The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
What Gives You Energy? (mini-podcast)
On this mini-episode of the podcast, we’ve got a simple Strengths question for you to ponder. We’ve found that reflecting on a straightforward question can be a profound way of understanding ourselves better. When we also look at questions through a lens of Strength, we can create a much deeper level of understanding about how we interact with the world.
So today, the question is this: what gives you energy?
Reflect on the things that give you energy in life and then try to connect them back to one of your Themes of Strength.
Join Our 2019 Strengths Communicator Training! (Podcast)
On this episode of the podcast, we’re talking all about our Strengths Communicator Training. In this episode, you’ll learn not only about our Strengths Communicator Training but also some of the insights we’ve gained from the hundreds of participants we’ve worked with over the past several years. On the show, I talk with our President, Brian Schubring to unpack not only our methodology for teaching others about what we do but also some common elements and universal takeaways.
Even if you can’t make the trek to Minneapolis for one of our upcoming trainings, there are insights in this show that are applicable to anyone, anywhere with an interest in getting the best out of themselves and those on their team. Listen now and click the links below for more information about our next training.
A Conversation About How Strengths Help Us Navigate Relationships (Podcast)
Today’s episode is the eighth and final of our series on push conversations, and we’re closing it out by talking about how our Strengths help us navigate relationships. Navigate in this instance refers to everything related to relationships. How you form them, how you nurture and tend to them, and maybe even how you end them if that’s what needed. Relationships, or the way we connect to other people, is such a vital topic that we saved the best for last.
On this episode of the podcast, I’m chatting again with Sara Schlipp-Reidel, our Senior Client Relations Manager and Business Development Lead here at Leadership Vision. Sara and I have worked together quite a bit over the past year, and have witnessed each other navigating all sorts of relationships; with our team, with clients, personal relationships, and the plethora of random individuals we encounter when traveling. We had a lot of examples to share. This episode is a little longer than usual, but if you listen to all of it, you’ll hear us process how we establish relationships and tend to the ones that are closest to us. We’ll also discuss how we try to use our Strengths to establish a connection to others, so we can move closer to a greater sense of knowing others and being known.
A Conversation About How Strengths Help Us Navigate Conflict (Podcast)
On the podcast, you’ll get to hear Sara and I wrestle with how our Strengths help us navigate the often eerie but inevitable waters of conflict. You’ll hear us grapple with the idea of relational capital and how it helps or hinders the conflict process. We’ll also talk about how to know when to engage in conflict, and what to do if we notice our Strengths harming rather than helping move through conflict. We also talk quite a bit about our gut reactions to conflict, what to do with those gut-feelings, and how to direct that response to be one rooted in Strength.
A Conversation About How Your Strengths Help You Make Decisions (Podcast)
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Nathan and Steph talk about how their Strengths help them make decisions. This was a tough one for both of them, and you’ll hear how they wrestle with how their Strengths inform their decision-making abilities. Luckily, there is never a shortage of decisions to evaluate. Take a listen and then think about how your Strengths lend themselves to your decision making.
How to Sense the StrengthsFinder Theme of Empathy®
Do you know those people who are not afraid of the emotional realm or the feelings of others…in fact they seem to deal with a range of emotions in a creative way? Have you ever witnessed someone tear up at a moving story? Or watched chill bumps appear on someone’s arms? Or how about those people who can simply name the feelings or emotions connected to a situation with great precision, but never ever shed a tear? These people may have the Strength of Empathy®.
Three Ways StrengthsFinder Can Build Strong Teams
Is your team working in their area of greatest strength? A few nights ago, I was reading my son a book called, “The Very Busy Spider.” […]
Exploring the StrengthsFinder Theme of Discipline®
Do you know anyone known for asking the following questions: “Is this going to be the same way we did it before? Can you please tell me the expectations and the details of this upcoming event?” Or do you know someone who can take vast amounts of seemingly disparate data and information and make the most beautiful, ordered spreadsheet? These people may have the StrengthsFinder Theme of Discipline®.
Exploring the StrengthsFinder Theme of Developer®
Are there people in your life who are often talking about how things grow, the steps we need to take, or the progression plan that will get us from A-Z? Those people might have the Strength of Developer®.
A Tool to Capture and Categorize StrengthsFinder Results
When you use StrengthsFinder with a group, it can be a challenge to collect everyones results. You can ask people to email them to you, […]
Remembering The StrengthsFinder Theme of Context®
Do you know those people who seem to be the resident historian in a family or in an organization? Have you encountered people who are compelled to fill you in on all the details of past decisions, so we can avoid pitfalls and past mistakes? These people may have the Strength of Context®.
Strengths Chat about How Strengths Work Together
Do you know how your strengths work together? No strength works alone, so it’s important to understand how your strengths pair so you can best […]
The StrengthsFinder Theme of Consistency®
Have you ever met someone whose habits are predictable? They take the same route to work every day, they sit in the same place at lunch, or order the same kind of coffee from the same place at the same time every day. Have you ever encountered a stickler with deadlines—like you didn’t have a chance to turn in anything late? These people might have the StrengthsFinder Theme of Consistency®.
5 Reasons StrengthsFinder Training can Help your Team
I was an assistant coach at Saint Catherine University. What a fun bunch of ladies to coach and steer towards improvement as a team. Our […]
What Van Gogh and Monet Teach Us About StrengthsFinder Talents
Two of the greatest impressionistic painters can teach us skills to help people discover their greatest gifts of talent. Like the great impressionistic masterpieces, StrengthsFinder™ […]
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