Leadership Keynote and Workshops

The Four Choices of an Extraordinary Leader: Critical Decisions that Defy the Status Quo

Leadership affects everything, from the success of a Fortune 500 company to the survival of a small non-profit, from the engineer in research and development to the salesperson making a dozen calls a day. The reason for this is clear: water can’t rise higher than its source.

What that means in real life is the success of your company is entirely dependent on the quality of your leaders. It’s as simple–and as challenging–as that.

Too many leaders, however, are leaders in name only. They play it safe and cling to the status quo. That’s not leadership, that’s gamesmanship.

Real leaders defy the status quo–the ordinary and the predictable–and choose to be extraordinary. The Four Choices of an Extraordinary Leader is focused on the critical decisions that make this a reality.

In this keynote address leaders will learn:

• How to embrace the true nature of authority and have their people trust them fully and follow them completely.
• How to transform the one thing that ensures the success, or guarantees the failure, of any initiative in your company: culture.
• How to get beyond merely talking about vision and actually getting it done in the real challenges of your marketplace.
• How to put their “own oxygen mask on first” so they can better serve those who are traveling with them.

Bill Zipp’s communication style is energetic and entertaining. With a last name like Zipp, how could it be anything else? He also brings high quality content and powerful personal stories to every keynote presentation.

Audiences perfect for this keynote address are: 

• CEO’s and senior leaders who want to build a thriving business and do so in a way that the people in that business thrive as well.
• Frontline sales managers and their managers who have been successful in sales and want to experience the same success in leadership.
• Business owners who realize they need to be more than a genius with a thousand helpers and become an effective executive leader.
• Leaders of non-profit organizations who know for their cause to change the world they must be the ones who create the conditions for that to occur.

Your presentation was amazing!  These past two quarters have been fantastic for me with the majority of my team coming in well above 100%, including myself.

Thank you, Bill. There is still so much to change and learn, but what an eye opener it was.

Camilla Ramberg, CiscoWebEx
The Netherlands.

Leadership Workshops

A Leader’s Secret Weapon: The Power of Positive Praise

The carrot and the stick are poor motivators in the workplace because they do not move people from within. Positive input, encouragement, and genuine appreciation, however, have the proven power to motivate people from the inside out. It can become your secret weapon!

In this workshop leaders will learn:

• How to create the kind of work environment where employees give 100% effort 100% of the time.
• How to change their focus to “catching people doing things right ” and build the relational equity needed to be effective when things go wrong.
• How to customize the recognition and reward they give each individual so that it has maximum impact.
• How to form a habit of praise so it’s an ongoing practice, not the rare event.

How to Lead When Talk Gets Tough: Mastering Your Crucial Conversations

Medieval magicians claimed to be able to turn lead into gold. Modern day leaders, however, actually achieve this feat when they respond to the crucial conversations that occur everyday and turn them into an opportunity for increased understanding and improved teamwork.

This “magic” is one of the most important leadership skills to learn, but one of the very hardest to master.

In this workshop leaders will learn:

• How to identify a crucial conversation when it arises and move forward in it with greater effectiveness.
• How to sort through the many conversations that occur in a day and decide which ones are crucial and which inconsequential.
• How to create the context where even the most difficult discussions can be conducted to move the organization forward.
• How to present their point of view clearly and simply without others reacting to it.

The Smart Leader’s Guide to Personal Productivity: A Four Step Strategy for Living

Traditional time management is broken beyond repair. 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 50 things to do every single day like we do now? No amount of efficiency can get this much done in a day. So here’s a different approach to personal productivity, a strategy for living and leading well.

In this workshop leaders will learn:

• How to put their “own oxygen mask on first” so they can better serve the people traveling with them.
• How to get started doing the one thing that ensures the highest levels of productivity.
• How to adjust to the changing demands of a day while still doing what matters most, both personally and professionally.
• How to deal decisively with the constant distractions that destroy productivity, like email, meetings, and media.

Bill Zipp brings fun, interactive exercises to every workshop presentation. In other words, he doesn’t lecture for 90 minutes! Bill’s communication style is energetic and entertaining. With a last name like Zipp, how could it be anything else?

This was simply the best leadership training I’ve received in my corporate career. From the classroom to one-on-one coaching with Bill, the content was exceptional and the sessions incredibly fun and interactive.

Greg Littleton, Regional Sales Director
Concur Technologies