The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive

How to Expand Your Understanding & Expertise in the Application of Strengths
We connect daily with people who have received their CliftonStrengths report and love what they have learned about themselves. Yet, at the same time, they are hungry for a deeper understanding and application of strengths.
This is why we created our “Seeing Strengths from a New Perspective” online course. This 6-part course is designed to help you understand the ideas and concepts of strengths and productively apply them in your life.
If you are looking for the best resource to guide the development of your strengths in 2023, this course is for you!

The Importance of Living Our Gratitude
It’s Thanksgiving in the United States, and as has become our tradition at Leadership Vision, this episode is all about gratitude.
We’ve been doing this since 2015, and each year after we do these podcasts focused on gratitude, we are stirred to action and encouraged to live more toward the light and the good in the world. We want to express our gratitude and invite you to express your gratitude to your families, tribes, co-workers, and others in your sphere of influence.
But more than that, let’s live our gratitude…
Know, Invest, Keep: Three Challenges Facing Leaders
At Leadership Vision, we want to shine a light on the goodness of humans, the potential of teams, and what it would mean if organizations were thriving and casting light into the world. In this episode, we discuss three urgent challenges that leaders need to focus on. These challenges are to KNOW your people, INVEST in your people, and KEEP your people.

Learn about our Virtual Team Building Experience!
Leadership Vision now offers a virtual team experience that uses the language of Strength to deepen relationships and enhance team health. Today on the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brian, Linda, and Nathan will discuss this new opportunity to engage your team. We’ll share the three elements of this training, who this training is designed for, and some of the big takeaways your team will enjoy upon completion.
The Power of Appreciation: Practicing a positivity bias toward yourself and others
We believe coaching is about helping people go from potential to performance. In this episode, we share a very special conversation and coaching session between Brian Schubring and Nathan Freeburg. Brian walks Nathan through our appreciation-focused coaching session, one of 12 different processes we use with clients. They discuss appreciation, different ways that we can appreciate ourselves and appreciate others, and how that can help bolster our self-awareness and knowledge around Strengths.

Re-Release: Four Things StrengthsFinder Cannot Tell us about a Person (podcast)
Today on the podcast, Brian Schubring talks about four things StrengthsFinder results cannot tell us. Strengths tell us a lot about what a person brings to any situation. It can tell us how they will show up in a relationship and what their potential capacity is for whatever the job might be. However, at Leadership Vision, we are learning more and more about the things Strengths CANNOT tell us about a person. Listen now!

Re-Release What Do Your Strengths Need to Thrive and to Survive? (podcast)
On this episode of the Leadership Vision podcast, Brian Schubring, our founder and president talks about how to understand what our Strengths need to thrive and what they need to survive. We have found that you’ve reached a deeper level of awareness when you’re able to articulate exactly what your Strengths need in both of these situations. Thriving and surviving may seem like contradictory or even opposite states of being, but actually, we’ve found them to be more similar than different.

Re-Release Applying Strengths to Family of Origin (podcast)
This is a re-release episode where Brian Schubring and Nathan Freeburg talk about how to take our origin stories and frame them in ways that put them in their rightful place. To do this, we share five steps that will help us acknowledge the role our past has played in shaping our present and future. We’ll also share some tips for giving it an appropriate place in our current life. LISTEN NOW!

Working With Leadership Vision – A Client Perspective (podcast)
Today on the leadership vision podcast, Sara and Nathan are honored to share an interview with one of our multi-year clients. You’ll hear from Mary and Sophie from the Placer County library system about their journey towards becoming a culture rooted in Strengths. LISTEN NOW!

How we help teams navigate Change
Today on the podcast, we’re talking about how we help teams navigate Change. All of us have different levels of comfort when it comes to change. Some like the beginning, some the middle, and some the end. Knowing when and how you are best suited to enter the change process is critical. Not only will it help you on a personal level, but it will also help the team succeed. And when a team can successfully navigate an inevitable change, the organization is better suited to win. Listen now!

How we help teams work through Conflict
Today on the podcast, we’re talking about how we help teams work through Conflict. We start by establishing some basic definitions of Conflict then we talk about how we help people understand their own responses and reactions to it. We then talk about how a team can better manage conflict, and finally, what each individual person can do to create a culture of constructive conflict. Listen now!
What We’re Grateful For At Leadership Vision In 2019
It’s the week of Thanksgiving here in the United States, so we’re taking a little break from our Team Engagement Podcast Series. Every year our team shares a few brief things we’re thankful for, and so this year, I decided to commandeer a staff meeting and record those reflections!
How we help teams Communicate more effectively
Today on the podcast, we’re talking about how we help teams Communicate more effectively. From defining Communication to understanding personal and team norms around Communication, we hope to help any team better understand how to get their message across and be understood. Listen now!
How we help teams collaborate more effectively
Today on the podcast, we’re talking about how we help teams collaborate more effectively. From defining collaboration to understanding your personal and collective experiences with collaboration, we hope to help any team better understand how to work together.
A Preview of what’s coming up at Leadership Vision
Today on the Leadership Vision Podcast, we’re sharing news of three upcoming pieces of training, and a four-part series we recorded with Brian and Linda Schubring talking about the all-important topics of Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, and Change. We use these four topics, and the ideas of Knowledge, purpose, and trust, to help teams become healthier, and thrive. LISTEN NOW!
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