Bill Carr

Topics

• EMCEE
• DEEP SERVICE: A CALL TO A HIGHER LEVEL!

• "You gotta serve somebody…” – Bob Dylan
  
  Every industry is a service industry; every life a life of service at some level. Whether at work, in our community, or in our home life – we do in fact, serve somebody. As leaders and managers, we serve our company, our fellow employees and our clients; and to an important, and often neglected sense, we serve our community, our society and our world. At home we serve our families, our neighbourhoods, and again our society and the world.
  
  Using humour and a rich sense of humanity, Bill helps his audience explore how each individual, at every level of an organization, and the organization as a whole, can re-craft and reframe their work life and personal life to be one of *Deep Service*. You will laugh; you will think, and you will change.
  
  *Note: All of Bill Carr’s keynotes and workshops involve research into each particular audience and the material specifically tailored to the individual needs. This is in fact an example of *Deep Service *and adds real value and meaning to every presentation.

• LIGHTEN UP: CREATING YOUR FUTURE WITH A POSITIVE APPROACH TO CHANGE

• A word we often hear in the workplace is Change! In response to this, people are being told to innovate, be creative, but the response may be cries of frustration and even burnout! Quite simply, people who have been maintaining the status quo are not prepared for creative and innovative thinking, just as a couch potato is not prepared to suddenly run a marathon.
  
  In this workshop, people are prepared for creative action and innovative responses in the face of change. Myths about creativity are removed. You are shown the simple mechanisms of the creative process. Learn how to develop a creative culture in your workplace and personal life thereby enhancing your creative process and the creative potential of those around you. Everyone is inherently creative. This workshop proves it.

• HUMOUR & CREATIVITY

• Humour & Creativity – a serious (but not solemn) approach to thinking and play in Business and Life.
  Everyone has humour and is creative. It is a sad fact, however, that there are those who have had these lifesaving, invaluable natural talents suppressed by everyone from parents through teachers, friends, spouses, bosses and co-workers, to the greatest creativity buster – ourselves.
  
  This workshop is designed to help you discover how to get past your fears and the censorship of your mind placed there by society. It will show you how to have more humour and creativity in all facets of your life. We explore the creativity and humour needed in key relationships – you to your work, you to your family, and you to yourself.
  
  The four steps of creativity are examined: preparation, incubation, illumination and verification. We talk about fools, clowns, humour and where humour fits in the creative cycle. A discussion of expectations and stereotypes, their use and abuse, is also included.
  
  This is a workshop for business people, managers, employees, spouses, teachers, government workers, students and everyone else who could use a richer approach to problem solving, teamwork and the fuller, richer, living of their daily lives.

• ACTING UP! TAKING YOUR PERFORMANCE TO THE NEXT LEVEL

• William Shakespeare said… ‘All the world’s a stage…" What happens when we seriously apply this truth to our work and lives? Bill Carr uses his extensive professional experience as a theatre artist to help you take your performance to the next level. By helping you understand your leading role Bill directs you toward achieving the performance of your life.
  
  Knowing that the fundamentals of theatre are in essence the fundamentals of one’s professional life- with effective dynamic communication at its very core, Acting Up! explores such issues as:
  
  Motivation: beyond the paycheck . Internal and external expectations. The joy of improvisation through change. The significant dynamics of collaboration the roles we play. Action and interaction. The rules written and unwritten that permeate your culture. The nature of character, yours and the organization's.
  
  Casting: putting you in the lead role. Who are the principle characters in your life and work? What are their strengths and weakness? What are yours? What is your motivation? What is theirs? What is the arc of your character?
  
  Bill’s workshop can run for a morning or a full day. It also can be used as a keynote to open or close a conference or for a noon hour burst of enthusiasm and vision.
  
  Essential to the success of these workshops is the research that Bill does before each and every event. This material is presented with a thorough knowledge of the audience and participants. Each workshop and keynote will be specifically tailored to your people and their specific needs.

