The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
The Importance of Embracing Lessons for Leadership
In this episode, Brian shares valuable insights on the importance of embracing lessons and details his personal journey of growth, highlighting his humility, openness, and willingness to accept help from others. We also discuss the significance of learning lessons as leaders and the need for leaders to embrace lessons from the past, be present in the moment, and prepare for future lessons. As you listen, we encourage you to reflect on your own experiences and the lessons that you’ve learned along the way.
What leaders do is a collection of small bite-sized leadership lessons designed to make you think differently about familiar topics. Each episode features Brian sharing his thoughts and experiences followed by an interactive question-and-answer session with members from our Leadership Vision online community.
What is Your Dominant Pair of Strengths?
Sometimes the simplest questions can bring about the most profound answers. In this episode, we revisit the idea of dominant pairs of Strengths and pose questions to our community and listeners about their Strengths and dominant pairs.
If you’re new to Strengths or curious about your dominant pair, use the StrengthsFinder assessment to learn more about your top five Strengths.
What Leaders Need to Level Up
Leaders obviously need to be at their best in today’s competitive business environment. They must think critically, make sound decisions, and motivate their teams. To do all this and more, leaders need to level up. Leveling up is about more than simply increasing your skills and knowledge. It’s about being more present, more engaged, and more effective. It’s also about being ready.
In this episode, we discuss three components leaders need to level up. We invite you to consider what you must do now to show up, grow up and pro up. Enjoy!
Why Leaders Wake Up Early
In this episode, we introduce our new podcast series, What Leaders Do, small little digestible nuggets of wisdom to help you be a better leader. We’re joined live by members of our community to discuss why the best leaders wake up early. We share insights on how leaders wake up early and stick to the habit. Plus, Brian shares his impressive, long-standing morning routine, including tips on how you can build your own morning practice. You can join the conversation in our next What Leaders Do episode by joining our community!
How the Best Leaders Slow Down When Faced with Challenges
In this episode, Dr. Linda and Brian Schubring and I explore how the best leaders and CEOs leverage action and accountability to face challenges and change head-on. We share a few stories from real leaders that we’ve worked with about our role as consultants and coaches in this process and give a few tips for how to slow down before you make any sort of decision when you’re facing your own challenges or changes. Enjoy.
Who Helps You Better Understand Your Strengths?
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Nathan and Brian discuss the people in their lives who help them better understand their Strengths.
What’s Your Favorite Childhood Toy?
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Nathan and Linda discuss their favorite childhood toys and varying Strengths at play.
Standing Still to Move Forward
On this episode of the podcast, we explore what might happen if we stand still. We talk about paying attention to what is going on around us by listening to ourselves and others, in order to gain new insights about how we are to move forward during this unprecedented time.
The Transformational Nature of Strengths
In today’s episode, we will talk about Strengths as being descriptive, generative, environmental, and transformational. Those words take some unpacking, so stick around to hear Brian, and I walk through our four differentiators, and also share a tip about how to apply the big idea to yourself or your organization.
Shaping our Identity in the Crucible of 2020
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we invite you to reflect on this current moment to find meaning in and learning from our present world. Surrender to how this season is refining you to emerge stronger, more confident, more filled with purpose, and as passionate as ever.
How our virtual Delivery Helps Teams Deal with Real-World Business Problems
Today on the podcast, Brian and Linda Schubring and I will be recapping two of our recent virtual events. We will discuss some of our biggest takeaways from them and also share how we’ve been using our platform to discuss relevant, real-time business, and team challenges with our clients. So keep listening!
On the Importance of Rest
In this episode we talk about how to make intentional interruptions in our lives to break the flow and monotony. We’ll discuss how that can give us the space to unravel some of the knots that have have been tied around these global and national events. We hope this will remind us of who we are and what we need to flourish in these challenging times. We don’t accidentally get healthy and feel rested. It takes intentionality, discipline, and focus.
Understanding your Communication Patterns and Preferences
In this podcast episode, we examine where our communication preferences and patterns have come from, how those origins impact the way we communicate today, and what our team needs to know about us to communicate most effectively.
How to be a Good Team Member
On this episode of the podcast, we share three things you should be doing if you want to become a better team member. We talk about intention versus experience, and how to get those things to line up more often. Listen now!
A Strengths-Based Approach to Difficult Situations
Today on the podcast, we’re talking about how our Strengths can help us handle difficult situations. Specifically, challenges and conflicts. We define those terms and offer FIVE things that will help you prepare before a difficult situation arises, and how to handle them when they do. We also issue a challenge so listen to the very end!
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