The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
Embracing Perspective: How Leaders Can Innovate and Empathize for Better Decision Making
In the ever-evolving world of leadership, adaptability and embracing perspective stand as pivotal skills that distinguish good leaders from great ones. In this episode, we take a deep dive into the transformative power of perspective in leadership and decision-making. We reveal why a shift in outlook is not just beneficial, but critical for innovation and empathy in our decision-making processes, and discuss the necessity for leaders to evolve their perspectives in the face of complex challenges. Enjoy!
Building Positive Team Culture: Insights and Actions for the New Year
What do you wish for your team in the year ahead? In this episode, we reveal the secrets to cultivating a vibrant team and uncover strategies to foster a positive team culture. We share real-life insights and wisdom that we’ve learned from our clients, and a few strategies to encourage you to elevate your team in the new year. Enjoy!
Unlocking the Power of Your Unique Strengths
Think back to the moment when you first received your unique StrengthsFinder results. What was that experience like for you?
For me, I remember so vividly the moment I got my results back. I read the descriptions for the theme of ideation and felt like wow, for the first time, this, this thing, this tool, this assessment, has finally put words to what I had already known about myself for my entire life. It was extremely freeing and gave me permission to stop trying to be someone I wasn’t.
Whether you’ve recently taken StrengthsFinder assessment or are a little further along on your journey, this episode is a good reminder to never stop being curious about the things that make you, you. The language of Strengths is fantastic when it comes to communicating things about yourself that help you stand out. With a little bit of time and energy, you can get a better perspective on your top five themes of Strength and possibly see new ways in which you can approach your personal and professional life.
Unleashing Team Success: Exploring Team Health and Emotional Needs
What if I told you the key to a team’s success resides not just in skills and knowledge, but significantly, in team health? In this episode, we dive into our archives from way back in season one for a conversation about team health, something that never goes out of style.
Throughout our conversation, we take a deep look at the emotional needs within a team setting and the profound impact they can have on performance. Drawing from our collective experience, we share five crucial lessons we’ve gleaned over the years, designed to boost the overall health and effectiveness of your team.
If you are looking to enhance personal growth and uplift your team’s health, this episode is your roadmap to success. Enjoy!
Exploring Strengths: From Cognitive Development to Team Dynamics
In this episode, we go beyond the surface-level appreciation of Strengths, and delve into their developmental roots, dynamic nature, and vulnerability. As we pause from recording new episodes during the holiday season, we want to share the main six lessons from our course, Seeing Strengths from a New Perspective. It’s a fascinating way to think about your Strengths in a new or different way. We invite you to wrestle with these lessons over the holiday break and engage with your Strengths in a new way in the new year. 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!
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?
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