The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
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.
What You Should Know About the Story You’re Telling Yourself
In this episode, Melissa and Nathan discuss how to recognize when we’re telling ourselves stories that probably aren’t true, how to correct them, and where to go from there. We will share a few examples from our own lives, and then give you a couple of tools to help you stay true in the moment in order to have better emotional health.
Why you need to DO THE WORK that NOBODY sees.
Today on the podcast, Brian, Linda, and I offer some encouragement as we discuss our internal, unseen personal growth. Even though this work can go unseen by most, we still need to pursue growth. It is worth it in the long run. Enjoy!
Do you Understand how your Strengths Pair Together?
Today on the podcast, we’re talking about the importance of understanding how your Strengths pair together. Brian, Linda, and I discuss the difference between expressive pairings and motivational pairings, how you can understand both, and why you need to communicate these new findings to those on your team. Enjoy!
Listen to the NEW Leadership Vision Podcast!
Leadership Vision is excited to announce our brand new podcast! Starting today, we’re rolling out a weekly show that will focus on how we are using Strengths to build strong People, Teams, and Organizational Culture. We hope to share our expertise in the discovery, practice, and implementation of StrengthsFinder that we have gained since we first started working with the tool in 1999. Keep reading to find out how you can listen and subscribe.
Changing the Way You See Yourself
What tape is playing in your head about who you are? Do you talk too much or are you to intense? Do you start something without thinking or never finish a single project because you want it to be perfect? What image looks back at you in the mirror? Is it positive or negative? Here are three ways to change negative images to reflect your beauty and brilliance using StrengthsFinder.
How to Effectively Use Strengths for Hiring Great People
One of the ways StrengthsFinder gets misused is in the hiring process. Hiring good people is hard. Sometimes, to short circuit the process, employers try and use StrengthsFinder as a way to find the “perfect” person with the “perfect” Strengths to fill a role. In our opinion, StrengthsFinder was never intended to be used this way.
When we work with clients who are on the journey to becoming Strengths-based organizations, we remind them that when it comes to hiring, the first step is less about the StrengthsFinder language and more about cultivating a culture focused on what’s right about people. The positive foundation shapes the rest of the complex, people-focused work.
Seeing Strengths in the Mundane of Everyday Life
Whether you work at home or outside of the home, many hours a day are spent on menial, mundane tasks and responsibilities and simply going through everyday routines. Bethany shares three things you can do to gain a new awareness about how your Strengths show up in the mundane of everyday life.
How to Teach All 34 Themes of Strength and Get Engagement
At its core, a 201 Education Session sets a baseline for understanding the StrengthsFinder tool and each of the 34 Themes of Strength. This is a critical step if you hope to make any progress towards becoming a Strengths Based Organization. Since this is such a crucial aspect of helping individuals and teams understand their top five themes of Strength, Joseph describes how Leadership Vision conducts this vital activity.
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.
Strengths Balance: It’s About What’s Right About You
At Leadership Vision, we believe that it doesn’t matter if you don’t have strengths in all four domains. We believe there is no such as thing as ‘Strengths Balance’ or having the ‘right’ set of Strengths. Instead, we choose to focus on the generative side of Strengths, not the degenerative or “dark side,” a descriptive versus a prescriptive approach to Strengths that doesn’t put people in boxes, and we believe that Strengths are always working and pairing together.
How to Engage the Millennials on Your Team
The millennial generation accounts for nearly 40% of the western workforce and will continue to define the workspace as more millennials rise through corporate ranks in the coming years. How are you preparing your team and culture to reach and empower this generation?
How do your Strengths help you deal with Difficult Situations?
In this episode, Carrie and Nathan will recap our previous episode, then define conflict and challenge, as well as discuss how we have seen both of these things in our company.
Are There Unseen Forces Shaping Our Strengths?
A table has profoundly shaped Brian’s Strengths. His experience at this table also shaped why he believes strongly in the Leadership Vision team sharing their perspectives, challenging each other, and openly asking for help as they work together in collaborative partnership. Keep reading today’s post, then interact around the question, “What have been the shaping influences of your Strengths?”
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