The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
5 Ways to Solve Leadership Challenges
Over the years, Leadership Vision has helped countless teams work through various challenges, and hundreds of team leaders get unstuck. But sometimes, the leaders we help already know at least part of the answers to the questions they ask us.
In this episode, our founder and CEO, Brian Schubring, shares five pieces of advice he gives team leaders when encountering challenges. As you listen, think about some challenges you’re facing on your team and use one or all of these pieces of advice to think through your situation.
What our Participants Say about Strengths Communicator Training
We recently asked two past cohort attendees to share how the Strengths Communicator Training impacted their lives and work. Brian Peters and Sarah Simon shared some of their biggest takeaways, how they overcame their apprehensions, and why others might be interested in completing this Certification process.
Have Your Strengths Been Misunderstood?
Have your Strengths ever been misunderstood? In this episode, the experts, Brian and Dr. Linda Schubring give a brief answer to this question. Have your Strengths ever been misunderstood? In this episode, the experts, Brian and Dr. Linda Schubring give a brief answer to this question. As you listen, put yourself in the mind of the person asking the question. Think about how you can connect with any of their thoughts around this idea of Strength shaming or Strengths envy.
Three Keys to Hosting a Strengths Conversation
The Strengths conversation is at the heart of what we do at Leadership Vision. It is both art and science. It’s structured yet organic. There are rules, there are suggestions, and there’s a whole lot of room to go with your gut, but it is a proven process for helping people to understand what makes them unique. If we had to synthesize all the things that we’ve learned about Strengths conversations over the past 20 years, working with Strengths in the past 10 years of training others, it comes down to three things. In this episode, we share three keys to hosting a successful and generative Strengths conversation. Even if you haven’t been trained in Strengths, they’re great reminders for all of us as we converse with anyone.
Do Strengths Change Over Time?
Do Strengths change over time? Today on the podcast, we begin to answer this question and provide some additional insights that may help you answer this question for yourself.
Applying Strengths to Family of Origin (podcast)
On this episode of the Leadership Vision podcast, Brian Schubring and I talk about how to take our origin stories and frame them in ways that put them in their rightful place. To do this, we share five steps that will help us acknowledge the role our past has played in shaping our present and future. We’ll also share some tips for giving it an appropriate place in our current life, so listen now!
How One CEO Built a Strengths Based Company (podcast)
The podcast today is the second part of our two-part series about creating a strengths-based employee experience. In the previous episode, episode 33, I talked with Linda Schubring about the nitty-gritty of what she is doing at a local company, Aeritae Consulting group, to create that culture rooted in what is right about people. In this episode, you’ll get to hear from the CEO and co-founder of that company, Michael Finlon. Michael talks from his perspective, about what it takes to build and sustain a Strengths-Based culture. We talk about why he chose Strengths to begin with, and why they have stuck with it for all these years. He also shares some advice for other leaders who want to build their own Strengths culture, as well as the struggles, and tremendous benefits, of defending this work.
How to Build a Strengths Based Employee Experience
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Linda Schubring and Nathan Freeburg are talking about what it takes to build a Strengths Based employee experience. The two get way down into the weeds. The good, the bad, and the ugly of transforming an organization into one that is planted deep in the soil of Strengths, and subscribes to a philosophy that everyone should operate from a position of Strength.
Five Traits of Effective Leadership (podcast)
Today on the podcast, we’re talking about five leadership qualities that all leaders need to master if they want to be most effective. These five traits come from a list that Sara has been compiling for several years. To date, her list includes over 20 highly discerned characteristics that are critical in helping determine the success or failure of a leader. Listen now then reflect on your leadership skills as they relate to these five items.
What are your Earliest Strengths Memories? (podcast)
In this episode of the Leadership Vision podcast, you’ll get to hear from our entire team as each of us reflect on our earliest memories related to Strengths. One of the questions we ask clients is, “what was happening in your life between the ages of 7 to 11 years old?” Those ages represent an arc of cognitive development called the concrete operational period. This time is characterized by the development of organized and rational thinking and marks the beginning of logical or operational thought. It’s also the time if your life when Strengths are beginning to form. When you recall what you were doing in life during those ages, it may shed light on how your Strengths have developed today. Listen now!
Four Tips to Deal with Change Effectively
The sheer purpose of a vegetable peeler is to shave off an outer layer, perhaps a layer that is too tough or bitter; to change the state of the fruit or vegetable. In this post, Carrie describes her restlessness and inability to settle down long enough to pay attention to this needed change. Here are four things Carrie learned as she applied the philosophy of the vegetable peeler to herself.
Which Themes of Strength Influence Your Communication Style? (Podcast)
Today on the podcast, we’re doing something a little different. This is a mini-episode where we give you one Strengths-Based question to ponder over the week ahead. It’s something new we’re experimenting with so leave us some feedback and tell us what you think. The idea is to present one Strengths-Based question or challenge and see what you do with that in the next week. We want these mini-episodes to be very practical and give you one thing to focus on as you practice developing your awareness of how your Themes of Strength operate. Listen now to hear this week’s question!
How to Understand People with Influencing Themes (Podcast)
Today on the podcast, Brian Schubring and I are talking about the Influencing Domain of Strength. More specifically, how to understand the people who have some or all of their five Themes in the influencing Domain. Domains organize the 34 Themes of Strength into four major categories, which are Thinking, Relating, Executing, and what we’ll be talking about in this episode, Influencing.
Four Things StrengthsFinder Cannot Tell us about a Person (podcast)
Today on the podcast, Brian Schubring and I are going to be talking about the four things StrengthsFinder results cannot tell us. Strengths tell us a lot about what a person brings to any situation. It can tell us how they will show up in a relationship and what their potential capacity is for whatever the job might be. However, at Leadership Vision, we are learning more and more about the things Strengths CANNOT tell us about a person. Listen now!
The Four Things that Make Leadership Vision Unique
Welcome to the next installment of the Leadership Vision Podcast, where we share our expertise in the discovery, practice, and implementation of StrengthsFinder. Creating and sustaining […]
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