I had a strategy for Season 1 and it just took too long and it was too difficult to produce on an on-going basis. I wanted it to be an in-person audio/video interview where I interviewed game-changing professionals all over the US. It seemed like a great idea in my head and when I spoke to people, but the execution of it became overwhelming.
It took me a while, but now I’m going to be audio-only and focus on it not being perfect in everywhere.
Like life, it’s a learning process.
Here is what you will be in store for….
What is the Executive Breakthroughs Podcast?
It’s where high-performing executives, entrepreneurs, and rising stars, just like you, come to learn from their business heroes on how to make your unique mark on the world, maximize leadership and performance, create a culture of rockstar talent (i.e. be an expert team builder), become a great manager, and more. HINT: It takes more than bean bag chairs, a waffle bar, and all those perks on “Silicon Valley.”
We’ll talk visionary leadership, bold entrepreneurship, building epic teams and winning management styles. Wild creativity paired with disciplined productivity and great teamwork. Embracing fear, and stamping out impostor syndrome and limiting beliefs. Tiny missteps, and epic misfires. Mistakes you can skip, and strategies you can steal. (Because stealing pens and Post-it notes is for amateurs.)
This show will make you a better leader, manager, team builder, investor and — most important — a better thinker and problem-solver.
Executive Breakthroughs Podcast will teach you to:
Build the highest performing & most engaged teams to significantly increase your bottom line (i.e. you’ll become a team building expert!)
Identify & dissolve your hidden (& unconscious) patterns that are sabotaging your success (i.e. blindspots), and replace them with a new game-changing mindset and self-awareness
Maximize your leadership potential & performance, & find your unique superpowers to become the best version of yourself
New managers will learn strategies, best practices & tools to increase their effectiveness
Human resources professionals will learn how to maximize employee engagement and experience, resolve and mediate conflicts, create “world class” employee onboarding & new hire processes, deal with difficult employees, & much more.
Sales leaders will learn how to build the highest performing sales teams, skyrocket trust and rapport with customers & podcasts, more successfully manage others, work across the organization with other groups much better, & much more.
Master relationship building (and business networking) with reborn confidence, authenticity & charisma to create valuable social capital
On the HR Works Podcast we discuss how leaders can successfully step into vulnerability, how to build high performing teams and how to skyrocket employee engagement quickly.
“With organizations losing unbelievable amounts of money to poor employee engagement, I always wonder what stops leaders from properly addressing this problem. In this episode of HR Works, we find a critical ingredient to successful leadership and employee engagement: vulnerability.”
We also discuss how to use my free team building game, CardsAgainstMundanity.com, that more than 20,000+ employees are using to skyrocket trust, engagement, teamwork and performance.
This episode’s guest is Jason Treu, an executive coach who helps executives, managers, and employees to maximize their leadership and management abilities and perform at the highest levels. He provides coaching, workshops, keynote speaking, and other training services.
Jason also has “in the trenches experience” helping build a billion-dollar company and working with many Fortune 100 companies. He spent 15+ years working in marketing leadership positions in Silicon Valley working with influential leaders such as Steve Jobs (Apple & Pixar), Reed Hastings (CEO at Netflix), Mark Cuban, Mark Hurd (CEO at HP), Paul Wahl (President of SAP), and many others.
Jason Hartman talks with Jason Treu, author of Social Wealth: How to Build Extraordinary Relationships by Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Lead and Network. The two discuss ways that you can improve your social worth, expanding your network by focusing on others rather than on your own self.
The two look into the potential power of mastermind groups or just informal get-togethers, as well as why you should never let your network become stagnant. Click here to listen to the podcast.
Key Takeaways:
[1:29] The basic concept of social wealth
[4:38] The one downside to paying to be in the right room with experts
[8:01] Deep self-awareness is crucial to building relationships with other people
How healthy are the relationships at your office? The stats on this are scary, ugly and worrying. We are really bad at developing relationships at work despite being the place we spend almost a third of our life. It’s hurting productivity and it’s hurting the bottom line. But worst of all it’s hurting us. Especially our mental health. It’s a terrible state of affairs. We are so bad at developing healthy workplace relationships that it is making us disengaged and bad at our jobs.
The good news is that it’s not that hard to fix and doing so won’t cost a cent. Creating psychological safety at work is a passion for my guest this week. Jason Treu is an Executive Coach who has made it his mission to solve this workplace crisis. He’s the author of the book Social Wealth and the creator of the team building game Cards Against Mundanity. He’s a team building and culture development expert.
Lessons Learned
Disengaged workers cost money
The statistics about disengaged workers are startling. 70% of American workers describe themselves are disengaged. The cost to American business is on the order of $550 billion. Most people who quit their job do so because of their boss. Innovation in the economy is at an all time low. 86% of executives say collaboration isn’t working. The problem is at an epidemic proportion and very few businesses are doing anything about it.
Cliques are the enemy
There’s a real danger of cliques developing in every office. A small group of high energy players can come across as ‘exclusive’ to those who are less socially confident. There is a unique dynamic at work. We know that having friends is important for workplace engagement. But we’re asking people to be friends with people who might not ever have met in their personal lives. But each worker needs to understand that the only way for you to succeed is for your co-workers to succeed.
Really get to know your co-workers
People tend to know very little about their co-workers. But there is tons of research that reveals that more psychologically safe a person feels the better they perform. In 1997 a team of researchers developed a series of questions for strangers to ask one another. They were questions like “What kind of superpower would you like?” and “What makes you feel alive?”. Then the group was asked how close they felt to each person in the room. Many answered that they felt closer to these people than anyone else in their life. The experiment reveals how important empathy is in human relationships. Jason has replicated those questions in his own card game he calls Cards Against Mundanity.
How does trust between team members translate to better communication and higher performance? And how can you translate your trust-building skills to your sales calls in order to build rapport quickly?
Listen to me discuss how to build it quickly with team members and in sales with prospects (and customers) on the Predictable Prospecting Podcast:
To explore these questions and more, Jason Treu joins today’s podcast episode. Jason is an executive coach who works with teams to help them build trust and communication skills and increase performance. He’s also the author of the book Social Wealth. Listen in to hear what Jason has to say about the top issues in the sales industry today, how to turn a team into a cohesive unit, and how to build rapport in the first few minutes of a phone call.
Episode Highlights:
The top issues Jason sees in the industry today
The importance of hiring
Whether any type of team can be turned into a cohesive team
Where to start in building a trust mindset
The trust-building process
Building rapport in the first few minutes of a call
Jason’s book, Social Wealth: How to Build Extraordinary Relationships By Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Lead and Network
What can be done to start getting teams to high performance
Jason provides insights and alternative views of coworker relationships. He was generous with his time as he talked with me about his work focused on building deep levels of trust and extraordinary coworker relationships. Jason is an author, TEDx speaker, team building facilitator through the product he has launched, and a leadership consultant. Employees in every role will benefit from listening to this episode and considering how you can apply Jason’s guidance as you strive to build stronger relationships with the people in your life and retain your most valuable employees.
