Success in our increasingly complex multi-discipline work environment can depend more on a team’s collaboration and management of difficult interpersonal interactions in building it’s plan and less on the desire that most of the individual employees have to be seen as top performers. Despite the best of intentions of all individuals in a team, how they interact with each other may impede trust, common understanding and common goals, producing a less than desired result. People like horses provide many nonverbal cues as to their feelings about their participation and direction in the group. Horses have no need to cooperate with people, but will cooperate and perform intricate activities, if they build trust and receive clear, concise direction from trainers. By working with horses to execute complex activities, we strongly reawaken our awareness of all the nonverbal cues that our fellow coworkers continue to provide in abundance, yet we typically manage to ignore. Learning these skills by working with horses optimizes team performance with improved understanding and collaboration. Provide managers and teams the opportunity to align their innate desire for strong performance with their actual results.