Podcasts and Webcasts
Welcome to my Virtual Fireside Chat Room!
Here you will find podcasts and webcasts that you can download and listen to - all absolutely free. As you listen and watch, imagine you are with us, huddled around a sparkling yellow fire with a steamy buttered rum in your hand. I love a great conversation and welcome you by the flames. There is something primal and soothing about gathering by a fire, don’t you agree? A special thanks goes to talented artist Jon Conkey for the image for our Virtual Fireside Chat Room!
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Podcast: Chat with Alexandra Levit
During this 22 minute podcast, I chat with Alexandra Levit, author of How’d You Score That Gig: A Guide to the Coolest Jobs-and How to Get Them. We talk about which jobs her research revealed to be the coolest, how we can get from where we are today to doing our dream job, and how to discover the type of job that will be a great fit for your strengths and interests (your Passion Profile). Alexandra’s book highlights 60 cool jobs - including a realistic look at the good, bad, and ugly of each. This is a fun conversation and a must-not-miss for anyone wanting to improve their career happiness. You can find Alexandra’s blog here.
During this 23 minute podcast, I chat it up with Dan Pink, author of The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need. Dan’s book is the first American Business book written in manga - a Japanese comic format. The book is a gas to read and the career coaching is timeless and immediately implementable. We talk about manga, we talk about strategic career advice, and we talk about Diana. Who’s Diana? Listen and find out. Check out the website for Johnny Bunko here and check out a super cool movie-type trailer for the book here.
Podcast: Chat with Wayne Turmel
During this 32 minute podcast, I chat with Cranky Middle Manager podcast host Wayne Turmel. This is a lively discussion about middle management and another topic near and dear to Wayne’s heart, tips and techniques for presenting web meetings. Find out why Wayne blames the Stock Market for many middle management woes and what it was like to be the opening act for the band, Chicago. Wayne’s Cranky Middle Manager website can be found here and his new website called Great Web Meetings can be found here. I have been a guest on the Cranky Middle Manager show several times and I had a blast turning the tables on Wayne and asking HIM the questions. Check it out!
Podcast: Chat with Bill Strickland
During this 20 minute podcast, I chat with Bill Strickland, President and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation and author of Make the Impossible Possible. This is one of those podcasts that I hope you share with your friends and coworkers. Bill has an amazing "vibe" and he is a role model for manifesting vision. I love his book, Making the Impossible Possible - it is a captivating read and full of gripping details that will surely inspire you and get your brain cells and heart halves buzzing.
Podcast: Chat with Christee Atwood
During this 25 minute podcast, I chat with Christee Atwood, author of Succession Planning Basics. During the podcast we talked about common barriers to ensuring succession and a strong internal promotion culture. While many meg-large companies have well planned and documented succession and development plans, many companies don’t - especially small and medium sized companies. Christee’s book is a great primer to get you started on the road to improving organization bench strength. Check out Christee’s blog here.
Podcast: Chat with Craig Huggart
During this 23 minute podcast, I chat with Craig Huggart, who has a great blog called Tech Rest and is the author of Escape from Email Hell. During the podcast we talk about how to keep work at work and home at home and overcome an email checking obsession. Craig sent me an advanced version of the book and I knew immediately that it would be a big hit with a lot of overworked, stressed, time-challenged professionals.
Podcast: Chat with Rayona Sharpnack
During this 21 minute podcast, I chat with Rayona Sharpnack. Rayona is the CEO of the Institute for Women’s Leadership and the author of Trade Up!: Five Steps for Redesigning Your Leadership and Life from the Inside Out. Rayona shares what we can do to shift from what doesn’t work to what does work and how to keep from being arsonists of our own fires. Learn what a ground breaking project is and how one can help you improve your success.
During this 20 minute podcast, I chat with Bill Yenne, author of Guinness: The 250 Year Quest for the Perfect Pint. Whether you love beer or not, you will enjoy this conversation about a world class brand and product. If, like me, you love a perfect pint, you will want to hear what Bill Yenne has to say about this most noble and complex liquification. We touch on several topics including history, widgets, nitrogenation, love, culture, and Irishness. This week’s podcast is sure to whet your whistle. I enjoyed ready Guinness, finding it an evocative and interesting book - I recommend it!
