WHAT GRADUATES SAY
Many leaders describe Walk the Talk as “life and career changing” because of its deeply personal nature and profound application to both business and personal life.
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LEADERSHIP BREAKTHROUGH:
Walk the Talk of Change
A powerful executive development program that transforms leaders and teams.
VENUE
The Center for Achieving Breakthrough
16295 W. Hwy 160
Durango, CO 81301
Phone: +1 (970) 385-5100
DATES
March 14-17, 2023
All Executives and Leaders
DURATION
3.5 Days, In-Person Retreat
75-Minute Pre-Retreat Interview with Coach
60-Minute Post-Retreat Follow Up Call with Coach
3-Hour Retreat Follow Up Virtual Group Session
CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS
Graduates receive:
- 38 PDCs for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®
- 34 HRCI Business Recertification Hours
TUITION
DISCOVER "WALK THE TALK"
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About the Program
Leadership Breakthrough: Walk the Talk of Change (WTTC), is an extremely powerful leadership development process designed for individual executives, leaders, and leadership teams. Many leaders describe it as “life and career changing” because of its deeply personal nature, and its application to both business and personal life. WTTC is about pursuing breakthroughs within yourself to generate breakthroughs in your work and life. We help you identify the personal breakthroughs you are after when you enter the program. Then, throughout the program, we show you how to achieve those breakthroughs.
The purpose of Leadership Breakthrough: Walk the Talk of Change is to catalyze breakthroughs in leaders’ awareness, behavior and skill that radically improve the quality of their individual performance, relationships, team performance, and their ability to lead their organizations to extraordinary business and cultural outcomes.
Leadership Breakthrough is affectionately called “Walk the Talk” by participants because it enables them to do just that – to consistently express their Best Self in their daily actions. You will find that this consistent leadership modeling of your new, positive ways of being, working and relating will impacts your people and culture in powerful ways. It deeply changes how you engage and relate with others, including your family and friends.
Walk the Talk is founded on the fundamental principle that all human excellence comes from within, from one’s ability to access higher states of Being, often called being in “the zone” or “flow.” WTTC teaches leaders and teams the inner dynamics of optimal performance and human development, and how to apply them in their self-leadership and leadership of others.
Each WTTC program is shaped by and delivers outcomes unique to participants’ most pressing agendas, like implementing key business strategies, solving market or customer challenges, innovating, or transforming culture. The experiences you have and what you learn apply directly to achieving yours and your most essential organizational outcomes.
Graduates of this program qualify for:
SOCIETY FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (SHRM)
38 SHRM Professional Development Credits
Being First is recognized by SHRM to offer 38 Professional Development Credits
(PDCs) towards SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®.
The use of this official seal confirms that this Activity has met HR Certification Institute’s® (HRCI®) criteria for recertification credit pre-approval.
HUMAN RESOURCE CERTIFICATIONS INSTITUTE (HRCI)
34 HRCI Business Recertification Credit Hours
This program has been approved for 34 Business recertification credit hours towards aPHR™, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®).
Outcomes We Guarantee
Leadership Breakthroughs
- Increase self-awareness and mastery
- See solutions to complex strategic challenges
- Increase transformational leadership skills
- Model desired behaviors
- Move beyond command and control to co-creative leadership
- Stay centered amid stress and challenge
- Increase emotional intelligence
- See new perspectives
- Manage & changing self-limiting patterns
- Deliver your full potential and leading from your Best Self
Team Breakthroughs
- Lead transformation successfully
- Build trust among team members
- Increase team alignment and cohesion
- Improve ability to handle complexity and solve strategic challenges together
- Increase ability to coach and motivate others
- Improve innovation and creativity
- Dialogue through tough conversations to a mutual decision
- Collaborate and cross-boundary support
- Improve Communications: openness, listening and truth-telling
Design of the WTTC Process
The power and effectiveness of WTTC occurs because of four design features:
- A balanced mix of many different learning modalities: adult experiential learning, short lecturettes, simulations, one-on-one discussions, team exercises, visualizations, assessments, video, feedback, small group discussions, readings, role plays, and outdoor experiences.
