Crucial Talks Podcast

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Crucial Talks Episode 93: Slips and Falls Leads to a Talk on Perception, Stories, and Engaging with Others with Christian Harris Jul 14, 2019

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Mike Sedam speaks with Christian Harris a slip specialist from the UK. Christian's experience is not only in slips and falls, but also entrepreneurship and poker. This discussion goes way deeper than merely a talk about how slippery floors can lead to falls. This talk goes into the importance of story, how to change perceptions, and the need to engage with people at all level so fan organization to institute lasting change.

Christian is the managing director at Slip Safety Services, www.slipsafety.co.uk.

There is also a free slip safety scorecard at: https://slipsafety.co.uk/scorecard/

To connect with Mike or to have him speak at your organization, please visit www.crucialtalks.com.

Crucial Talks Episode 92: Workplace Experience and Employee Engagement with Daren Martin Jul 07, 2019

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Mike Sedam interviews Daren Martin about his book, A Company of Owners. The book is available here.

Mike and Daren talk about workplace experience, employee engagement, and how we can get there.

This is a positive, proactive, strength-focused conversation about improving our workplaces regardless of the industry we are in.

Visit Daren at: www.darenmartin.com.

Visit Mike at: www.crucialtalks.com.

Crucial Chat: Trust and Storytelling when Getting a Backstage Pass Jul 05, 2019

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Many times people need information about how work is actually getting done. Inspectors, assessors, leaders, and peers may all want to see how a person or group of people get their work done. This can lead to valuable learning and improvement.

In order to ensure, our "backstage passes" are never revoked so that we get an unfiltered and open view of what is actually happening, we need two things: 1. trust and 2. accurate storytelling.

If we want to observe others and get accurate information, we need to make sure we uphold the trust placed upon us and we need to make sure we tell the story of what we observe with a high level of accuracy.

Visit www.crucialtalks.com to connect with Mike.

Crucial Talks Episode 91: Leadership and The Music Paradigm with Maestro Roger Nierenberg Jun 30, 2019

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Roger Nierenberg is a Maestro who uses the art of music and orchestras to teach leadership lessons.

The conversation he has with Mike Sedam covers many aspects of leadership and system-thinking using music and orchestras to explain concepts and show examples.

This is a fascinating conversation about how music can be used to accelerate the leadership learning process.

To learn more about The Music Paradigm and Roger's work, please visit www.musicparadigm.com.

Crucial Chat: My Brighter View of Behavior-Based Safety Jun 28, 2019

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I was extremely fortunate to present at a safety conference for a large oil refinery company. It was focused on Behavior Based Safety (BBS). My past experience with BBS (A long time ago) made me think it was focused on people as the problems and if we could fix what people were doing wrong, we could prevent incidents. It also used Heinrich's Triangle and said if we could prevent the little things, the big things wouldn't happen. This really tarnished my view of BBS. I am happy to say, my view of BBS is brighter now. Listen to see why.

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Crucial Talks Episode 90: The 7 P's of Resilience with Tracy Mehr-Muska Jun 23, 2019

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Mike Sedam talks with Tracy Mehr-Muska about resilience based on her book, Weathering the Storm. Available from Amazon: https://amzn.to/2MZrXde.

They discuss the seven P's of resilience, Tracy's use of stories from people in her own life, and how we can improve our capacity to be resilient.

Tracy has used her education, experience, and examples to drive home a positive message of resilience that can help people in every facet of life.

Visit Tracy at: https://mehrmuska.wordpress.com/

To contact Mike, visit www.crucialtalks.com

Crucial Talks Episode 89: Mindset, Collaboration, and Success with Amy Perkins and Joelle Speed Jun 16, 2019

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Mike Sedam talks with Dr. Joelle Speed and Chief Dreaming Officer Amy Perkins.

They talk about business, life, and people.

Their story includes creating a network and collaborating because everyone can succeed.

They also talk about how people can live the dreams they have for their lives.

Their focus is on people and how strong we are together.

For more about Dr. Joelle Speedhttps://www.smilegallerykidsdds.com/

For more about Amy Perkins:https://www.keystocourage.com/

To contact Mike about speaking, consulting, or the Crucial Talks Podcast, please visit: www.crucialtalks.com

Crucial Talks Episode 88: Uncertainty and the OODA Loop with Sean Romero Jun 09, 2019

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In this episode, Mike Sedam talks with Sean Romero about how to deal with uncertainty using the OODA loop.

Learn about the importance of Observing, Orienting, Deciding, and Acting to get through uncertainty.

Contact Sean Romero:

Instagram: @faithfully_led

Facebook: faithfullyled.sean

Podcast: Faithfully Led Podcast on Anchor

email: Sean@faithfullyled.com

Crucial Talks Episode 87: The Uniqueness of Success - Building Capacity and the Importance of Feedback with Jeanette Peacock Jun 02, 2019

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Mike Sedam talks with Jeannette Peacock of Learn2LearnNow.

Jeanette talks about building the capacity to succeed through skills. Specifically, she helps children learn the skills they need to succeed in the future. Skillbuilding not only helps build capacity, but also shows us the importance of feedback to the process.

Jeanette is using the same processes from her business in a non-profit to help children that would not normally have access to such training.

In this episode you'll hear about capacity-building, how seeing ourselves in a new role can help us transform, and the importance of feedback loops.

Visit Jeanette's business at: www.learn2learnnow.com.

Visit the foundation at: www.steppingupforchildreninneed.org.

Visit Mike about the podcast or speaking to your organization at: www.crucialtalks.com

Crucial Talks Episode 86: Stories Help us Understand with Ayn Cates Sullivan May 26, 2019

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Mike Sedam interviews Ayn Cates Sullivans about how archetypes and stories help us understand the world around us.

This is an interesting discussion that helps us understand ourselves, our use of prototypes, and how stories have impacted behavior and decision-making for thousands of years.

This helps us understand systems-thinking and our own individual place in the world, in society, and in our organizations.

More about Ayn can be found at: http://ayncatessullivan.com/

Contact Mike Sedam at: www.crucialtalks.com

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