Podcast: Chat with Michael Stallard
In this 30 minute podcast, I chat with Michael Stallard, author of Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity, and Productivity. We chat about the ways that managers and leaders can create a culture of connection and Michael shares a few juicy stories about leaders from whom we can learn and be inspired. Michael is a strategist, marketer, and consultant with a long-held interest in understanding human attitudes and behaviors. He is the founder and president of E Pluribus Partners. Previously he was managing director, chief marketing and strategy officer at the U.S. Trust business of Charles Schwab and principal, chief marketing officer at the global private wealth management business of Morgan Stanley.
Podcast: Chat with Dr. Gary Bradt
During this podcast, I chat with Dr. Gary Bradt, author of The Ring in the Rubble: Dig Through Change and Find Your Next Golden Opportunity. Gary is a psychologist, change and leadership expert, and popular keynote speaker. We talk about the importance of finding opportunities (the rings) from change. Learn what you need to get rid of to create space for new opportunities.
Podcast: Chat with Mike DeWitt
During this 31 minute podcast, I chat with fellow blogger and business consultant Mike DeWitt. We have a lively conversation about management acumen and the best ways to learn how to lead. You can find Mike’s blog, called Spooky Action here. Listen to this podcast to find out the three things managers and leaders most need to master to succeed.
Podcast: Chat with Kevin Eikenberry
During this 31 minute podcast, I chat with pal and fellow blogger Kevin Eikenberry, author of Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time. I was given an advanced version of the book to review and I provided an endirsement. Here’s what I like about it - Kevin has approached leadership as a craft, developed over time and one skill at a time. This book offers both high level inspiration and specific techniques for building your craft of leadership.
During this 33 minute podcast, I chat with Ian Ybarra, coauthor of Recruit or Die: How Any Business Can Beat the Big Guys in the War for Young Talent. We chat about winning strategies that both large and small companies can apply and employ to find and keep the best recruits. This is a great podcast for anyone involved in recruiting and orienting new employees or creating and supporting recruiting strategies - HR, management, training, and OD. Check out their website and blog here.
Podcast: Chat with Kit Brown, Brenda Heuttner, Char James-Tanny
During this 26 minute podcast, I chat with the coauthors of Managing Virtual Teams: Getting the Most From Wikis, Blogs, and other Collaborative Tools, Kit Brown, Brenda Huettner, and Char James-Tanny. We chat about the key differences between in-person and virtual teams and how their process for writing this book practiced many of the methods they suggest. Do you telecommute or are you a manager or member of a virtual team or project group? If so, you will want to get this book. Also, check out their wiki here.
Podcast: Chat with William Ury
In this 27 minute podcast, I chat with William Ury, the author of The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes. William has served as a mediator, writer and speaker working with conflicts ranging from family feuds to boardroom battles to ethnic wars in the Middle East. During this provocative podcast, we chat about Ury’s lessons learned about building partnerships, negotiating techniques, and the importance of saying NO more often.
Podcast: Chat with Dan Bobinski
During this 30 minute podcast, I chat with author, speaker, consultant, and trainer and Dan Bobinski about organizational and managerial excellence. Dan shares his definition of excellence and a model that supervisors through senior leaders can use to ensure they are spending their precious time on what matters most. We also discuss the difference between being assertive and aggressive and ways managers can avoid micromanaging. Dan is the CEO and Director of The Center for Workplace Excellence and the author of A Strategic View of Hiring and Retaining Good Employees and coauthor of Living Toad Free. Dan writes a syndicated column that you can find in many publications including online at Management-Issues.
Podcast: Chat with John Herman
In this 20 minute podcast, I chat with author, entrepreneur, and self proclaimed failure guru, John Herman. Sixty percent of businesses fail. Learn the three common characteristics of most failures. Herman shares the critical piece of information most business leaders don’t know. Herman shares his tips, wisdom, and lessons learned in his new book called, Hermanisms: Axioms for Business and Life. Herman also wrote The Innkeeper Tales: Modern-day Canterbury Tales to Entertain, Elighten and Empower.
