Public Relations and Communicators Blog

(An interesting article from Asian Age/Deccan Chronicle on training) When was the last time you learnt management lessons from a dog or a horse? Two organisa­tions, Canines Can Care and Japalouppe Equestrian Centre teamed up to conduct an off-site training programme for the employees of Blue Lotus Communication recent­ly. Here's why it worked: Communicate silently Getting a horse to jump, using only verbal commands or getting a dog to put on a light switch within a span of 10 min­utes requires high levels of communication skills. Rohan More, Japalouppe Equestrian Centre, Pune, says, "Both hors­es and dogs are similar to humans because they move around in groups and have a complex hierarchical social structure. Since they don't have our level of verbal communica­tion, they mostly communicate through non-verbal cues. -It's easy to draw a parallel on how we do this as humans. Many of the ways we express ourselves are genetically hardwired into us like clenching our tee