The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
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!
Key Takeaways from the Women & Power Conference
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Melissa Hiatt and Dr. Linda Schubring recap their experience and share their biggest takeaways from the Women & Power Conference.
What We’re Grateful for at Leadership Vision in 2021
In this episode, our team members reflect on the things we’re most thankful for in 2021 and how those things are informing us going forward. Our themes of gratitude unsurprisingly revolve a lot around the pandemic and what all of us are thankful for in spite of the many, many things we’ve lost this year, both the trivial things and the profound. Enjoy!
Discussing the Five Courage Questions
In this episode, Nathan, Melissa, and Brian discuss five questions that you can use for courage and how we have used them in professional relationships here at Leadership Vision. These are questions you can ask whenever there’s something difficult in life or when you need clarity or more understanding about how you’re going to show up for something.
Learning About the Strengths Communicator Training with Amy
In this episode, Nathan sits down with Leadership Vision’s executive assistant, Amy, to discuss her recent experiences in our Strengths Communicator Training. We discuss her personal and professional takeaways from the training and what she’s learned about herself and her loved ones. Tune in to learn how you can benefit from the Strengths Communicator Training and how to sign up for our next session this winter. Enjoy!
Understanding How Teams Relate
In the final episode of our series on the dominant domains, we discuss the Relating domain and how it shows up on teams. The four domains of Strength are another way to organize and think about the 34 themes of Strength. These episodes are meant to introduce you to the language of the domains of Strength as one of the many ways you can better understand the culture of your team. A better understanding of team culture allows you to better prepare for your engagement with your team and to help the team really understand the nature and composition of who they are when they come together.
Understanding How Teams Influence
In this episode, we discuss the Influencing domain as a way to help us better understand team culture. This discussion is part three of a multi-part series about dominant domains and how they show up on teams.
Understanding How Teams Think
In this episode, we discuss the Thinking domain and what it looks like when the Thinking domain is dominant on teams. This is part two of our multi-part series where we discuss dominant domains to help us better understand team culture. We believe learning more about the culture of your teams will lead to better engagement and help your team to really understand the nature and composition of who they are when they come together.
Understanding How Teams Get Work Done
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we take the idea of dominant domains to help us better understand the composition of team culture and how teams get work done.
What the Domains of Strength Teach us about Team Culture
Today on the Leadership Vision Podcast, we introduce the idea of using the Four Domains of Strength to build healthy team culture. We explore how this philosophy helps teams think critically, get work done, build relationships, and influence others. We also explain how every Strength can contribute to a healthy team culture. Listen now!
The SFD: Analyzing & understanding the stories we tell ourselves
In this episode, we discuss the concept of the SFD. The SFD is a tool to utilize after something hard happens, when there’s a difficult fall, or if something didn’t go the way you thought it would. It allows us to analyze the stories we tell ourselves and to understand them better.
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