Through the methods of coaching we achieve a comprehensive insight into the functioning of an individual and a team, and then provide support to deficit areas. The coaching can improve the "outer" and "inner game" of individuals: definition of individual’s personal characteristics, recognized by the individual him/herself or team, establishing the team roles, improved concentration, focus and targeted goals, improve assessments, promote assertiveness, strengthening of relationships, improving communication skills, ability to cooperate and lead, and the establishment of a common identity and fulfilling the common goals (while working in teams/groups). Through focused and goal-oriented intervention with horses we provoke excellent experiential learning situations for self-awareness, intuition, creative problem solving strategies, coping with ones own fears, doubts, burdens and other restrictive concepts, which in the process of coaching with appropriate professional support enable the individual to effectively resolve and give meaning to their new vision of success. In this paper we will cite and elaborate on different studies on effectiveness and efficiency of (equine facilitated) coaching and present a new, Slovenian model of coaching, called EFSEC – Equine Facilitated Smart and Effective Coaching (EFSEC), which was created through 10 years of field experiences.

1. Equine facilitated
coaching for best
Performing
Managers and
Teams
Mag. Natalie C. Postružnik, Nikrmana
www.nikrmana.eu
nikrmana.wordpress.com
MIC, 29. 5. 2o15

2. SLOVENIANS ...?
Perception of others
Perception of ourseselves
+
+
-
-
arogancy
Victim:
“People don’t notice my
sacrifice for them, that I
suffer in silence.”
“Nothing’s wrong if I
lose a cow, as long
as my neighbour
loses two!”
HBR
YES!

3. ECONOMICAL
ENVIRONMENT
• 60 % companies are not oriented to execute
and implement their strategy
• 30 % variable incomes of employees have
nothing to do with the strategy
• Only 10 % employees = strategy
(Kaplan and Norton, 2008)

4. ECONOMICAL
ENVIRONMENT (2)
• Only 16 % employees in Slovenia are actively
engaged
(Gallup, 2014)
• Psychometrical researches show: managers =
psychopathes?
(Nolimal, 2014)

5. MOTIVATION/INSPIRATI
ON!
If you want to build a good ship, you need to inspire
people to join you on the trip.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry

6. CHANGES …
(Buckingham in Coffman: First, Break All the Rules, 1999)

7. COACHING
Intractive process
coach
- Through use of specifi technics
 Iniciates mental processes:
 Which help individuals,
 companies and organisations
 To faster and more efficient achieve better
results
(ICF 2014)

8. When?
Beckhard’s formula
C = (ABC) > X
• S = change
• A = level of unsatisfaction with the status Q
• B = how much you wish for the suggested change or the desired end
status
• C = practicality of the changes needed (minimal risk of disruptivity)
• X = »cost« / effort of the change

9. RESULTS
Efficiency of coaching on individual level:
• 96 % organisations – good improvement of personal efficiency
• 92 % - impact on efficiency of leaders and management
• Participants: “very efficient” or “extremly efficient” achieved of
73 of all goals
• Owners of the companies: “very efficient” or “extremly efficient”
achieved 54 % goals, 85 % goals were achieved “efficient”.
• Development of three main competencies: (a) leadership
competencies (82%), (b) building of team spirit (41%), and (c)
development of employees (36 %)

10. PAIN?
• No!
• Equine facilitated coaching:
• Social behavior in horse herd
• Hierarchy, leading
• Animals of flight (escape)
• Primal fear
• Sence every signal
• Reaction!
• Don’t express power or insults

11. HORSE THROUGH TIME
• 1950: Therapy with help of horses
• Around 1960 – studies of psychological and
emotional effects of therapeutical and
pedagogical treatments, which include
interactions and work with horses
• Since 90ies use in management
• Smart and Effective Equine assisted Coaching
(SEEC) – Slovenian service

13. Povedali ste
• “Lep dan…..in se že veselim, da moje notranje občutke podelim z nekom, ki
mu zaupam. Pa sploh ne morem povedat kaj je tisto, da je točka zaupanja tako
visoka. To je ta »energija« ki je ali je pa ni, drži ? … Toda ugotovila sem, da se je
nekaj v meni spremenilo pa niti ne znam povedati kdaj točno in kako, le lažje
diham, delam in spet sem to jaz. Polna energije, da bi svet premikala. No
priznam , da včasih svet okoli sebe težko razumem (verjetno sem iz nekega
čudnega testa ali celo iz drugega planeta), toda spoznale sem, da je ključ v
PRILAGAJANJU.”
• “Mene je petek res poživel in še v tem tednu sijem s pozitivno energijo.”
• “Moram priznati, da pravzaprav nisem popolnoma vedela, kaj naj pričakujem, a
ko sem bila tam, sem vedela, da so moja pričakovanja izpolnjena. Spoznala sem
neverjetno veliko stvari o sebi, spoznala sem veliko izjemnih ljudi. In…
premagala sem enega izmed strahov, ki so me pestili in eno izmed občutij, ki
občasno pride na plano, če ni vse tako kot si zamislim :))) a me ni zagrabila
panika – samo nasmejala sem se in se naučila tudi to, da ni vedno pomemben
samo cilj, ampak da je pomembna tudi pot po kateri prideš do cilja in če je ta
zanimiva, do cilja prideš še prej :)”