The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
The Impact of Trust on Personal and Professional Dynamics
Trust is complex. Sometimes it comes easy, sometimes not so much. It can be delicate, fragile, or in some cases nearly indestructible. But what makes certain people trust more easily than others? And what even is trust to begin with. In this post, we’ll explore trust, a vital element of team health, by examining personal trust patterns, preferences, reasons, and methods. Our goal is to help you in forming your unique definition of trust.
2 Keys to a HEALTHY and HAPPY Workplace
Let’s dive into the profound impact of nurturing connection and community within the workplace, with insights inspired by the Surgeon General’s report on workplace mental health and well-being. Join Dr. Linda and Brian Schubring of Leadership Vision, as they stress the significance of fostering social bonds and relationships among employees to bolster their overall well-being.
Connection and Community revolves around creating an environment where individuals feel seen, heard, and valued, fostering a sense of belonging and social support. We emphasize that leaders should prioritize getting to know their colleagues personally, transcending professional boundaries. This goes beyond traditional team-building activities, and trust falls, focusing on acknowledging and celebrating the diversity of team members’ backgrounds and perspectives.
The key takeaway is that cultivating trust, inclusion, and diversity within teams can contribute significantly to a positive workplace culture that enhances mental health and well-being. By creating an atmosphere where every team member feels valued and included, leaders can promote satisfaction, motivation, and a more supportive work environment.
The Surgeon General’s insights underscore the importance of these principles in shaping a workplace culture that prioritizes the mental health and overall well-being of employees, emphasizing the need for leaders to lead in ways that benefit both individuals and the broader workplace community. Learn more!
Why Leaders Get it Wrong and Embrace Failure
In this episode of the podcast, discover the transformative power of embracing failure in leadership. Rather than fearing mistakes, effective leaders view them as stepping stones for growth, innovation, and learning. This approach encourages ambitious goal-setting, emphasizes strengths over weaknesses, and fosters a culture of adaptability within teams. By openly discussing failures and sharing missed goals, leaders build transparency and trust. Embrace failure as a catalyst for success and join the conversation on revolutionizing leadership through embracing and learning from failures. Enjoy!
Our Top 4 Lessons from Coaching High-Level Leaders
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Dr. Linda and Brian Schubring share their insights and wisdom from their coaching clients. They will share how to improve team dynamics, positivity, and passion in your organization. Their coaching approach emphasizes self-awareness, mindfulness, and positive perception to transform individuals and teams. Join the conversation to create a thriving organizational environment.
Unlocking the Power of Empathetic Listening for Effective Leadership
Empathetic listening is the catalyst for transformative leadership. On this episode of the Leadership Vision podcast, we explore its profound impact, from understanding emotions in conversations to conflict resolution and fostering innovation. Master empathetic listening to unlock trust, belonging, and motivation in your team. Enjoy!
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.
What You Should Know About the Story You’re Telling Yourself
In this episode, Melissa and Nathan discuss how to recognize when we’re telling ourselves stories that probably aren’t true, how to correct them, and where to go from there. We will share a few examples from our own lives, and then give you a couple of tools to help you stay true in the moment in order to have better emotional health.
Why you need to DO THE WORK that NOBODY sees.
Today on the podcast, Brian, Linda, and I offer some encouragement as we discuss our internal, unseen personal growth. Even though this work can go unseen by most, we still need to pursue growth. It is worth it in the long run. Enjoy!
Do you Understand how your Strengths Pair Together?
Today on the podcast, we’re talking about the importance of understanding how your Strengths pair together. Brian, Linda, and I discuss the difference between expressive pairings and motivational pairings, how you can understand both, and why you need to communicate these new findings to those on your team. Enjoy!
4 Things You Need To Understand To Maximize Your Influence
Today on the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brian and Nathan ask how your education, experience, expertise, and environment have shaped your emotional connection to others and ultimately your ability to lead. Enjoy!
4 Ways to have more productive Self-Reflection
Today on the podcast, we will be talking about four things to consider when doing self-reflection. We invite you to consider your perspective of attitude, acceptance, alternative, and action each time you pause to reflect. These simple things can open our minds to different ways of reflecting to influence and change our perspectives. Enjoy!
A Tool to Help Your Team Navigate Change
In this episode, we talk about change! We walk you through our “Change Pyramid” tool, which can guide you through a recent change experience and then use that knowledge to navigate your next life change. Enjoy!
Understanding How You Approach Moments of Change
In this episode, we talk about change! Everyone has their own preferences and ability to navigate change. In this episode, Brian, Linda, and Nathan share a little bit about how they navigate change, where their personal preferences come from, and how you can better understand your own change preferences. Enjoy!
Tools to Help you Communicate Better
In this episode, Amy and Nathan ask and answer some questions of each other related to the way that we prefer to communicate. We hope to give you some examples and tools of how you might learn how to communicate more effectively with someone on your team, in your entire organization, or even a member of your family or other personal relationships. ENJOY!
Understand Conflict Styles with the Conflict Pyramid
How do we improve our conflict style? How do we build up a structure to support all of the various situations of conflict that we experience in our lives? In this episode, we share a tool that can help you navigate conflict in relationships, on your team, and honestly, really anywhere else. Grab a piece of paper and a pen to try this exercise at home. Enjoy!
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