• RIGHT ON! HUMOUR TO THE POINT

• For over twenty years Bill has been making people laugh at what’s trivial while helping them think about what counts. Bill’s unique blend of humour and insight inspires laughter and consideration; offering his audience a fresh perspective on what they face everyday. He studies his audience and takes on the themes of their event, to help everyone focus on those things that matter to them. His humour is always directed straight to the point of the event in order to help achieve the out comes which the organizers are working so hard to achieve. Aware of any and all sensitivities Bill takes aim at the foolishness and foibles while staying on point when it comes to those issues which really need attention.
  
  Bill’s theory is we always learn best while laughing. Bill’s insights come from the individual research he puts into each and every speech as well years of researching and speaking to every major industry and organization in the country. From health care and insurance industries, to educators and construction workers, from surgeons to interior design, from farm workers, to factory workers, white collar, blue collar and no collar at all Bill gets inside the audience and finds out what matters to them the most. Bill says, “You’re always the most ticklish where you’re the most sensitive. That’s why the research is so critical.”
  
  Right On! Humour to the Point will further the theme of your event while leaving the audience laughing and the mood positive and up-beat. Laughter is truly the best medicine and Bill offers just the tonic you need.

• A GIVING SPIRIT: SELLING YOUR SOUL

• This plenary session is about finding ways to communicate a spirit of giving and of seeing the role altruism plays in our society and in us in a new and dynamic way. Who, what, when and where are important questions in any gift planning situation; but not as important as the considerations around the why?
  
  This session will illuminate the deep 'why' at the heart of giving. It will also celebrate where your mission is working and provides hope and fresh insights to those who spend so much time working on behalf of others.

• Round Table Talking

• This workshop is about communication at a deep level. It is about talking and listening and creating and dealing with a group of only sometimes “like” individuals. It is about how to team talk, team think and team create by enhancing the ability of each member of that team to connect with one another.  Whether you dealing with intergenerational difficulties, creative visioning for the future, challenges currently being faced, teambuilding, talking down the silos that inhibit corporate growth and effectiveness, or just simply improving interoffice communications, Round Table Talking is a dynamic means to explore and recreate.

  
  It incorporates the values and practices of aboriginal people’s talking circles from around the world with the understanding derived from recent advances in neuroscience and communication theory. How effectively we communicate is more complex than just being articulate. It involves a number of very human mechanisms, which use different aspects of our brain, our social reality and our experience.  It is more than just “talking” it is about how to set up conditions for real in depth discussion which can lead to break through ideas, deeper relationships and a safer, healthier work environment.

  
  The session begins with a brief keynote on the fundamentals that will be at play in the workshop, followed very quickly by exercises of the principles involved in real Round Table Talking.  Talking the talk comes before walking the walk and thinking the thought comes before that.

  
  Round Table Talking explore such questions as:

  • Is what we are saying what we mean? - And how do we determine that?
  • Is what we are saying what people are hearing?  And how do we know?
    What is “empathic listening”?
  • How does it differ from simply listening?
    Where is this coming from?
  • What really generated the ideas and or emotions that are being manifest at any given time?
  • How do we talk about the “tough stuff” effectively? And do so without making it tougher? 
  • How come I can talk to everyone but you?
  • How do we talk when we don’t “get along”? 

   These questions and more are explored and strategies revealed that can make communication clearer, safer and more productive.  Each session is developed with the specifics of each audience’s needs clearly in mind. Do they need more teamwork or more creative communication? Do they need help with difficult subjects or even difficult people? Are there specific problems they need a collective mind to truly explore? All this and more can be addressed in Round Table Talking.

  It’s a workshop your people will be “talking” about for a long time after its over.  Bill creates a safe, effective and fun environment, in which his audience will explore communication on a deeper and more profound level. This highly interactive workshop is fun and fundamental. Round Table Talking helps groups and individuals realize the truth that two heads are better than one and three is better than two and… well, you get the picture. Now, book the workshop!