies send their employees

how a calmer way of being productive would be useful.

So we're going to do a model of leadership now.

model derived from horsemanship but useful for people.

The first position that we're going to talk about

is this position one, which is the energy of join me.

This is the position where we give direction, pace,

And this is about how we inspire the people we're working with.

The challenge with this position of leadership

The way we support that is we have this position three

of leadership, which is about a driving, pushing energy.

This second position is about the heart of leadership.

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What horses can teach us about leadership | FT

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