The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
Shaping our Identity in the Crucible of 2020
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we invite you to reflect on this current moment to find meaning in and learning from our present world. Surrender to how this season is refining you to emerge stronger, more confident, more filled with purpose, and as passionate as ever.
How our virtual Delivery Helps Teams Deal with Real-World Business Problems
Today on the podcast, Brian and Linda Schubring and I will be recapping two of our recent virtual events. We will discuss some of our biggest takeaways from them and also share how we’ve been using our platform to discuss relevant, real-time business, and team challenges with our clients. So keep listening!
On the Importance of Rest
In this episode we talk about how to make intentional interruptions in our lives to break the flow and monotony. We’ll discuss how that can give us the space to unravel some of the knots that have have been tied around these global and national events. We hope this will remind us of who we are and what we need to flourish in these challenging times. We don’t accidentally get healthy and feel rested. It takes intentionality, discipline, and focus.
Understanding your Communication Patterns and Preferences
In this podcast episode, we examine where our communication preferences and patterns have come from, how those origins impact the way we communicate today, and what our team needs to know about us to communicate most effectively.
How to be a Good Team Member
On this episode of the podcast, we share three things you should be doing if you want to become a better team member. We talk about intention versus experience, and how to get those things to line up more often. Listen now!
Applying Strengths Everywhere: Why The Strengths Course is Important
Recently, Carrie caught up with our President and founder, Brian Schubring to talk about our new Strengths Course. One of his beliefs is that Strengths apply everywhere. Keep reading as Carrie shares what she learned from him about why we decided to put some of what we do with our clients online in this format. It’s unique and we believe the depth of understanding gained is far greater than what anyone will receive elsewhere.
The Strengths Course – An Online Guide Helping you Understand your StrengthsFinder Profile
Leadership Vision has designed an online course to help individuals gain a deeper understanding of their unique Strengths profile. Through a guided process of Reflection, Observation and Application, participants will experience the Leadership Vision approach and begin creating their own personal narrative around Strengths. Keep reading to learn more and go deeper with your StrengthsFinder results!
Personal Strengths Aha: “Hard to Live With” Strengths
At Leadership Vision, we have a specific delivery around how we hold strengths based conversations. However, Linda has found that she learns the most about the visible behaviors of strengths when by simply practicing the art of paying attention. Everyday conversations are where some of the best learning can take place. Keep reading to hear more about how you can capitalize on daily experiences to have your own Strength aha.
How I See Authenticity at Leadership Vision
Many years ago, Bethany heard a teacher say the best way to identify counterfeit money, is to hold the real thing. As she begins her transition to the Leadership Vision team, this image is come to mind. The more you get to know the overall quality of a strengths-based leader, you more easily recognize when these are missing from those who are not leading this way. Keep reading as Bethany shares a bit about her new role.
How I Learned to Embrace my Themes of Strength
Life is so much better when we look at areas we excel in and stop looking at the areas we wish we could excel in. It took Steph a while to realize this, but once she did, she was more content than she could imagine. Read today’s post to learn more about her journey as she begins her time with Leadership Vision.
Our Growing Team: Meet our Newest Team Members
Halfway through 2015, our team had a meeting to evaluate our goals. Halfway through the meeting, it became clear we needed additional help on our team. We then began the evaluation of what additional layers of support needed to be added. Read as we introduce our two newest team members, and hear a bit about what they will be doing.
How to Set Meaningful Goals
As we think about our Strengths, it is important to set goals to measure the areas we hope to grow and improve. If we don’t focus on a few areas for positive, generative change, we stagnate, and keep doing things the way we’ve always done them. Goals give you purpose, and a motivation for whatever it is you’re doing. Here are a few simple tips to help you set meaningful goals as you enter the new year.
Exploring the Relating Domain of Strength
The Relationship Building domain of Strength doesn’t only refer to those “touchy feely” sort of things, rather, it focuses on tapping into the uniqueness of individuals, and building relationships rooted in Strengths. Who wouldn’t want to be on a team like that!? Continue to read, and watch, as Linda teaches each of the themes in this domain of Strength.
You are Invited to our February 2016 StrengthsFinder Preview!
Do you have employees in your organization who have taken StrengthsFinder? Are some teams utilizing the strengths language during meetings? Or perhaps you have taken the assessment organization-wide and are wondering what to do next? If any of this applies to you, keep reading and join us February 26th, 2016 1:00 – 3:30 pm for our next StrengthsFinder preview experience at our offices in downtown Minneapolis. There, we will share our approach to using this transformational tool.
Our Top 5 Posts from 2015: All About Teams
2015 was a great year for Leadership Vision. We grew our team by three, took on several new clients, and launched an online offering of our core offering. A big theme we kept coming back to was team. Not only in the way we thought about and intentionally grew our own team, but the way we worked with other teams has changed as well. Teams are vitally important to any organization. Drilling into our google analytics, it was obvious that this is what our readers cared about as well. Keep reading to learn our five most searched and shared articles from 2015. All of them, in some way, reference Strengths work with teams.
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