Podcast: Chat with David Zinger
In this 27 minute podcast, I chat it up with David Zinger - fellow blogger (he has three!), leadership trainer and speaker, and Canadian. If you work with people, this podcast is for you. (I guess that only leaves out hermits surfing the net from their wilderness cabins using a satellite connection. 
We discuss leadership, discovering and using strengths, and employee engagement. Learn what David thinks is a leader’s greatest lever for success and about high quality interactions (you could have 20,000 in a day). I talk about butterfly flaps, David talks bees - tomato tomato, potato potato - it’s all good stuff. David shares one thing we can do to lower the odds of employee disengagement to just 1% - and it’s a simple thing.
Podcast: Chat with Vince Thompson
In this 21 minute podcast, I speak to Vince Thompson, Managing Partner of Middleshift, a boutique consulting firm, and author of the new management book, Ignited: Managers Light Up Your Company and Career. As you can imagine, I was quite thrilled to see Vince’s new book because it addresses the special needs of middle managers. We discuss key skills middle managers need today and the trends on the growth of the middle management function. Vince shares several tips for how to be successful and impactful from the middle. Check out Vince’s new blog, too, called Ignited!
Podcast: Chat with Michael Kroth
In this 28 minute podcast, I chat with speaker, educator, and expert Michael Kroth, author of The Manager as Motivator. Discussion topics include tips for noncharismatic managers, essential elements of a motivating work environment, and the role that managers play - good and bad - in motivating performance. We talk about what gets in the way of developing managers who are also highly motivating and the challenges this causes as companies struggle to compete for top talent. If you are a manager, a trainer, or someone who wants to better influence and inspire excellence, you will want to listen to this podcast.
Podcast: Chat with Perry Devine
In this inspiring 23 minute podcast I chat with singer/songwriter Perry Devine, who used the processes and techniques found in my latest book, Two Weeks to a Breakthrough to create a song about generating breakthroughs. I think that music can inspire and serve as a powerful catalyst, so I am thrilled to have this song all about breakthroughs. As you can imagine, I was doubly thrilled when Perry told me that he use many of the suggestions offered in the book and experienced several breakthroughs while writing and recording this song. During the podcast, Perry tells listeners how he applied the book’s concepts to the writing and recording of the song and which techniques made the greatest difference - catalyzing breakthroughs. At the end of the interview, you will hear the song “Breakthrough,” by Perry Devine.
Podcast: Chat with Rajesh Setty
In this 35 minute podcast, I chat with author, blogger, and entrepreneur Raj Setty. We discuss ways we can distinguish ourselves at work, strategies to help us avoid becoming a commodity, and the true measure of leadership. Raj is the author of the book Beyond Code: Learn to Distinguish Yourself in 9 Simple Steps! and the blog Life Beyond Code. Raj is also an entrepreneur involved with several companies including being the President of Suggestica and the Chariman of iPolipo.
Podcast: Chat with Marcus Buckingham
In this 41 minute podcast, I chat with speaker, author, and best selling author Marcus Buckingham. We discuss the barriers that get in the way of us playing to our strengths at work and strategies that we can use to increase the amount of time we spend on tasks that strengthen us (and reduce the time we spend on tasks that weaken us). This is a lively and helpful podcast and Marcus shares several stories and suggestions that can help everyone enjoy their work more fully while benefiting the organization in a deeper way. This is also a great podcast for managers because we chat about the manager’s role in leveraging strengths. Join the strengths revolution!
Marcus will be offering presentations in several cities March-May. Click here to see his tour schedule. While this is a tour to share his new book, Go Put Your Strengths to Work and his DVD training series Trombone Player Wanted, he has teamed up with local organizations to offer these talks for a great value. For my fellow Seattlites, Marcus will be presenting on March 19th. The Puget Sound Chapters of ASTD, ODN, and SHRM have teamed up to produce the event. For $35-45 you get the book and tons of extras. And Marcus is a very good speaker, so it will be a great event for sure. I will be there, let me know if you plan on going. Also, for those of you in the New York City area, Marcus asked that I pass along that he will on PBS station WLIW for pledge week. You can see Marcus on 2/11/07 from 3:00-4:30pm.
n this 27 minute podcast, I chat with Transformational Consultant Jodee Bock, author of the 100% Factor: Living Your Capacity. During this conversation we discuss what it means to be working at capacity and the questions you can reflect upon to better align your energies and your work. Find out the value of moving from defining what you want, what you intend, and to what you commit.
