The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
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.
What Leaders Need to Level Up
Leaders obviously need to be at their best in today’s competitive business environment. They must think critically, make sound decisions, and motivate their teams. To do all this and more, leaders need to level up. Leveling up is about more than simply increasing your skills and knowledge. It’s about being more present, more engaged, and more effective. It’s also about being ready.
In this episode, we discuss three components leaders need to level up. We invite you to consider what you must do now to show up, grow up and pro up. Enjoy!
The Link Between Well-Being, the Brain, and Strengths (podcast)
Today we’re talking about well-being as it relates to the intellectual, emotional, influential, and unconscious life of the brain. We also talk about how understanding that can really help us maximize our Strengths and ultimately, our levels of personal and professional well-being.
Re-Release: Successfully Navigating Teams Through Change (Podcast)
Today on the podcast, Brian Schubring and Nathan Freeburg discuss the topic of change. No matter your scope of influence or the number of people being affected, change will always be one of the challenges that leaders face. Since we’re at the beginning of 2018, a time that naturally brings about a variety of changes, we thought this would be a fitting place to begin the new year! So today, Brian and Nathan share three strategies for successfully navigating transition that will help teams and individuals come out stronger on the other side.
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!
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