Leadership Strategy - Horses Teach The first step in emotional intelligence to effective leadership

My horse, Minnie is shiny and black, his eyes dart from side to side watching my every move. She is standing stiff and tense rod from the wall, waiting for me to start our working day. His ears are turned towards me and his eyes are wide, showing white around the pupils.

It seems she's ready to bolt for the slightest reason. It 'a fog, rainy day and the air is cold enough so that when Minnie poke their nose out to blow and snort can see the rise and circulation of cold air from the nostrils and finally dissipated in the wind.

The atmosphere feels heavy with some expectation invisible suspended pending. His tensions around us like a dark cocoon and I'm waiting for one of us to shoot like a banjo string.

Returning to my whip I bet on Minnie's side and before I could say a word that springs up in the air and leaps forward, running around the arena.

Frustrated I think the word whoa and like I let my breath out and say the word that slides to a stop. Indico with the whip, this time asking her to change direction.

She bolts out of the corner in the air around and galloped around the arena. She is still huffing and puffing in the cool morning and once again barely think the word whoa and she jumps to a stop. Its vessels throughout the body and bounce with his arrest and that she seems to be over the top of the wall rod.

I feel more and more agitated. What the hell is wrong with you today? That we're going nowhere.

Throwing the whip and grasp the thread that leads out to the pasture muttering all the way. I'll just let her work off excess energy by itself, I mutter to myself.

When I let go racing Minnie about fifty feet in the pasture, stops, looks around, and then began to graze peacefully. It seems that she has no excess energy now!

Take a break in the pasture and watch Minnie began to realize this is about me now, not her.

Horses mirror their content.

If you are bouncing off the walls because there is something in me that is bouncing off the walls. She is reading, is my energy that is causing her to exhibit high energy uncontrollably. I am the one who needs to take time out and understand what is happening inside of me before I can get something done with Minnie.

This is not the way it is with your employees or team? The tension in the air, the activity that makes your team to discuss and not getting anything done and it certainly does not act as a team, but more like a group of individuals each with their own agenda. And by the way the agenda is on them and their needs, not the company needs.

Your team takes their state of mind you their leader. As their boss is up to you to know what are your emotions, such feelings are driving and how you are showing for the team.

Otherwise you end up in chaos, because your team is responding to your inner regardless of what you are trying to say with your mouth.

Copyright (c) 2008 Jean Starling ......