The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
What We Learned from Talking to 60 Different CEOs
In this episode, we discuss common pain points for CEOs and C-level leaders and what we’ve learned about how to navigate them. Whether you’re a C-level leader or a fresh new hire, we give tools that can help everyone navigate the challenging landscape of today’s work environment.
Three Keys to Doing Hard Things
In this episode, we discuss Steve Magness’s latest book, Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness. We’ll share a brief overview of the book, give a couple of our biggest takeaways, and then share a few tips that we think will help you to better understand toughness and how you can apply that to your leadership and ultimately to doing hard things.
How to Use Strengths with Your Team in 90 Minutes or Less
Team leaders regularly ask us how they can use Strengths in a short team-building meeting or off-site experience. While brevity with Strengths is better than nothing, creating healthy teams takes ongoing, meaningful engagement. Understanding Strengths is an ongoing process, but you gotta start somewhere!
Today on the podcast, we outline how to use Strengths in a 60 – 90 minute team building meeting. It’s meant to give you tools to start the conversation in the Strengths world, create a positive experience, and then hopefully move into more engaging Strengths-based conversation.
How Good Leaders Lay People Off
Transition on a team is never an easy process. In this episode, we share how good leaders lay people off. We discuss three high-level tips and talk about some of the things we’ve learned from helping lots of leaders lay people off the right way.
3 Things Great Leaders Do When They Get Laid Off
In this episode, we talk about three things the best leaders do when they get laid off or experience a work transition. We share how good leaders lean into self-compassion, self-care, and reach out to their networks to get back on that proverbial employment horse. Enjoy!
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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