- The weaving of the above learning modalities through four different, yet fully integrated areas: 1) Self Mastery; 2) Relationship Mastery and Communications; 3) Team Mastery; and 4) Organizational Culture and Transformation. The exploration of these areas reveals the underlying human dynamic that governs behavior and performance at all levels of scale. This dramatically increases leaders’ ability to lead individuals and the organization to sustained excellence.
- Embodied self-management practices that enable leaders to access higher states of awareness in real time, in all situations, so they change behavior and optimize their own performance, even under high stress.
- Immediate and consistent application of the key insights, tools and skills of the program to the participants’ real leadership and change leadership challenges.
Objectives
- Participants enroll, access the online program resources, and complete assessments before their pre-retreat interview
Logistics
- Access the Being First learning platform during self-enrollment and/or via an email from Being First
- Launch the Course Pre-Work
- Participants complete and submit required documents and assessments by due dates
Objectives
- Help participants begin to establish the personal leadership breakthrough they are going for in the program
- Clarify personal learning objectives
- Begin participants’ introspection and self-discovery
- Answer any specific questions
Logistics
- Schedule interview two to three weeks in advance of the Retreat
- Confirm Zoom application readiness
- Have a 75-minute discussion on Zoom with a WTTC Program Coach
Objectives
- Experientially establish self-awareness, mastery and Presence as the source of great leadership, and begin to increase each of them
- Increase understanding of how all human excellence – whether as individuals, in relationships, teams or organizationally – begins in one’s interior (mindset and awareness)
- Gain insight about how to apply the above realization pragmatically in one’s leadership of people and in one’s organization
- Significantly increase one’s understanding of human dynamics and how best to manage them to bring out the best in oneself and others
- Learn the pragmatic self-management practices of Olympic athletes and build skills to be able to shift one’s internal state to higher levels for improved performance and leadership
- Increase interpersonal communications skills to better engage and motivate others
- Learn methods for improving relationships within the one’s team; including how to resolve difficult past history and establish a foundation for breakthrough going forward
- Learn ways to establish a conscious, learning orientation that will allow one’s team to grow
- Increase one’s ability to model their organization’s desired values, culture and behavior, and to support others to do the same
Logistics
- 5 days – full days Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, half day Friday
- Conducted at the Being First Center for Achieving Breakthrough in Durango, Colorado, a beautiful residential executive retreat center in a natural, mountain environment
Objectives
- Further participants’ ability to successfully apply what they learned in the Retreat
- Continue encouragement to maintain participants’ motivation to pursue their personal breakthroughs and the practices that support them
- Help participants navigate challenges and resolve problems related to their leadership, relationships and communications, and team performance
- Answer questions and provide support
Logistics
- One post-retreat 60-minute coaching call by phone or Zoom, two to three weeks after the Retreat
Objectives
- Learn advanced material and take what was learned at the Retreat to the next level
- Provide encouragement and help individuals navigate live leadership challenges and resolve questions
- Deepen the participants’ application of their learning to their personal and organizational success
- Align the participants’ around their personal choice to continue pursuing their conscious and intentional self, relational and team development
Logistics
- 3-hour online session, one month after the Retreat
Instructors
Dr. Dean Anderson
Dr. Dean Anderson is an international thought leader, speaker, bestselling author, and strategic advisor to the C-Suite. For 40 years, Dr. Anderson has been guiding transformational leaders of Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies and global non-profit organizations to integrate the inner work of personal transformation and mindfulness with advanced methodologies that guides leaders in HOW to design and implement transformational change successfully. Dean is passionate about co-creation — the high-performance way of Being, working and relating that brings people of diverse perspectives together to solve complex challenges and produce breakthrough results for all.
Dr. Dean Anderson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Being First, Inc.
Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson
Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson is a founding leader of the Organization Transformation field. Dr. Ackerman Anderson brings 40+ years of experience in facilitating and teaching transformational change in Fortune 1000 businesses, governments, the military and large not-for-profit organizations. Linda’s passion is to equip leaders and consultants with the capability to create transformational change strategies that produce extraordinary business outcomes while transforming leadership mindset and culture. She co-authored with Dr. Dean Anderson the seminal books on Conscious Change Leadership, "Beyond Change Management: How to Achieve Breakthrough Results through Conscious Change Leadership" and "The Change Leader’s Roadmap: How to Navigate Your Organization’s Transformation."
Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson is the Co-Founder and VP of Being First, Inc.
“I would recommend this experience for anyone, especially aspiring leaders, to enhance their self-awareness and become equipped with useful tools to enhance the qualities they wish to improve in themselves and their organizations.”
“The program is phenomenal and Being First really goes above and beyond to pull greatness out of the participants. 'Walk the Talk' causes you to really dig deep and shows you how to get out of your own way to be the best version of yourself while giving others the space to be the best version of themselves.”
“Being First understands the nuances of paramilitary and emergency organizations which allows them to provide industry-specific advice. Partnering with Being First catapulted YRP toward realizing its wellness and inclusion-focused transformational vision: Inspiring positive change to support and include all members.”
"Initially, I thought 'Being First' was all about empowering me. However, by participating in this wonderful program, I believe 'Being First' is all about improving myself in order to enable the team and to help others."
“While I have been through many self-awareness training sessions, I have never been self-compelled to take a serious inventory of my positive and egotistical behaviors. This program has positively revealed my behaviors and also gave me the tools to positively divert those unproductive behaviors.”
“Being First has crafted a truly transformational experience. By allowing discussion topics to emerge as organic manifestations of the 'course roadmap,' we learned to apply each concept through the lens of our own personal journeys.
The skills discussed apply to both personal and professional growth. I truly understand the importance of conscious change leadership. Prior to this intense leadership training experience, I operated in my personal and professional life with a limited awareness of 'self.' Now, I view each action/decision through the lens of my breakthrough declaration.”
The skills discussed apply to both personal and professional growth. I truly understand the importance of conscious change leadership. Prior to this intense leadership training experience, I operated in my personal and professional life with a limited awareness of 'self.' Now, I view each action/decision through the lens of my breakthrough declaration.”
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KEY TOPICS
The agenda of Leadership Breakthrough: Walk the Talk of Change includes these key topics:
Self Mastery
- Identify the Personal Breakthroughs you are pursuing
- Breakthrough practices: daily techniques to evolve yourself from the inside out
- Optimizing: how to manage your inner state for high performance
- The universal personal change process and how to apply it to transform mindset, emotional reactions and self-limiting behaviors
- Conscious awareness: what it is, how to develop it, and why it is the single most important success factor in leadership
- How to consistently model desired values, behavior and culture
- Life Styles Inventory Assessment and your personal style
- How mindset and perception determine your performance and leadership style
- The “zone"—the internal mental and emotional state of optimal performance – and how to experience it
- Breathing and centering techniques for increased personal performance amid the chaos of change
- Mental conditioning and belief systems, and their impact on leadership behavior and performance
- Self-limiting behavioral patterns and how to identify yours
- Self-reflection: cultivating a deeper and broader awareness of one’s personal strengths and weaknesses
Relationship Mastery and Communications
- Relationship dynamics and their impact on outcomes
- How to build relationships of trust
- Communicating for impact: how communicating from your higher self draws people to theirs
- Active listening: how it deepens relationships
- “Center-to-Center” communications and its impact on resolving conflict and increasing employee trust and engagement
- Self-disclosure and truth-telling: how to do it in a way that has positive impact on people and change
- Levels of conversation and how to deepen them for greater impact
- Substantially improving relationships, communications and trust with team members
- Improve Communications: openness, listening and truth-telling
Team Mastery
- High performing team dynamics and how to co-create them
- The transformation from a group to an aligned and committed team
- Healthy discourse: how it catapults teams to extraordinary success, and why most teams cannot do it
- How to make a team a conscious learning environment, and what destroys this possibility
- Truth-telling in teams, and how to ensure that it adds value, is respectful, and delivers positive results
- Course correcting team dynamics: how to intervene and catalyze the team to grow
Organizational Culture & Transformation
- Walking the talk: how leadership modeling sets the tone of high – or low – organizational performance
- The inadvertent things many leaders and leadership teams do to cause a low performing culture
- Building a co-creative culture of accountability, collaboration and trust
- Leadership behavior and how it establishes the characteristics of your culture
When you develop yourself from the inside out, giant leaps in performance become possible.
