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April 2018

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What are your Earliest Strengths Memories? (podcast)

In this episode of the Leadership Vision podcast, you’ll get to hear from our entire team as each of us reflect on our earliest memories related to Strengths. One of the questions we ask clients is, “what was happening in your life between the ages of 7 to 11 years old?” Those ages represent an arc of cognitive development called the concrete operational period. This time is characterized by the development of organized and rational thinking and marks the beginning of logical or operational thought. It’s also the time if your life when Strengths are beginning to form. When you recall what you were doing in life during those ages, it may shed light on how your Strengths have developed today. Listen now!

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Four Tips to Deal with Change Effectively

The sheer purpose of a vegetable peeler is to shave off an outer layer, perhaps a layer that is too tough or bitter; to change the state of the fruit or vegetable. In this post, Carrie describes her restlessness and inability to settle down long enough to pay attention to this needed change. Here are four things Carrie learned as she applied the philosophy of the vegetable peeler to herself.

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Which Themes of Strength Influence Your Communication Style? (Podcast)

Today on the podcast, we’re doing something a little different. This is a mini-episode where we give you one Strengths-Based question to ponder over the week ahead. It’s something new we’re experimenting with so leave us some feedback and tell us what you think. The idea is to present one Strengths-Based question or challenge and see what you do with that in the next week. We want these mini-episodes to be very practical and give you one thing to focus on as you practice developing your awareness of how your Themes of Strength operate. Listen now to hear this week’s question!

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How to Understand People with Influencing Themes (Podcast)

Today on the podcast, Brian Schubring and I are talking about the Influencing Domain of Strength. More specifically, how to understand the people who have some or all of their five Themes in the influencing Domain. Domains organize the 34 Themes of Strength into four major categories, which are Thinking, Relating, Executing, and what we’ll be talking about in this episode, Influencing.

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Four Things StrengthsFinder Cannot Tell us about a Person (podcast)

Today on the podcast, Brian Schubring and I are going to be talking about the four things StrengthsFinder results cannot tell us. Strengths tell us a lot about what a person brings to any situation. It can tell us how they will show up in a relationship and what their potential capacity is for whatever the job might be. However, at Leadership Vision, we are learning more and more about the things Strengths CANNOT tell us about a person. Listen now!

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