Bill Carr

Bill Carr’s New Workshop: Work Inspired

In this new, challenging economic reality – which faces us all, how can we Work Inspired?

• What is life teaching you?
• Who and what is toxic in your life and who and what are the tonics?
• What does best practice mean in a radically changing environment?

These and many other questions are explored in Bill Carr’s Work Inspired.

Humour and creativity have been Bill’s specialty for over twenty-five years. In Work Inspired, Bill combines years of research in the area of creative response to change and keep a healthy perspective in unhealthy times. Using humour and insight, he lifts and celebrates what is the new reality to help bring inspiration and passion back into the work you do.

Bill also focuses on empathy (“contagious inspiration”,) mental force and the new ideas stemming from the latest research into how our brains work. Nurturing relations can re-wire our neural scripts and change surviving into thriving. An inspired perspective can turn tragedy into strategy and improve teamwork to create a new and vital work life.

“How we feel and think determines how we act and how we act determines our destiny. Life teaches us something new every day – it’s up to us how we learn from it.” Bill takes these truths and shows how to apply them to our new reality. He approaches these topics with humour and sensitivity as he explores with his audience exactly how to Work Inspired!

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. Perception drives performance. When our lives are seen from a *Service* perspective, it deepens our understanding of our place and mission in the world; hence the title – *Deep Service*

Deep Service: /Servant leadership explores the idea of servant leadership in your specific industry context. Servant leadership is a concept that is revolutionizing the workplace and adding depth and dimension to many lives and organizations.

Deep Service: /Servant leadership delves in to almost limitless possibilities of this idea when it comes to serving our internal customers.

*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 be creative and innovation resulting in ongoing cries of frustration and 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.

Goals:

To remove myths about creativity
Show the stages of the creative process
Open our language to creativity
Apply this workshop to specific problems
Set creative goals
Infuse enthusiasm into our careers and lives
Allow natural creativity to flow
Have a great time and laugh a lot!

Humour & Creativity

Humour & Creativity – a serious (but not solemn) approach to thinking and play in Business and Life.

This is a workshop that discusses a creative approach to business and life in general, that serves as a foundation for problem solving, teamwork and innovation.

This is a workshop that shows how creativity and humour involve seeing the ordinary in an extraordinary way.

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.

In this workshop we examine the four steps of creativity: preparation, incubation, illumination and verification. We talk about fools, clowns, humour and where humour fits in the creative cycle.

There is a discussion of expectations and stereotypes, their use and abuse.

As well, we explore the creativity and humour needed in key relationships – you to your work, you to your family, and you to yourself.

Some of the questions we play with are:

Where does creativity fit in your life?
What is a sense of humour anyway?
Are you a Bog Thinker?
What is the difference between serious and solemn?
How do interest, focus, freedom, wonder and engagement come into play in the creative process?
Do you moodle enough? Then of course, what is ‘moodling’?
What about communication of your creativity and humour? Not everyone gets it?

As well, there will be a number of questions arising as the workshop evolves. 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.

This entertaining, engaging, interactive workshop has been developed from Bill’s twenty years experience as a motivational speaker, and twenty five years as a theatre and film professional. His extensive work as an actor, director, producer and writer combined with years of research into companies and organizations from across Canada and beyond in his work as a humorous motivational speaker feed into one another to become what Bill calls his "life’s workshop." Bill’s theological and theatrical training, together with his business experience as an entrepreneur create a lively, fun, intensive, interactive and worthwhile event for you and your people.

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 organizations

This workshop is all about Communication, Change, Joy, Motivation, Performance, The Big Picture and People, People, People! The workshop headings will give you some idea of how these vital corporate and life issues are addressed:

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 will want to do before each and every event. This material is best presented with a thorough knowledge of the audience and or participants. As Bill draws on twenty years of professional speaking and twenty five years of professional performing he knows the importance of pointed research and a deep respect for his audience. Each workshop and keynote will be specifically tailored to your people and their specific needs.

Creating Your Future: A Positive Approach to Change

Any organization, as it ages, needs to rediscover what it is that motivated them in the first place and ask, in changing times – “What motivates them now?” Bill also asks that his audience “to see ordinary things in extraordinary ways” and proceeds to show them how to do just that. It is all about perspective and learning how to change ones perspective to meet the changing demands that this fast paced world offers. Bill touches on stress, perspective, motivation, and the true spirit of an organization and figures out what builds strength and what saps it. To use a maritime analogy, Bill discusses; what floats your boat and what sinks it? He also does extensive research into the organization to make his presentation relevant and timely. He’ll make you laugh and think and show you how to change your mind. This session was designed to help organizations move forward, celebrating the successes while accepting the challenges that they face.

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. This session 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.