Podcast: Chat with Kevin Salwen
In this 26 minute podcast, I chat with Motto Magazine’s co-founding editor, Kevin Salwen about the importance of enlivening passion and purpose at work and the role that Motto Magazine is playing to share inspiring business stories and practices - their goal is to change the world! Find out what Deepak Chopra and the time it takes to fire a bad hire have in common. Anyone who works for a living (that’s most everyone, right) will enjoy and get benefit from this podcast.
Podcast: Chat with Curt Rosengren
In this 32 minute podcast, Passion Catalyst Curt Rosengren and I chat about ways to spend more of our work hours in ways that enliven our passions. Find out what Curt calls the Passion Core and get inspired to make 2007 a great year.
Podcast: Chat with Mark Wayland
In this 31 minute chat, I chat with Australian learning and development strategy expert, Mark Wayland. We talk about the world of training and development from three perspectives - the senior manager, the manager, and the management trainer. Misery loves company and together, we rant about the often broken systems and practices found in traditional training departments and then offer our thoughts on what companies and training professionals ought to doing to best meet their organizations’ development needs.
Podcast: Chat with Lee Froschheiser
During this 31 minute podcast, I chat with Lee Froschheiser, who is the President and CEO of MAP Consulting and coauthor of the book Vital Factors: The Secret to Transforming Your Business - An Your Life. We discuss how managers can better respond to change and be nimble, the importance of key indicator’s of organizational and departmental health, and our basic beliefs about management and leadership development.
Podcast: Chat with Peter Georgescu
During this 41 minute podcast, I chat with a truly fascinating and charming professional, Peter Georgescu. Peter was the CEO for Young & Rubicam and is now serving on several public company boards. He’s a leadership expert and author of the book, The Source of Success: Five Enduring Principles at the Heart of Real Leadership. Peter and I covered a lot of ground during this discussion including the following topics: how excess supply of most everything ought to affect today’s leaders, the one great point of differentiation on which all leaders ought to focus, and the situation of the connected and the not connected and how this relates to free enterprise. Interesting stuff!
Podcast: Chat with Alexandra Levit
During this 30 minute podcast, I chat with Alexandra Levit, who specializes in helping younger professionals develop winning practices for the corporate world. You see, Alexandra has studied the difficulty many younger people have going from a university environment to a corporate environment and the methods that can facilitate this transition. She also helps employers and managers learn simple techniques that will help their younger workers succeed. So whether you are a younger professional (like a recent college grad), a manager, or human resources professional, Alexandra shares several interesting perspectives (based on interviews she has conducted across the country) and several important concrete strategies for success. Alexandra wrote, They Don’t Teach Corporate in College: A Twenty-Something’s Guide to the Business World and blogs at Water Cooler Wisdom.
Podcast: Chat with Bruce Cryer
IIn this 40 minute conversation, I chat with HeartMath President and CEO Bruce Cryer about heart coherance and what we need to know about how to improve our mental focus and clarity. Bruce talks about the research his company has done to measure the physiological impacts of stress and negative thoughts and the simple techniques that can make a big difference to both mind and body. I heard Bruce speak at the GILD - Global Institute of Leadership Development - conference and was interested in and impressed with his research based presentation. During this podcast, Bruce also coaches me on how to use a cool stress analysis and reduction gadget I purchased while at the conference. Whether you ever get the gadget or not, you can put the information he shares to good use immediately.
Podcast: Chat with Barbara Stoker
During this 25 minute podcast, Lisa Haneberg chats with author and consultant Barbara Stoker. Barbara is an expert on product development, risk assessment, and critical thinking. Learn how to change your perception of risk and about her model called link thinking. Barbara’s latest book is called Positive Risk: How Smart Women Use Passion to Break Through Their Fears and her website can be found at www.barbarastoker.com.
Podcast: Chat with Glen Hiemstra
Lisa Haneberg chats with futurist Glen Hiemstra in this 32 minute podcast. Topics covered include reasons why strategic planning is an oxymoron, the important difference between a vision and mission, and how leaders can create their preferred future. We also chat about ways to shape the future, in a broader sense, and how to improve the world. Glen is the author of the book, Turning the Future into Revenue.
