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William Bridges
Job Shift and Transitions: Making Sense of Life\'s Changes
William Bridges is an expert in organizational and personal change management. His best selling books and his motivational speeches have helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies work their way through change in the business world and beyond.
William Bridges has delivered keynote addresses at professional conferences and organizational retreats in the U.S. and abroad. His presentations have been consistently rated as among the best and most useful. Key topics include the following:
Getting Your People Through the Wilderness: A Leader's Guide to Transition
True leaders help people leave their familiar world and travel in a new one. In this context, the story of Moses leading his people to the Promised Land is rich with meaning. Like Moses, modern-day leaders often find there is a lengthy time in the "wilderness" where people lose confidence and productivity sags. This speech describes the unique needs of people during this time and explains why meeting these needs is essential for change to succeed.
Managing Transition: Dealing Successfully With Change
This is a program for managers who have to keep people productive during a significant change. It parallels the leadership focus of the previous topic, but adapts it to meet the needs of people who were not part of the original decision-making group. This speech is built on the framework of the best-selling Managing Transitions.
Finding the Path to Self-Renewal
Many of us are running on empty. Exhausted from constant change and unremitting pressure, we long for rest and a fresh start. Based on extensive research and personal experience, Bridges shows how to turn these difficult conditions into a setting for self-renewal. He describes how, in the midst of difficult and challenging lives, we can find the hidden springs of new energy and purpose.
Working With People in Transition
This presentation is for anyone who works with people whose lives are disrupted by change. It demonstrates that many of the problems these people face are the natural result of being in transition. This speech, by the man who literally "wrote the book on transition", shows what people really need and explains how to help them to come out of such an experience strengthened by it.
Change-Proofing Your Career
Most career advice was designed when change was less frequent than it is now. That is why it falls short! It is no longer enough to recognize that change is likely and to have some idea how to "manage" it. Today you need to know how to turn change to your advantage and to create a career where changes are opportunities rather than disruptions. Based on his Fortune cover story, "The End of the Job," Bridges provides a plan for creating a career that will not be derailed by the changes that are so common today.
Managing the De-Jobbed Workplace
The full-time, long-term worker is no longer the norm. More and more work is being outsourced or done by "temps". These independent workers are often far better equipped for change than the managers who oversee them. This speech shows what managers need to do to be successful in this new world.
How The New Workplace Will Transform Human Resources
Everything in "Human Resources" is based on the outdated concept of "jobs." Hiring is "filling a job." Evaluation is rating how a person "does a job." Pay is based on "what a person's job is." Organizations are built out of people in job-boxes, the way a wall is built out of bricks. As the new workplace is dejobbed, this old concept of "HR" has become dysfunctional. Human Resources needs to re-think almost everything it does or is. This presentation shows how this effort must proceed
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