The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
The Connection Between Self-Leadership and Leading Others
In this episode, we share a somewhat candid conversation about the challenge of recognizing personal needs and the connection between self-leadership and leading others. Throughout our discussion, Brian and I share personal anecdotes and observations about our struggles to name and prioritize individual needs. We also highlight the significance of understanding and addressing our own needs as a fundamental aspect of self-leadership and compassionate leadership towards others. Listen and reflect as we unpack these perspectives and provide some practical suggestions for recognizing and prioritizing your own needs as a leader. Enjoy!
Reframing the Narrative: Self-Care as a Leadership Tool
In this episode, we delve into the importance of naming your needs as a leader. We provide practical insights and share personal stories that will help you gain clarity and take intentional action to prioritize your needs. By the end of this episode, you will have a better understanding of how to name your needs, create space for self-reflection, and rewrite the narrative that drives your leadership journey. Enjoy!
People-Centric Leadership: The Key to Building Stronger Teams
In this episode, we discuss the multifaceted nature of knowing your people and how it can transform your leadership dynamics. Brian shares a powerful example of an executive leader who demonstrates people-centric leadership with a remarkable depth of knowledge about the personal and professional life of her team to motivate, inspire, develop, and build trust among them. We discuss this example and then explore the correlation between a leader’s self-awareness and ability to truly know and connect with others. We also cover how one can gauge their own self-awareness levels and what markers might indicate some level of a person’s understanding of themselves, and how individuals often possess valuable life lessons and strategies within themselves. Enjoy!
The Importance of Embracing Lessons for Leadership
In this episode, Brian shares valuable insights on the importance of embracing lessons and details his personal journey of growth, highlighting his humility, openness, and willingness to accept help from others. We also discuss the significance of learning lessons as leaders and the need for leaders to embrace lessons from the past, be present in the moment, and prepare for future lessons. As you listen, we encourage you to reflect on your own experiences and the lessons that you’ve learned along the way.
What leaders do is a collection of small bite-sized leadership lessons designed to make you think differently about familiar topics. Each episode features Brian sharing his thoughts and experiences followed by an interactive question-and-answer session with members from our Leadership Vision online community.
What is Your Dominant Pair of Strengths?
Sometimes the simplest questions can bring about the most profound answers. In this episode, we revisit the idea of dominant pairs of Strengths and pose questions to our community and listeners about their Strengths and dominant pairs.
If you’re new to Strengths or curious about your dominant pair, use the StrengthsFinder assessment to learn more about your top five Strengths.
Why Relationships Matter Now More than Ever
In this episode of the leadership vision podcast, we discuss team building, strengthening relationships, and how you can set up your business, organization, and even family for success.
Join our FREE Live Webinar on April 21, 2022
In this episode, we share a highlight from the next FREE webinar we’re hosting on Thursday, April 21, 2022. The webinar will give you a high level overview about the training to help you better understand if it’s right for you.
Learn about the Flourishing in Strengths Conference
Join us on Saturday, June 11th for the Flourishing in Strengths Conference and refresh your connection to your talents through an interactive day steeped in growth and encouragement.
Three Ways Strengths Can Help You Deal with Setbacks
In this episode, Melissa Hiatt and I explore the idea of setbacks and what, if anything, our Strengths can do to help us get through them. Setbacks are part of life; how can we lean into them and perhaps get something out of the experience? How can we use everything that happens to us as an opportunity to practice using our Strengths, to practice being resilient, or to even practice self-compassion?
Understanding Behavior-Based Strengths
In this episode, we talk about our behavior-based approach to Clifton Strengths. We discuss why we’ve taken this approach, define what a behavior-based approach is, and also share some examples and provide insight for how you might be able to take your own behavior-based approach in understanding your Strengths. Whether you’re learning about your Strengths or helping others on their Strengths journey, this approach is effective for the interpretation and application of Strengths. Enjoy!
Watch the Strengths Communicator Training Webinar
In this episode, we share a replay of our Strengths Communicator Training Webinar. Brian and Linda go over some of the basics of the training, Strengths, and Leadership Vision. It’s a very brief snapshot into our larger training and a great way to dip in your toes to see if you want to take the next step on your Strengths journey. Enjoy!
Take a Deep Dive into Strengths with the Strengths Communicator Training
In this episode, you get to hear a conversation with Brian Peters about his experience going through our Strengths Communicator Training. We talk about how he got into the training, how he’s using the information he learned, and a little bit about what might be interesting to you as you consider enrolling in our next training.
Join us for Our Next Strengths Communicator Training
In this episode, we announce our next Strengths Communicator Training in Rochester, Minnesota on June 29th and 30th of 2022. This three-day in-person training is designed to help anyone enhance their skills in order to help others and ultimately yourself understand the unique behaviors of Strengths.
What Insight do Strengths Give to Goal Setting?
In this episode, Amy and Nathan discuss some basic thoughts related to goal setting and Strengths. They share some personal examples and stories of how our own understanding of Strengths helps us on this journey as well as examples of leadership, family, life, parenthood, and all kinds of other things. Enjoy!
The 7 Signs of Team Health
In this episode, we discuss the seven elements of team health. We actually recorded this episode back in 2019, but the content has never been more relevant. After conducting a series of team engagement interviews, we have identified seven things that are consistent signs of healthy teams. In our discussion, we explore the seven elements of team health as well as multiple examples to help you begin identifying the health of your team. Enjoy!
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