Courageous Leadership: Using Courage to Transform the Workplace

 Speaker:

• Bill Treasurer, Giant Leap Consulting, Inc.
  

Date: Thursday, June 30, 2011

Time: 10:00AM Pacific / 1:00PM Eastern (60 Minute Session)

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Session Description

This workshop will provide practical strategies for building workforce courage so workers can become "opportunity seekers". A step-by-step approach for using courage to improve performance and counteract the negative impacts of workplace fear will be introduced. When everyone is working with more courage, the entire organization is transformed for the better. Research shows that courageous workers seek out leadership opportunities, step up to challenges, offer innovative ideas, passionately embrace change, and are more productive. In short, courageous workers get work done!

Key concepts covered in this workshop include:

• Three distinct types of courage and how to differentiate among them

• How to create an environment that supports courageous behavior

• The differences between two different leadership dispostions, Fillers (encouragement) and Spillers (discouragement)

• Tips on how to be more courageous and how to inspire more courageous behavior among those you lead

Learner Outcomes:

• Knowledge of current research about the negative impacts of fear on performance, and how courage can be used to overcome them.

• How to distinguish between three different, but equally important types of courageous behavior.

• Specific actions you can take to promote and encourage more courageous behavior within your own work environment.

Who Should Attend:

• Executives who wish to transform their organizations.

• Independent consultants who wish to build courage in the organizations they serve.

• New leaders who want to have more confidence, or are struggling with a lack thereof.

• Emerging leaders or those aiming to have more leadership influence.

Bill Treasurer is founder of Giant Leap Consulting, and the author of the new off-the-shelf training program, Courageous Leadership: Using Courage to Transform the Workplace. Learn more at: www.pfeiffer.com/go/courage.

Bill is widely recognized as pioneer in the new organizational development practice of "courage-building", and is author of Courage Goes to Work (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2008), an internationally bestselling book about how to build workforce courage.

Bill is also a former member of the U.S. High Diving Team, and performed over 1500 high dives from heights that scaled to over 100 fee. His insights about workplace courage have been featured in over 100 national newspapers and magazines.

Bill has worked with many renowned organization including, Accenture, NASA, Spanx, the US Forest Service, CDC, PNC Bank, Highmark, American Family Insurance, and the US Department of Veterans Affairs.