The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive

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 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.
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.
How We Onboard at Leadership Vision
In this episode, we introduce Amy Rollinger, our wonderful new colleague who joined our team a little over four months ago (at the time of recording). We talk about those first few months on the job and what makes our onboarding process different at Leadership Vision. Whether you’re someone looking to make your own job shift or career change, or a manager who wants to know how to onboard someone in an effective way, this episode will be really helpful for you. Enjoy!
Spring Break Reflections: How Our Strengths Show Up
In this episode, Linda and Nathan reflect on recent trips they took over spring break and how they saw their Strengths show up in different situations and experiences. This exercise in reflection is an example of what we often do with clients. We ask them to use a recent event or activity or any life situation and reflect on how they saw their Strengths show up. It’s not only a way to better understand your Strengths or the Strengths of those around you, but it can also be a way to process all of life’s experiences.
How to Go Deeper in your Strengths Knowledge
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we discuss our new and improved Strengths Communicator Training. Our next cohort is starting this summer and we would love for you to join us! Brian, Linda and I discuss what this training is all about and why you should consider going deeper in your knowledge of Strengths with the Strengths Communicator Training. Enjoy!
A Leadership Vision Update: How We Are Adapting!
In this episode, we talk about how we are adapting around the three areas of investment, modification, and learning. Brian and Linda Schubring, our president and vice-president, spend time reflecting on all of the ways our business has changed over 2020 and what we have learned through the process. We hope it gives you some insight into the behind-the-scenes at Leadership Vision and provides takeaways to consider as we continue to operate in a virtual world. Enjoy!
Strengths-Based Listening: The Importance of a Leader Who Listens
In this episode, we talk about the importance of leaders who listen. We define what listening is, why it’s so difficult, why it’s so incredibly important, and then share a few observations we’ve made about the impact we can ALL have when we listen for and with our Strengths.
How to Manage Temporary and Permanent Adaptations
In this episode, Brian and Nathan share an unscripted conversation about current life challenges and adaptation. We take one simple idea and run with it. In short, we talk about adaptation and wellbeing. We discuss some ideas about how to figure out what your business looks like, what your leadership looks like, what your family, relationships, and all kinds of other things look like as they relate to change and taking care of yourself. We also dive into a number of tips for managing adaptations whether they are permanent or temporary. Enjoy!
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