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#1 Question to Ask Your Boss Every Week

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

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PRSA Dallas Presentation on Secrets to Great Teamwork and Collaboration

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

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How to Get Employees Engaged at Work

Jason Treu returns to Vroom Vroom Veer for episode #3 to talk about how to get people to like and trust each other at work, a fun game called “Cards Against Mundanity” and a little bit about self-awareness.

From Jason Treu’s website:

“You know those times when everything lines up perfectly and you want to pump your fist and yell, “YES!!!”? We all have those brief moments when we’re at our best. Everything flows powerfully and naturally. We’re like Michael Jordan shooting the ball into the hoop. Like Adele hitting that impossible note.

Most people reach that place infrequently at best. They spend their entire life searching for it, just to keep hitting dead ends. I’ve solved this. When you work with me, “peak state” becomes your normal state. I help top people like you smash through goals, build extraordinary relationships and become a leader who easily hits the high notes and makes the shots.”

Jason Treu Vroom Veer Stories

How to use “Card Against Mundanity” in a team building workshop to help people connect and create deeper relationships
Wanted to do a TEDx speech and wanted a topic with real impact; followed “grounded research”; let the data lead you to the conclusions rather than having a theory and prove or disprove it
Found project “Aristotle” which was Goggle’s attempt answer the question; How do we build the perfect team?  How do we re-invent the company to increase everything across the board?
One key finding is that a team of ivy league super stars doesn’t make a high performance team
The #1 key factor required found universally in all high performing teams was “psychological safety” which includes 1)  vulnerability,  2) caring;  3) sharing; knowing people on a deep personal level
People can throw out crazy ideas and questions; and those are not only supported; but the group actually wants and encourages team members to share them
Teams of average people with psychological safety consistently out perform teams of “superstars”
In traditional teams with “super stars” you may have 1 or 2 leaders generating all the ideas in a group of 10; when you have 10 “regular folks with psychological safety you are getting 10 people working in a true collaboration
Senior people in leadership roles have less self-awareness and almost always assume they are right; where as average people are more open to thinking they might be wrong
Google this:  Harvard debate team lost to a team of prison inmates
People believe that trust leads to vulnerability; the opposite is true; sharing vulnerability leads to building trust
Once trust and friendships are established in teams, people are motivated and inspired to work harder to avoid disappointing their teammates and friends; they do this because they know their teammates care about them personally and professionally
Professor Arthur Aron 1997 asked the question:  “How can we enable people to become fast friends?”  54 grad students played a question and answer game for 45 minutes; 30% said they made closer relationships than they ever had in their lives
No one questions a leader if they drive a company to earn $1 billion; no one asks the question; do your employees like each other
Part of the magic of the “game” is that the cards are random and it’s not a stranger or someone you don’t like asking the questions, it’s just a random card in a game, so the fight or flight mechanism is bypassed automatically and people feel safe to share
A highly developed skill can hide a lack of self-awareness; like a great sales person is really not a very good manager but they get by because of their high skill in sales; a person who is more self-aware and socially aware may not be a great manager but will be aware and open enough to learn from others what corrections need to be made
A leader with low self awareness asks for help to improve performance; the team says the boss doesn’t listen.  What doesn’t work is just tell the boss that the team says he doesn’t listen; he will shut down.  If you look for the pattern in the bosses history that supports the behavior; you can help the boss change that pattern is small easy ways.

Jason Treu Connections

Jason Treu’s Website

Cards Against Mudanity

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SMOKING AND LONELINESS BOTH DEATH THREATS: IS WORK THE POTENTIAL CURE?

SMOKING AND LONELINESS BOTH DEATH THREATS: IS WORK THE POTENTIAL CURE? Check out my podcast on the Dov Baron Leadership Show where we discuss why employee engagement is ridiculously low, why your career is killing you, why teams underperform and cost organizations in the US $550 billion dollars, and much more.

I had a fantastic conversation with Dov, and I think you will enjoy it too.

 

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Fantastic event at the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

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:

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Make Selling Easier By Being Perceived As A LEADER

Jason Treu is a world-class executive coach. On this episode of The Salesman Podcast, Jason explains what a “leader” is and how we can become one to make closing deals simpler. It’s his 3rd time on the Saleman podcast, and we love having him back!

What you will learn in this episode:

In this episode Jason shares –

Why you need up your standards and treat yourself as an “industry leader”
How to uncover “personal information” and use this to build know, like and trust quicker
That leadership traits are naturally the traits of a great sales professional

Resources mentioned:

JasonTreu.com
CardsAgainstMundanity.com
@JasonTreu
Jason on Linkedin

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Changing your Future Story

If you don’t like your current story, it’s not too late to change your future story. Jason Treu tells us how we can create a blueprint for our future.

In today’s episode, we discuss creating a career blueprint, realizing your potential, removing your blindspots, the highs and lows of entrepreneurship, finding happiness and fulfillment, purpose, the social aspects of business, drive versus motivation, and much more.

Jason Treu (Troy) is an executive coach who works with corporate executives, rising stars and entrepreneurs to help them maximize their leadership potential, performance and build and execute their career blueprint (which can including starting their own business).

He’s the best-selling author of Social Wealth, a how-to-guide on building extraordinary business relationships.

He was a featured speaker at TEDxWilmington 2017, where he debuted his breakthrough team building game Cards Against Mundanity. That will help improve team performance, communication, and collaboration in as little as 45 minutes.

Finally, he is the host of the Executive Breakthroughs podcast which brings game-changing CEOs, entrepreneurs, and experts that share their breakthroughs and breakdowns.

Interview Segments – This is where you can find each section of the interview.

Intro / About Jason: 1:00 minutes

Interview: 7:26 minutes

Rapid Rire Questions: 58:24 minutes

Website:  http://www.jasontreu.com/

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How We Hold Ourselves Back

In this episode of Quit Bleeping Around®, awesome superachiever, author, and former FBI violent crime analyst and senior manager Christina Eanes interviews superachiever Jason Treu. Jason is an executive coach who works with executives, entrepreneurs, and rising stars to maximize their leadership potential and performance. He is a TEDx speaker where he spoke about a breakthrough team building game, Cards Against Mundanity, as well as the author of Social Wealth, a how-to-guide on building extraordinary business relationships. In this episode, Jason talks about being vulnerable to build quality relationships, how we hold ourselves back, and shares networking secrets.

If you’d like to learn more about Jason, visit his website at JasonTreu.com.

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Great Team Building Workshop at Google in New York City

Led a fantastic and courageous global team at Google through team building workshop that builds deep and trusted connections to increase performance and innovation.

It fantastic and I showed them the business ROI along with it (not some woo-woo thing). We broke off into groups after the presentation and played by game, Cards Against Mundanity.

It was amazing to see people open and share their breakdowns, values, deeply held beliefs and life lessons.

I can already see they have huge opportunities to increase performance and innovation (and they will achieve it together). I’ll be excited to see how things progress over the next 90 days.

 

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Business Relationship Supercharger #6: Empowering Yourself

Here is your #6 business relationship supercharger, empowering yourself, from my book, Social Wealth…

Supercharger #6: Empowering Yourself

Your success is directly correlated to your psychology because your thoughts turn into the actions you take and the results you generate. Your mind is extremely powerful, and it will either propel you forward or cripple you. You need clarity, focus, and compelling motivations to move toward the life you want. It’s critical to remove inner conflicts that may be holding you back as well. You also need to create your business plan, and understand why you want what you want in your career. Don’t live your life as a sailboat hoping to drift to the right destination without a map or GPS; your chance of getting where you want to go is very low.

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