The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
Understanding How Teams Think
In this episode, we discuss the Thinking domain and what it looks like when the Thinking domain is dominant on teams. This is part two of our multi-part series where we discuss dominant domains to help us better understand team culture. We believe learning more about the culture of your teams will lead to better engagement and help your team to really understand the nature and composition of who they are when they come together.
Understanding How Teams Get Work Done
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we take the idea of dominant domains to help us better understand the composition of team culture and how teams get work done.
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.
The Importance of Reflecting on Your Strengths
Reflection is a simple and powerful activity. We encourage all of our clients to do it, and when you spend a little time reflecting on how your Strengths interact with the world, you can better understand how they work, and what you might need to do to get more out of them.
3 Ways to Get Your Team to Talk About Their Strengths
Nathan shares three things you can do on a regular basis that will help your team talk about their Strengths. Not only are these great ways to gain a deeper understanding of your team, but also a great way to learn more about who you are as a leader.
Why Your Strengths Don’t Look Like Their Strengths
At Leadership Vision, we apply a descriptive approach to understanding individuals’ Strengths. No one will ever operate in their Strengths in quite the way you do. You cannot be replicated! Your upbringing, family structure, and culture all have a profound impact on the way your Strengths have developed in you. This is why your Strengths may not look like the same Strengths of others.
Building Blocks for Creating a Strengths Based Team Culture
How do your Strengths work differently in your groups or teams? Steph reflects on this question and shares the steps you can take to build a strength based culture in a team environment.
Welcome Our New Team Members!
This year we’re welcoming three new people to our Leadership Vision team. Our new hires focus on who are we locally, who we are to our clients, and who we are for the future. We are thrilled to announce Jeff Meacham as our new Business Development Executive, Sara Schlipp-Riedel as Director of Client Relations, and Logan Joyce as a new consultant. Keep reading to learn a bit more about who they are.
Webinar Replay: Growing your Team Using Strengths
Leadership Vision is hosting live webinars in 2017! In our most recent webinar, Joseph and I had the opportunity to talk about one of his […]
Who You Should Partner with to Enhance your Strengths
At Leadership Vision, we believe Strengths are most alive and most impactful when they are experienced in community. We have the greatest potential to give life to ourselves and others when practicing our Themes of Strengths alongside others. But who should we partner with to enhance our Strengths, and how do we know who those partners should be? Here are three things you can do to answer that question.
Are You A Strengths Based Parent?
Recently, Joseph Valentine Dworak read the book “Strengths Based Parenting” by Dr. Mary Reckmeyer. It’s about how to apply the philosophy and methodology of StrengthsFinder to children. As a parent of two young boys, he was intrigued. Reckmeyer’s book is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in unlocking the uniqueness of their children and teaches valuable lessons on parenting in a strengths based way.
Building Trust Through “Show and Tell”
The game of “Show and Tell” in elementary school is often our first crack at public speaking. It teaches us life lessons and broadens our imagination and creativity. “Show and Tell” engages many different learning styles, and it helps people feel known and heard. Here’s how we created a professional game of “Show and Tell” how what we learned.
How to Build Strong, Healthy Teams
We get a lot of questions asking what teams can do with StrengthsFinder. People want activities, which is great, but after 15 years of working with all sorts of teams, we have come to understand that people really need a lasting way to engage teams beyond simple activities. As we begin 2017, we felt the need to revisit our Team Engagement Model to begin the year with an intention towards building strong, healthy teams.
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