Bill Treasurer

For newcomers and management alike, leadership can be overwhelming and overcomplicated. By building core tenets of leadership around two key words in each chapter, Bill Treasurer simplifies the equation. Congratulations, new leader! You've joined the ranks at during an exceptionally complicated time. Our current workplace climate is fraught with political divisions, economic disparities, and ever-shifting social dynamics. Leaders are managing remote teams across larger geographic distances and facing new roadblocks to onboarding, giving performance feedback, and nurturing healthy relationships. With only a meager amount of leader development support and training across organizations, leaders are simply not being set up for success. Leadership Two Words at a Time speaks directly to the plight of new leaders. Rather than overintellectualize the practice of leadership, Bill Treasurer breaks it the concept up into essential and understandable nuggets of information, summed up by a two-word header, that provide the practical guidance and support that organizations often lack. The result is time-tested wisdom that new leaders can grasp immediately and implement easily--and, with a little practice, master completely. This book gives you the basic building blocks to gain both competence and confidence, take on greater responsibility, and earn the long-time trust of your organization.

Simple Truths for Leading Complicated People

Leadership Two Words at a Time

Leaders Open Doors 

Leaders Open Doors presents a fresh and unique take on leadership that will benefit experienced leaders and those just starting their leadership journeys. With a little courage, anyone at any level can be a leader.

A Radically Simple Leadership Approach to Lift People, Profits, and Performance

Leaders Open Doors

Leadership is the most overanalyzed, thoroughly dissected, and utterly confusedtopic in business. In Leaders Open Doors, author Bill Treasurer helps lighten theleadership load by disti lling that leaders are simply creators of opportunity forothers. Using personal stories and anecdotes, Treasurer presents the idea of opendoorleadership-that is, the responsibility that leaders have for noticing, identifying,and creating opportunities for the benefit of people, organizations, and society. Eachchapter includes useful and specific tips that can immediately be put into practice.Drawing on two decades of consulti ng experience, Treasurer introduces sixunique opportunity doors:* the proving-ground door* the thought-shift ing door* the door to a second chance* the doors you open for others* the door to personal transformati on* the door to your open heartTreasurer shows that leadership isn't a complex and abstract concept. It's a setof practices and ideals passed from one person to another, across organizations andgenerations. It is a tradition that makes people's lives better by opening doors of opportunities for them to thrive, achieve, and lead.

Deals with taking risks wisely. Teaching to take risks, this book offers first-hand accounts from risk-takers.

10 Powerful Principles for Taking Giant Leaps with Your Life

Right Risk

"I got to open doors for people!" These seven simple words, spoken by author Bill Treasurer's five-year-old son, cut straight to what matters most about leadership: True leaders open doors for people. This radically simple concept is the heart of Leaders Open Doors. This book presents a fresh and unique take on leadership that will benefit experienced leaders and those just starting their leadership journeys. With a little courage, anyone at any level can be a leader. Drawing on two decades of experience, Treasurer: combines personal stories and anecdotes to illustrate how (and how not) to inspire the people you lead reveals the four most important skills that any aspiring open-door leader must hone introduces six unique opportunity "doors"--Each door offering a chance for leaders to shift the perspective of their followers.

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Courage Goes to Work

If you're like most people, you could stand to take more personal and business risks. Of course, you'll want to do that in a thoughtful and calculated way so as to reduce the likelihood of getting harmed. The good news is, this resource is designed to help you do just that: help you take risks more thoughtfully and decisively while reducing the chance of wiping out.Strangely, it's not the fact that Bill Treasurer is a risk-taker that qualified him to write this material. It's the fact that he takes risks when he's afraid. He built his entire business around this concept. Two decades ago, renowned author and Fortune 500 business coach Bill Treasurer quit a six-figure job to strike out on his own and founded Giant Leap Consulting as the world's first courage-building company. Since then, his company has taught courage-building workshops to thousands of leaders and employees in twelve countries on five continents. Much of the material here is drawn from that work.Getting out into your discomfort zone, by facing challenges that are hard and scary is how you build your courage. Courage isn't fearless. It's fearful! When you face a big consequential decision, or when you make a big bold work move, you are full of knee-knocking, teeth-chattering, palm-sweating fear...but if you persist despite those fears, you're being courageous.As you immerse yourself in this material, you'll discover the different types of risks, why and how exactly to harness fear to tap into your strengths, and create a roadmap for how you'll play it less safe in life and at work so that you can live in a bigger, bolder, louder, and more courageous way!

How to Stack The Odds In Your Favor

Risk Taking and Decision Making

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Right Risk is about taking more deliberate and intentional risks in an increasingly complex world. It is about all the things that happen to you when you are planning for, engaging in, or running from, a risk. It aims to answer such questions as: How do I know which risks to take and which to avoid? How do I balance the need to take more risks with the need to preserve my safety? How do I muster up the courage to take risks when it is so much easier not to? How do I confront all those people who keep telling me what a mistake it would be to take the risk? And, most importantly, How do I make risk-taking less of an anxiety-provoking experience? (You'd probably take more risk if you just plain enjoyed it more, right?)

