What We Do
Equinox Coaching provides a superb practical way to understand what it takes to be a great leader – through vivid experience rather than a textbook or lecture.
Executives and their teams, or executives from different departments in a company, work together with horses in our arenas then transfer the skills they learn into managerial life.
Participants work through a series of exercises including guiding our horses on a rope, leading them around obstacles, working blindfold and by touch, achieving simple goals and establishing respect and trust.
Sessions are filmed then analysed as a group with the help of our executive coaches, often revealing that how managers think they behave in the workplace differs from what actually happens.
Groups generate their own ideas for change and improvement and the result is better communication and a happier, more productive working environment. Managers and staff become more resourceful, assertive, confident and better creative thinkers.
Case study
A Managing Director brought his team to tackle problems including low staff morale and high absenteeism. Leading a horse around poles for the first exercise, he was almost dragging it behind him, not looking at how it was doing.
After watching the video with his team, he said: "I didn't realise at the time but I see it now, and I feel I'm doing the same in the office with my team. I go my own way, never delegate or look at what my colleagues are doing."
Once the MD understood, we were able to work on solving the problem through further exercises.
“One of the best leadership courses around. Great way of experiencing how one is seen by other people from a different perspective”
Paul Foreman, Operations Director, 42 Square Group