The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
Using the Language of Strengths to Enhance Leadership Influence
How can understanding your own strengths transform your leadership style and create a thriving team environment? In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we dive into the nuanced use of the language of Strengths to articulate the influence of leaders on their teams. Rather than allowing Strengths definitions to rigidly frame perceptions, we advocate understanding the ‘how’ and ‘why’ behind leadership actions first.
We discuss three core themes—relationships, results, and responsibilities—and explore how leaders across various industries navigate these areas using their unique strengths. Detailed examples of different leadership styles, such as benevolent disruptors and steady Eddies, illustrate how Strengths can drive relationship-building, results achievement, and responsibility-taking.
The episode emphasizes the importance of leaders and team members understanding and leveraging their strengths for effective team dynamics and positive work culture.
Enjoy!
Embracing Leadership Shock with Pete Steinberg
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we engage in an insightful conversation with Pete Steinberg, President of Innovative Thought and author of ‘Leadership Shock: Using Authenticity to Navigate the Hidden Dangers of Career Success.’ They discuss the challenges leaders face during transitions, the importance of intentionality, the value of feedback, and how understanding one’s purpose is crucial. Pete shares his experiences coaching the U.S. Olympic women’s rugby team and offers valuable guidelines for developing authentic leadership. Enjoy!
Five Questions to Foster Courage and Clarity in Leadership
In this episode, which originally aired back in 2021, we share a conversation with founder Brian Schubring and former consultant Melissa Hiatt about five essential questions leaders can use to foster courage and gain clarity in their leadership. Through stories and practical advice, we reveal how understanding the broader context of one’s journey can unlock multiple choices and strategies for overcoming challenges.
You’ll hear how these questions prompt leaders to recount their stories, uncover hidden concerns, and expand their perspectives, ultimately leading to greater success and emotional health. This conversation is a treasure trove for leaders looking to understand their fears, define success, seek necessary support, and set effective boundaries to build a positive team culture. Enjoy!
Transforming Team Culture Through People with Martin Gonzalez
In this episode, we sit down with Martin Gonzalez, creator of Google’s effectiveness founders project and author of ‘The Bonfire Moment.’ With a background in organizational psychology, Martin highlights real-world challenges and solutions, drawing from his extensive experience with global leaders. This conversation is a rich resource for anyone aiming to create a positive team culture and build mentally engaged, emotionally healthy teams. Whether you’re a startup founder or a leader in any organization, you’ll find practical advice to enhance your leadership skills. Enjoy!
Empowering Leaders Through Strengths Communicator Training
We are excited to announce our next Strengths Communicator Training in Minneapolis! This program is aimed at helping leaders understand and apply Strength-based approaches to foster positive team cultures. Learn from participants of past cohorts who share their experiences and the transformative impact of the training. The episode offers insights into the training’s four main takeaways and encourages listeners to join our next cohort in August 2024.
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.
What Leaders Need to Level Up
Leaders obviously need to be at their best in today’s competitive business environment. They must think critically, make sound decisions, and motivate their teams. To do all this and more, leaders need to level up. Leveling up is about more than simply increasing your skills and knowledge. It’s about being more present, more engaged, and more effective. It’s also about being ready.
In this episode, we discuss three components leaders need to level up. We invite you to consider what you must do now to show up, grow up and pro up. Enjoy!
Why Leaders Wake Up Early
In this episode, we introduce our new podcast series, What Leaders Do, small little digestible nuggets of wisdom to help you be a better leader. We’re joined live by members of our community to discuss why the best leaders wake up early. We share insights on how leaders wake up early and stick to the habit. Plus, Brian shares his impressive, long-standing morning routine, including tips on how you can build your own morning practice. You can join the conversation in our next What Leaders Do episode by joining our community!
How the Best Leaders Slow Down When Faced with Challenges
In this episode, Dr. Linda and Brian Schubring and I explore how the best leaders and CEOs leverage action and accountability to face challenges and change head-on. We share a few stories from real leaders that we’ve worked with about our role as consultants and coaches in this process and give a few tips for how to slow down before you make any sort of decision when you’re facing your own challenges or changes. Enjoy.
What We Learned from Talking to 60 Different CEOs
In this episode, we discuss common pain points for CEOs and C-level leaders and what we’ve learned about how to navigate them. Whether you’re a C-level leader or a fresh new hire, we give tools that can help everyone navigate the challenging landscape of today’s work environment.
Three Keys to Doing Hard Things
In this episode, we discuss Steve Magness’s latest book, Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness. We’ll share a brief overview of the book, give a couple of our biggest takeaways, and then share a few tips that we think will help you to better understand toughness and how you can apply that to your leadership and ultimately to doing hard things.
How to Use Strengths with Your Team in 90 Minutes or Less
Team leaders regularly ask us how they can use Strengths in a short team-building meeting or off-site experience. While brevity with Strengths is better than nothing, creating healthy teams takes ongoing, meaningful engagement. Understanding Strengths is an ongoing process, but you gotta start somewhere!
Today on the podcast, we outline how to use Strengths in a 60 – 90 minute team building meeting. It’s meant to give you tools to start the conversation in the Strengths world, create a positive experience, and then hopefully move into more engaging Strengths-based conversation.
How Good Leaders Lay People Off
Transition on a team is never an easy process. In this episode, we share how good leaders lay people off. We discuss three high-level tips and talk about some of the things we’ve learned from helping lots of leaders lay people off the right way.
3 Things Great Leaders Do When They Get Laid Off
In this episode, we talk about three things the best leaders do when they get laid off or experience a work transition. We share how good leaders lean into self-compassion, self-care, and reach out to their networks to get back on that proverbial employment horse. Enjoy!
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