William T Batten
Helping folks and organisations overcome what holds them back.
Quirks and Foibles
Writing Addict
I write and publish thousands of words a week. Get between me and my keyboard, and we’ll have problems.
Expert Dungeon Master
I’m one of those rare weirdos who prefers DMing to playing. I run a couple of campaigns at any given time, with dreams and designs to run more. Raised on D&D 4e, I embraced D&D 5e because I love fast, flexible combat.
Avid Reader
Ask me how many books I’m reading right now – I can’t tell you. I favour non-fiction to fiction 5:1 or so.
Scholar of the Mind
I like thinking about thinking, and thinking about that. Ancient philosophies, modern neuroscience and everything in between.
Public Speaking Junkie
One time, I did a standup comedy routine based on fish puns. I honestly don’t understand folks who don’t like public speaking. Yeah, it’s terrifying – that’s what makes it fun. It’s like a video game, only more visceral.
Based on the Psalms (Playlist)
Old Poems for Modern Men (Playlist)
If change is inevitable, what are you doing to change for the better?
Habits, corporate culture, skills, attitude, organisational trust – they all transform over time. With the right focus and investment, they can all improve quickly and easily.
Key Skills
Marketing
Achievements
Books Published
How to Improve
Memory is Your Consciousness
Reignite the West
Every Creative Way
The Virtus Path
Flavours of Charisma
Your Story Isn’t About You
I Wrote This on a Monday
Call of the Gods
Footprints
Get the Most Out of Hypnosis
Selling Transformation
Affirmation Bivouac
Motion Mind: 3 Hypnotic Ways to Learn to Love Exercise
Waking Dreaming: A Manual
The Ultimate Advantage
Conversation Hacker
Three-Score Navike
Mind Habits
Your Mind Inside
Neuroscience for Hypnotists
Find Your Life’s Purpose
Creative Thinking for Teams
Design Process Thinking
Courses Published
Forget SMART Goals – Use DUMBDUMBER Goals Instead
Fun, Friends & Flexibility
The Ultimate Advantage
Write Like a Demon: Effective Tips for Productive Writing
Email Marketing Mindset
Digital Marketing for Coaches and Hypnotists
Introduction to Content Marketing
Introduction to Christianity
Intro to Regular Expressions
Seminars Delivered
Fun, Friends & Flexibility: an eLearning Philosophy
(EdTechPosium, 2018)
Moving from Face-to-face to eLearning
(EdTechPosium, 2017)
Teaching Creativity to Teams
(Forward Government Learning, 2017)
Education and Training
Hypnosis as an Application of NLP
Richard Bandler – Oct 2025
The Bunny Talk Process
Claudia Rickards – Oct 2025
Body Synergy
Melliodora Grove – Sep 2025
NLP Trainers Training
James Tsakalos – Jun 2025
Manipulating the Matrix
Alex Stefan – Jan, Jun, Aug 2025
The Art of Being YOU
Amy Bell – Aug 2023
Hypnosis Training
Paul Mischel – Oct 2022
Master Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming
James Tsakalos – 2022
Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming
James Tsakalos – 2021
Diploma in Training Design & Development
CIT Solutions – Nov 2016
Cert IV in Training & Assessment
CIT Solutions – Oct 2015
Behavior Master Practitioner
Applied Behavior Research – Sep 2019
Behavior Practitioner
Ellipsis Behavior Research – Jan 2019
Hypnotherapy Diploma
Hypnotherapy University – 2017-2019
Conversational Hypnosis Mastery
Hypnosis Training Academy – May 2018
Conversational Hypnosis Professional Hypnotherapy 2.0
Hypnosis Training Academy – Jun 2017
Training with People in Mind
Deep Blue Learning – Jun 2014
Bachelor of Science (Nanotechnology)
UNSW – 2006-2009
Learning & Development Portfolio
So your Training Needs Analysis has identified a skills gap. Your next step is to figure out what sort of gap that is:
Simple Skills aren’t necessarily easy to do. People can spent years mastering them. What makes them simple, though, is you can easily take someone from a novice to a practitioner.
You know what it takes for someone to pull their weight with this skill.
For a sample of mine, check out my Using Regular Expressions self-paced course:
For Complex Skills, they’re harder to teach. Experts don’t know everything about what makes them so good, because so much comes down to the art of it.
Presenting and learning design are like this – difficult to explain the gap between the good and the great. Learn my approach in my Deeper Training and Learning self-paced course:
That brings us to Cultural Gaps – situations that span across teams. Are your people conservative when they need to be assertive? Procedural when they need to be innovative?
Cultural change takes real thought to successfully manage. To learn more about my approach to it, read my Organisational Trust White Paper:
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