The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
Reframing the Narrative: Self-Care as a Leadership Tool
In this episode, we delve into the importance of naming your needs as a leader. We provide practical insights and share personal stories that will help you gain clarity and take intentional action to prioritize your needs. By the end of this episode, you will have a better understanding of how to name your needs, create space for self-reflection, and rewrite the narrative that drives your leadership journey. Enjoy!
People-Centric Leadership: The Key to Building Stronger Teams
In this episode, we discuss the multifaceted nature of knowing your people and how it can transform your leadership dynamics. Brian shares a powerful example of an executive leader who demonstrates people-centric leadership with a remarkable depth of knowledge about the personal and professional life of her team to motivate, inspire, develop, and build trust among them. We discuss this example and then explore the correlation between a leader’s self-awareness and ability to truly know and connect with others. We also cover how one can gauge their own self-awareness levels and what markers might indicate some level of a person’s understanding of themselves, and how individuals often possess valuable life lessons and strategies within themselves. Enjoy!
The Importance of Embracing Lessons for Leadership
In this episode, Brian shares valuable insights on the importance of embracing lessons and details his personal journey of growth, highlighting his humility, openness, and willingness to accept help from others. We also discuss the significance of learning lessons as leaders and the need for leaders to embrace lessons from the past, be present in the moment, and prepare for future lessons. As you listen, we encourage you to reflect on your own experiences and the lessons that you’ve learned along the way.
What leaders do is a collection of small bite-sized leadership lessons designed to make you think differently about familiar topics. Each episode features Brian sharing his thoughts and experiences followed by an interactive question-and-answer session with members from our Leadership Vision online community.
What is Your Dominant Pair of Strengths?
Sometimes the simplest questions can bring about the most profound answers. In this episode, we revisit the idea of dominant pairs of Strengths and pose questions to our community and listeners about their Strengths and dominant pairs.
If you’re new to Strengths or curious about your dominant pair, use the StrengthsFinder assessment to learn more about your top five Strengths.
What Leaders Need to Level Up
Leaders obviously need to be at their best in today’s competitive business environment. They must think critically, make sound decisions, and motivate their teams. To do all this and more, leaders need to level up. Leveling up is about more than simply increasing your skills and knowledge. It’s about being more present, more engaged, and more effective. It’s also about being ready.
In this episode, we discuss three components leaders need to level up. We invite you to consider what you must do now to show up, grow up and pro up. Enjoy!
Understand Conflict Styles with the Conflict Pyramid
How do we improve our conflict style? How do we build up a structure to support all of the various situations of conflict that we experience in our lives? In this episode, we share a tool that can help you navigate conflict in relationships, on your team, and honestly, really anywhere else. Grab a piece of paper and a pen to try this exercise at home. Enjoy!
Look for Solutions in Unlikely Places
In this episode, we take a simple idea, attach it to a story, and ask you to reflect as it relates to your own leadership context. This leadership thought came to me on a morning run, and it has to do with stepping back and examining, or re-examining, everything at your disposal when faced with a problem you can’t figure out. Enjoy!
Understanding Your Personal Conflict Style
In this episode, we talk about conflict. Everyone has their own style of how they engage or disengage with conflict. In this episode, Brian, Linda, and I share a little bit about we navigate conflict, where our personal conflict styles come from, and how you can better understand your own conflict styles. Enjoy!
How to Build Healthy Communication on Your Team
In this episode, we share what teams have taught us about how they are building cultures where healthy communication patterns and preferences can take hold. We share some of our best takeaways, as well as some examples and ideas for how you might implement some of these best practices in your business, your organization, or even your family. Enjoy!
Use These 5 Questions to Become a More Courageous Person
In this episode, Melissa Hyatt, and I talk about courage and give you some tools to help you find a little courage of your own. We use five courage questions to help you think deeply and critically and lean into whatever challenges you’re facing. These versatile and helpful questions are designed to be used on a team with people you lead, with your family, or internally with yourself. Enjoy!
A Moment of Pause on Memorial Day
In this episode, we take a moment to pause and reflect on the last year of pandemic life. What world are we entering into? What have we learned from this strange time? And can we pause long enough to figure out what we truly value so that we can go back to a world where our priorities are aligned with the things that we value most?
Exploring Communication Styles
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brian, Linda, and I reflect on our communication patterns and preferences as leaders and give each other feedback to better understand how we are actually communicating. We also model an activity on the show that you can do at home, so enjoy this episode and then try it for yourself!
How We Help Teams Collaborate
How does your team collaborate? We believe you never really know how a team collaborates until you understand each member as an individual collaborator. Sometimes teams need greater alignment, agreement, or action in order to improve the way that the culture interacts with each other. In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we talk about what we’ve learned about collaboration in the context of who you are as a person, who you are on a team, and who you are within an organizational culture. We discuss our three-step process to help teams learn about their individual collaboration styles and how you and your team can become better collaborators together. Enjoy!
How Do You Collaborate? Exploring Collaboration Styles
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brian, Linda, and I reflect on some of our earliest memories of our collaborative experiences and discuss how they have helped to shape or impact the way that we collaborate on teams today. As you listen to this episode, think about some of your earliest memories or memories in general of ways that you have collaborated. How does that impact you today?
The Benefits of Stepping Back as a Leader
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we ask how we can be more mindful of our leadership moment, that moment when leadership is asked of us and our first response is to step back before we step in. We discuss the benefits of stepping back as a leader and two ways leaders can step back and reflect before they step in and act.
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