Social Excellence [n]: A state of perpetual generosity, curiosity, positivity, and openness to limitless possibility. A desire to intentionally connect with others. The ability to engage in deep, meaningful conversation. Acting in a responsible and respectable manner with high expectations of others. Being authentic and living everyday with integrity as the best version of oneself. Being confident and vulnerable. Being fun and compassionate. Being open, kind, and bold. The highest level of societal participation and contribution.

Bring Phired Up’s Social Excellence Training to your organization's members or to groups of individuals who can then use Social Excellence to positively impact the world.

Social Excellence: How Handshakes Can Change The World is Phired Up's most popular keynote and training workshop.  Download information here.

This message is adaptable for many audiences.  Consider Social Excellence Training for conference keynotes, volunteers, leadership retreats, sales or HR teams, business leaders, customer service teams, congregants, high school students. Phired Up's Social Excellence training prepares learners to be successful at meaningful engagement with their peers and with the community. To reserve a program date, E-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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Social Excellence is the art of organizational growth.  It is a philosophy, a way to approach every day, a lifestyle.  People who choose Social Excellence are exceptional at interpersonal communication, they experience deeper more powerful relationships, they are the hosts of every situation in which they find themselves, they have expansive personal and organizational networks, they understand that all leadership is social, they realize their potential for impacting the world is directly correlated to their ability to connect with other people in meaningful ways.

BENEFITS OF SOCIAL EXCELLENCE
Organizations and institutions that choose to provide in-depth Social Excellence educational experiences to their audience should be prepared to experience…
•    More confident leaders due to a clarification of priorities.
•    Increased retention due to more engaged members.
•    Improved recruitment due to more socially prepared members.
•    Heightened social awareness due to a re-definition of the word “social.”
•    Enhanced public relations due to wider and deeper relationship networks within the community.
•    Superior member values congruence due to behavior-based training.

 Social Excellence: We Dare You by Matthew G. Mattson, Jessica Gendron Williams & Josh Orendi

"An inspiring guide to finding a richer life full of meaning -- and changing the world. Relationships create revolutions, and these authors are starting a bold movement."
- Keith Ferrazzi, bestselling author of Never Eat Alone and Who's Got Your Back

Social Excellence is a philosophy, a way to approach your days, a lifestyle. Characterized by handshakes, deep, meaningful conversations, and heart-to-heart connections, people who choose Social Excellence as their lifestyle understand that human connection is the key to changing the world.

This book, overflowing with real-life examples of Social Excellence in action, is not a book to be read in quiet solitude. It is a book that dares the reader to engage with the people and society around them. The authors describe how to build masterful social skills, tell stories of how people have changed the world through interpersonal connection, and challenge readers to push their social comfort zones to the max through edgy Social Dares.

As technological connections increase, personal, human, face-to-face connections can suffer. But those human connections are vital to organizational success and personal fulfillment. Social Excellence is the key to standing out from the crowd, to lifting your eyes from the screen and seeing the faces of potential relationships around you, and to creating the world you imagine.

Social Excellence: We Dare You is written to inspire community leaders, organizational members, non-profit volunteers, religious congregations, business leaders, political advocates, high-performing students, and anyone who is seeking a way to truly matter in the world.

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How Does Phired Up Teach Social Excellence?
Phired Up teaches Social Excellence through a progression of lessons that deepen the learning each step of the way. Starting with a redefinition of the word, “social,” Phired Up challenges conventional thinking and brings us back to our human nature as social beings. From there participants learn how Social Excellence as a lifestyle can transform them and their organizations, they learn a magic trick called “The Screw” which opens doors to new relationships, they learn about first impressions, exchanging contact information, social etiquette, listening, remembering names, and all the basic skills of a social master. They learn about "The Four Pillars" of Social Excellence, Curiosity, Generosity, Authenticity, and Vulnerability. The learn about transformation and the power of personal stories.

The advanced learning kicks in with the introduction of the concept of powerful conversations, and what it takes to consistently have these life-changing, transformative, intense engagements. They learn about the “fun zone” and the “deep zone.” They learn to “Be the Person” they want to be. All of this is taught through highly interactive activities that have the participants not just talking about the concepts, but doing them and actually networking with the people in the room. At the end of the classroom sessions, participants are often seen thanking each other for being authentic and vulnerable, they often hug one another (seriously) and find ways to stay connected with many of the participants they interacted with. And that is when Phired Up pushes the learning even further with social dares that actually send the participants “into the streets” to let the real-world learning begin. Social Excellence is best learned through personally challenging oneself to experiment with new behaviors and levels of courage, and that is exactly what Phired Up delivers. To bring Phired Up's Social Excellence program to your members, contact Matt Mattson.

CURRICULUM SNEAK PEEK  To see Phired Up presenting Social Excellence, visit here: http://tinyurl.com/SocExVideo.  Download this document to learn more.