A popular keynote speaker and workshop leader, Bill has an energetic, entertaining style of communicating content. All presentations are fully customized to your business context, but here are some of the topics Bill enjoys addressing:
The Discipline of Focus
Laser-Like Leadership from Strategy to Execution
It takes two things to succeed in business today: sound strategy and consistent execution. Rarely are both present at the same time. Some businesses charge ahead at 100 miles-an-hour in completely the wrong direction. Execution without strategy. Others have great, even brilliant, ideas that never get done. Strategy without execution. This presentation addresses the mastery of both of these essentials, applying the discipline of focus to impact your marketplace in a powerful way.
Five Choices of Extraordinary Leaders
Critical Decisions that Transform Your Business (and Your Life)
Leaders are ordinary people: flesh and blood with feet of clay. Leaders become extraordinary, however, when they decide to act differently when confronted with the challenges of succeeding in business today. This presentation explores five critical choices leaders must make to transform their organization, and, perhaps, their life. Bottom line: Extraordinary leaders are ordinary people who choose the path of excellence in everything instead of the status quo. Will you be extraordinary?
The Paceline Principles
What It Really Takes to Have Great Teams
Teams are all the rage. We have executive teams and sales team, product development teams and cross-functional teams. Most teams, however, are not teams at all but mere committees, or worse, a disconnected group of people thrown in a room together. Not only do these groups waste precious time and energy, but they miss the powerful synergy that real teams achieve. Drawing from the world of competitive cycling, this presentation explores exactly how a true team is formed and how it gets things done.
When Talk Gets Tough
Communicating Effectively in Conflict
It’s one of the most important leadership skills to possess and one of the hardest to master: conflict resolution. When talk gets tough, your company’s culture can be poisoned with toxic, negative emotion and your leadership credibility eroded beyond repair. In this presentation you’ll learn in a humorous, entertaining way the critical keys to communicating effectively with your people when the stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong.
Time Management is Broken
Focus not Efficiency is Key to Getting Things Done Today
Traditional time management is broken. Traditional time management says this: Do you have 10 things to do today? I can show you how to do 15. Do you have 15 things to do today? I can show you how to do 20. But what happens when you have 30, 40, and even 50 things to do every single day like we do now? No amount of efficiency can meet these demands. The secret to getting things done today is focus not efficiency, doing more by doing less. That is the premise of this intensely practical, contrarian approach to managing your time.