Imagine Your Leaders Being Models of Change
 …Leading by example
…Attending to the success of the whole enterprise over their self-interests
…Supporting each other across boundaries
...Communicating openly and honestly with each other
…Building employee trust in change and leadership through their exemplary performance
…Being people experts, not just technical experts
…Being responsible for their actions rather than blaming others
…Operating with high emotional intelligence, and modeling to others how to do the same
…Sharing information freely and giving straight feedback
…Coaching and mentoring
…Consistently making decisions that promote the success of the enterprise.
In Change, One Thing Is Certain
You need leaders who model the change you are after, who are credible examples of your organization’s transformation, who walk the talk of your desired culture.
Actions Speak Louder than Words
If your leaders’ behaviors do not model your organizations desired change, then your employees will not believe the change is real. They will see it as simply one more passing fad.
Developing leaders who truly walk the talk of your organization’s transformation is perhaps the most formidable challenge you face. Comparatively, designing and implementing your new structure, technology, or processes are relatively easy.
At Being First, We Can Help
We are the premiere developers of change leaders in the world today. We do not deliver traditional training and we are not your normal training company. We go deeper. We get to the heart of leadership, to the core issues of who your leaders are as people, who they choose to become, and what they want to represent in the world.
Our flagship leadership development program—Walking the Talk of Change—helps your leaders make the fundamental choice to walk the talk of your change and successfully lead
your organization’s transformation. You cannot afford the other option: if your leaders choose to maintain their traditional style and way of being, operating, and relating, they will promote your old culture and your transformation will fail.
Build a Unified Leadership Team
WTTC clears the air of historic conflict and differences within your leadership team, and ensures that its members support each other, deliver consistent change messages, and are aligned for common action.
Transformation requires a unified leadership team, on the same page, singing the same song…in harmony. This doesn’t mean a team without conflict or differences. It means a team that can openly deal with its conflicts and differences and emerge stronger, more unified, and capable.
Through powerful experiential exercises, deep self-reflection, and open, honest, and direct feedback to one another, your team will overcome its barriers to high performance. They will wrestle with the tough issues of power and control, inclusion, competency, feedback, and telling the truth to each other. The result—greater understanding of each other’s needs, more compassion and support, and the critical ability to deliver consistent change messages and align for common action.
No more blame. No more fighting over resources. No more “me first.” Simply a unified team of powerful change leaders who put the success of the whole organization over their own self-interests.
Communicate for Impact and Results
Good communication is like grease—it makes everything go more smoothly. Do your leaders speak openly and frankly to each other? Do they tell the truth and share what they really think and feel? Or do they withhold and defend, or promote their own ideas rather than truly hear other's perspectives?
Your organization will only produce results to the degree to which it unleashes the potential of its people, and that all starts with your leaders and how they communicate.
Walking the Talk of Change will radically improve your leaders communication skills, first with each other, and then with everyone they touch. They will listen more—really listen—and foster engagement and commitment like never before. They will develop both speaking and listening skills that will enable them to have far greater impact with each other and the people in their organization. Communication for impact and results...it is a profound skill set.
Catalyze Personal Breakthroughs in Your Leaders Today
You’ve been there. Too many times. Bored in leadership development programs that skim the surface and teach cookbook answers that cannot be applied in the real world.
Walking the Talk of Change is different. First, it is experiential, a deeply personal journey of change. Second, it causes leaders to truthfully and honestly confront their style, behavior, and quality of relationships. Third, and most powerfully, it addresses the underlying beliefs and assumptions that cause your leaders to lead as they currently do.
The result is real breakthrough—a radical transformation of your leaders’ current way of thinking, behaving, and operating that produces substantial improvements in their skill, performance, and results.
But keep in mind, there is no fairy dust or magic remedy, no new model or answer given in this program. The results happen because your leaders get engaged in a profound search into what is true about themselves as people and as leaders. What emerges is a clear understanding of how they currently are, a definite choice about who and how they want to be, and a deep-rooted commitment for personal change. It is deep. It is immediate. It is sustainable.
Achieve Both Business and Change Results
WTTC delivers critical business and change-related results because it is fully customized to address and resolve your leadership team’s real-time issues.
Customization: It is the only way you can get the results you need.
Your WTTC programs will be customized to drive whatever business or change-related outcomes you deem most essential
now. For example, we could customize your WTTC programs to support: (1) creating your organization’s vision or strategy,
(2) realigning your business systems or processes, (3) modeling your desired culture, or
(4) improving your customer service.
Whatever your focus, Walking the Talk of Change improves your leaders’ ability to navigate the turbulent waters of change that your organization faces right now.
Maximize the Contribution of Your Employees
Walking the Talk of Change will increase your leaders’ ability to manage the human side of your business and change efforts.
Most leaders are technical experts first, and people experts last. As leaders of change, your leaders need to become equally proficient in both areas.
WTTC teaches your leaders the underlying principles of effective human interaction, including motivating and inspiring commitment in others, communicating for impact, making decisions and sharing power, building relationships, sustaining trust, and resolving differences. They learn the power of aligning to a shared vision, acting as one unified team, sharing information and resources across boundaries, and providing feedback for course correction.
Walking the Talk of Change deeply integrates within your leaders what it takes to lead the human side of your organization’s transformation.
Build Internal Capacity to Lead Transformation
By delivering WTTC throughout your organization, you can build the critical mass of positive behavior required to truly transform your company.
Leadership must occur everywhere in your organization, not just at the top. Conducting WTTC throughout your organization will powerfully build momentum for change. As your senior leaders adopt, communicate, and model the required new ways of being, working, and relating, those below will begin to believe in your fundamental changes. Buy-in will increase and your employees will feel more secure and confident to make change in themselves. A positive chain reaction will ensue, and so
many of your employees will be walking the talk of your change that your organization’s transformation will become unstoppable.
Transform Your Culture
Perhaps the most powerful application of Walking the Talk of Change is transforming your culture. By tailoring the program to address the behavior and style changes required in your leaders to model your desired culture, you will impact thousands of daily human interactions in your organization. The net result: your employees will directly experience the shift of your culture in the way they are treated, communicated to and engaged with on a daily basis. Not only does this make your culture change credible, it instantly makes it real!
Audience
This program is designed for leaders (all leaders: from senior executives to mid-level managers to first-line supervisors), project managers, change consultants, change project team members, and others who must model your transformation in word, behavior, and action.
Program Materials
Program materials include the Self Mastery CD, and a Training Manual complete with all of the key models and tools.
Format
Pre-session interviews with participants. Three and one-half days at an offsite executive retreat center of your choosing. One-day follow up session one month later. Optional: additional monthly or bi-monthly change leadership development and/or team development sessions.
Call us to explore how this session can fit your specific needs:
970-385-5100
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