More than Iced Coffee and Hope

Imagine with me: You’re at your desk, enjoying the iced coffee that you just got from the place downstairs, and it’s got the exact right amount of milk in it. It’s perfect, and you’re feeling your best. You’re sure you understand that project that your boss gave you last week, and you’re going to sit down and just get it done.

Fifteen minutes in, you get a call from that one person that drives you crazy - it seems like you’re never on the same page. They want to share some ideas about your project - your boss talked to them about it too? Ugh. And then you get an email from the website team, sharing a link to a problem, and you see your boss’ boss stomp in with a really stormy look on her face. And don’t worry about that pileup of emails that strive for your attention. Probably nothing bad in there.

Suddenly that lovely day full of focus and iced coffee is just a bunch of fires - some small, some larger, some that you can handle and some that you’re for sure you can’t.

Sound familiar? Parts of it, for sure. It’s everyone, everywhere. Maybe it’s a cup of tea, maybe it’s not the website team, maybe you really like all your colleagues.

But this is work today. Work has changed in the years since your parents did it. It’s changed in the past 60 days.

You need more than iced coffee and hope to be successful at work today.

You need a coach.

In order to perform at the level that you strive for, you need support. You need someone in your corner, helping you to be your best.

Because your career is not something you want to screw around with - success is important.

Your coach might help you practice that challenging conversation that you’ve never been able to have with that one colleague. Your coach can help you with that relationship, and the one with your boss. Your coach can help you be intentional about how you approach that project, and how you approach your peers. Your coach can help you be more effective with your time and with your teammates time.

Your coach will help you be the best version of yourself. You decide what you want to work on, you decide what actions you want to take forward. Your coach will help you reach your highest potential.

Coaching can look like lots of different things: It can look like a phone call, it can look like a walk and talk, it can look like a zoom call, or it can look like walking around an arena with horses.

Horses have been our trusted companions for thousands and thousands of years, and they are prey animals. Because they exist in a world where something might eat them, they see the world differently. They live in the moment. They show you exactly what they’re thinking - they don’t lie to protect your feelings. They might see you as a strong confident leader, or they might not. They might pay attention to what you are asking them to do, or they might decide that it’s not in their best interest.

Equine facilitated coaching asks clients to participate in safe, non-mounted activities with horses, and then discuss that activity. You might talk about why the horse walked away from you when you were trying so hard to get him to follow you, and why that happened. You might talk about how that also happens at work when you’re trying to build a relationship with your colleagues, and with your coach, decide on a change that might help bring about a different result. And you’ll be able to take that new skill back to work, and put it to use.

Equine facilitated coaching is a proven effective way to explore your behavior, deepen your relationships, build self-awareness, communicate more effectively, and develop real leadership skills.

To be successful today, you need more than iced coffee and hope.

You need a coach.

And horses.

Join James Wilson and JimiBeth Meyers at a free open house Friday, February 9th to learn more about their innovative, equine facilitated coaching group.

For more information about the open house and to sign up for more information, please visit this page.

To read more about the equine facilitated coaching group, please visit this page.

James can be reached at 646.450.1618 or james@wilsonmorris.com