A Day of Courage
Morning program: Courage at Work: Unleashing Your Inner Lion
Afternoon program: Manage Fear, Master Life ®: The "Business" of Courageous Problem-Solving
Click to view a video of Shawne Duperon talking about her afternoon program, Manage Fear, Master Life ®: The "Business" of Courageous Problem-Solving
Courage at Work: Unleashing Your Inner Lion
The workplace is fraught with daily challenges—challenges that may provoke fear, stress, or even excitement; but challenges nonetheless. These challenges can undermine our performance or inspire our courage; allowing us to step up to challenges, assert innovative ideas, and seek out leadership opportunities…all for the good of the organization.
The Courage at Work 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 during the workshop include:
- The “case” for courage, and why it is the premier personal and professional virtue
- Research on the debilitating impacts that fear has on performance
- The differences between two different leadership dispositions, Fillers (encouragement) and Spillers(discouragement)
- Three distinct types of courage:
- TRY Courage: The courage of action, initiative, and innovation
- TRUST Courage: The courage of vulnerability and cooperation
- TELL Courage: The courage of “voice,” truth-telling, and assertiveness
- How even individual contributors without an official title can impact environments to support courageous behavior
- Tips on how to be more courageous and how to inspire more courageous behavior among others
Audience:
Anyone who wants to enlarge their Courage Capacity so they can meet organizational challenges with more confidence and less fear!
Note: Each participant in Bill's session will receive an individual Courageous Leadership Profile.
Biography:
Bill Treasurer is founder and Chief Encouragement Officer at Giant Leap Consulting (GLC), a courage-building company that exists to help people and organizations live more courageously.
Prior to founding Giant Leap Consulting, Bill was an executive in the change management and human performance practice at Accenture, a $25 billion dollar management consulting firm. Bill became Accenture’s first fulltime internal executive coach, where he coached Accenture senior executives to become more courageous leaders.
Bill is the author of the internationally bestselling book, Courage Goes to Work. The book provides practical strategies for inspiring more courageous behavior in workplace settings. Bill’s first book, Right Risk, was published in 2003 and is about how to take smart risks. It draws on Bill’s experiences as both an organizational development professional and as a daredevil athlete. 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! See videos of Bill in action at: http://www.youtube.com/user/GiantLeapConsulting
Bill holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin and attended West Virginia University on a full scholarship. He serves as board chairman for Leadership Asheville, is on the board of his local YMCA, and fights for the rights of people with disabilities. Most importantly, he is the father of three beautiful children, Alex, Bina, and Ian.
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Cost: $159 |
Dates & Times: Thu. 4/18/13, 8:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. |
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Manage Fear, Master Life ®: The "Business" of Courageous Problem-Solving

Every day you’re faced with dilemmas, problems and issues at work. But research shows, those who know how to courageously deal with business discomfort flourish in their jobs. Six-Time EMMY® winner Shawne Duperon and founder of Project: Forgive takes you on a journey of courageously facing difficult work-related tasks and conversations, to finding peace and—yes, forgiveness—at work. You’ll learn how to spot a problem and nip it in the bud, courageously communicate as a leader (formal or informal), and create more peace and harmony at work for yourself and others.
We'll address fear at work through:
- Causing small talk with colleagues and bosses
- Finding a mentor
- Putting your best marketing face forward
- Awkward conversations
- Managing long-term problems
- Gossip in the workplace
- Communication leadership skills that produce results
- Conflict tools for smooth communication
Biography:
Six-time EMMY® Award winner Shawne Duperon has been in the television business for nearly 20 years. She has taught thousands across the globe how to powerfully communicate in business. She works with corporations, universities, government agencies and business owners teaching you how to strategically create epidemics in traditional and social media that exponentially grow your business or career.
Shawne has interviewed most presidents, and hundreds of sports stars and celebrities. She’s has replaced Bill Ford of Ford Motor Company when she spoke at the Department of Defense and is slated to speak to 4000 students this summer in Africa. She’s currently a PhD candidate, creating leading-edge research on the relationship between mass media and gossip. One of her personal passions is the work she does with multicultural groups to help delete media stereotypes.
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Cost: $159
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Dates & Times: Thu. 4/18/13, 1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
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