Crucial Talks Podcast

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Crucial Chat: Appreciative Inquiry - Building Capacity for Long Term Success and Performance Nov 22, 2017

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This chat is about appreciative inquiry. Appreciative inquiry pursues changes to human systems with a focus on strengths. It is ultimately a method that takes a positive view of making changes to human-based systems. Think of your team or company as a system. Most systems are stable, which means they exist in the middle of the bell curve. They're average. There are two ways to look at issues. One is as a problem to be solved. This will get your "system" back to average. The other way is to look at your strengths, values, and best practices to address issues. This can get you to the right of the curve and make the system above average to exceptional! For more information, please visit www.crucialtalks.com.

Crucial Talks Episode 6 Stronger Together - Building Resiliency Through Groups Nov 19, 2017

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This episode talks about resiliency as a capacity, much like safety can be managed as a capacity, not just a program. Human beings belong to systems that are human-based, which means they are not linear. They are complex. When bad things happen, people deal with them through psychological processes. We can use theories such as Social Identity to develop techniques to build the capacity for resilience in our organizations, our families, and our communities. We can also use the same theories to respond after a traumatic event. This episode is not only valuable when thinking about resilience, but try to also apply it to other organizational capacities such as leadership, safety, or communication. Please visit www.crucialtalks.com for more information.

Crucial Talks Episode 5 The Few. The Proud. The Way To Get Different People To Work Together. Nov 12, 2017

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In this episode, we look at a three-step process to create an identity that will guide how people make decisions using the Marine Corps as an example. This can help you when trying to establish behaviors in safety, leadership, and communication. This helps us when we are trying to figure out how to integrate a diverse workforce and how to knock down silos that might exist in our organizations. Visit www.crucialtalks.com for more information or to connect with me.

Crucial Chat: Motivational - Keep Moving Forward - Audio From Episode 4 Nov 07, 2017

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This is a short motivation audio clip made from Episode 4. It's for fun, but has a good message. Keep Moving Forward!!!

Crucial Talks Episode 4 The Path to Success - Importance of Failing Forward Nov 05, 2017

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We all face difficult times. Bad things happen to us. Bad things happen in our organizations. In this episode, we talk about the importance of failing forward. It is a positive view of failing. We need to all keep moving forward. The important thing is not to look at the path behind us, but look in the direction we want to go.

Crucial Talks Episode 3 The Safety Jedi - Human Behavior Surrounds Everything Oct 30, 2017

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This episode is about human behavior. It's like Yoda describing the force... it surrounds everything we do. In this episode we talk a little about the old view and new view of safety. We also talk a bit about scientific management. This episode gives three key takeaways: 1. Realize that human behavior is part of everything we do. 2. Understand that human decision making is emotional, not technical. 3. Always consider context. Most people want to do a good job and don't want something bad to happen. Too many times when someone does something that results in a bad outcome, we treat that person like they were the problem. The reality is, people are part of a larger system and we need to consider context if we want to have a positive impact.

Crucial Chat: The Core of Continuity is Trust, Confidence, and Competence Oct 24, 2017

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When planning for business continuity or disaster recovery there is a strong focus on data storage, planning, information technology, policies, and risk management. The technical parts of continuity can be solved with technology and money; however, the most important part of business continuity, people, can only be solved with leadership and communication. This crucial chat introduces a discussion about what people need to have in order to continue work after something bad happens. Trust, confidence, and competence are keys to making sure our teams and organizations are prepared to recover.

Crucial Talks Episode 2 Breaking Barriers: People are the Solution Oct 22, 2017

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This episode was recorded at a conference in Philadelphia. In two separate presentations, about two different subjects, it was clear that people were the solution to breaking barriers. Focusing on people as a solution, and not a problems lets us develop a different lens we can use to examine the issue. In this episode, we not only discuss the importance of treating people as the solution, we also introduce some techniques to use in order to draw groups closer together to solve problems. If you need some tips on getting groups to collaborate, this episode can help. www.cruicaltalks.com.

Crucial Chat: Work Distractions - Lessons from Pilots Oct 15, 2017

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Crucial Chats are short clips to start a discussion. The chats are much shorter than full podcast episodes. They can be used during training days or staff meetings to start conversations and serve as training and learning opportunities.

This Crucial Chat is about distractions in the workplace and what we can learn from pilots flying at low altitudes. What is important at the time? What is absolutely critical? What is taking up room in your thoughts that should be compartmentalized and used later?

Crucial Talks Episode 1 Identity Drives Behavior Oct 09, 2017

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This is episode 1 of the Crucial Talks Podcast and discusses how identity drives behavior. Since the industrial revolution, there has been a focus on scientific management. Including the management of people. Fredrick Taylor's idea of scientific management has resulted in if-then thinking when dealing with people. Later, the Social Identity Theory and Self-Categorization Theory were introduced and gave us a way to view human behavior by considering the identities we adopt to deal with the world around us. This explains a lot about how we interact with people and how we use self-talk to change our behavior and performance. The stories we tell ourselves can be very powerful precursors to success!

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