The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive

A Tool to Help Your Team Navigate Change
In this episode, we talk about change! We walk you through our “Change Pyramid” tool, which can guide you through a recent change experience and then use that knowledge to navigate your next life change. Enjoy!

Understanding How You Approach Moments of Change
In this episode, we talk about change! Everyone has their own preferences and ability to navigate change. In this episode, Brian, Linda, and Nathan share a little bit about how they navigate change, where their personal preferences come from, and how you can better understand your own change preferences. Enjoy!
Tools to Help you Communicate Better
In this episode, Amy and Nathan ask and answer some questions of each other related to the way that we prefer to communicate. We hope to give you some examples and tools of how you might learn how to communicate more effectively with someone on your team, in your entire organization, or even a member of your family or other personal relationships. 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!

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.

Our Most Popular Content from 2017
Happy New Year!!! Nathan spent time digging through our Google Analytics, social media stats, and podcast metrics, to see which articles of content were the most popular in 2017. There were a few surprises and a few things we expected. Teams and personal stories seem to be what resonates most with people. You may have missed them, so as we begin 2018, here is an opportunity to catch up or refresh your mind on some of our Strengths Based content from the past year.

What Leadership Vision is Looking Forward to in 2018 (Podcast)
Happy Holidays! We’re talking a break from our regularly scheduled podcast to bring you something different. At our company holiday gathering this year, Nathan took out the recorder and asked the entire Leadership Vision team to share one thing they were looking forward to in 2018. Today’s episode is an excerpt from that time together. The conversation happened after dinner, where we’d just had a delicious meal and were sitting around the table, laughing, sharing and spending nonwork-focused time together. ENJOY!

What You Need to Know About the Four Domains of Strength (Podcast)
Today on the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brian Schubring and Nathan Freeburg talk about how, why, and when we use the four domains of Strength in our work with clients. Domains organize the 34 Themes of Strengths into four major categories, which are Thinking, Relating, Influencing, and Executing. They allow us to get a broad understanding of Themes before going deeper. Listen now!

Understanding Strengths and Values across Generations (Podcast)
A strength’s based approach is integral to understanding the values that define generations. In this episode, Logan and Nathan focus on the importance of values as it relates to Strengths, and how understanding the intersection of the two is critical when it comes to operating more effectively as a group, especially when you have multiple generations working together.

Bouquets and Strengths: How Differences Can Benefit Each Other
Have you ever felt frustrated with a friend or colleague because their Strengths were different than yours? Maybe you didn’t have the language of Strengths, but there was something fundamentally different in how they communicated, organized, or related to the world from you. Too often we just find ourselves growing more and more frustrated and annoyed with those people, rather than taking the time to see how our differences may actually benefit one and other. Steph writes about one simple way to overcome this.

Embracing Your StrengthsFinder Theme Names (Podcast)
Welcome to the next installment of the Leadership Vision Podcast, where we share our expertise in the discovery, practice, and implementation of StrengthsFinder. Today’s show focuses on embracing your StrengthsFinder Theme Names. In last week’s episode, Nathan talked with Carrie Jones, our COO, about some of the ways she has learned to embrace and accept her Themes of Strength on a personal level. On today’s show, Nathan talks with our founder and CEO, Brian Schubring, about specific ways we help our clients understand and embrace their StrengthsFinder Theme names.
Learning to Embrace and Accept your Themes of Strength (Podcast)
One of the hardest topics that we talk about here a Leadership Vision is accepting our Strengths. Too often especially the first time we read our results, is that we don’t like the words on the page. We see too much of the negative side of the Themes of Strength, and we can’t accept, appreciate, or acknowledge that this is who we are. Today on the show, Nathan talks with Carrie Jones, the chief operating officer at Leadership Vision, about three things anyone can do to accept and appreciate their StrengthsFinder Themes.
What we are Grateful for at Leadership Vision in 2017
Thanksgiving, of course, is a natural time to experience gratitude. Getting together with family, eating amazing food, and sharing the ways our lives have changed over the previous 365 days is a practice most people adhere to around the Holidays. Reflection is a powerful process that can remind you of the good things, and teach you something about the bad. Nathan asked a few members of our team to briefly share a few things they are grateful for this year. Below is a snapshot of their responses as they paused to reflect on our hectic and hurried lives. One thing we all realize is that we need more time for this type of reflection!
How the Learning Community Experience Benefits Teams (PODCAST)
Today we’re simulating what it’s like to be in the room for a Learning Community experience, hearing all of the observations and reactions. Brian walks us through how he connected the conversation with a particular participant, to the image he drew, how she responded, how her team reacted, and some of the big takeaways from that moment. He explains how he arrived at the picture and shares with us some examples of her Strengths in action.
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