Gene Jones' Triviation® Featured on Forbes.com
New York City, August 7, 2014 (Newswire.com) - “Successful companies are not the ones that works hardest, but the ones that work smartest. To outperform the competition, every company can benefit from breakthrough thinking.” Gene Jones’ Triviation is a powerful corporate training program designed to activate breakthrough thinking. Utilizing a proprietary blend of targeted information presented in the form of a modified trivia game show, Jones stimulates breakthrough thinking and then applies it to accelerate the progress of any corporate agenda.
Forbes recently featured Gene Jones’ program in “6 Steps For Creating A Better Company Culture Through Play.” Contributor Cheryl Conner outlined Jones’ six steps that companies need to take to create adaptive cultures which can thrust them ahead of the curve and keep them there .
· Open the Door: Allow creative breakthrough thinking to flow at all levels of the workforce.
· Learn to Play with a Purpose: Use a method known as ‘transformational play’ to introduce and achieve serious business goals.
· Encourage Expansive Thinking: Allow participants to make fresh new connections between known data points and new ideas.
· Start Listening: Encourage management to be open to participants’ suggestions, creating an environment that inspires more productive conversations.
· Be Strategic: By strategically directing transformational play, this process leads to epiphanies in both the ideation and action phases of all business activity.
· Use Play As Method For Positive Change: Introducing playfulness as a workplace component enhances a company’s ability to adapt to the rapidly changing landscape of the contemporary economic environment.
“This is the corporate version of Darwin’s survival of the fittest,” Jones said in the Forbes. “Thinking outside-the-box has given birth to modern titans such as Google and Apple. The same dynamics hold true for smaller companies as well. Flexibility opens the door for innovation, and innovation is as essential to the success of any sized company as the wheel is for an automobile.”
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Gene Jones has dedicated his career to the sophistication of custom-designed trivia game show formats, performing his uniquely styled productions in front of live audiences nationwide for more than 25 years. Jones now focuses his vast experience as a game show host to help businesses and organizations achieve breakthrough thinking with his remarkable Triviation program. By feeding key information into an eclectic format, Triviation transforms a popular game into a superbly powerful method of triggering corporate growth. The Triviation training program leads organizations to superior results,, helping access previously untapped human resources. By seamlessly creating a non-threatening social environment, Triviation’s playful suspension of judgment quickly unshackles the adventurous spirit in participants as they tackle a series of strategic questions formulated to enhance targeted corporate goals. Cleverly designed hints then expand the flexibility of participants’ minds and empower them to think more creatively and expansively, leading to significant breakthroughs.
About Gene Jones
Gene Jones’ long and multi-faceted career in the entertainment industry includes extensive business experience as an arts administrator, producer and director, as he also created and was C.E.O. of his own theatrical production company for more than twenty years while continuously performing his game show. In the process of hosting more than 2500 live game shows, Jones constantly observed a change in the mental state of each audience. This led him to make an extensive study of his unique process to formulate a remarkably effective method for corporate training and educational advancement.
Jones’ success in game show entertainment evolved from his work with the Guinness Book of World Records, where he served as Associate Editor and official World Record Judge from 1983-1990, often appearing on television programs such as ABC's 20/20, Nightline, BBC's Record Breakers, and The Spectacular World of Guinness Records With Robert Frost. Learn more at www.triviation.com