February 24, 2011
This webinar focussed on actions you can take to be more courageous at work, and what you can do to inspire more courageous behavior among those you work with or lead. The concepts will be drawn from Bill Treasurer’s new comprehensive training guide Courageous Leadership: Using Courage to Transform the Workplace (Pfeiffer, 2011).
Aristotle said that courage is the first virtue because it makes all the other virtues possible. Courage is the lifeblood of leadership, entrepreneurialism and innovation. In fact, without courage those concepts don't exist! Yet, until now, there have been no training programs dedicated solely to building workplace courage.
In normal times, workers can be divided into two broad camps; safety-seekers and opportunity-seekers. But in times of economic instability, such as right now, the majority of workers become safety-seekers, often to the detriment of their organizations. When fear drives workers’ behaviors, they become distracted, afraid, and unproductive...just when their companies need them to be the opposite. Fear is bad for business.
Given the central role that courage plays in business, this webinar is highly relevant and timely. The webinar covered…
- The impact that fear and comfort has on individual performance.
- Three distinct types of courage and how to differentiate among them.
- How to create an environment that supports courageous behavior.
- The differences between managers who encourage workers, and those who discourage them. Bill calls them Fillers and Spillers.
- Tips on how to be more courageous and how to inspire more courageous behavior among those you lead.
Monster would like to thank Bill Treasurer for presenting this webinar.
Presented By:
Bill Treasurer
Founder, Chief Encouragement Officer, Giant Leap Consulting
Bill Treasurer is founder and Chief Encouragement Officer at Giant Leap Consulting (GLC), a Courage Building company that exists to help people and organizations live more courageously.
Bill is considered the originator of the new organizational development practice of “courage-building”. Bill is the author of Courage Goes to Work, a book about how to inspire more courageous behavior in workplace settings. The book became the 6th bestselling management book…in China!
Bill’s insights have been featured in over 100 newspapers, including The Washington Post, The NY Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Boston Herald, and Investor’s Business Daily. Bill’s insights have also appeared in such magazines as Leader to Leader, Leadership Excellence, Business-to-Business, Parents Magazine, Redbook, Women’s Day, Fitness, and The Harvard Management Update.
Since 1991 Bill has conducted over 500 corporate workshops and webinars for notable clients such as Monster.com, NASA, Accenture, CNN, SPANX, EarthLink, PNC Bank, the U.S. Forest Service, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Bill is a former member of the U.S. High Diving Team. For seven years he traveled throughout the world performing with a team of high performing athletes. During that time, Bill did over 1500 high dives from heights that scaled to over 100 feet...sometimes on fire!
Bill holds an MS degree from the University of Wisconsin and attended West Virginia University on a full athletic scholarship for springboard diving.
Learn more about Bill and his company at:www.giantleapconsulting.com, www.couragebuilding.com, www.couragegoestowork.com. See videos of Bill in action at: http://www.youtube.com/user/GiantLeapConsulting