Jason Young

Culturetopia – The Ultimate High Performance Workplace

Based on his experience as an insider at famed Southwest Airlines and consultant to dozens of other Fortune 500 companies, Jason Young offers a dramatically different approach to creating and sustaining a high performance workplace. His solution for companies is to create an organizational culture where employees can do their best work and one that will produce the desired performance outcomes in productivity, profitability, employee retention and customer satisfaction. The key is intentionally identifying and developing the essential factors that impact performance for any organization: leadership principles, management practices, team alignment and employee behavior. These are the elements that truly define organizational culture and that have the greatest impact on results. Jason uses his experience as a manager, trainer, and consultant to dozens of leading companies to develop the concept of Culturetopia: the ultimate high-performance workplace. In this presentation, Jason provides practical, easy to implement guidance to the seven key determinants that make a healthy, productive and profitable culture of any team or organization. Companion book The Culturetopia Effect available

Servicetopia – The Ultimate Customer Service Experience

In this keynote, Jason Young explains how a company can deliver a transformational service experience — Servicetopia — with each and every customer encounter. What is Servicetopia? Imagine an environment where all employees are aligned with the mission and vision of the company and every day they go to work committed to providing exceptional service to every customer. They understand their purpose in the organization. They perform their duties with passion as they seek to meet every customer’s needs. They are professional and work tirelessly to build customer loyalty. They follow a carefully outlined process to ensure customer satisfaction and eliminate pain and frustration. And in the end, they add a little pizazz to surprise and delight the customer. Purpose. Passion. Professional. Process. Pizazz. These are the hallmarks of Servicetopia, the behaviors required for delivering exceptional customer service, everyday. In this keynote, Jason Young shares how a company can deliver on Servicetopia, where high levels of customer satisfaction and retention are sustained; and where employees derive personal and professional satisfaction from delivering great service and the customer is the beneficiary. You’ll discover that a commitment to Servicetopia can help your organization make a name for itself and impact the bottom line. Companion book Servicetopia! available

The Southwest Way — Successful Practices of a Market Leader

Southwest Airlines has given the business world a textbook example that providing fabulous customer service and maintaining high employee morale in a low-cost environment is possible –and indeed profitable in Corporate America today. But what’s the real story? As a key developer of Southwest Airlines’ legendary positively outrageous customer service and leadership training programs, Jason Young knows that great culture does not “just happen.” A customer service value can be created and nurtured to flourish into a customer service culture. And employees can be treated as true partners in the success of the business through shared values, shared vision and shared efforts. Beyond the headlines and the hype, Jason shares the real inside story behind the success of Southwest, a company consistently rated No. 1 in customer service and employee satisfaction. Best of all, you’ll learn how you can take these proven organizational principles to your team or company. You won’t want to miss this inside edition from the man who knows it best.

Lead Smart — High Performance Leadership

Jason Young teaches that great leaders develop, motivate and empower people to achieve extraordinary results by providing vision, example and support from a bottom up perspective. Truly smart leaders know that is more than a mere statement of fact, but rather a personal and professional challenge to be lived out everyday. Faced with two choices – lead smart or fail – great leaders know what it takes to lead others and achieve success. Smart leaders understand what it means to become a person of influence and how it applies to everyone in the organization. At this presentation, leaders will hear how developing and organizing talent to build effective teams creates an incredible workplace culture and how applying successful coaching skills will help teams excel. They’ll learn how to handle change – for better or worse – and how effective disagreement management can enhance team productivity. Participants will walk away with a thorough understanding of what it takes to deliver high performance leadership.

Smart Teams — Creating Teams that Succeed Together

Team work. Team building. Team player. Successful organizations know that business is not really a game to be won or lost. But to achieve success, everyone must use many of the same principles found on our playing fields today. In this presentation, Jason Young goes beyond the buzzwords to expose the keys that help people work together as a team to achieve real success. By developing goals, your team will create shared initiatives out of trust and mutual respect for one another. That active collaboration will lead to employee empowerment and organization momentum. You’ll discover how your All Stars can raise the bar within your organization without alienating your other players while creating an environment that rewards risk taking. From base hits to home runs, everyone plays their part to attain victory.

The New Diversity — Engaging the Generational Workforce

The workplace is filled with significant generational differences and associated challenges between Traditionalists, Boomers, Generation X-ers, and the newest group – the Millennials. The Millennials are the generation born between 1982 and 2000 that were formed by attentive, helicopter parents, schools that propagate high self-esteem, and an ingrained comfort with dependency on technology. Each generation learns, values, thinks, develops differently and must be led differently. Yet each generation has common ground which managers can leverage and build on. In this presentation, Jason Young encourages leaders not to judge but to coach and mange each generational group with intentionality. Jason explains how to manage the various generations in a way that helps create and sustain a high performance workplace.