The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive

The Role of Human Connection in Collaborative Success featuring Jeff Brown
On this episode of the podcast, we explore collaboration’s influence on success with insights from business coach Jeff Brown. His story highlights how collaboration fuels innovation, and overcomes change resistance. Small businesses thrive on human connection, differentiating collaboration from cooperation. You’ll iscover strategies for effective collaboration in evolving landscapes.

The Hidden Power of Small Steps in Leadership
In this podcast episode, we discuss the importance of taking small steps in leadership. Extraordinary leaders not only cast big visions but also break them down into achievable milestones for their teams. By doing so, they foster a sense of connection, motivate individuals, and ensure steady progress towards the ultimate goal. Enjoy
The Evolution of Clifton StrengthsFinder: Understanding and Appreciating Our Results Over Time
In this episode, we share insights on the evolution of Strengths over time. Our Themes of Strength remain consistent while our interpretation of them evolves, reflecting our personal growth and transformation. Understanding this concept requires a recognition of the significance of perspectives, self-awareness, adaptability, flexibility, and the ability to embrace growth, change, and relationships throughout our journey. We talk about these five things and give a reflection question for each one to ponder as you consider how you have come to understand and appreciate your Themes of Strength over time. Enjoy!
Unlocking Leadership Excellence: Strategies for Building a Thriving Executive Environment
An executive environment is a professional setting that focuses on the development and growth of executives within an organization. It encompasses various activities and strategies to enhance executives effectiveness and performance. When executives are developed and empowered, their better equipped to lead others, inspire innovation, and drive the organization’s success. By investing in the growth of executives organizations create a ripple effect that positively impacts the entire workforce, fostering a culture of leadership excellence and increasing the likelihood of achieving organizational goals.
At Leadership Vision, we’ve honed a comprehensive and customizable approach to cultivating a successful executive environment centered around six core elements. These services cater specifically to the unique needs of executive leaders, acknowledging that each layer of leadership has its own distinct needs.
In this episode, we share our approach and insights on six essential components for cultivating successful executive environments. We also provide valuable examples and guidance on the importance of investing in a thriving executive environment that fuels leadership excellence and propels organizational success. Enjoy!
Even if you’re not an executive or C-suite level leader, we can all learn some universal principles for success when the stakes are high. So whether you’re an aspiring leader, a seasoned executive, or simply interested in leadership development in general, this episode has a little something for you. Enjoy!
6 Tips for Successful Team Facilitation
In this episode, Brian and Linda Schubring share some of their insights and strategies for successful team facilitation. Leaders often find themselves in situations where participants have low expectations due to previous experiences of super boring, unproductive, or passive training sessions. To overcome these challenges, Brian and Linda suggest creating an engaging and interactive environment that captures the attention and participation of all team members. They also share a few valuable tips and tricks to engage your teams and help you learn how to navigate conversations with dexterity, foster meaningful connections, and facilitate productive discussions. If you’re in a rut or need to do something different, this episode can help you harness some of our methods and philosophy to maximize engagement and achieve your goals. Enjoy.
Look for Solutions in Unlikely Places
In this episode, we take a simple idea, attach it to a story, and ask you to reflect as it relates to your own leadership context. This leadership thought came to me on a morning run, and it has to do with stepping back and examining, or re-examining, everything at your disposal when faced with a problem you can’t figure out. Enjoy!
Understanding Your Personal Conflict Style
In this episode, we talk about conflict. Everyone has their own style of how they engage or disengage with conflict. In this episode, Brian, Linda, and I share a little bit about we navigate conflict, where our personal conflict styles come from, and how you can better understand your own conflict styles. Enjoy!
How to Build Healthy Communication on Your Team
In this episode, we share what teams have taught us about how they are building cultures where healthy communication patterns and preferences can take hold. We share some of our best takeaways, as well as some examples and ideas for how you might implement some of these best practices in your business, your organization, or even your family. Enjoy!
Use These 5 Questions to Become a More Courageous Person
In this episode, Melissa Hyatt, and I talk about courage and give you some tools to help you find a little courage of your own. We use five courage questions to help you think deeply and critically and lean into whatever challenges you’re facing. These versatile and helpful questions are designed to be used on a team with people you lead, with your family, or internally with yourself. Enjoy!
A Moment of Pause on Memorial Day
In this episode, we take a moment to pause and reflect on the last year of pandemic life. What world are we entering into? What have we learned from this strange time? And can we pause long enough to figure out what we truly value so that we can go back to a world where our priorities are aligned with the things that we value most?
Exploring Communication Styles
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brian, Linda, and I reflect on our communication patterns and preferences as leaders and give each other feedback to better understand how we are actually communicating. We also model an activity on the show that you can do at home, so enjoy this episode and then try it for yourself!
How We Help Teams Collaborate
How does your team collaborate? We believe you never really know how a team collaborates until you understand each member as an individual collaborator. Sometimes teams need greater alignment, agreement, or action in order to improve the way that the culture interacts with each other. In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we talk about what we’ve learned about collaboration in the context of who you are as a person, who you are on a team, and who you are within an organizational culture. We discuss our three-step process to help teams learn about their individual collaboration styles and how you and your team can become better collaborators together. Enjoy!
How Do You Collaborate? Exploring Collaboration Styles
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brian, Linda, and I reflect on some of our earliest memories of our collaborative experiences and discuss how they have helped to shape or impact the way that we collaborate on teams today. As you listen to this episode, think about some of your earliest memories or memories in general of ways that you have collaborated. How does that impact you today?
The Benefits of Stepping Back as a Leader
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we ask how we can be more mindful of our leadership moment, that moment when leadership is asked of us and our first response is to step back before we step in. We discuss the benefits of stepping back as a leader and two ways leaders can step back and reflect before they step in and act.
Lean into Your Strengths with Self-Awareness
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brain and Linda lead Nathan through a 1 to 1 conversation and share how to lean into your Strengths with self-awareness.
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