The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
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.
Mastering Workplace Conflict: Insights from Carol Bowser
Have you ever wondered how childhood experiences shape our conflict stories in the workplace? In this episode, we share an eye-opening conversation with Carol Bowser, founder of Conflict Management Strategies. Carol shares her unique journey from employment law to conflict mediation, offering profound insights on how leaders can effectively navigate conflict and foster a healthy work environment. Enjoy!
Building a Thriving Team Culture: Unlocking the Power of Strengths-Based Approaches
Have you ever wondered why some Strengths-based approaches fail while others flourish? Our founder, Brian Schubring shares his expert perspective on four common pitfalls, like diving into Strengths work before your team is ready, and typecasting your team which can stifle growth. Learn the importance of mindfulness and securing supportive partners as you embark on integrating Strengths-based approaches into your team culture. Our conversation is packed with best practices and lessons to help you persistently and thoughtfully embed Strengths into your daily interactions. Enjoy!
Transforming Setbacks into Opportunities: Insights from Amy Schoenthal
Imagine turning every setback into a stepping stone for growth and innovation. In this episode, we unpack insights from Amy Schoenthal and talk about her new book, “The Setback Cycle.” We discuss her personal journey from marketing to leadership, and illustrate how curiosity and self-awareness can transform life’s challenges into opportunities for success. Tune in for this enlightening conversation that promises to equip you with the tools to turn setbacks into a more meaningful and resilient life. Enjoy!
Revisiting the Importance of Collaboration
Happy Memorial Day! In this episode, we take a brief pause from our regular schedule to honor the holiday and reflect on the importance of collaboration. Instead of a new episode, we’re excited to re-share a valuable episode from 2021 that delves deep into the nuances of collaboration—a topic that has become increasingly relevant for us at Leadership Vision. Enjoy!
Join us for Our Next Strengths Communicator Training
In this episode, we announce our next Strengths Communicator Training in Rochester, Minnesota on June 29th and 30th of 2022. This three-day in-person training is designed to help anyone enhance their skills in order to help others and ultimately yourself understand the unique behaviors of Strengths.
What Insight do Strengths Give to Goal Setting?
In this episode, Amy and Nathan discuss some basic thoughts related to goal setting and Strengths. They share some personal examples and stories of how our own understanding of Strengths helps us on this journey as well as examples of leadership, family, life, parenthood, and all kinds of other things. Enjoy!
The 7 Signs of Team Health
In this episode, we discuss the seven elements of team health. We actually recorded this episode back in 2019, but the content has never been more relevant. After conducting a series of team engagement interviews, we have identified seven things that are consistent signs of healthy teams. In our discussion, we explore the seven elements of team health as well as multiple examples to help you begin identifying the health of your team. Enjoy!
3 Essential Things for Tackling the Needs of Your Team
Every team that has ever existed has been presented with some sort of challenge. In fact, some people might argue that the sole purpose of a team is to tackle problems and overcome challenges. While there are many great resources on how to build a successful team, we think there are really only three essential elements for teams to tackle problems and thrive. In this episode, we discuss how to embrace compassion, courage, and connection to build successful teams. We also share a few tips for implementing these essential things on your team.
Are Your Team Building Efforts Effective?
Whether you’re a team leader or a team member, you can probably list lots of examples of team building activities that have been completely worthless or a waste of time. Before you invest one more dollar into any sort of team building activity this year, there are a couple of things we want you to make sure are included. If you find yourself constantly pounding your head against that proverbial wall in frustration, there might be a couple of things that you’re missing.
In this episode, we share some simple things that will help you invest in better team building this year, and hopefully avoid wasting all of our time.
How to Give & Receive Feedback
Giving and receiving feedback can often be the catalyst to create long-lasting, sustainable change in attitude and disposition within an organization or culture. In this episode, we discuss how leaders can prepare to give and receive feedback, as well as the five norms of giving and receiving feedback to others. Enjoy!
How to Structure Feedback for Teams
Most leaders know the importance of giving feedback to their team but we’ve heard time and time again how hard that can actually be. One reason we’ve found for this is that the environment of an organization sometimes isn’t set up to support constructive feedback. If you want to use feedback to help others grow, change, and transform on your team, you need to set up a structure.
In this episode, we discuss tips for setting up a structure and environment that is conducive to giving and receiving feedback. We also share a few tips to help you build structural supports on your team to make feedback more effective. Enjoy!
What We’re Focusing on at Leadership Vision in 2022
In this episode, Linda and Nathan talk about some of the changes we’ve experienced in the last two years, and how Leadership Vision has changed in 2022. We discuss what we are focusing on in the new year and how we can help you and your team in 2022.
What are Your Positive Changes from 2021?
2021 has been challenging for all of us, but it’s important to remember there have been a lot of good things, too. At Leadership Vision, we have experienced a whole lot of small, positive things and we have a hunch that perhaps you may have some small positives as well. We’d love to hear your stories of joy from 2021! Send us a voice memo to share one small, positive experience or a source of joy from 2021 for an upcoming episode!
A Summary of the Four Domains of Strength
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we revisit our discussion about the domains of Strength and then prompt you with a few questions that may help improve the health of your team in the new year.
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