The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
Self-Awareness and the Generative and Degenerative Nature of Strengths pt 2
Today’s episode will help you understand the Generative and Degenerative expressions of your Strengths. We define terms, give examples, and provide you with three activities that will help you and your team better understand how your Strengths give life to you and others. Listen now!
Self-Awareness and the Generative and Degenerative Nature of Strengths pt 1
Today’s episode is a short primer, with an activity, where we’ll talk about the generative and degenerative nature of Strengths. We define terms, give examples, and provide you with several activities that should help you and your team better understand how your Strengths give life to you and others. Listen now!
Facilitating a Large Group through Organizational Change
Today on the podcast, Brian and Linda Schubring talk about a unique opportunity we had to lead a keynote workshop and keynote facilitation at a conference with one of our enterprise clients. This episode demonstrates how we help large groups navigate challenging topics through the lens of Strengths. Listen now!
What we can learn by stepping into a challenge (podcast)
Today on the podcast, Brian and Linda Schubring, president and vice president of Leadership Vision, reflect on lessons they learned from one of our multi-engagement clients in 2019. We’ll share background about why we initially went in to help this client, the tools we used, and how the relationship has morphed over this past year. Brian and Linda also share a few key takeaways that everyone will benefit from. Listen now!
The Importance of Understanding your Personal Leadership Story
Today on the Leadership Vision Podcast, we are talking about leadership narrative and the importance of using your life’s collective experiences and story to shape and inform who you are as a leader today. Brian Schubring and I will be talking about the ways in which our stories have a shaping influence on how we lead and influence in our current context. Listen now!
Navigate the Seas of Personal and Professional Transition Using StrengthsFinder
Personal and Professional Transition can be done alone or experienced with others. Whichever way you choose, professional transition and personal change provide a unique opportunity to learn about who you are, how you need relationships and what your capacities truly are. Keep reading as Brian shares some ideas for how to leverage StrengthsFinder during these intense times. Transition will only provide transformation if we take time to remember and re-learn what we have already lived.
Reflection on the Diversity within Strengths
We often look for what is common and consistent in ourselves, teams we are a part of, or our larger culture. This perspective is important, as it helps us key into what is right about us and our environments, however, it is a limited view. As we turn our kaleidoscopes, looking at what’s consistently right about People, Teams, and Culture from a variety of angles, we gain a deeper understanding and application of Strengths and the diversity therein. Keep reading as Bethany shares a reflections on the consistency and diversity that exists within our Strengths.
Using Strengths Outside our Day Jobs
Through the exponential increase in self-awareness that Strengths provides, we can be more selective about the things and people we commit ourselves to. We will have an easier time saying no to the things that do not give us life, and seeking out opportunities that do. Often, we are able to find more ways to use our Strengths in places outside of our day-jobs. Keep reading as Sara gives us some relevant examples.
Why we are Passionate about Strengths Communicator Training
We just completed the first portion of our latest Strengths Communicators Training. It was fantastic! Recently, Brian’s business coach asked him why he was so passionate about this training. Brian’s answer didn’t surprise us, but it did give us deeper insight into why we priorities what we do. Keep reading to hear the story.
Understanding your Phantom Strengths
‘Phantom Strengths’ is not an official Gallup or Leadership Vision term. It is simply how we describe various Talents combining to look like a Strength that a person doesn’t actually have. Sometimes it may be in an individual’s top ten and you simply don’t know it. Other times, it is the pairing of Talents that may lead you to believe an individual has a Strength they do not have. Keep reading as Steph explains more about what these are, how to spot them, and why it matters.
Three Reminders for Personal Strengths Development
Since our team is on vacation this week, and you probably are too, we decided to provide you with a few of our favorite posts to read, or re-read, as you relax. We’re in the middle of a project to better organize all of our archived articles, to provide a more useful resource for you. These three posts stood out as great examples of why personal Strengths development is so important. Take a few extra minutes to reflect on your own Strengths…by the lake, the pool, or in the hammock!
The Importance of Focusing on Your Base
One of the best parts of my career so far has been having fantastic managers who helped steer me. I have also had a few […]
How Strengths Mature by Leveraging Firsts
Since joining Leadership Vision, Bethany has been doing her best to leverage all of her “firsts”. It is important to maximize your first year in a new role by assuming a learning posture. This means positioning your heart and mind in an “arms wide open” way, receiving each moment with impartiality, generosity, and curiosity. Keep reading to learn more about how this is done.
Strengths and Team: What are your Back-Up Singer Strengths?
As leaders, sometimes we get on a stage with a bunch of rock stars and we have to take turns, leading, and shining. The Strengths movement has been great at helping us understand when it’s our turn to be up front, and when it’s our turn to be the “back-up” singer. Read more as Linda poses a great question for teams to consider about this.
How to Filter Feedback Through Strengths: Changing Your Internal Script
The mere whisper of the word feedback from a colleague, friend, client or boss can make us wince in anticipatory fear, and plummet our thoughts into the abyss of failure. It doesn’t have to be that way, especially when we utilize the language of Strengths. Aleasha explains how having a deep and honest understanding of our own Strengths, can profoundly impact our relationships with feedback.
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