The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
Unlocking Leadership Excellence: Strategies for Building a Thriving Executive Environment
An executive environment is a professional setting that focuses on the development and growth of executives within an organization. It encompasses various activities and strategies to enhance executives effectiveness and performance. When executives are developed and empowered, their better equipped to lead others, inspire innovation, and drive the organization’s success. By investing in the growth of executives organizations create a ripple effect that positively impacts the entire workforce, fostering a culture of leadership excellence and increasing the likelihood of achieving organizational goals.
At Leadership Vision, we’ve honed a comprehensive and customizable approach to cultivating a successful executive environment centered around six core elements. These services cater specifically to the unique needs of executive leaders, acknowledging that each layer of leadership has its own distinct needs.
In this episode, we share our approach and insights on six essential components for cultivating successful executive environments. We also provide valuable examples and guidance on the importance of investing in a thriving executive environment that fuels leadership excellence and propels organizational success. Enjoy!
Even if you’re not an executive or C-suite level leader, we can all learn some universal principles for success when the stakes are high. So whether you’re an aspiring leader, a seasoned executive, or simply interested in leadership development in general, this episode has a little something for you. Enjoy!
6 Tips for Successful Team Facilitation
In this episode, Brian and Linda Schubring share some of their insights and strategies for successful team facilitation. Leaders often find themselves in situations where participants have low expectations due to previous experiences of super boring, unproductive, or passive training sessions. To overcome these challenges, Brian and Linda suggest creating an engaging and interactive environment that captures the attention and participation of all team members. They also share a few valuable tips and tricks to engage your teams and help you learn how to navigate conversations with dexterity, foster meaningful connections, and facilitate productive discussions. If you’re in a rut or need to do something different, this episode can help you harness some of our methods and philosophy to maximize engagement and achieve your goals. Enjoy.
Mid-Year Reflections with the Leadership Vision Team
Last week we shared our mid-year reflection check-in, a series of questions to help you zoom in on how the first part of the year has gone and zoom out to look forward in order to create the best possible end of the year. In this episode, Brian, Linda, and I share our own mid-year reflections. We handpicked a few of our check-in questions as examples and also to share a little bit of insight into what Leadership Vision is working on as we look into the first half of this year and then look forward to the second half. Enjoy!
Pause, Reflect, Thrive: Your Mid-Year Check-In for Success
We hope you’re enjoying a fantastic week as we approach the Fourth of July holiday here in the united states. Like many of you, our team is taking some time off, so we thought we’d again share our mid-year reflection episode as we move into the second half of 2023.
This mid-year break or interruption in our regular routines, is an opportunity to reflect on how the year has gone thus far and plan for how we’d like the remainder of the year to unfold. So, whether you’re grilling, spending time with family, or simply taking a moment to yourself, let’s dive into some reflection questions that can help guide your assessment and shape your future endeavors.
Unleashing Success through People-Centric Leadership and Teamwork
In this episode, we uncover how considering the individuals within your team can be the key to unlocking remarkable success. We discuss why shifting our focus from the what and how to the who is crucial for effective leadership, share a powerful tool that can help you press pause, reflect, and build strong team foundations, and dive into real life examples of teams that have experienced this transformative journey. Whether you’re a seasoned leader, aspiring to become one, or a fresh new hire, this conversation will provide you with some practical insights and actionable steps to cultivate strong team dynamics and foster a culture of collaboration and understanding. Enjoy!
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.
The Importance of Context and Strengths
Do you think that your Strengths change depending on the context? In this episode, you’ll hear a few minutes of an old interview with Brian Schubring, our president and founder of Leadership Vision. We discuss the role of context in Strengths and he goes into some detail that really gets at the heart of what our Strengths Communicator Training is all about. Join our next Strengths Communicator Training cohort in September 2022!
A Tool to Help you Understand the Strength of WOO®
Do you have the Strengths of WOO®? At Leadership Vision, we have created a tool called a ThemePrint to help you process and understand your Strengths. Since WOO® is one of the most searched-for terms on our website, we thought we would make this ThemePrint available to download for just $4.99. Learn more here!
Understanding your Personal Leadership Story
In this episode, we talk about leadership narrative and the importance of using your life’s collective experiences and story to shape and inform who you are as a leader today. We hope you enjoy this episode as you reflect on how your own leadership history has shaped you!
Four Things All Leaders Need to Hear
In this episode, Brian Schubring reflects on running the Boston marathon and shares four lessons for leaders that he took away from his experience. There’s something here for us, regardless of your level of leadership. Enjoy!
Mid-Year Reflections: Looking Back to Look Forward
Happy Memorial Day! It’s nearly the halfway point of the year and it’s a really great time to reflect and have a mid-year check-in. In this episode, we share questions, and some of our own reflections, that you can use to reflect on how the first six months of the year have gone, and perhaps how you hope that the next six months will go. These questions are pretty simple, but they’re great to answer both on your own and with your team. Enjoy!
5 Questions for Team Building
In this episode, we discuss five questions we use at Leadership Vision to frame constructive conversation and build awareness and relational rapport. These five questions for team building have been really effective, and in this episode we share a little bit about what they are and why they have become so effective for us. We hope that you can take these questions with you and share them with your team!
Two FREE Resources for Understanding Strengths
Whether you are learning about your Strengths or helping others on their Strengths journey, our two FREE resources are time-tested and effective for the interpretation and application of Strengths. In addition, our guiding principles and accompanying reflection questions will help you dive deeper.
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