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Be the Best You Can Be The Newsletter of the Natural Leadership Centre: March 07 Achieve greater goals than you currently imagine possible
To change your company culture, change your problem: a tale of whoa! A company culture change programme will not solve your problems, unless you change the problems as well. Changing the problem changes the focus, the context, the paradigm, the energy and the attitudes all in one hit. But have you the self awareness, spiritual intelligence and courage to dig deep and transcend the obvious and reasonable? I have recently been working on transformational leadership with the UK division of a household-name FMCG company. They are looking to improve their current profitability - about £30 m p.a. – through leadership development. It is a tale of whoa - about how trying to solve obvious problems totally halts progress. ...........read the full article here Managing the disguises of fear: the secret of building high-performance teams Building a high-performance team has its similarities with building a house. But it is much more a process of continuous change, learning, development and natural selection. All people perform better with a coach. So if all the people on your team are using coaching skill as a primary means of interacting, communicating, delegating and leadership, imagine how utterly unstoppable you and your business could become. ...........read the full article here From the horse’s mouth: natural coaching tip #2 Reaching a truth you can act on: If you find yourself or your ‘client’ dumping on someone, find a way to get to the real issue and let it resolve itself naturally. A client the other day was working with Maddie as a metaphor for her boss. As soon as she named her as the focus of her intervention, the mare, who was calmly standing facing her, nonchalantly turned her backside into her face. “That’s exactly how my boss treats me!” she said in utter amazement. (I, too, thought it was a pretty cool mirror!) “The thing is, she’s not a very nice person.” She continues. “So what is the truth in this situation?” I ask. “I don’t like her very much.” She replies with no hesitation. She is in the game already. “What don’t you like about her?” “She tells lies.” “Do you ever tell lies, or pretend to be something you’re not?” “Erm, yes.” She says squirming a little “Do you like this in yourself?” “No I hate myself for it.” “What could you say that was honest, that would allow you to forgive yourself and thus let go of the resentment towards her?” “Well, everyone tells lies sometimes. I can maybe accept that we both tell lies occasionally and I’m doing my best to be more open and honest.” Later that day, she was fully engaged with Maddie (the boss) and her energy was so clear she was the first ever of my 1-day clients spontaneously to achieve a canter flying change at liberty in the round pen. She let go of a huge amount of fear, guilt and resentment in the process. How does she now get on with her (real) boss? It remains to be seen, but I’d put money on a significant improvement. Paul is a founder member of the European Association for Horse Assisted Education an organisation dedicated to ensuring Horse Assisted Education becomes a general form of personal and professional development in European organisations. For more information about this newsletter or simply to ask a question you are welcome to contact Paul@horsejoy.com |
