The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
What the Domains of Strength Teach us about Team Culture
Today on the Leadership Vision Podcast, we introduce the idea of using the Four Domains of Strength to build healthy team culture. We explore how this philosophy helps teams think critically, get work done, build relationships, and influence others. We also explain how every Strength can contribute to a healthy team culture. Listen now!
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!
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!
Understanding Strengths and Values across Generations (Podcast)
A strength’s based approach is integral to understanding the values that define generations. In this episode, Logan and Nathan focus on the importance of values as it relates to Strengths, and how understanding the intersection of the two is critical when it comes to operating more effectively as a group, especially when you have multiple generations working together.
Bouquets and Strengths: How Differences Can Benefit Each Other
Have you ever felt frustrated with a friend or colleague because their Strengths were different than yours? Maybe you didn’t have the language of Strengths, but there was something fundamentally different in how they communicated, organized, or related to the world from you. Too often we just find ourselves growing more and more frustrated and annoyed with those people, rather than taking the time to see how our differences may actually benefit one and other. Steph writes about one simple way to overcome this.
Embracing Your StrengthsFinder Theme Names (Podcast)
Welcome to the next installment of the Leadership Vision Podcast, where we share our expertise in the discovery, practice, and implementation of StrengthsFinder. Today’s show focuses on embracing your StrengthsFinder Theme Names. In last week’s episode, Nathan talked with Carrie Jones, our COO, about some of the ways she has learned to embrace and accept her Themes of Strength on a personal level. On today’s show, Nathan talks with our founder and CEO, Brian Schubring, about specific ways we help our clients understand and embrace their StrengthsFinder Theme names.
Learning to Embrace and Accept your Themes of Strength (Podcast)
One of the hardest topics that we talk about here a Leadership Vision is accepting our Strengths. Too often especially the first time we read our results, is that we don’t like the words on the page. We see too much of the negative side of the Themes of Strength, and we can’t accept, appreciate, or acknowledge that this is who we are. Today on the show, Nathan talks with Carrie Jones, the chief operating officer at Leadership Vision, about three things anyone can do to accept and appreciate their StrengthsFinder Themes.
What we are Grateful for at Leadership Vision in 2017
Thanksgiving, of course, is a natural time to experience gratitude. Getting together with family, eating amazing food, and sharing the ways our lives have changed over the previous 365 days is a practice most people adhere to around the Holidays. Reflection is a powerful process that can remind you of the good things, and teach you something about the bad. Nathan asked a few members of our team to briefly share a few things they are grateful for this year. Below is a snapshot of their responses as they paused to reflect on our hectic and hurried lives. One thing we all realize is that we need more time for this type of reflection!
How the Learning Community Experience Benefits Teams (PODCAST)
Today we’re simulating what it’s like to be in the room for a Learning Community experience, hearing all of the observations and reactions. Brian walks us through how he connected the conversation with a particular participant, to the image he drew, how she responded, how her team reacted, and some of the big takeaways from that moment. He explains how he arrived at the picture and shares with us some examples of her Strengths in action.
The Importance of an Education on the 34 Themes of Strength: Bringing to Life the Themes of Strength
In order to provide a foundation for team development, continued growth in Understanding the Talents expressed in each of the Themes of Strength, and to establish a common language from which to move forward as a team, we believe a Strengths-based team or culture should start with an education around each of the 34 Themes of Strength. Here’s why!
How We Teach the Learning Community (Podcast)
Today on the show, Nathan talks with our President and CEO, Brian Schubring in Part II of our three-part series about the Learning Community event, a culminating Team experience that integrates a day of Strengths learning, 1 to 1 conversations, and thoughtful observations shared through a visual narrative. We capture how an individual’s Strengths are being used at that particular point in time, and share those insights in a unique way. Click below to listen!
How the Learning Community Extends the Conversation about Strengths (Podcast)
On this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Nathan Freeburg and Brian Schubring talk about how the Leadership Vision Learning Community experience further embeds the language of Strengths within an organization. The Learning Community is a culminating Team experience that integrates Strengths learning, 1 to 1 conversations, and reflective observations shared through a visual narrative. Click below to listen to the episode, then click the links in the show notes for further examples.
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