The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
The Link Between Well-Being, the Brain, and Strengths (podcast)
Today we’re talking about well-being as it relates to the intellectual, emotional, influential, and unconscious life of the brain. We also talk about how understanding that can really help us maximize our Strengths and ultimately, our levels of personal and professional well-being.
Re-Release: Successfully Navigating Teams Through Change (Podcast)
Today on the podcast, Brian Schubring and Nathan Freeburg discuss the topic of change. No matter your scope of influence or the number of people being affected, change will always be one of the challenges that leaders face. Since we’re at the beginning of 2018, a time that naturally brings about a variety of changes, we thought this would be a fitting place to begin the new year! So today, Brian and Nathan share three strategies for successfully navigating transition that will help teams and individuals come out stronger on the other side.
Re-Release: Four Things StrengthsFinder Cannot Tell us about a Person (podcast)
Today on the podcast, Brian Schubring talks about 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!
Re-Release What Do Your Strengths Need to Thrive and to Survive? (podcast)
On this episode of the Leadership Vision podcast, Brian Schubring, our founder and president talks about how to understand what our Strengths need to thrive and what they need to survive. We have found that you’ve reached a deeper level of awareness when you’re able to articulate exactly what your Strengths need in both of these situations. Thriving and surviving may seem like contradictory or even opposite states of being, but actually, we’ve found them to be more similar than different.
Re-Release Applying Strengths to Family of Origin (podcast)
This is a re-release episode where Brian Schubring and Nathan Freeburg 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. LISTEN NOW!
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™ […]
How to Understand the StrengthsFinder Theme of Connectedness®
Have you ever known people who believe that there is meaning in everything? Do you know people who are good at puzzles, word searches or anything intellectually challenging that involves missing pieces or making connections? These people might have the StrengthsFinder Theme of Connectedness®.
Strengths Chat Highlights for March 18
[View the story “Strengths Chat Highlights for March 18” on Storify] Join us next week, March 25 at 9 pm CST for the next #StrengthsChat. […]
StrengthsFinder Individual Conversations: StrengthsChat
Talking about your strengths is one of the best ways to grow in your understanding of them. As part of the LVC process, we engage […]
How I use my StrengthsFinder Strengths of Focus and Achiever to Get Stuff Done
How do you get stuff done? Two strengths that have always been there for me, and continue to drive my day to day life are […]
Exploring the StrengthsFinder Theme of Competition®
Which is better… this one or that one? Which man is the fastest? Who is the smartest? Who is the best in her field? These questions can spin in the mind of someone with the Strength of Competition® whose main objective is to make comparisons.
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