The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
What Do Your Strengths Need to Thrive and Survive?
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.
5 Ways to Solve Leadership Challenges
Over the years, Leadership Vision has helped countless teams work through various challenges, and hundreds of team leaders get unstuck. But sometimes, the leaders we help already know at least part of the answers to the questions they ask us.
In this episode, our founder and CEO, Brian Schubring, shares five pieces of advice he gives team leaders when encountering challenges. As you listen, think about some challenges you’re facing on your team and use one or all of these pieces of advice to think through your situation.
What our Participants Say about Strengths Communicator Training
We recently asked two past cohort attendees to share how the Strengths Communicator Training impacted their lives and work. Brian Peters and Sarah Simon shared some of their biggest takeaways, how they overcame their apprehensions, and why others might be interested in completing this Certification process.
Have Your Strengths Been Misunderstood?
Have your Strengths ever been misunderstood? In this episode, the experts, Brian and Dr. Linda Schubring give a brief answer to this question. Have your Strengths ever been misunderstood? In this episode, the experts, Brian and Dr. Linda Schubring give a brief answer to this question. As you listen, put yourself in the mind of the person asking the question. Think about how you can connect with any of their thoughts around this idea of Strength shaming or Strengths envy.
Three Keys to Hosting a Strengths Conversation
The Strengths conversation is at the heart of what we do at Leadership Vision. It is both art and science. It’s structured yet organic. There are rules, there are suggestions, and there’s a whole lot of room to go with your gut, but it is a proven process for helping people to understand what makes them unique. If we had to synthesize all the things that we’ve learned about Strengths conversations over the past 20 years, working with Strengths in the past 10 years of training others, it comes down to three things. In this episode, we share three keys to hosting a successful and generative Strengths conversation. Even if you haven’t been trained in Strengths, they’re great reminders for all of us as we converse with anyone.
A Summer Reflection: Part 1 of 3 (podcast)
Today on the Leadership Vision Podcast, Steph Wahlund and Nathan Freeburg reflect on what they have learned over the summer months. This episode is the first in a three-part series where Nathan interviews members of our team about their summer insights in the hopes of implementing these new learnings for the remainder of the year. On this episode, Nathan and Steph talk about rest, change, and spreading positivity in all areas of life. Listen now!
What are your Dominant Pairs of Strengths? (podcast)
On today’s mini-podcast episode, we have a question for you about your dominant pairs of Strengths. This is part of our monthly series of Strengths reflection questions that present just one question, but we hope it will lead you to ask yourself and those around you several other questions to deepen your understanding not only of how your Strengths manifest on a team but also understand your role on a team, in a family, or any other context in which you exist.
Learning Through Fun: Part 2
This is the conclusion of our two part series on the importance of learning through fun. On this episode of the podcast, you’re going to get an insiders look into our team. This is us having fun through the process of asking each other very random questions to learn more about each other, and make a few Strengths connections. Listen now!
Learning Through Fun: Part 1
On this episode of the podcast, you’re going to get an insiders look into our team. This is us having fun through the process of asking each other very random questions to learn more about each other, and make a few Strengths connections. This is part one of a two part episode. Listen now!
The Mid-Year Team Health Check. Where are you? (podcast)
Today on the podcast, Sara and Nathan discuss 10 questions our team used to take the pulse of our team mid-year. For a list of them head over to our blog. After you listen to this episode, try them out on your team and let us know how it went!
7 Indicators of Team Health (podcast)
Welcome to the Leadership Vision Podcast where we share our expertise in the discovery, practice, and implementation of a strengths-based approach to people, teams, and culture. Today […]
Strengths Misunderstandings Part 2 (podcast)
Strengths help us understand ourselves, and others. But what happens when they are misunderstood? Today on the podcast, Steph and Nathan are back with part 2 of this series, discussing some of the most common ways certain Strengths are misunderstood, and offer insight on how to get past those misunderstandings.
Strengths Misunderstandings and What to do About Them (podcast)
Strengths help us understand ourselves, and others. But what happens when they are misunderstood? Listen now to find out! Today on the podcast, Steph and Nathan discuss some of the most common ways certain Strengths are misunderstood, and offer insight on how to get past it.
The Power of Reflection (podcast)
Today on the Leadership Vision Podcast, we’re talking with Carrie Jones, one of our consultants, and COO here at Leadership Vision. You may remember her Strengths Question from a few weeks ago when she asked us to reflect on a person who, or place that has shaped who we are. Today you’ll get to hear her answer to that and reflect on your own life experiences.
Expressing the Identity of your Team Through Image and Metaphor (podcast)
Today on the Leadership Vision podcast, we’re talking about the power of symbol and metaphor as a backdrop to helping you understand the power that can exist in a team setting. As you’ll soon hear, the Leadership Vision logo comes from Notre Dame, so this conversation here was spurred by the recent tragic events of the great cathedral. We’ll get into that a little bit, but our president Brian Schubring and I will mostly be talking here today about the symbol that our company uses to inform the work we do. We’ll also issue a challenge at the end for you to contemplate a symbol or metaphor that best represents your team.
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