During the last few years I have never ceased to be amazed by the power of the collective to achieve amazing results. It is one of the reasons that I always encourage my clients to find a team of people to support them as they grow their business.
All too often when we start off in business we fail to engage the support of others as often we feel it is too expensive and the business can’t afford it. The real truth is that you can’t afford not to have a team around you. Each team member provides a different perspective and these different opinions can help elevate the business to a different level than the business owner can achieve by themselves.
Yesterday I spent a day with three colleagues preparing for an international event we are delivering for a global client in early October. We are achieving a first as we are delivering a UK version of the Teaching Horse programme simultaneously in Amsterdam and North Carolina, USA.
There are some unique features of the Teaching Horse methodology so we decided to to have a practice day to ensure that we were all on the same page. What was amazing was that each of us brought our unique interpretation to the approach, but by discussing and collectively practicing the exercises we were able to create a streamlined approach that flowed much better than each of us could achieve individually.
That is the power of the collective intelligence and why I am also an advocate of Mastermind groups and working in teams. You can read about the power of Mastermind groups here.
Interestingly, in nature lots of activities occur in collective groups. Just take a herd of horses. They live as a collective as this helps keep everyone safe. Geese fly in formation, lions hunt as a team. There are examples every where how of the power of collective achieves disproportional results. Definitely a case of 1+1=3.
So how can you leverage the power of the collective to achieve amazing results? I’d love to hear from you about what you going to do.
Julia Felton (aka The Business Wrangler) is the founder of Business HorsePower. Business leaders, entrepreneurs and executives hire her to accelerate their business performance by harnessing the energy of their people to work more collaboratively together. By aligning purpose with actions the team achieves exponential results as everyone starts pulling in the same direction.
Julia believes that business is a force for good and through designing purpose-driven businesses that leverage the laws of nature, and the herd, you can create businesses founded on the principles of connection, collaboration and community that make a significant impact in the world.
