Welcome!
12 Bear Secrets is a system of confidential Workshops inspired by bears and designed to make your goal success more predictable, repeatable and personally sustainable.
Just more Coaching? Consulting? Training?
This is not Coaching. Though it does involve self-discovery and choices for self-development.
It's not Consulting. Though we do provide you with quantitative and qualitative data insights and evidence-based recommendations.
It is Facilitation of a system of Workshops, focused on 12 high-impact leadership, influencing and self-leadership skills.
We focus on what matters most in real-life: your ability to deploy your leadership and influencing skills 'on the ground' and 'in the moment'.
Whether that's in the Board Room, on the shop floor, frontline, at home or anywhere in between.
Who is this for?
12 Bear Secrets is for you if you:
- value more bang for your buck out of your budget
- want to find or change strategic direction more quickly
- need reliable shortcuts to deliver your goals and outcomes
- believe big goals can be delivered without sacrificing your health and family, and the wellbeing of your colleagues
You may be an individual professional, or you may lead a team, in the private, public or third sector.
Examples include:
- CEOs and their teams
- Chief Operating Officers
- Finance, Legal, People or Change professionals
- Business Owners and Entrepreneurs
- Emerging talent who want smarter ways to lead
Are you facing any of these challenges?
A Wild Goose Chase
You're focused on delivering a set of hugely challenging goals. If you pull this off, huge bonuses and opportunities await. You've been here before. But somehow things feel different. Is it the sheer speed of change? The swirling uncertainties? The novel tech and situations? Teams misfiring? Unknown unknowns? Even if you've not been setup to fail, the stakes seem very high and the road ahead is far from clear.
How will you find strategic direction and a good path through the fog?
Your People are at risk of Giving Up
Are people in danger of giving up on your leadership? They may like you: love you even. But they feel they can't trust your leadership.
So they're looking to move on. Or even worse they're staying and just 'going through the motions' or 'working to rule'. No going the extra mile and no sharing that key knowledge you need but that is only in their heads.
It doesn't have to be that way.
Your People are at risk of Giving Out
Like me, you may have many friends who are no longer with us. Stroke, Cancer, Heart Attacks. They didn't get the chance to handle their stressors that bit better. Where they should be enjoying happy family times and maybe a fruitful retirement, they never got the chance.
Maybe physical health is ok. But what about family hurts? Who has given up on who? How can you heal those heartaches?
Don't let that be you.
Lead Tough Change without Getting Eaten Alive
Why Bears?
When it comes to achieving tough goals and handling uncertainty, ambitious human leaders and bears have much in common:
- we're high-impact, transforming the 'territory' we're in;
- we generate side-effects from our efforts, which can prove valuable to others;
- we value economy of effort;
- we have clear rules of engagement (even if we're not aware of it sometimes);
- we don't like losing;
- we must be able to 'feed': to fuel ourselves for today, tomorrow and what lies ahead;
- we have huge ability to nurture and fuel others;
- we often carry scars;
- we're survivors!
Why 12 Bear Secrets?
'BEAR' is an acronym dating from my proactivity research and practice over the last 30 years. This includes work at the Oxford Scenarios Programme, my prize-winning MBA project at Henley Business School and input from research at other centres of excellence.
The summary-level 'B,E,R' construct (Believe You Can, Energized To, Reasons To) is based on research by the world's leading authority on proactivity, Professor Dr Sharon K Parker.
I parachuted in the 'A' (be Attuned to the situation) based on my real-world experience.
These have been summarized into the 12 key success factors ('Bear Secrets') in our Model.
Unpacking the 12 Bear Secrets Model: BelieveYou Can Impact
1 Fuel Calling
How are you understanding and leveraging your 'Calling' to fuel your self-belief and goal achievement? How are you doing that - or can you do that - for others on your team?
2 Embrace Talk
Is your self-talk a friend or a foe in crisis situations? How do you respond to criticism, gossip, false accusations and lies? How do those things affect you? Are they assets or liabilities for you?
3 Clarify Paths
How do you find effective ways through perpetual uncertainty and recurring crisis? How easily do you wield scenario- thinking to cut through fog? How nimble are you at making futures techniques work for you and your team quickly and reliably?
Unpacking the 12 Bear Secrets Model: Energized to Impact
4 Spread Power
How do you cultivate and wield power? How do you feel about spreading power? Why would you want to do this? How do you go about doing that?
5 Treasure Autonomy
We've all heard that autonomy is valued by high-achievers at work. But what does this look like when it's effective? How can leaders fuel autonomy that supports team and organization goals without a descent into chaos and carnage?
6 Grow Impact
A growing body of research supports the idea that making frontline impact (even via 'back office' roles) fuels desire to make more frontline impact. It's a virtuous circle for Return on Investment, motivation, innovation and staff retention. So how can we feed those desires and outcomes in ways that are natural for all involved?
Unpacking the 12 Bear Secrets Model: Attuned to Impact
7 Align on Valued Goals
Do you know what personal goals are valued most by the members of your team? Your value chain? How quickly and easily can you pick up on changes in these values and goals? What shifts in performance can you expect from morphing and aligning your leadership styles to your team members' and organization's valued goals? How do you do that more easily and naturally?
8 Cherish Dignity
"There is nothing so finely perceived, and so finely felt, as injustice" wrote Dickens in David Copperfield.
Learn how to fuel the dignity needs of your stakeholders without bowing down to them. Experience the amazing impacts of this approach. Find options to correct situations where you have messed up in this space .
9 Love Deal-Making
How good are you at creating and making new and different deals? How effective are you at enlarging the cake so more people can get some good things out of any situation, however dire it may be? This BEAR Secret gives you options on how to create much better deals for much better results - with little effort!
Unpacking the 12 Bear Secrets Model: Reasons to Impact
10 Fuel Significance
Do you know what sort of significance your key stakeholders are looking for and that you can fuel? What does this mean to them? If you found easy ways to allow this 'need to feed' to occur, what impact could this have on the results you deliver?
11 Satisfaction
If there is one Bear that knows how to enjoy life, and to take challenges in its stride, it's the Giant Panda!
Let Pandas teach us how to achieve key goals while appearing to move at a leisurely pace.
12 Expand Legacy
Most leaders are concerned with Legacy, in some shape or form. What about you? Does this seem far off in the future, and so pretty irrelevant right now? What could be the impacts of building positive legacy routinely? How can you fuel that motivation in others for immediate results without it becoming a distraction?
Who is behind 12 Bear Secrets?
These Breakthrough Workshops were founded by husband and wife team David & Hazel Santineer, who work with a wide range of expert guest presenters.
We are accredited to use the world's leading tools that grow your adaptability and strengthen your handling of personal change: the Adaptability Quotient TM and the Scared So What Model and App.
David Santineer (Co-Founder and Lead Facilitator)
David has led high-performing, and also misfiring teams, in the private, public and third sectors.
His consultancy work has ranged from multi-£Bn impacts affecting millions of people, to assisting small, local not-for-profits.
David is Certified to deliver the highest level of AQ (Adaptability Quotient) and Scared So What consultancy. He's also an alumnus of the Oxford Scenarios Programme (used to to handle uncertainty) and other high-impact leadership programmes.
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Hazel Santineer (Co-Founder and Quality Assurance)
Hazel is a mathematician by background.
She has spent many years organizing upskilling events as part of a national STEM program in the UK.
In 12 Bear Secrets Hazel uses her Maths and education background to make your Workshop experience enjoyable, memorable, effective and high quality.
Hazel is a Maths & Education graduate of the University of Loughborough.