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Crucial Talks Podcast

Understand what drives people! Host: Mike Sedam

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Crucial Talks Episode 43 Esther Weinberg on the Dignity Zone: Trust, Respect, and Safety in Life and the Workplace

Crucial Talks Episode 43 Esther Weinberg on the Dignity Zone: Trust, Respect, and Safety in Life and the Workplace

In this episode, Mike Sedam interviews Esther Weinberg. Esther Weinberg is a leader in redefining organizational culture... Read more

5 Aug 2018

42mins

Ranked #2

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Crucial Chat: Appreciative Inquiry - Building Capacity for Long Term Success and Performance

Crucial Chat: Appreciative Inquiry - Building Capacity for Long Term Success and Performance

This chat is about appreciative inquiry.  Appreciative inquiry pursues changes to human systems with a focus on strength... Read more

23 Nov 2017

4mins

Ranked #3

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Crucial Talks Episode 38 Name, Blame, & Shame Game - Intergroup Relationships

Crucial Talks Episode 38 Name, Blame, & Shame Game - Intergroup Relationships

How we interact with others can have either a negative or positive impact on how we can get things done. If we see other... Read more

1 Jul 2018

21mins

Ranked #4

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Crucial Talks Episode 56 Mark Gober on Consciousness and Ending Upside Down Thinking

Crucial Talks Episode 56 Mark Gober on Consciousness and Ending Upside Down Thinking

Mike Sedam interview Mark Gober about consciousness and his book, An End to Upside Down Thinking. You can get his book f... Read more

4 Nov 2018

37mins

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Crucial Talks Episode 39 Appreciative Inquiry - People Positive: Lightbulbs and Lifeblood of Organizations

Crucial Talks Episode 39 Appreciative Inquiry - People Positive: Lightbulbs and Lifeblood of Organizations

Appreciative Inquiry pursues changes to human systems with a focus on strengths. It is ultimately a method that takes a ... Read more

8 Jul 2018

19mins

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Crucial Talks Episode 75: Deb Falzoi on the Epidemic of Workplace Bullying and Abuse

Crucial Talks Episode 75: Deb Falzoi on the Epidemic of Workplace Bullying and Abuse

Mike Sedam talks with Deb Falzoi of Dignity Together about workplace bullying and workplace abuse. This is an epidemic i... Read more

10 Mar 2019

37mins

Ranked #7

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Crucial Chat: Gratitude - Positive Social Emotion and Emotional Intelligence

Crucial Chat: Gratitude - Positive Social Emotion and Emotional Intelligence

Thanksgiving is a great holiday: turkey, pie, football, and...GRATITUDE. Gratitude is a strong positive social emotion. ... Read more

21 Nov 2018

3mins

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Crucial Talks Episode 104: Thanksgiving - The Power of Gratitude

Crucial Talks Episode 104: Thanksgiving - The Power of Gratitude

Happy Thanksgiving! Gratitude is powerful. People are programmed to lean toward the negative. Negative emotions cause us... Read more

24 Nov 2019

8mins

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Crucial Talks Episode 92: Workplace Experience and Employee Engagement with Daren Martin

Crucial Talks Episode 92: Workplace Experience and Employee Engagement with Daren Martin

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

7 Jul 2019

42mins

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Crucial Talks Episode 47 Seinfeld vs. Costanza: Changing Conversations to Remove Conflict

Crucial Talks Episode 47 Seinfeld vs. Costanza: Changing Conversations to Remove Conflict

Mike Sedam uses an episode of Seinfeld to discuss how our beliefs affect how we see the world around us and how that imp... Read more

2 Sep 2018

14mins

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Crucial Talks Episode 95 Gary Salyer on the Importance of Feeling Welcomed, Worthy, Cherished, and Empowered in Relationships

Crucial Talks Episode 95 Gary Salyer on the Importance of Feeling Welcomed, Worthy, Cherished, and Empowered in Relationships

Gary Salyer talks with Mike Sedam about personal and business relationships. People that feel welcomed, worthy, cherishe... Read more

28 Jul 2019

45mins

Ranked #12

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Crucial Talks Episode 97: Magical Conversations with Pauline Crawford

Crucial Talks Episode 97: Magical Conversations with Pauline Crawford

Pauline Crawford speaks with Mike Sedam about Magical Conversations. Conversations can use diversity and inclusion to mo... Read more

18 Aug 2019

47mins

Ranked #13

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Crucial Talks Episode 49 Three Degrees of Influence: My Friend Bob Sakamano

Crucial Talks Episode 49 Three Degrees of Influence: My Friend Bob Sakamano

In this episode, Mike Sedam talks about the three degrees of influence that was written about in the book Connected by N... Read more

15 Sep 2018

12mins

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

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

Mike Sedam talks with Tracy Mehr-Muska about resilience based on her book, Weathering the Storm. Available from Amazon: ... Read more

23 Jun 2019

39mins

Ranked #15

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Crucial Talks Episode 54 Amberly Lago Perception, Tribes, and Triumph

Crucial Talks Episode 54 Amberly Lago Perception, Tribes, and Triumph

Mike Sedam interviews Amberly Lago about her journey of triumph over tragedy. Amberly has written a book called True Gri... Read more

21 Oct 2018

34mins

Ranked #16

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Crucial Talks Episode 107: J Scott It's Not About Business, It's About People

Crucial Talks Episode 107: J Scott It's Not About Business, It's About People

J Scott is interviewed by Mike Sedam about the importance of people. The discussion revolves around how to actively list... Read more

5 Jan 2020

31mins

Ranked #17

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Crucial Talks Episode 72: Lawrence Henderson - Bridging the Gap, Life, L.O.V.E., and Leadership

Crucial Talks Episode 72: Lawrence Henderson - Bridging the Gap, Life, L.O.V.E., and Leadership

Lawrence Henderson, the author of Bridging the Gap: Life, LOVE, and Leadership is interviewed by Mike Sedam about leader... Read more

24 Feb 2019

40mins

Ranked #18

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Crucial Talks Episode 105: Safety - Focus on People, Impact the Organization with Mike King

Crucial Talks Episode 105: Safety - Focus on People, Impact the Organization with Mike King

Mike King, a safety professional in the construction industry discusses safety with Mike Sedam. Not only are safety topi... Read more

8 Dec 2019

37mins

Ranked #19

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Crucial Talks Episode 2 Breaking Barriers: People are the Solution

Crucial Talks Episode 2 Breaking Barriers: People are the Solution

This episode was recorded at a conference in Philadelphia.  In two separate presentations, about two different subjects,... Read more

22 Oct 2017

14mins

Ranked #20

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Crucial Talks Episode 100: Chris Clearfield on Meltdowns, How Systems Fail, and What We Can Do About It

Crucial Talks Episode 100: Chris Clearfield on Meltdowns, How Systems Fail, and What We Can Do About It

Mike Sedam talks with Chris Clearfield about the book he co-authored with Andras Tilcsik, Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail... Read more

29 Sep 2019

45mins

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