by Jason Treu | Jun 7, 2018
Great day yesterday doing a session on self-awareness and emotional intelligence to increase performance, collaboration and innovation with the Houston-Galveston Area Council. We discussed how to remove blind spots and patterns that sabotage success, along with two questions that allow you to much more effectively and efficiently manage others, and manage your relationships.
Fantastic group of motivated and engaged individuals.
Also met with one of the top oil/gas companies and narrowing down a date for a workshop with Houston PRSA for October.
by Jason Treu | Jun 2, 2018
Team Building Exercise: Mad-Libs
According to all the recent data, including Gallup poll, employee disengagement is at an all-time high. Internal and employee surveys are not telling the whole story of what’s going on.
The organizations that spend time creating close connections through sharing activities are seeing significant productivity and performance returns. Creating psychological safety is the foundation on which all great teams are built. Without it, a team will be underperforming according to the research and my observations of more than 70+ teams.
For example, people who have their best friend at work perform 7x higher than the average employee in that organization. Also, people on teams who share more information about themselves perform higher.
Why? People who share more like the people around them more just by being able to open up.
Exercise:
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by Jason Treu | May 21, 2018
Maximize team performance (and all metrics) by getting people to care about each other. It trumps everything else. You can hire “b” players and be much farther ahead then if you have “A” players and people don’t care about each other.
The fastest way to increase revenue, profit, and satisfaction isn’t through training it’s through better relationships.
“The researchers found out what distinguished the ‘good’ teams from the dysfunctional one was how teammates treated one another. This was much more important than even if all the members were exceptionally bright.”
It starts with team building.
Get my free breakthrough game that 3,000 people and 50+ organizations (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, PRSA Dallas, Interview Connections, etc.) are using, Cards Against Mundanity. It’s simple to play and comes with all the instructions. It takes five minutes to set up and delivers a huge ROI immediately afterward.
Here’s a testimonial from Google senior leaders on my workshop two weeks ago in NYC: “The workshop and game were excellent: the team was very appreciative of the event, and it kept coming up as one of the best experiences they’ve ever had. As a manager, that was great to hear. Throughout the following two days, we hosted some guests from other groups, and we asked them to answer random cards in front of the audience: some of their answers were surprisingly deep and instantly helped to establish trust between them and our teams.”
by Jason Treu | May 18, 2018
THE #1 question to ask your boss every single week is, “What is your single greatest priority this week?” How your boss answers it will help you prioritize and you can offer up suggestions. Think about it: Your boss will go to bat for you if you focus on helping them with their priorities. #management #leadership #careeradvise #successprinciples
by Jason Treu | May 16, 2018
Here is my presentation at the PRSA Dallas May Event, “The Secret to Strong Teamwork and Collaboration that Leads to Innovation, Engagement, and Happiness.” We also played my game, Cards Against Mundanity.
Feedback from the head of programming, Jennifer Little, for Dallas PRSA:
Overview of My Speaking Engagement at PRSA Dallas:
Collaboration is taking over the workplace. With employees spending more than half their time working together, teamwork is critical to organizational success and market leadership. However, according to Gallup, almost 70% of employees are disengaged and it’s costing U.S. businesses $550 billion every year.
After spending three years interviewing more than a thousand individuals, including leaders and teams in Fortune and Forbes Top 10 Workplaces, Jason Treu has discovered specific strategies and activities any organization can do to quickly increase engagement and performance as well as work better with internal and external teams.
Join us for the PRSA Dallas May luncheon to hear how teambuilding and strong group connections can lead to productivity, exciting innovation and job happiness. This session will help change and improve the way you work with any team and is ideal for any communication setting including agency, corporate, nonprofit, government and consultants.
We’ll cover together:
- Why disengagement and lack of trust is killing team success
- The “secret” strategies for building high performing and innovative teams
- The simplest way to inspire others and work well in group settings
- Specific activities you can do quickly make working in teams a positive experience
- Tips for managers that need help engaging one team member or many
- Play Cards Against Mundanity my team building game that deep relationships in minutes
by Jason Treu | May 16, 2018
Spoke to the Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Ambassador group today on building high performing and innovative teams. Fantastic group of individuals. They played my game, Cards Against Mundanity, and saw how to apply internally and externally with other people outside their organization.
Here is the feedback from the organizer’s of the event:
