The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
How to Use Strengths with Your Team in 90 Minutes or Less
Team leaders regularly ask us how they can use Strengths in a short team-building meeting or off-site experience. While brevity with Strengths is better than nothing, creating healthy teams takes ongoing, meaningful engagement. Understanding Strengths is an ongoing process, but you gotta start somewhere!
Today on the podcast, we outline how to use Strengths in a 60 – 90 minute team building meeting. It’s meant to give you tools to start the conversation in the Strengths world, create a positive experience, and then hopefully move into more engaging Strengths-based conversation.
How Good Leaders Lay People Off
Transition on a team is never an easy process. In this episode, we share how good leaders lay people off. We discuss three high-level tips and talk about some of the things we’ve learned from helping lots of leaders lay people off the right way.
3 Things Great Leaders Do When They Get Laid Off
In this episode, we talk about three things the best leaders do when they get laid off or experience a work transition. We share how good leaders lean into self-compassion, self-care, and reach out to their networks to get back on that proverbial employment horse. Enjoy!
Three Powerful Lessons About Strengths
Brian has been immersed in the world of Strengths since almost day one and learned from one of the masters. Recently he was cleaning out his desk and came across notes from his learnings over 20+ years ago. In this episode, we share a conversation about three powerful lessons he has learned about Strengths and how we can still apply them today. Enjoy!
How to Create Your Own Manifesto
In this episode, we talk about the Leadership Vision manifesto. We discuss how and why we created our manifesto and how you can create your own manifesto or statement of purpose. We hope this episode inspires you to think more deeply about your work and your ‘why’. Enjoy!
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!
How our Strengths Help us Make Commitments
Today on the podcast, Linda and Nathan discuss the book, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks. Brooks looks at four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: “to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments.” We unpack those four areas of commitment and examine how our Strengths enable us to engage with each meaningfully.
How Strengths show up in our Daily Routines: a Conversation with Nathan, Steph & Brian
Today on the podcast, Brian, Steph, and I talk about how our Themes of Strength show up in one of our daily routines; working out. We believe strengths show up in every part of our lives and by taking the time to examine one of those daily routines, we can reveal more about how Strengths show up in other areas as well. LISTEN NOW!
Running a Virtual Team Marathon
Today on the podcast, we’re going to hear from each team member as we reflect on a virtual team building experience. One of our team values is fun, so in addition to just being a fun experience for us, we also shared a memory together. Listen now!
All Together Now on Memorial Day
Today on the podcast, Nathan shares a brief Memorial Day reflection as all of us are experiencing the annual U.S Federal holiday alone, together. What will you look like when we emerge?
A Reflection on 5 Things A Leader Should Give Their Team
Today on the podcast, Brian and Nathan discuss the article, 5 Things Ever Leader Should Give Their Team in 2020, by Mike Myatt. We summarize each point, then offer our take on them through our Strengths-Based Lens. Listen now!
The Adaptive Capacities of Generation Z
Today on the podcast, we’re talking about the adaptive capacities of some of our favorite people part of Generation Z. A few weeks ago, Brian, Linda, and Nathan interviewed 7 college-aged students about what they are going through right now since they have all been sent home due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Listen now!
Our 21-Day Strengths Challenge Recap
Today on the podcast, Nathan and Carrie reflect back on the 21-day Strengths Challenge. They reflect not only on their own experiences from the last 21-days but also how the 21-questions helped highlight areas of success and perhaps areas of growth being experienced during this unprecedented time in history. Listen now!
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