The Leadership Vision Resource Library
The Evolution of Clifton StrengthsFinder: Understanding and Appreciating Our Results Over Time
In this episode, we share insights on the evolution of Strengths over time. Our Themes of Strength remain consistent while our interpretation of them evolves, reflecting our personal growth and transformation. Understanding this concept requires a recognition of the significance of perspectives, self-awareness, adaptability, flexibility, and the ability to embrace growth, change, and relationships throughout our journey. We talk about these five things and give a reflection question for each one to ponder as you consider how you have come to understand and appreciate your Themes of Strength over time. Enjoy!
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.
Self-Awareness and the Generative and Degenerative Nature of Strengths pt 1
Today’s episode is a short primer, with an activity, where we’ll talk about the generative and degenerative nature of Strengths. We define terms, give examples, and provide you with several activities that should help you and your team better understand how your Strengths give life to you and others. Listen now!
Facilitating a Large Group through Organizational Change
Today on the podcast, Brian and Linda Schubring talk about a unique opportunity we had to lead a keynote workshop and keynote facilitation at a conference with one of our enterprise clients. This episode demonstrates how we help large groups navigate challenging topics through the lens of Strengths. Listen now!
What we can learn by stepping into a challenge (podcast)
Today on the podcast, Brian and Linda Schubring, president and vice president of Leadership Vision, reflect on lessons they learned from one of our multi-engagement clients in 2019. We’ll share background about why we initially went in to help this client, the tools we used, and how the relationship has morphed over this past year. Brian and Linda also share a few key takeaways that everyone will benefit from. Listen now!
The Importance of Understanding your Personal Leadership Story
Today on the Leadership Vision Podcast, we are talking 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. Brian Schubring and I will be talking about the ways in which our stories have a shaping influence on how we lead and influence in our current context. Listen now!
What Well-Being Means to Us (Podcast)
Today on the Podcast, Sara and Nathan dive deeper into the topic of well-being. In addition to sharing our personal thoughts about well-being, we share and discuss thoughts about well-being from each of our team members. We’re excited to focus on this important topic as we being 2020. Listen now!
What Does Well-Being Mean to You?
Today on the podcast, we’re talking about well-being. Specifically, what does it mean to YOU? There are multiple dimensions to well-being but just answer with what your gut tells you. Share your answer and join the conversation!
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!
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