Since 2006
| (A unique team training retreat with horses in a ranch environment.)
Horses can teach us many things
about working for a boss,
being a boss,
and being happy as part of a herd. |
Extreme Teamwork |
Join us for a unique team training experience that combines the profound lessons of Natural Horsemanship with the cutting-edge, proven McCarthy Core Protocols for creating high-performance teams.
In this 2-day course, your team will learn:
How to maximize leadership, trust and respect just like a great horseman does with horses
- How to follow a lead and lead a follower
- How to get any team into a state of shared vision, as in a herd of horses that moves as one
- How to eliminate or drastically reduce the amount of time you spend in meetings
- How to make unanimous team decisions every time with no outliers or unconscious sabotage
- How to quickly make something you are working on truly great by including the ideas of your team
- How to form a team that acts like a multi-personal being, not just a collection of individuals
Many times it is easier to learn new concepts by engaging different parts of your brain. We will use the newest concepts in horse training to help you become more aware of the power you have at work to make a culture committed to greatness, results-orientation and FUN.
During our 2-days:
- complete an assignment together as a team learning to use team tools
- get a *safe* lesson on horseback (optional)
- in a ranch environment
Release your team’s creativity in an environmentally rich setting.
Contact qualitylifesolutions@comcast.net or call 206-351-1248 for more info.
Your Instructor Team
Robyn Smith Robyn is a practicing natural horseman. She has spent her life rigorously studying almost every type of riding with many master horsemen. She can instruct riders in everything from endurance riding to western to English. Robyn’s teaching style is notable for its unique synthesis of her business consulting background, her training in knowledge management and her love of horses. Robyn is an RN and an accomplished public speaker in the medical field. But she also practices in non-nursing disciplines and is a certified Level 1 Knowledge Management Consultant (KM).
KM Definition: A cross-disciplinary practice that enables organizations to improve the way they create, adopt, validate, diffuse, store and use knowledge in order to attain their goals faster and more effectively.
KM has as its basis four key components:
People, process, technology, content.
Jim and Michele McCarthy Jim and Michele left successful 
leadership 
positions at Microsoft to form an innovative teamwork laboratory. For the last 10 years they have rigorously studied and codified the *best practices* for teams to get into and maintain a state of shared vision. These best practices are called The Core Protocols. Jim is well-known for his humorous, inspirational and educational public speaking and the couple are co-authors of the books Dynamics of Software Development and Software for your Head. They also co-host a podcast focused on business issues called The McCarthy Show which some claim is addictive.
It’s the Real Deal…
“Working with The Core Protocols has been the smartest thing I have done in years. The 600+ people who work for me have drastically increased productivity and have shown incredible results. In 6 months, a problem team that hadn’t successfully delivered for years started finishing on time (or early) and earned rave reviews from customers. Another team who was building heavy machinery shipped in 8 months instead of the typical 18 month time period. Our meetings are much more efficient, with the average size down from 15 people to 5 people, and accomplishing much more in less time.
The investment made to date in the McCarthys’ technology was easily paid back by results in only a few months.”
Joe Sandy
Vice-President, Halliburton Corp.
Contact qualitylifesolutions@comcast.net or call 206-351-1248 for more info.