Leading a group of natural leaders can be tough, but Brain Trust member Bill Treasurer can help
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Bill Treasurer 
Bill Treasurer is founder and Chief Encouragement Officer at Giant Leap Consulting. Bill is the author of Courage Goes to Work, Right Risk, and co-author of The Leadership Killer: Reclaiming Humility in an Age of Arrogance.
Bill Treasurer has also served as chief editor of Positively M.A.D. (Making A Difference), a compilation of stories from world-renowned experts that inspires readers to make a difference in their organizations. Gannett newspapers calls it “required reading for all employees contemplating putting a co-worker’s tie through the shredder — with the co-worker still attached.”
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, Entrepreneur, Woman’s Day, Redbook, Fitness, and The Harvard Management Update.
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!
Since 1993 Bill has conducted over 500 corporate workshops designed to strengthen people’s leadership skills, improve team performance, accelerate innovation, and help executives behave more courageously. Among others, Bill has led workshops for NASA, Accenture, CNN, EarthLink, The Home Depot, SPANX, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Bill is also a frequent keynote speaker, sharing his risk-taking experiences with groups across the country. Download Bill’s Speaker Profile.
Bill Treasurer has also served as chief editor of Positively M.A.D. (Making A Difference), a compilation of stories from world-renowned experts that inspires readers to make a difference in their organizations. Gannett newspapers calls it “required reading for all employees contemplating putting a co-worker’s tie through the shredder — with the co-worker still attached.”
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, Entrepreneur, Woman’s Day, Redbook, Fitness, and The Harvard Management Update.
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!
Since 1993 Bill has conducted over 500 corporate workshops designed to strengthen people’s leadership skills, improve team performance, accelerate innovation, and help executives behave more courageously. Among others, Bill has led workshops for NASA, Accenture, CNN, EarthLink, The Home Depot, SPANX, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Bill is also a frequent keynote speaker, sharing his risk-taking experiences with groups across the country. Download Bill’s Speaker Profile.
Category: Leadership, Ethics, Trust
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Bill Treasurer joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the seven critical elements of professionalism, including caring and customer service, as the platform for launching a successful career.
Bill Treasurer joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why professionalism is powerful and critical to your career, and why the fundamental element of it is character.
Bill Treasurer joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the seven critical elements of professionalism, including caring and customer service, as the platform for launching a successful career.
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Books by Bill Treasurer
The hardest part of a manager's job isn't staying organized, meeting deliverable dates, or staying on budget. It's dealing with people who are too comfortable doing things the way they've always been done and too afraid to do things differently ----- workers who are, as Bill Treasurer puts it, too "comfeartable." They fail to exert themselves any more than they have to and make their businesses dangerously safe.
Treasurer, a courage-building pioneer, proposes a bold antidote: courage. He lays out a step-by-step process that treats courage as a skill that can be developed and strengthened. Treasurer differentiates what he calls the Three Buckets of Courage: TRY Courage, having the guts to take initiative; TRUST Courage, being willing to follow the lead of others; and TELL Courage, being honest and assertive with coworkers and bosses.
Aristotle said that courage is the first virtue because it makes all other virtues possible. It's as true in business as it is in life. With more courage, workers gain the confidence to take on harder projects, embrace company changes with more enthusiasm, and extend themselves in ways that will benefit their careers and their company.
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Leadership is the most overanalyzed, thoroughly dissected, and utterly confused topic in business. In Leaders Open Doors, author Bill Treasurer helps lighten the leadership load by distilling that leaders are simply creators of opportunity for others. Using personal stories and anecdotes, Treasurer presents the idea of open-door leadership–that is, the responsibility that leaders have for noticing, identifying, and creating opportunities for the benefit of people, organizations, and society. Each chapter includes useful and specific tips that can immediately be put into practice.
Drawing on two decades of consulting experience, Treasurer introduces six unique opportunity doors:
the proving-ground door
the thought-shifting door
the door to a second chance
the doors you open for others
the door to personal transformation
the door to your open heart
Treasurer shows that leadership isn’t a complex and abstract concept. It’s a set of practices and ideals passed from one person to another, across organizations and generations. It is a tradition that makes people’s lives better by opening doors of opportunities for them to thrive, achieve, and lead.
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From Publishers Weekly: Teamwork and leadership consultant Treasurer here encourages readers to take risks calculated to catapult them out of the lukewarm safety of mediocrity and into "an intimate encounter with the magnificence of their own souls." He chooses intriguing anecdotes, often from his seven years as a member of the U.S. High Diving Team... to illustrate how to take good risks... He offers 10 principles to encourage such healthy risks, from "finding your golden silence" ...to "exposing yourself" emotionally... His clear, colloquial chapters encourage readers to overcome inertia, write "risk scripts" and turn fear into a positive force. Admonitions to go ahead and be imperfect and embrace the possibilities inherent in risks-whether they're professional or personal-should spark many readers to vow to live more deliberately, energetically and authentically, and the questions Treasurer poses to readers at each chapter's conclusion are helpful tools for self-guidance.
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Courage is the elemental, but often overlooked, key to business success. But how do you create a courageous workforce? How can you, as a manager, help your workers to take risks, confront crises, and deal with company and industry changes? Bill Treasurer shows how to systematically develop courage in your employees, just like you develop any other workplace skill. He draws on his years as a top courage-building consultant to offer a proven approach for inspiring workers to leave their comfort zones and harness their fears so they step up to challenges more readily. Ultimately, a courageous workforce is a more energetic, innovative, and productive workforce.
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