The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
Exploring Communication Styles
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brian, Linda, and I reflect on our communication patterns and preferences as leaders and give each other feedback to better understand how we are actually communicating. We also model an activity on the show that you can do at home, so enjoy this episode and then try it for yourself!
How We Help Teams Collaborate
How does your team collaborate? We believe you never really know how a team collaborates until you understand each member as an individual collaborator. Sometimes teams need greater alignment, agreement, or action in order to improve the way that the culture interacts with each other. In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we talk about what we’ve learned about collaboration in the context of who you are as a person, who you are on a team, and who you are within an organizational culture. We discuss our three-step process to help teams learn about their individual collaboration styles and how you and your team can become better collaborators together. Enjoy!
How Do You Collaborate? Exploring Collaboration Styles
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brian, Linda, and I reflect on some of our earliest memories of our collaborative experiences and discuss how they have helped to shape or impact the way that we collaborate on teams today. As you listen to this episode, think about some of your earliest memories or memories in general of ways that you have collaborated. How does that impact you today?
The Benefits of Stepping Back as a Leader
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we ask how we can be more mindful of our leadership moment, that moment when leadership is asked of us and our first response is to step back before we step in. We discuss the benefits of stepping back as a leader and two ways leaders can step back and reflect before they step in and act.
Lean into Your Strengths with Self-Awareness
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brain and Linda lead Nathan through a 1 to 1 conversation and share how to lean into your Strengths with self-awareness.
How to Engage the Millennials on Your Team
The millennial generation accounts for nearly 40% of the western workforce and will continue to define the workspace as more millennials rise through corporate ranks in the coming years. How are you preparing your team and culture to reach and empower this generation?
How do your Strengths help you deal with Difficult Situations?
In this episode, Carrie and Nathan will recap our previous episode, then define conflict and challenge, as well as discuss how we have seen both of these things in our company.
Are There Unseen Forces Shaping Our Strengths?
A table has profoundly shaped Brian’s Strengths. His experience at this table also shaped why he believes strongly in the Leadership Vision team sharing their perspectives, challenging each other, and openly asking for help as they work together in collaborative partnership. Keep reading today’s post, then interact around the question, “What have been the shaping influences of your Strengths?”
Summer Strengths Series #2: Am I a Good Team Member?
Leadership Vision will be hosting our second, Summer Strengths Conversation on Monday, June 26 at 12:10 PM (CST). We will pose this question: Am I a Good Team Member? Join us as we dive into this important topic.
Three Key Elements for a Successful Strengths-Based Organization
Are you building a Strengths-based organization? Our advice is to take action on three key elements: use a common language, facilitate shared experiences, and bolster the narrative intelligence among your members.
Join our Summer Series of Strengths Questions “Show”
Leadership Vision is excited to announce a new series this summer! Starting Monday, June 19th at 10:15 AM (PST), 12:15 PM (CST) and running every other week until Labor Day, join us for our Summer Series of Strengths Questions. Carrie and Nathan will talk about some of the best ways to have Strengths Based conversations with your team.
Making Sense of a Shift in Strengths
I recently retook the StrengthsFinder assessment for the first time in several years and for the third time in the last 12. For years, my Top Five Themes of Strength have been Empathy, Achiever, Activator, Strategic, and Developer, all of which I have been very at home with. When I received my results of Relator, Strategic, Achiever, Positivity, and Activator I’ll be honest, I had a temporary “Strengths Identity Crisis.” Where had Empathy gone? What did it mean for me to have Relator?
An Inside Look at a 1 to 1 Strengths Conversation
My colleague, Steph, just completed our latest Strengths Communicator Training. As a part of that process, cohort participants complete twelve 1 to 1 conversations with family, friends, and/or co-workers. I was lucky enough to be one of her 12 conversations. Here is a look at my experience with the 1 to 1 conversation process.
Surprise! All of Your Strengths Need to be Adaptable
Planning ahead, controlling what you can control, and getting out of your comfort zone will not guarantee that you will instantly become more adaptable. Rather, they are an exercise in helping you use your Strengths in ways that will allow you to make the most of a bad situation.
How to Become Fluent in the Language of StrengthsFinder
Engaging in StrengthsFinder language makes a difference in your personal and professional life and in the world. When you’re leaning into your Strengths not only are you more productive and happy, but you’re serving the world in your own unique way. Here are four ways to become fluent in the language of StrengthsFinder.
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