The Leadership Vision Resource Library
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.
Why Relationships Matter Now More than Ever
In this episode of the leadership vision podcast, we discuss team building, strengthening relationships, and how you can set up your business, organization, and even family for success.
Reflecting on 20 Years of Strengths (podcast)
On this episode of the Leadership Vision podcast, Linda and Nathan reflect on how they have seen their Strengths change over the past 20 years. 2019 marks the 20th anniversary of Linda and Nathan knowing each other, and they found it interesting to reflect on the ways their Strengths have become clearer and more understood over that time. While their conversation started in the past, it shifted into where they want their Strengths to go over the next 20 years.
Do You Feel Pigeonholed in Your Strengths?
On this episode of the podcast, we feature a new monthly series of Strengths Based questions. They’re designed to help you reflect on how your Strengths have shaped who you are and provide a single action step you can take to better understand your capacity for greatest influence. In this episode we ask: Which Strengths do you feel have been pigeonholed in your life?
How to Work with Someone with Very Different Strengths than You
On this episode of the podcast, we host a conversation between two of our consultants, Logan and Carrie, and listen in as they process their journey of working with one another through their very different Strengths.
The Importance of Creating Space in our Lives
On this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Carrie Jones and Nathan Freeburg talk about intentionally creating space in our lives to reflect and fill with what we need most. It’s timely and we encourage everyone to figure out what they need most to feel less frantic in life. Listen now!
The Importance of a Descriptive and Generative Approach to the Understanding and Application of Strengths (podcast)
On this episode of the podcast, Steph Wahlund and Nathan Freeburg dive into the meaning and importance of the terms Descriptive and Generative. Not only are these two key terms we ask all of our participants to understand, Not only are these two key terms we ask all of our participants to understand, but in many ways, the words Descriptive and Generative define our entire philosophy of implementing a Strengths-Based approach to people, teams, and culture. It’s important however to understand that these two words must be taken together.
How Have Your Strengths Changed Over Time? (podcast)
Today on our podcast we’re featuring a new monthly series of reflection questions. They’re designed to help you reflect on how your Strengths have shaped who you are and provide a single action step you can take to better understand your capacity for greatest influence. Listen or read now to dive into this month’s question.
Understanding Strengths Within the Context of Marriage
On this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Sara Schlipp-Riedel and Nathan Freeburg discuss how to utilize Strengths in the context of marriage. They share examples from their own marriages about how they utilize the language and philosophy of Strengths to better understand their partners. If you’re not married, don’t worry. These examples and tips are applicable to anyone in any sort of close relationship. Listen now!
Two Traits that Help Build Trust
On this episode of the podcast, Linda Schubring and Nathan Freeburg talk about two traits that help build trust. Our thinking on this has been shaped by a book many of us on the team have read called, “No One Understands You and What to Do About It” by Heidi Grant Halverson. It’s about how our everyday interactions are colored by our subtle biases which distort how others see us and also shape how we see them. Or put another way, it’s about understanding perception and judgment. One of the key quotes in the book is ”we judge other people by how we perceive them. But we want to be judged by our intentions.”
Becoming Leadership Lean with Brian Schubring (podcast)
On this episode of the podcast, Brian Schubring and I talk about what it takes to reach that next level of leadership fitness. We call it becoming Leadership Lean. During this time of year, January, many people—maybe even you—set goals, especially those involving fitness and other health-related pursuits. This could be exercising, eating better, trying to accomplish a specific achievement or milestone, or perhaps, just trying to incorporate more movement into your daily life. Whatever your goals, they all involve disciplined learning and unlearning of certain behaviors. This is true of anything you want to be better at, be it parenting, podcasting, or the pursuit of your lofty goals. We need to move beyond the space we’re currently in and move into an area that’s a little scary. In this episode, we explore and unpack what it takes to become Leadership Lean. Brian shares his four L model which includes Listening, Leaning, Learning, and Leading.
A Preview of the Leadership Vision Podcast in 2019
Welcome to season two of the Leadership Vision Podcast where we share our expertise in the discovery, practice, and implementation of CliftonStrengths! This episode is a preview of what’s to come on the podcast in the first few months of 2019. It’s meant to get your mind thinking about our upcoming episode topics and promote discussion. If you have questions about any of our topics ahead of time, drop us a line and we’ll try to answer them on that episode.
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