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How Did You Use Strengths in a Conversation this Week? Summer Strengths Conversation #2
Over the next few weeks, we’ll share one Strengths-Based question to ponder in the week ahead. This is episode two in a four-week series. We hope these questions will be practical; one thing to focus on as you develop your awareness of how your Themes of Strength operate. These questions are perfect for discussion with a friend, team, or even your entire organization. Here’s the question for this week: What two strengths did you use in a conversation with a colleague or employee this week? What was the result? Listen now to begin your reflection!
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How Do you Deal with Conflict? Summer Strengths Question #1
Over the next few weeks, we’ll share one Strengths-Based question to ponder in the week ahead. This episode is the first in a four-week series and we hope it will provide you with something to chew on as you go about your week. We also hope that these questions will be practical; one thing to focus on as you develop your awareness of how your Themes of Strength operate. These questions are perfect for discussion with a friend, team, or even your entire organization. Here’s the question for this week: How do your Strengths help you deal with conflict?
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Reframing the Way We Ask Four Common Strengths Related Questions (podcast)
In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brian Schubring and Nathan Freeburg talk about the discipline of interpreting and understanding Strengths. They talk about why the way we teach others to explain and understand Strengths is different from how we’ve traditionally been taught how to learn and how to reframe four common Strengths related questions.
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Understanding the Link between Fear and Courage (podcast)
On this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Carrie Jones and Nathan Freeburg discuss the link between fear and courage, and how both are necessary. We wrestle with the appropriate role that fear plays in helping us become courageous, but also how fear can paralyze us and prevent us from reaching our potential. Fear is temporary; regret is forever. We also share a prompt at the end to encourage you to act more courageously, so listen now!
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What Do Your Strengths Need to Thrive and to Survive? (podcast)
On this episode of the Leadership Vision podcast, Brian Schubring, our founder and president talks about how to understand what our Strengths need to thrive and what they need to survive. We have found that you’ve reached a deeper level of awareness when you’re able to articulate exactly what your Strengths need in both of these situations. Thriving and surviving may seem like contradictory or even opposite states of being, but actually, we’ve found them to be more similar than different.
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Exploring the StrengthsFinder Theme of Ideation®
The StrengthsFinder Theme of Ideation® is a powerful addition to any team. They are catalytic because they can come up with creative ways to solve problems that otherwise seemed impossible. They can also get lost in their own world, so make sure you work to understand how this Strength works in that person.
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Exploring the StrengthsFinder Theme Deliberative®
Have you ever noticed someone who makes great decisions over and over, but it takes her a long time to do so? Do you know those people who are quiet throughout a whole meeting and then all of a sudden, in 2 sentences, they capture what needs to be done, said, or considered? Who are those people who just need a little more time to weigh the options? These people may have the Strength of Deliberative®.
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Book Review: Strengths Based Selling
Strengths Based Selling (SBS) by Tony Rutigliano and Brian Brim is yet another book based on the foundation of the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment. If you […]
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Exploring the StrengthsFinder Themes of Positivity and Harmony
The tension was palpable. Behind the sanctuary of the Cathedral of St. Paul, eight adults huddled over their VisionTrekk instructions, squinting at the minutely printed […]
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Why StrengthsFinder
Many people have asked us, “Why have you spent the last 12 years focused on StrengthsFinder?” Or something that sounds like this, “How can you build […]
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Exploring the StrengthsFinder Theme of Significance
Continuing on in my mini series about my own strengths and how they play out in my day to day life, today I focus on […]
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Exploring the Strength of Focus
This picture illustrates how my brain works – always focused on the horizon. I ask, “Where am I headed?” and “How can I get there?” […]
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Lead from Where you Are
When we look only for opportunities to lead, we often miss the more frequent and more common opportunities for meaningful influence. Influence of others through […]
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Look for Small Moments of Influence
Are you paying attention? Small moments of influence are happening all the time, all around us – An unbelievable opportunity for personal and professional development […]
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Do Not Focus on Being a Leader
Please, do not focus on being a leader… it’s a waste of your time. We should not focus on leadership opportunities with a concern of […]
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