The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
3 Unexpected Things We Learned from 70 International Leaders
In the summer of 2022, Brian and Linda Schubring worked with 70 leaders at an international school in Europe. Over seven work days, they learned so much from the educators there. In this episode of the podcast, Brian and Linda share three unexpected things they learned from these leaders.
Why the mission of an organization needs to be communicated early and often.
How Strengths are not the end goal but merely a tool.
And how taking risks might be something you’re missing in your organization.
Why You need to Unlearn Your Leadership Skills
In this episode, we discuss the importance of letting go of some of our leadership “best practices” and being willing to open ourselves up to new interpretations of those leadership styles. Brian and Nathan discuss the importance of unlearning the successes that brought us to where we are and that we may need to be open to a new leadership style to get to the next level.
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.
Learning How to Listen: Understanding the 1to1 Conversation (Podcast)
On this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brian and Nathan talk about how to have a conversation with someone that helps them better understand how they are wired within the context of their Strengths and their story.
What Drives You? (podcast)
On this episode of the podcast, we feature a new monthly series of Strengths Based questions. They’re designed to help you reflect on how your Strengths have shaped who you are and provide a single action step you can take to better understand your capacity for greatest influence. In this episode we ask: What drives you? This one gets at your motivation.
What We’ve Learned About Implementing Change and Handling Conflict (podcast)
On this episode of the Leadership Vision podcast, Sara and Nathan briefly share the Leadership Vision approach to change and conflict then reflect on things they learned from working with a team in these areas. They’ll share some new insights into the topics of change and conflict, as well as the process of facilitating them. They’ll also offer a few suggestions that we think may help you navigate these two crucial and inevitable aspects of life on any team.
Join Our Summer 2019 Strengths Communicator Training! (Podcast)
On this episode of the podcast, we’re talking all about our Strengths Communicator Training. In this episode, you’ll learn not only about our Strengths Communicator Training but also some of the insights we’ve gained from the hundreds of participants we’ve worked with over the past several years. On the show, I talk with our President, Brian Schubring to unpack not only our methodology for teaching others about what we do but also some common elements and universal takeaways.
Even if you can’t make the trek to Minneapolis for one of our upcoming trainings, there are insights in this show that are applicable to anyone, anywhere with an interest in getting the best out of themselves and those on their team. Listen now and click the links below for more information about our next training.
Reflecting on 20 Years of Strengths (podcast)
On this episode of the Leadership Vision podcast, Linda and Nathan reflect on how they have seen their Strengths change over the past 20 years. 2019 marks the 20th anniversary of Linda and Nathan knowing each other, and they found it interesting to reflect on the ways their Strengths have become clearer and more understood over that time. While their conversation started in the past, it shifted into where they want their Strengths to go over the next 20 years.
Do You Feel Pigeonholed in Your Strengths?
On this episode of the podcast, we feature a new monthly series of Strengths Based questions. They’re designed to help you reflect on how your Strengths have shaped who you are and provide a single action step you can take to better understand your capacity for greatest influence. In this episode we ask: Which Strengths do you feel have been pigeonholed in your life?
How to Work with Someone with Very Different Strengths than You
On this episode of the podcast, we host a conversation between two of our consultants, Logan and Carrie, and listen in as they process their journey of working with one another through their very different Strengths.
The Importance of Creating Space in our Lives
On this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Carrie Jones and Nathan Freeburg talk about intentionally creating space in our lives to reflect and fill with what we need most. It’s timely and we encourage everyone to figure out what they need most to feel less frantic in life. Listen now!
The Importance of a Descriptive and Generative Approach to the Understanding and Application of Strengths (podcast)
On this episode of the podcast, Steph Wahlund and Nathan Freeburg dive into the meaning and importance of the terms Descriptive and Generative. Not only are these two key terms we ask all of our participants to understand, Not only are these two key terms we ask all of our participants to understand, but in many ways, the words Descriptive and Generative define our entire philosophy of implementing a Strengths-Based approach to people, teams, and culture. It’s important however to understand that these two words must be taken together.
How Have Your Strengths Changed Over Time? (podcast)
Today on our podcast we’re featuring a new monthly series of reflection questions. They’re designed to help you reflect on how your Strengths have shaped who you are and provide a single action step you can take to better understand your capacity for greatest influence. Listen or read now to dive into this month’s question.
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