Podcast: Chat with Pete Behrens
In this 30 minute chat, Agile expert Pete Behrens and I discuss the characteristics of agile methods and why they work. If you are curious about Agile Management or interested in learning new ways to improve productivity and results, you will enjoy this podcast. Pete is the author of the Agile Executive Blog.
In this 25 minute chat with author, and consultant Bob Prosen, we chat about ways managers and leaders can improve execution and results. We covered lots of ground including the importance of a strong middle management function, clues that should tell you there’s a breakdown in middle management, and what’s most important to measure to ensure focus and results. Bob is the author of Kiss Theory Goodbye: Five Proven Ways to Get Extraordinary Results in Any Company.
Podcast: Chat with Ron Carucci
In this 30 minute chat with author, business school professor, and consultant Ron Carucci, we discuss how to best recognize, develop, and harness emerging leaders. Ron says there is no shortage of leaders, they just don’t want to lead like they have been lead. A different approach is needed if we are to relate to and develop these new leaders. Ron is the author of Leadership Divided: What Emerging Leaders Need and What You Might Be Missing. We had a very interesting chat. Whether you are like me - a product of the 80s, and 90s - or younger, a new or emerging leader, you will enjoy this podcast. All trainers, coaches, and educators ought to listen twice!
Podcast: Chat with Jory Des Jardins
In this 34 minute podcast Lisa Haneberg and Jory Des Jardins chat about authenticity and transparency in business and media and about how we are conducting business is changing. We also talk about how Blogher is testing some of these new assumptions and values.
Podcast: Chat with Brendon Connelly
Many of you will recognize today’s guest from his Slacker Manager blog. In this 33 minute chat with Bren Connelly, we cover a lot of business management talk ground including the definition of managerial excellence, how to manage change, MBA programs, iPods as training tools and the importance of the benevolent 2X4 effect.
Podcast: Chat with Adrian Savage
This 22 minute podcast is with fellow blogger and retired executive Adrian Savage. He has two blogs - Slow Leadership and The Coyote Within. In this chat, we talk about corporate craziness and important leadership lessons learned about how to acheive greater results and focus. I love Adrian’s subtle humor and I know you will too.
Podcast: Chat with Dwayne Melancon
This 24 minute podcast is with fellow blogger (Dwayne’s awesome blog is called Genuine Curiosity) and leader Dwayne Melancon, we talk about how to engage people in the business such that they will be more focused and energized. We talk about what NOT to do when it comes to goal setting, too.
This 29 minute podcast is with fellow management author, leadership coach, and blogger, Rosa Say (you can get to all of Rosa’s sites here). We talk about an important and challenging topic - making better choices about how we spend time, how to give up doing good stuff (to make way for great stuff), and the importance of being a role model for focus and good judgment. Since both Rosa and I coach leaders, you can hear our thoughts about the advice we most give clients and the coaching we occasionally have to remind ourselves of, too.
Podcast: Chat with Chris Haddad
This 16 minute podcast is with with Chris Haddad, marketing word guru and fellow Seattle based blogger and solopreneur (his blog is called The Hard Working Words Blog). We talk about focus in general and the importance of stress and energy management. Chris shares his lessons learned about the power of getting into action when things are not fully baked. Bonus: You will get a mini lesson in marketing communications along with our chat about focus.
Webcast: Manager’s Morning Mantra
In this 4 minute webcast, I offer a few thoughts that should help you get your day off to a great start. Listen to and watch this short webcast every morning for a week and see what happens!
Podcast: Chat with David Anderson
This 22 minute podcast is with David Anderson who works for Microsoft and has written a book called Agile Management (and has a blog by the same name). David and I chat about how managers can use drumbeat and the natural cycles and rhythms of the work environment to improve productivity and focus. We also discuss data that show how a collaborative work environment out performs a non-collaborative one.
