Carrie Jones

About Carrie Jones

Carrie joined Leadership Vision in 2014 and brings over 10 years of communications, event coordination, and strategic business planning experience to the team. With expertise in corporate events, travel, conferences planning and professional gatherings, she utilizes her varied experiences from a variety of industries to ensure the client preparation, logistics and engagements have a successful outcome.

Posts by Carrie Jones:

December 30, 2019

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.

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April 26, 2018

Four Tips to Deal with Change Effectively

The sheer purpose of a vegetable peeler is to shave off an outer layer, perhaps a layer that is too tough or bitter; to change the state of the fruit or vegetable. In this post, Carrie describes her restlessness and inability to settle down long enough to pay attention to this needed change. Here are four things Carrie learned as she applied the philosophy of the vegetable peeler to herself.

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August 1, 2017

Vinegar & Oil: Embracing and Accepting Your Strengths

It’s summer and my garden is growing faster than I can keep up. One night, as I was sitting pulling weeds and relishing in how well everything was growing, I was letting my mind drift thinking about all the wonderful ways to eat the items in my garden once they are ready. In my opinion, the best way to eat those fresh vegetables is with a little vinegar, oil, salt, and pepper.

This is actually a great metaphor for our Strengths. Rather than trying to disguise who we really are with thick layers of cheese or dressing, we only need be fully present, and perhaps, add simple flavors to bring out more (or in some cases less) of who we are.

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May 30, 2017

An Inside Look at a 1 to 1 Strengths Conversation

My colleague, Steph, just completed our latest Strengths Communicator Training. As a part of that process, cohort participants complete twelve 1 to 1 conversations with family, friends, and/or co-workers. I was lucky enough to be one of her 12 conversations. Here is a look at my experience with the 1 to 1 conversation process.

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March 28, 2017

Top Salespeople and the Domains of Strength

Sometimes, people can become overly focused on having specific Themes of Strengths to fulfill specific job roles. In this article, Jeff shares examples of extraordinary salespeople and their use of Themes of Strength in their work. He also explains how to understand the many Strengths that can be generative in a sales role.

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