What Bill Weingartner Talks About:

The 6 Types of Working Genius.
Bill Weingartner explains how understanding The 6 Types of Working Genius is the fastest way to help people identify the type of work that brings them joy and energy, and avoid work that leads to frustration and burnout.

This presentation takes audiences through their own personal discovery and gives teams a remarkably simple and practical framework for tapping into one another’s natural gifts, which increases productivity and reduces unnecessary judgment.

Bill brings his model to life with fascinating stories and examples that are as relatable they are compelling. What sets this presentation —and the model behind it—apart from other talks is the speed at which it can be understood and applied, and the relevance it has to every kind of work in life, from running a company to launching a product to managing a family.

The Ideal Team Player
In this presentation, Bill reveals the three indispensable virtues—humility, hunger and people smarts—that make some people better team players than others. He explores the power this combination yields, and illustrates how team members with these traits drastically accelerate the process of building high-performing teams. This approach has served as the basis for hiring and evaluation at his own firm for the past two decades, and now offers an effective method for leaders to identify and cultivate true team players in any organization. Whether you’re a leader striving to bring about a culture of collaboration, a human resources professional looking to recruit real team players, or an employee who simply wants to make yourself a more valuable team-member, this talk will provide insights that can help you change your organization, or your career.

The Advantage
Bill makes the overwhelming case that organizational health will surpass all other disciplines in business as the greatest opportunity for improvement and competitive advantage. While too many leaders are still limiting their search for advantage to conventional and largely exhausted areas like marketing, strategy and technology, he demonstrates that there is an untapped gold mine sitting right beneath them. Instead of trying to become smarter, he asserts that leaders and organizations need to shift their focus to becoming healthier, allowing them to tap into the more-than-sufficient intelligence and expertise they already have. He defines a healthy organization as one that has minimal politics and confusion, high degrees of morale and productivity, and very low turnover among good employees. Drawing on his work consulting to some of the world’s leading teams and reaffirming many of the themes cultivated in his other bestsellers, Bill reveals the four steps to achieving the ultimate competitive advantage.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
According to Pat Lencioni, teamwork remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare. Bill makes the point that if you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time. Based on Patrick Lencioni’s runaway best-seller, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Bill uncovers the natural human tendencies that derail teams and lead to politics and confusion in so many organizations. Audience members will walk away with specific advice and practical tools for overcoming the dysfunctions and making their teams more functional and cohesive.

Getting Naked
Based on the principles in Lencioni’s book, Getting Naked, Bill presents a revolutionary and counterintuitive approach to client service that yields uncommon levels of trust and loyalty. Naked Service| as Lencioni calls it, provokes consultants and service providers to be completely transparent and vulnerable with clients and to avoid the three fears that ultimately sabotage client allegiance. Learn principles like enter the danger| tell the kind truth| and always consult instead of sell that can help you establish a fiercely loyal client base. Whether you are an internal or external consultant, financial advisor or anyone else serving long-term clients, you will glean some powerful tools for overcoming the three fears, and gain a real and lasting competitive edge.

Silos, Politics and Turf Wars
In this talk, Bill tackles a prominent symptom of corporate frustration: silos, the invisible barriers that separate work teams, departments and divisions, causing people who are supposed to be on the same team to work against one another.  Silos and the turf wars enable devastate organizations by wasting resources, killing productivity and jeopardizing results. Drawing from Lencioni’s book, Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars, Bill provides leaders with powerful advice on how to eliminate the structural obstacles that derail organizations. Urging leaders to provide a compelling context for their employees to work together, His model gives leaders a simple tool for enabling clarity, unity and alignment in their organizations.