Podcast: Chat with Lori Richardson
This 19 minute podcast is with Lori Richardson, sales coach extraordinaire and fellow Seattle based blogger and solopreneur (her blog is called Sales Coach and her business is Score More Sales). We touch on the importance of fun to be most productive and focused. We talk about ways to improve fun that go beyond birthday cakes and Krispy Kremes. Helping your team get connected to the business is ONE great way to improve fun, focus, and results.
Podcast: Chat with Don Blohowiak
This is a 32 minute podcast with Don Blohowiak (his site is Lead Well, his blog is called Leadership Now). I previously had the pleasure of being a guest on his podcast and now he is joining me for a lively chat about intimacy - work intimacy. We touch on pros and cons, tips, and cautions. Don is a successful executive coach and consultant and really knows his stuff! You will enjoy and be illuminated by his thoughts and ideas, I’m sure of it.
Podcast: Chat with Phil Gerbyshak
In this 16 minute podcast with Phil Gerbyshak (you might know Phil from his great blog, Make it Great! and or his book called, 10 Ways to Make it Great) we tackled multitasking head on and took it DOWN. Phil shared several great tips for how managers can help employees resist the magnetic pull of multitasking and focus more effectively.
Podcast: Chat with David Lorenzo
In this 27 minute podcast, David Lorenzo and I had a great conversation that was enlivened by his interesting stories, including productivity advice from Deepak Chopra. Our conversation covered several aspects of focus and peak effectiveness. Would you like to both relax and accomplish more? Listen to this podcast! Podcast: Chat with Johnnie Moore
In this 22 minute podcast, Johnnie Moore and I chat about the benefits of inviting a challenge. Along the way we talk about facilitation, using improv. techniques to build performance and confidence, and other cool stuff. Johnnie has a interesting perspective on the environment that enables people to perform their best. I think you will really enjoy listening to this discussion!
Podcast: Chat with Dick Richards
In this 22 minute podcast, Dick Richards and I chat about how focus relates to discovering your genius and how our lives can be enriched by spending our time on what matters most. We interrelate the concepts of doing one great thing a day with finding your genius. It’s a lively and fun discussion.
Webcast: 10 Ways to Generate Breakthrough Results
In this 26 minute webcast, I share several of the techniques used in my 2 Weeks to a Breakthrough Program. If you would like to get your goal on the fast track, you will find this webcast helpful and enjoyable. This would also be a nice brown bag luncheon webinar - very motivating!
As with my other webcasts, the conversation style is casual, informal, and unrehearsed.
Webcast: Stop Multitasking, Start Chunking
In this 9 minute webcast, I share ideas for how to use chunking as an alternative to multitasking. Check it out and let me know what you think. If a peer or team member is challenged by multitasking, pass the link along!
If the topic interests you, check out my book, Focus Like a Laser Beam, as I wrote a chapter about chunking versus multitasking. Hey trainers! This short webcast would make a great opener for a 30 minute discussion about using chunking to improve productivity and reduce stress.
Webcast: Focus Like A Laser Beam
It’s raw, unedited, and unscripted. We did it once. The only structure was the images I selected to illustrate interesting concepts related to Focus. I did not want to create something too polished or slick - I wanted it to be real.
Yes, this is related to the launch of my book, Focus Like a Laser Beam, but it also stands on it’s own as a webinar about focusing in a social context (work). Check it out and let me know what you think! It would make for an interesting brown bag conversation starter, too. Hint, hint: Forward the post or webcast link to your training manager.
Podcast: Cranky Middle Manager Gets Focused
You all know the Cranky Middle Manager Show, right? That weekly podcast by witty host Wayne Turmel (he is very witty, in an intelligent way). I have linked to the show on my blog, Management Craft, several times. During this podcast, Wayne and I chat it up about focus and my latest book, Focus Like a Laser Beam.
Podcast: Talking About Management with Don Blohowiak
This conversation with Don was lively and fun - I recommend it for all managers and leaders! We recorded this in July of 2005. Check out Don’s management and leadership blog called Leadership. Now. This is a great podcast to check out if you want to learn more about the topics I wrote about in my book, High Impact Middle Management.
Podcast: Cranky Middle Manager - Discussing Middle Management
This is my first podcast with Wayne Turmel, host of the Cranky Middle Manager show. During this July 2005 discussion, we have a lively discussion about whether High Impact Middle Management is an oxymoron and other management topics.