John Ryan

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 author Bill Treasurer puts it, too ''comfeartable.'' Such workers fail to exert themselves any more than they have to, equating ''just enough'' with good enough. By avoiding even mild challenges, these workers thwart forward progress and make their businesses dangerously safe. To combat this affliction, Treasurer proposes a bold antidote: courage. In Courage Goes to Work, he lays out a comprehensive, step-by-step process that treats courage as a skill that can be developed and strengthened. He Treasurer shows how managers can build workplace courage by modeling courageous behavior themselves, creating an environment where people feel safe taking chances and helping workers deal with fear. To make the concept of courage more concrete, Treasurer identifies 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. He illustrates each with a variety of vivid real-world examples and offers proven practices for helping your workers keep each bucket full. 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 necessary 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. Courage Goes to Work is the first book to take a systematic approach to developing a vital but overlooked component of business success.

How to Build Backbones, Boost Performance, and Get Results (16pt Large Print Edition)

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 author Bill Treasurer puts it, too "comfeartable." Such workers fail to exert themselves any more than they have to, equating "just enough" with good enough. By avoiding even mild challenges, these workers thwart forward progress and make their businesses dangerously safe. To combat this affliction, Treasurer proposes a bold antidote: courage. In Courage Goes to Work, he lays out a comprehensive, step-by-step process that treats courage as a skill that can be developed and strengthened. He Treasurer shows how managers can build workplace courage by modeling courageous behavior themselves, creating an environment where people feel safe taking chances and helping workers deal with fear. To make the concept of courage more concrete, Treasurer identifies 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. He illustrates each with a variety of vivid real-world examples and offers proven practices for helping your workers keep each bucket full. 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 necessary 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. Courage Goes to Work is the first book to take a systematic approach to developing a vital but overlooked component of business success.

How to Build Backbones, Boost Performance, and Get Results: Easyread Edition

“This is one of the most unique and valuable books you will read all year, and I highly recommend it.” —Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the bestselling and award-winning The Leadership Challenge and Dean's Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University Even the best leaders—in fact, most of the best leaders—start out as decidedly bad ones. And sooner or later they reach a moment of reckoning that leadership expert Bill Treasurer calls the leadership kick in the ass. When it happens, it feels like it's all over. But Treasurer says that with the right attitude, that kick can be a new beginning. Based on his work with thousands of leaders, this book reveals how to turn those ego-bruising events into the kind of transformative experiences that mark the paths of great leaders. As Steve Jobs famously said, “Getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to me.” This book is a survival guide, coach, and morale booster to help you use that kick to move forward instead of fall down. If you succeed, the next place you get kicked might be upstairs.

How to Learn from Rough Landings, Blunders, and Missteps

A Leadership Kick in the Ass

This comprehensive trainer's guide offers consultants and facilitators a step-by-step approach for using courage to strengthen leadership skills, improve performance, and counteract the negative impacts of fear in the workplace. The Courageous Leadership workshop provides trainers the tools needed for a 1/2-day or full-day workshop. The program modules can be presented as a standalone workshop or integrated into the organization's existing leadership development initiatives. This comprehensive guide also includes samples copies of the Courageous Leadership Participant Workbook and Profile as well as instructions for accessing an exclusive trainer's web page with customizable PowerPoint presentations for an executive briefing and the workshop.

A Program for Using Courage Transform the Workplace

Courageous Leadership Trainer's Guide

This small card is a takeaway that facilitators can provide to Courageous Leadership Workshop participants to remind them of the three buckets of courage as well as the fillers vs. spillers concept. The primary purpose of the workshop is to help leaders build their own courage and teach them strategies and techniques for building courage in their constituents.

The Courageous Leader Card

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Self-rated assessment, developed in conjunction with the Courageous Leadership Workshop, helps leaders build their own courage and learn strategies and techniques for building courage in their constituents.

Courageous Leadership Profile

Bill Treasurer's book starts with an immovable truth: sooner or later, everyone fails at leading, especially when new at it. When it happens, Treasurer calls it "a leadership kick in the ass." But fear not, by mastering the skill of "confident humility" you can move from rejected to respected.

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 author Bill Treasurer puts it, too "comfeartable." Such workers fail to exert themselves any more than they have to, equating "just enough" with good enough. By avoiding even mild challenges, these workers thwart forward progress and make their businesses dangerously safe. To combat this affliction, Treasurer proposes a bold antidote: courage. In Courage Goes to Work, he lays out a comprehensive, step-by-step process that treats courage as a skill that can be developed and strengthened. He Treasurer shows how managers can build workplace courage by modeling courageous behavior themselves, creating an environment where people feel safe taking chances and helping workers deal with fear. To make the concept of courage more concrete, Treasurer identifies 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. He illustrates each with a variety of vivid real-world examples and offers proven practices for helping your workers keep each bucket full. 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 necessary 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. Courage Goes to Work is the first book to take a systematic approach to developing a vital but overlooked component of business success.

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