Thomas Terhaar spoke at the 5th. EAHAE conference in Klein Nienhagen about the realization and the results of the 30 seminars for all 240 employees of the building and loan association of a big German bank. Together with Stephan Gerd Meyer as the representative for 13 trainers who conducted the seminars in July and August 2009 collectively as a HorseDream-Partner project, he illustrated how the series of seminars had been enabled in spite of completely cancelled training budgets within the whole bank.
From the perspective of the management board the horse-assisted seminars had been the best way to experience values together in stead of dictating them intellectually as introduction of a new value orientation in the company. The participants´ comments after the seminar confirm the big success of the series: „Let´s step out of the comfort zone“, I can achieve much more than I would have dared to“, „Trust is the base for collective success“, „Some goals can only be achieved if everybody joins“, „Words are not everything - the intention takes effect!“.
The speech culminated in a chart from the Harvard Business Manager Magazine 1-2006 that pointed out, as a result of a survey with 427 executives out of 39 industries, the „rate of return on values“, i.e. how many percent the rate of return in teams with highly developed values was higher than in those from comparison groups.
