The Leadership Vision Blog & Podcast Archive
On the Importance of Rest
In this episode we talk about how to make intentional interruptions in our lives to break the flow and monotony. We’ll discuss how that can give us the space to unravel some of the knots that have have been tied around these global and national events. We hope this will remind us of who we are and what we need to flourish in these challenging times. We don’t accidentally get healthy and feel rested. It takes intentionality, discipline, and focus.
Understanding your Communication Patterns and Preferences
In this podcast episode, we examine where our communication preferences and patterns have come from, how those origins impact the way we communicate today, and what our team needs to know about us to communicate most effectively.
How to be a Good Team Member
On this episode of the podcast, we share three things you should be doing if you want to become a better team member. We talk about intention versus experience, and how to get those things to line up more often. Listen now!
A Strengths-Based Approach to Difficult Situations
Today on the podcast, we’re talking about how our Strengths can help us handle difficult situations. Specifically, challenges and conflicts. We define those terms and offer FIVE things that will help you prepare before a difficult situation arises, and how to handle them when they do. We also issue a challenge so listen to the very end!
How our Strengths Help us Make Commitments
Today on the podcast, Linda and Nathan discuss the book, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks. Brooks looks at four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: “to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments.” We unpack those four areas of commitment and examine how our Strengths enable us to engage with each meaningfully.
3 Forms of Ideation
Recently Joseph asked us to reflect on our first memory or awareness of our strengths at work. Two things from high school immediately came to […]
We are taking StrengthsFinder to Minneapolis, Sioux Falls and Washington, DC – Join Us!
The past 365 days have just flown by. It was a little longer than that when I gave my one month notice at my employer […]
Do Strengths Change? My Story of Empathy
In 2011, I battled breast cancer and won. When I emerged from the cancer fight, it was evident that the functional order of my strengths […]
Strengths Communicator Training: Moving from Engagement to Empowerment
Strengths Communicator Training, developed by Leadership Vision Consulting (LVC), is for individuals who want to enhance their skills in order to help others understand the […]
How we Empower Strengths Communicators
my story — So there I was, in Los Angeles, sitting at a small rectangular table in a school classroom all by myself. On the […]
Why Leaders Who Leverage Their Strengths Win More Often
In the business world there is not much room for error. Companies across the globe face intense pressure to meet their bottom lines and increase […]
3 StrengthsFinder Activities for Teams
Over the past few weeks, we have worked with a couple of different teams who want to become more aware of the individual strengths of […]
Why We Need to Move Beyond a Strengths “Experience”
Here is one of the most common misunderstandings we encounter with people and StrengthsFinder: learning your strengths and then experiencing a dialogue and discussion around […]
Top 3 Ways to Spread Strengthsfinder in Your Organization
You have taken the Clifton Strengthsfinder test. You received your results and you want everyone to know about your Woo, Positivity, Achiever, Empathy and Activator! […]
Our Top 10 Posts from 2014 (and what we learned)
The end of the year is always a great time to reflect. As we move into 2015, the LVC team is excited about where we […]
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