Bill Strickland Super Session
The super session I went to yesterday was done by Bill Strickland, and it was unbelievably powerful. I can’t do it justice in a blog post, frankly, but I wanted to share what a powerful session this was. Bill has an amazing story, building a training center in a poor neighborhood in Pittsburgh that provides world-class training in areas ranging from art to medical technicians.
What was most inspiring to me was Bill’s clarity of purpose and his simple but powerful conviction to get things done. He was faced with the same barriers that we all face in organizations—the same lack of resources, the same opposition, the same societal obstacles—but they just didn’t phase him. He was clear, and he got it done. He’s evidence that we underestimate our own power.
His key message, by the way: It’s the way you think about people that determines their behavior. People are a function of expectations. Bill trains poor people, and he treats them like world-class citizens in his programs. And they produce extraordinary results.