The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive

Three Questions to Help You Navigate Personal Change
In this episode, we discuss the importance of reflecting on transition and share three questions to help you succeed. Fall is naturally a time of change, from the changing of the seasons, the leaves, or more specific changes like children going back to school and business preparing for the year’s final quarter. Brian, Linda, and Nathan reflect on the past few months of changes and discuss what we each need to be best prepared for what is next.
Four Common Expressions of Leadership
In this episode, we present four common expressions of leadership and ask you to identify which one resonates with you the most. Then, we ask you to look at the “Common Issues” or flip-sides to those expressions and do the same. We hope you do this with a trusted friend or family member and see what happens.

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.

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.
Describe a Person or place that has Shaped you. (podcast)
On this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we’re asking you to wrestle with this Strengths question: Describe a Person or place that has Shaped you. How? How does this influence your Strengths today? Listen now and join the conversation!
Understanding Diversity and Inclusion part 3: Generations
Today on the podcast, we’re talking with Dr. Linda Schubring, about the important topic of Diversity and Inclusion as it relates to multiple generations working together. With more generations in the workforce than ever before, it’s critical to get these groups on the same page. Listen now!
Understanding Diversity and Inclusion part 2: Gender
Today on the podcast, we’re talking with Dr. Linda Schubring, about the important topic of Diversity and Inclusion as it relates to gender. First, we’ll be sharing some “low-hanging-fruit” things you can do to make an impact in this area, and then, Linda will share specifics around D&I as it has been applied to her role as VP of Employee Experience at Aeritae Consulting, a Tech Consulting company in St. Paul Minnesota. Listen now!
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