The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
Understanding How Teams Influence
In this episode, we discuss the Influencing domain as a way to help us better understand team culture. This discussion is part three of a multi-part series about dominant domains and how they show up on teams.
Understanding How Teams Think
In this episode, we discuss the Thinking domain and what it looks like when the Thinking domain is dominant on teams. This is part two of our multi-part series where we discuss dominant domains to help us better understand team culture. We believe learning more about the culture of your teams will lead to better engagement and help your team to really understand the nature and composition of who they are when they come together.
Understanding How Teams Get Work Done
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we take the idea of dominant domains to help us better understand the composition of team culture and how teams get work done.
What the Domains of Strength Teach us about Team Culture
Today on the Leadership Vision Podcast, we introduce the idea of using the Four Domains of Strength to build healthy team culture. We explore how this philosophy helps teams think critically, get work done, build relationships, and influence others. We also explain how every Strength can contribute to a healthy team culture. Listen now!
The SFD: Analyzing & understanding the stories we tell ourselves
In this episode, we discuss the concept of the SFD. The SFD is a tool to utilize after something hard happens, when there’s a difficult fall, or if something didn’t go the way you thought it would. It allows us to analyze the stories we tell ourselves and to understand them better.
Which Themes of Strength Influence Your Communication Style? (Podcast)
Today on the podcast, we’re doing something a little different. This is a mini-episode where we give you one Strengths-Based question to ponder over the week ahead. It’s something new we’re experimenting with so leave us some feedback and tell us what you think. The idea is to present one Strengths-Based question or challenge and see what you do with that in the next week. We want these mini-episodes to be very practical and give you one thing to focus on as you practice developing your awareness of how your Themes of Strength operate. Listen now to hear this week’s question!
How to Understand People with Influencing Themes (Podcast)
Today on the podcast, Brian Schubring and I are talking about the Influencing Domain of Strength. More specifically, how to understand the people who have some or all of their five Themes in the influencing Domain. Domains organize the 34 Themes of Strength into four major categories, which are Thinking, Relating, Executing, and what we’ll be talking about in this episode, Influencing.
Four Things StrengthsFinder Cannot Tell us about a Person (podcast)
Today on the podcast, Brian Schubring and I are going to be talking about the 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!
The Four Things that Make Leadership Vision Unique
Welcome to the next installment of the Leadership Vision Podcast, where we share our expertise in the discovery, practice, and implementation of StrengthsFinder. Creating and sustaining […]
The Five Things We Value Most (Podcast)
Today on the podcast, our President, Brian Schubring, and I are talking about our values here at Leadership Vision. Values help guide the actions and decisions of an organization. When you take time to name them and write them down, you help define your core beliefs and set a direction towards what is most important. It’s something that can help your team unite around ideals and deal with conflict more positively.
Knowing When to Lead and When to Follow (podcast)
Today on the show, we’re talking about leading and following. At Leadership Vision, we believe everyone is designed for influence. But we also believe that part of our influence comes in the process of being a good follower. One key to an effective team is when members know when it’s time to be the person in front, leading, and when it’s time to be the person following, supporting and encouraging others in the front.
Two Things I Learned About Change from our Last Team Engagement Session
At Leadership Vision, we approach the process of change by looking at it through the lens of Strengths. Knowing your Strengths doesn’t necessarily make the process of change any faster or easier, but most often, it does make it go a little smoother. This is because knowing Strengths asks everyone to examine their responses to change and understand the perspectives of others.
Recently Sara and I led a team engagement session on the topic of change. What follows are a few of my reflections from that session, as well as the two questions we ask everyone to answer before moving through change. Not only are there a few light-bulb moments but we share excellent reminders for all of us trying to influence positive change in our organizations.
Why and How You Need to Listen for Talents, Not Strengths (podcast)
Today on the podcast, we’re talking about the importance of listening for Talents as a way to better understand what is going on with a person’s Strengths profile. Talents, the building blocks of a Strength, are the recognizable patterns of thought, feeling, and emotion that point to an area of a person’s greatest potential. There’s something here for Strengths practitioners as well as individuals who want to take their Strengths knowledge to the next level, so LISTEN NOW!
What To Do With Your StrengthsFinder Results (Podcast)
Today on the podcast, we’re recounting our first experiences with Strengths and sharing three very simple activities to get more out of your results. While this podcast won’t answer all of your, “what do I do with my life?” type of questions, it will give you some very practical steps to engage with your five Themes of Strength in a meaningful way.
Comparing Competition
A common misconception about Strengths is that they show up in the same way for everyone. If two people share the Theme of Competition, you might assume they both love to win no matter what. But this is definitely not always the case! Leadership Vision has written in depth about how certain behaviors may point to a Strength, but we caution against broad statements that prescribe a Strength to always show up through certain behaviors. In today’s post, Steph recounts her interview with Logan and Brian, and compares and contrasts their Strength of Competition. See what you can learn!
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