The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
The SFD: Analyzing & understanding the stories we tell ourselves
In this episode, we discuss the concept of the SFD. The SFD is a tool to utilize after something hard happens, when there’s a difficult fall, or if something didn’t go the way you thought it would. It allows us to analyze the stories we tell ourselves and to understand them better.
What You Should Know About the Story You’re Telling Yourself
In this episode, Melissa and Nathan discuss how to recognize when we’re telling ourselves stories that probably aren’t true, how to correct them, and where to go from there. We will share a few examples from our own lives, and then give you a couple of tools to help you stay true in the moment in order to have better emotional health.
Why you need to DO THE WORK that NOBODY sees.
Today on the podcast, Brian, Linda, and I offer some encouragement as we discuss our internal, unseen personal growth. Even though this work can go unseen by most, we still need to pursue growth. It is worth it in the long run. Enjoy!
Do you Understand how your Strengths Pair Together?
Today on the podcast, we’re talking about the importance of understanding how your Strengths pair together. Brian, Linda, and I discuss the difference between expressive pairings and motivational pairings, how you can understand both, and why you need to communicate these new findings to those on your team. Enjoy!
4 Things You Need To Understand To Maximize Your Influence
Today on the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brian and Nathan ask how your education, experience, expertise, and environment have shaped your emotional connection to others and ultimately your ability to lead. Enjoy!
The Importance of Knowing Your People (Podcast)
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Aleasha Morris and Nathan Freeburg continue our series on the Team Engagement Model. Today we’re talking about why knowing your people matters for the long-term success of your organization. Our study and intensive observation of teams through a Strengths based lens has revealed that there is an unmistakable difference between healthy and unhealthy teams. Listen to the episode, then ask yourself the questions in the show notes.
What Different Strengths Pairings Sound Like
Sometimes at Leadership Vision, we play an informal game of Strengths pairings. Basically, we mash up two of the names of our Themes of Strengths to explain how they work together. We know that Strengths do not work alone. We never go one at a time with our Strengths. Rather, we try to tell a story and challenge people to see how pairs and combinations of Strengths can be discussed. In this article, Linda shares examples of Strengths pairings and how they look in different individuals.
How to Know if your Team is Surviving or Thriving (Podcast)
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Aleasha Morris and Nathan Freeburg are talking about teams, specifically, how to know if they are thriving or just surviving. This is the first in a series of podcasts we’re doing about how to make sure your team is the most effective, efficient, and engaged that it can be! In this show, you’ll learn about our setup process that we go through to help teams fully engage and we’ll introduce the three core elements of our Team Engagement Process, Knowledge, Purpose, and Trust. Listen now!
Learning to Change The Way We See Ourselves (Podcast)
Today on the show, we’re doing something a little different. We have five great episodes in the works and are excited to share them with you. They are part of two series we’re doing, focused on helping teams build Strengths Based organizational culture. So, in this episode, instead of our typical style of Nathan interviewing a member of our team, it’ll just be Nathan, sharing something designed to encourage you, the individual, to change the way you see yourself. To re-program the potentially harmful tapes we have playing in our heads about who we are.
The Importance of an Education on “the 34”: Bringing to Life the 34 Themes of Strength
When preparing your team or organization to thrive in the world of Strengths, a foundational understanding of the 34 Themes of Strength is critical. Too often, we run into people who want to short-circuit the process, but over and over again, we’re finding it important to begin with a baseline of education. Sara and Logan share how they found a new desire to help teams understand these foundational elements after a recent engagement.
Preventing and Overcoming Four Common StrengthsFinder Mistakes (Podcast)
Today on the show Nathan and Brian talk about some of the most common mistakes people make when trying to build a Strengths Based understanding of themselves and those around them. They’ll offer some best practices and lessons learned (the hard way), that may help revive your efforts, and encourage you to stay the course. No matter where you are on your journey with Strengths, there’s something here for you!
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.
Our Most Popular Content from 2017
Happy New Year!!! Nathan spent time digging through our Google Analytics, social media stats, and podcast metrics, to see which articles of content were the most popular in 2017. There were a few surprises and a few things we expected. Teams and personal stories seem to be what resonates most with people. You may have missed them, so as we begin 2018, here is an opportunity to catch up or refresh your mind on some of our Strengths Based content from the past year.
What Leadership Vision is Looking Forward to in 2018 (Podcast)
Happy Holidays! We’re talking a break from our regularly scheduled podcast to bring you something different. At our company holiday gathering this year, Nathan took out the recorder and asked the entire Leadership Vision team to share one thing they were looking forward to in 2018. Today’s episode is an excerpt from that time together. The conversation happened after dinner, where we’d just had a delicious meal and were sitting around the table, laughing, sharing and spending nonwork-focused time together. ENJOY!
What You Need to Know About the Four Domains of Strength (Podcast)
Today on the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brian Schubring and Nathan Freeburg talk about how, why, and when we use the four domains of Strength in our work with clients. Domains organize the 34 Themes of Strengths into four major categories, which are Thinking, Relating, Influencing, and Executing. They allow us to get a broad understanding of Themes before going deeper. Listen now!
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