About Bill Lang

Bill Lang has over 25 years professional experience working as an organisation strategy and development consultant and C-suite Executive Coach. Early in his career he worked with KPMG, McKinsey &Co., Bain & Company and AXA as an Executive. His clients operate in over 50 countries and on all continents. He is former member of the Melbourne University Commerce Faculty and holds a MBA(Harvard) and B.Comm/LLB (Hons). He is the author and creator of the Scores on the Board skill development and improvement system.

5 Tips for increasing your productivity at work

By |2020-04-22T10:51:59+10:00July 29th, 2015|Best Practices|

Many leaders will agree with the statement “there are not enough hours in the day!” Most of us, not just leaders alone, will experience periods of time where we struggle to manage the pressures of a heavy workload and find ourselves wishing for an extra few hours in the day (or days in the week). [...]

Zenger & Folkman’s Leadership Tent – Interpersonal Skills

By |2020-04-22T10:51:59+10:00May 29th, 2015|Leadership development|

The fourth tent pole of the Leadership tent puts into one cluster the interpersonal or ‘people skills’ of the leader. Interpersonal skills include: communicating powerfully and prolifically, inspiring others, building positive relationships, developing others, and being open to new ideas. Along with Character, this pole is thought to support the most canvas on the tent. [...]

Zenger & Folkman’s Leadership Tent

By |2020-04-22T10:52:15+10:00January 29th, 2015|Leadership development|

In their book “The Extraordinary Leader”, Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman look at research on leadership skills. They demonstrate that not only can leadership be developed, but that essential leadership skills are relatively few in number. They found that very few leaders possess the entire essential skill set, nor do they possess similar patterns of [...]

The importance of Emotional Intelligence in the workplace

By |2020-04-22T10:52:15+10:00October 30th, 2014|Methodologies|

Emotional Intelligence (EI) refers to a person’s ability to accurately identify and understand their own emotional reactions and those of others in a given situation. In particular, it is the ability to perceive, control and evaluate these emotions. The skill of regulating one’s own emotions and the ability to make sound decisions and act effectively [...]

Keys to Managing Change in the workplace

By |2020-04-22T10:52:16+10:00September 4th, 2014|Methodologies|

It is hard to deny that one of the greatest challenges facing organisations today is change – but it is also one of the greatest opportunity areas to create better value for your clients and remain relevant in a fast-moving market. Organisations and their leaders must therefore understand how to lead the business and engage [...]

Leverage Learning & Development for Success

By |2020-04-22T10:52:17+10:00July 24th, 2014|Methodologies|

In 2012, Full Circle Feedback conducted a survey which examined the current priorities and practices of Australian HR Professionals.  Survey respondents indicated the area of Learning, Development and Career as one of the better performing HR functions across their organisations. Of more significance, the area of Learning, Development and Career was consistently rated as important [...]

8 Ways to be an Optimistic Leader

By |2020-04-22T10:52:17+10:00June 5th, 2014|Leadership development|

Optimism is one of the most underrated tools of success for leaders. Not only does a leader’s positivity create a better working environment, but an optimistic leader has been found to be seen as a more effective leader. Although people may find it difficult to see past some of the hard realities in your industry, [...]

The 10 Secrets to Leadership Success

By |2020-04-22T10:52:17+10:00May 12th, 2014|Leadership development|

There are many articles, books and forum topics out there about what skills and characteristics ensure leadership success. It’s a topic in which everyone seems to have contrasting views and opinions on. However, through my years of experience there are 10 characteristics I have seen to continually stand out among the leaders who achieve leadership [...]

Creating an emotionally compelling team vision

By |2020-04-22T10:52:18+10:00April 14th, 2014|Methodologies|

In workplace terms, a ‘vision’ is the end goal that an organisation wishes to achieve as a result of all of its work and interactions with its clients. An organisation’s vision can differ from ‘being ranked the number one retailer in Australia’ to something smaller in nature such as, ‘to have a united team that [...]

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