The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
Building Positive Team Culture: Insights and Actions for the New Year
What do you wish for your team in the year ahead? In this episode, we reveal the secrets to cultivating a vibrant team and uncover strategies to foster a positive team culture. We share real-life insights and wisdom that we’ve learned from our clients, and a few strategies to encourage you to elevate your team in the new year. Enjoy!
Unlocking the Power of Your Unique Strengths
Think back to the moment when you first received your unique StrengthsFinder results. What was that experience like for you?
For me, I remember so vividly the moment I got my results back. I read the descriptions for the theme of ideation and felt like wow, for the first time, this, this thing, this tool, this assessment, has finally put words to what I had already known about myself for my entire life. It was extremely freeing and gave me permission to stop trying to be someone I wasn’t.
Whether you’ve recently taken StrengthsFinder assessment or are a little further along on your journey, this episode is a good reminder to never stop being curious about the things that make you, you. The language of Strengths is fantastic when it comes to communicating things about yourself that help you stand out. With a little bit of time and energy, you can get a better perspective on your top five themes of Strength and possibly see new ways in which you can approach your personal and professional life.
Unleashing Team Success: Exploring Team Health and Emotional Needs
What if I told you the key to a team’s success resides not just in skills and knowledge, but significantly, in team health? In this episode, we dive into our archives from way back in season one for a conversation about team health, something that never goes out of style.
Throughout our conversation, we take a deep look at the emotional needs within a team setting and the profound impact they can have on performance. Drawing from our collective experience, we share five crucial lessons we’ve gleaned over the years, designed to boost the overall health and effectiveness of your team.
If you are looking to enhance personal growth and uplift your team’s health, this episode is your roadmap to success. Enjoy!
Exploring Strengths: From Cognitive Development to Team Dynamics
In this episode, we go beyond the surface-level appreciation of Strengths, and delve into their developmental roots, dynamic nature, and vulnerability. As we pause from recording new episodes during the holiday season, we want to share the main six lessons from our course, Seeing Strengths from a New Perspective. It’s a fascinating way to think about your Strengths in a new or different way. We invite you to wrestle with these lessons over the holiday break and engage with your Strengths in a new way in the new year. Enjoy!
Unlocking Personal and Professional Growth through Strengths Awareness
It’s the holiday season here in the United States and this time of year people often reflect and think about how they can do things differently in the new year ahead. Maybe they want to rethink elements of their job, personal life, habits or the way that they do things.
In this episode, we delve into the world of understanding and leveraging personal and team Strengths. We share excerpts from our course called Seeing Strengths from a New Perspective and highlight the first three lessons. It’s a fascinating way to think about your Strengths in a new or different way, or perhaps even consider things you’ve never considered before.
At Leadership Vision, we believe understanding our Strengths can help us navigate personal and professional growth more effectively. We encourage you to engage with these ideas over the holiday break and into the new year. Enjoy!
Reflections on Being Present
It’s the end of the year 2022, and as Brian, Linda, and I were reflecting on what we wanted to discuss for our last episode of the year, we hit record and it led to this wonderful conversation. The theme of this episode is the idea of authentic connection, purposeful connection, and understanding the why behind what we’re doing.
This isn’t a scripted episode about the top three things to do with Strengths on your team. It’s more of a conversation about pausing. So here it is, our final episode of the year. We hope you have a great holiday season and will see you in the new year. Cheers!
How to Expand Your Understanding & Expertise in the Application of Strengths
We connect daily with people who have received their CliftonStrengths report and love what they have learned about themselves. Yet, at the same time, they are hungry for a deeper understanding and application of strengths.
This is why we created our “Seeing Strengths from a New Perspective” online course. This 6-part course is designed to help you understand the ideas and concepts of strengths and productively apply them in your life.
If you are looking for the best resource to guide the development of your strengths in 2023, this course is for you!
The Importance of Living Our Gratitude
It’s Thanksgiving in the United States, and as has become our tradition at Leadership Vision, this episode is all about gratitude.
We’ve been doing this since 2015, and each year after we do these podcasts focused on gratitude, we are stirred to action and encouraged to live more toward the light and the good in the world. We want to express our gratitude and invite you to express your gratitude to your families, tribes, co-workers, and others in your sphere of influence.
But more than that, let’s live our gratitude…
Know, Invest, Keep: Three Challenges Facing Leaders
At Leadership Vision, we want to shine a light on the goodness of humans, the potential of teams, and what it would mean if organizations were thriving and casting light into the world. In this episode, we discuss three urgent challenges that leaders need to focus on. These challenges are to KNOW your people, INVEST in your people, and KEEP your people.
Learn about our Virtual Team Building Experience!
Leadership Vision now offers a virtual team experience that uses the language of Strength to deepen relationships and enhance team health. Today on the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brian, Linda, and Nathan will discuss this new opportunity to engage your team. We’ll share the three elements of this training, who this training is designed for, and some of the big takeaways your team will enjoy upon completion.
The Power of Appreciation: Practicing a positivity bias toward yourself and others
We believe coaching is about helping people go from potential to performance. In this episode, we share a very special conversation and coaching session between Brian Schubring and Nathan Freeburg. Brian walks Nathan through our appreciation-focused coaching session, one of 12 different processes we use with clients. They discuss appreciation, different ways that we can appreciate ourselves and appreciate others, and how that can help bolster our self-awareness and knowledge around Strengths.
4 Ways We Improve Human Potential Through Coaching
In this episode, we share a brief conversation between Brian Schubring and Nathan Freeburg about the history of coaching at Leadership Vision. We discuss what our coaching philosophy is, who we coach, and why we coach.
3 Unexpected Things We Learned from 70 International Leaders
In the summer of 2022, Brian and Linda Schubring worked with 70 leaders at an international school in Europe. Over seven work days, they learned so much from the educators there. In this episode of the podcast, Brian and Linda share three unexpected things they learned from these leaders.
Why the mission of an organization needs to be communicated early and often.
How Strengths are not the end goal but merely a tool.
And how taking risks might be something you’re missing in your organization.
Why You need to Unlearn Your Leadership Skills
In this episode, we discuss the importance of letting go of some of our leadership “best practices” and being willing to open ourselves up to new interpretations of those leadership styles. Brian and Nathan discuss the importance of unlearning the successes that brought us to where we are and that we may need to be open to a new leadership style to get to the next level.
Three Questions to Help You Navigate Personal Change
In this episode, we discuss the importance of reflecting on transition and share three questions to help you succeed. Fall is naturally a time of change, from the changing of the seasons, the leaves, or more specific changes like children going back to school and business preparing for the year’s final quarter. Brian, Linda, and Nathan reflect on the past few months of changes and discuss what we each need to be best prepared for what is next.
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