The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
The Connection Between Self-Leadership and Leading Others
In this episode, we share a somewhat candid conversation about the challenge of recognizing personal needs and the connection between self-leadership and leading others. Throughout our discussion, Brian and I share personal anecdotes and observations about our struggles to name and prioritize individual needs. We also highlight the significance of understanding and addressing our own needs as a fundamental aspect of self-leadership and compassionate leadership towards others. Listen and reflect as we unpack these perspectives and provide some practical suggestions for recognizing and prioritizing your own needs as a leader. Enjoy!
Reframing the Narrative: Self-Care as a Leadership Tool
In this episode, we delve into the importance of naming your needs as a leader. We provide practical insights and share personal stories that will help you gain clarity and take intentional action to prioritize your needs. By the end of this episode, you will have a better understanding of how to name your needs, create space for self-reflection, and rewrite the narrative that drives your leadership journey. Enjoy!
People-Centric Leadership: The Key to Building Stronger Teams
In this episode, we discuss the multifaceted nature of knowing your people and how it can transform your leadership dynamics. Brian shares a powerful example of an executive leader who demonstrates people-centric leadership with a remarkable depth of knowledge about the personal and professional life of her team to motivate, inspire, develop, and build trust among them. We discuss this example and then explore the correlation between a leader’s self-awareness and ability to truly know and connect with others. We also cover how one can gauge their own self-awareness levels and what markers might indicate some level of a person’s understanding of themselves, and how individuals often possess valuable life lessons and strategies within themselves. Enjoy!
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.
Leading in Crisis: A sneak peek of our services delivered virtually
Today on the podcast, we’re playing a recording from a recent team engagement series event we hosted virtually. We gathered about a dozen leaders from around the country from all sorts of industries and backgrounds to present our series titled “Leading in Crisis.”
How our Team is Processing Everything
Today on the podcast, our team processes how each of us are dealing with the shut down caused by the Corona virus. There are a lot of unknowns, but also reason to hope.
Exploring Strengths and Well-Being in Times of Uncertainty
Yes, this is a podcast episode about COVID-19… well sort of. It’s a conversation between Nathan and Brian and Linda Schubring as we look through a Strengths lens to examine our behaviors, emotions, and processes for establishing well-being during times of uncertainty.
Self-Awareness and the Generative and Degenerative Nature of Strengths pt 2
Today’s episode will help you understand the Generative and Degenerative expressions of your Strengths. We define terms, give examples, and provide you with three activities that will help you and your team better understand how your Strengths give life to you and others. Listen now!
Self-Awareness and the Generative and Degenerative Nature of Strengths pt 1
Today’s episode is a short primer, with an activity, where we’ll talk about the generative and degenerative nature of Strengths. We define terms, give examples, and provide you with several activities that should help you and your team better understand how your Strengths give life to you and others. Listen now!
Facilitating a Large Group through Organizational Change
Today on the podcast, Brian and Linda Schubring talk about a unique opportunity we had to lead a keynote workshop and keynote facilitation at a conference with one of our enterprise clients. This episode demonstrates how we help large groups navigate challenging topics through the lens of Strengths. Listen now!
What we can learn by stepping into a challenge (podcast)
Today on the podcast, Brian and Linda Schubring, president and vice president of Leadership Vision, reflect on lessons they learned from one of our multi-engagement clients in 2019. We’ll share background about why we initially went in to help this client, the tools we used, and how the relationship has morphed over this past year. Brian and Linda also share a few key takeaways that everyone will benefit from. Listen now!
The Importance of Understanding your Personal Leadership Story
Today on the Leadership Vision Podcast, we are talking about leadership narrative and the importance of using your life’s collective experiences and story to shape and inform who you are as a leader today. Brian Schubring and I will be talking about the ways in which our stories have a shaping influence on how we lead and influence in our current context. Listen now!
What Well-Being Means to Us (Podcast)
Today on the Podcast, Sara and Nathan dive deeper into the topic of well-being. In addition to sharing our personal thoughts about well-being, we share and discuss thoughts about well-being from each of our team members. We’re excited to focus on this important topic as we being 2020. Listen now!
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