Prepared Speeches
Bill is represented by WCD Speakers
Agency, and provides the following keynote speeches
Agency, and provides the following keynote speeches
A Blueprint for Harmony
TAKEAWAYS:
- Transferring our focus from ME to WE embodies Consideration, Respect and Tolerance of other’s thoughts, ideals and beliefs
- We all have limited personal bandwidth: Our time on earth is best spent constructively, not destructively.
- The mere acts of listening, and then considering common ground, move the needle of societal harmony.
DESCRIPTION:
Living in an interconnected world of mutual dependence, acrimony and division not only prevent progress, but make us question the very purpose and benefit of society. The common threats to our shared existence range from agreement about fundamental questions, such as individual rights and how we should govern ourselves, to disease, climate change, and inequality. The more time we spend arguing our differences, the less we have to find commonality and solutions. And the less we appreciate that at our very core, we are social animals who not only thrive with each other, but need each other. To move beyond outdated Us vs Them thinking we must truly hear each other, learn how to compromise, and become a WE not me world.
Read More Living in an interconnected world of mutual dependence, acrimony and division not only prevent progress, but make us question the very purpose and benefit of society. The common threats to our shared existence range from agreement about fundamental questions, such as individual rights and how we should govern ourselves, to disease, climate change, and inequality. The more time we spend arguing our differences, the less we have to find commonality and solutions. And the less we appreciate that at our very core, we are social animals who not only thrive with each other, but need each other. To move beyond outdated Us vs Them thinking we must truly hear each other, learn how to compromise, and become a WE not me world.
The Post-Covid Workplace
TAKEAWAYS:
- Post Covid, the workplace power hierarchy has been inverted
- The biggest challenge facing Virtual Corporate America, when a common physical workspace is no longer the norm, is how to mentor, build comradery, maximize creativity and productivity and build internal brand and loyalty.
- Companies who consider and prioritize the interests and needs of their employees, will paradoxically enhance the company’s interests that they subordinated.
DESCRIPTION:
Corporate America, post covid, has never before faced such a novel set of simultaneous circumstances: Empowered employees, vanishing workforce, and virtuality as a new desired norm. Often, the consideration of We (the employees) has been less of a priority than the Company’s interests, often the bottom line. The new generation of workers won’t have that anymore, and the corporate world, large and small, needs to consider holistically their workforce. Further, the virtual workplace has created additional challenges of how to mentor and train, maximize employee creativity, productivity, comradery, and interconnectedness, and maintain employee loyalty.By re-architecting their structural focus, by changing the conversation from “we need” to “what do you need”, businesses can start to meet and best these challenges that they now face
Read More Corporate America, post covid, has never before faced such a novel set of simultaneous circumstances: Empowered employees, vanishing workforce, and virtuality as a new desired norm. Often, the consideration of We (the employees) has been less of a priority than the Company’s interests, often the bottom line. The new generation of workers won’t have that anymore, and the corporate world, large and small, needs to consider holistically their workforce. Further, the virtual workplace has created additional challenges of how to mentor and train, maximize employee creativity, productivity, comradery, and interconnectedness, and maintain employee loyalty.By re-architecting their structural focus, by changing the conversation from “we need” to “what do you need”, businesses can start to meet and best these challenges that they now face
Choosing to be Happy
TAKEAWAYS:
- Positivity is a subjective state of mind we create
- We can dramatically affect our inner well-being by adjusting our expectations and perspectives
- By limiting negative external exposures and maximizing positive ones we can maximize our positivity
DESCRIPTION:
Most people go through life thinking that happiness is something that happens TO them- due to success in business, making a lot of money, getting scores of thumbs up on social media or other external validators (that aren’t fully within their control). Most don’t realize that the elusive feelings of contentment and positivity are based upon internal factors that are fully within their control. That happiness is a subjective perspective, and a perspective that is their choice.
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