Solve your most pressing strategic challenges and lead your organization’s transformation.
The sum of all this growth and development is breakthrough – individually, in relationships, and in your team. And these breakthroughs can be applied to solving your organization’s biggest challenges – no matter what they are.
When you and your team members consistently bring your best game, success is virtually guaranteed.
You become unstoppable.
Develop your relationship skills and be a member of the most sensational team you’ve ever experienced.
Communication is the grease in every human endeavor. Openness, speaking one’s truth and listening for understanding without judgment – these behaviors are what makes teams thrive. Imagine your team with a new level of communication, trust, collaboration and alignment.
What could you accomplish then?
Develop the ability to manage your inner state and operate from the optimal state of mind, in the “flow” of high performance.
Learn the inner dynamics of high performance and how to manage your inner state to access what Olympic athletes call the “flow” or “zone.”
Imagine being able to remain centered, calm, focused, and confident in the midst of your greatest challenges – even in situations that currently trigger you emotionally. Think of how you would apply this capability to all aspects of your leadership and life.
Bust out of your comfort zone, through your self-limiting patterns and performance ceilings.
Learn how to transform your self-limiting mindsets, emotional and behavioral patterns.
This enables you to adopt new, more effective perspectives and worldviews, and new ways of being, working and relating. It opens new horizons of performance, leadership and transformation.
Develop self-awareness of the mental, emotional and behavioral patterns that block your performance and breakthrough.
Like every human being, you have a comfort zone, a habitual way you see yourself, others and the world. This determines how you engage. Some of your patterns are positive. Others are not.
With our help, in Walk the Talk you discover your edges, so you can grow beyond them to greater levels of personal excellence.
Identify the personal breakthrough that will unleash your performance in everything you do.
When you enter Leadership Breakthrough: Walk the Talk of Change, you are supported by a personal coach to identify your breakthrough – the most essential change you can make in yourself that will positively impact everything, not just in your leadership, but in your life.
Gain leadership superpowers that less than 5% of humanity currently possess.
Achieving your personal breakthrough develops rare and well sought-after leadership traits. It expands your mindset and worldview, so you can solve complex 21st Century challenges.
You become a transformational leader in the truest sense of the word because you learn to transform both yourself and your organization or community. This unleashes your ability to make your biggest contribution as a leader.
Watch Dr. Dean Anderson explain more in the related webinar: “Vertical Leadership Development – The Answer to Today’s Organizational and Social Challenges”
Walk the Talk of Change Enrollment
All Executives and Leaders:
March 14-17, 2023
Venue: Being First Center for Achieving Breakthrough
16295 W. Hwy 160 Durango, CO 81301
16295 W. Hwy 160 Durango, CO 81301
Tuition Includes:
- 3.5-Day In-Person Retreat in Durango, Colorado
- Breakfast and Lunch During the Retreat
- Pre-Work Materials
- One-on-One 75-min Interview with Walk the Talk Coach
- One 60-min Post-Retreat Online Coaching Session
- Follow Up 3-Hour Online Session
Individual Tuition
$7875
$ 7,087 - Includes Early-Bird Discount
Expires January 31, 2023
Groups of 3-5
$7481
$ 6,693 - Includes Early-Bird Discount
Expires January 31, 2023
Groups of 6+
$7087
$ 6,300 - Includes Early-Bird Discount
Expires January 31, 2023
Interested in a private program for your team or organization?
Leadership Breakthrough is always customized, built around yours and your organization’s most pressing agenda, like implementing key business strategies, solving market or customer challenges, innovating, or transforming culture. You apply what you learn personally to achieving your most essential organizational outcomes.
