The Leadership Vision Podcast

Wondering if your team investment efforts are effective? Listen to this!

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textWhether you’re a team leader or a team member, you can probably list lots of examples of team building activities that have been compl...

How to give and receive feedback

24 Jan 2022

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Send us a textGiving and receiving feedback can often be the catalyst to create long-lasting, sustainable change in attitude and disposition within an...

How to create structures for giving feedback on your team

17 Jan 2022

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What to expect from Leadership Vision in 2022

10 Jan 2022

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What Permanent Changes did you make in 2021?

20 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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Understanding Domains of Strength Revisited

13 Dec 2021

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How our Strengths Help us Navigate the Holidays

06 Dec 2021

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Send us a textOur team discusses how our Strengths show up during the Holiday's and what we can learn about them in other situations.🎉 Unfolde...

What we Learned from the Women & Power Leadership Conference

29 Nov 2021

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Send us a textIn this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast,  Melissa Hiatt and Dr. Linda Schubring recap their experience and share their biggest...

What we are Thankful for in 2021

22 Nov 2021

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How to Tackle Hard things with These 5 Questions

15 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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Strengths Communicator Training Recap

01 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textBe the FIRST to know when we launch our next training! CLICK HEREIn this episode, Nathan sits down with Leadership Vision’s executive ...

Understanding how Teams Relate to Others

25 Oct 2021

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Understanding how Teams Influence

18 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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Understanding how Teams Think

11 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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Understanding how Teams Get Work Done

04 Oct 2021

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Send us a textIn this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we take the idea of dominant domains to help us better understand the composition of t...

What the Domains of Strength Teach us about Team Culture

27 Sep 2021

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Analyzing & understanding the stories we tell ourselves

20 Sep 2021

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Send us a textIn this episode, we discuss the concept of the SFD. The SFD is a tool to utilize after something hard happens, when there's a diffi...

Is the story you're telling yourself truth or fiction?

13 Sep 2021

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Send us a textMelissa Hiatt and Nathan Freeburg talk about how to recognize when we’re telling ourselves stories that probably aren't true, how...

To Become a Better Leader, Work on the Unseen Elements of who You Are

30 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textToday on the podcast, Brian, Linda, and I kick around this idea and discuss the ways in which all of the work we do on ourselves often g...

Do you understand your Strengths Pairings?

23 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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How Leaders Create Strong Emotional Connections

16 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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4 Ways to have more productive Self-Reflection

09 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textToday on the podcast, we will be talking about four things to consider when doing self-reflection. We invite you to consider your perspe...

A Tool to Help Your Team Navigate Change

02 Aug 2021

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Send us a textThe way we understand how we navigate change is a multilayered process. It's always evolving and being informed by many other facto...

How do you approach moments of change?

26 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textWe live in a world where we’re always navigating change on one level or another. As people, our capacity and the ability to navigate c...

Understanding Team Members Communication Patters and Preferences

19 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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Understanding the Conflict Pyramid

12 Jul 2021

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Send us a textToday in the leadership vision podcast, we are talking about conflict again, but unlike the last episode where it was more about the per...

Examining Leadership Through MegaMan

05 Jul 2021

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Send us a textIn 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 ...

How to Understanding Your Personal Conflict Style

28 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textIn this episode, we talk about conflict. Everyone has their own style of how they engage or disengage with conflict. In this episode, Br...

Three Keys to Effective Team Communication

21 Jun 2021

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Send us a textIn this episode, we share what teams have taught us about how they are building cultures where healthy communication patterns and prefer...

Use these 5 Questions to become a more Courageous Person

07 Jun 2021

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Send us a textIn this episode, Melissa Hyatt, and I talk about courage and give you some tools to help you find a little courage of your own. We use f...

A Moment Of Pause On Memorial Day 2021

31 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textIn this episode, we take a moment to pause and reflect on the last year of pandemic life. What world are we entering into? What have we ...

Exploring Our Communication Styles

24 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a text{NEW} 🎧In this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brian, Linda, and Nathan reflect on their communication patterns and prefere...

How We Help Teams Collaborate

17 May 2021

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Send us a textHow does your team collaborate? We believe you never really know how a team collaborates until you understand each member as an individu...

Understanding How You Collaborate

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textOn this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brian, Linda, and Nathan reflect on some of their earliest memories of their collabora...

Two Reasons Leaders Should Step Back Before Taking Action

03 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textHave you ever had a moment to lead, and you were so excited with this opportunity that you stepped right into the situation, not looking...

How to Lean into Your Strengths with Self-Awareness

26 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textIn this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brain and Linda lead Nathan through a 1 to 1 conversation and share how to lean into y...

How Leadership Vision Does Onboarding

19 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textToday on the Leadership Vision Podcast we talk with our newest colleague, Amy Rollinger, who joined Leadership Vision in November of 202...

Spring Break Reflections: How Our Strengths Show Up

05 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textIn this episode, Linda and Nathan reflect on recent trips they took over spring break and how they saw their Strengths show up in differ...

Grow in Your Strengths Knowledge through our Strengths Communicator Training

29 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textToday on the show, we're talking about our next Strengths Communicator Training. We have a new cohort starting summer of 2021 and w...

A Leadership Vision Update: How we are adapting!

22 Mar 2021

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Send us a textBrian and Linda Schubring share a brief update about how Leadership Vision has been adapting to meet the needs of our clients during the...

The Importance of a Leader Who Listens

15 Mar 2021

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Send us a textIn this episode, we talk about the importance of leaders who listen. We define what listening is, why it’s so difficult, why it’s so...

How to Manage Temporary and Permanent Adaptations

08 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textIn this episode, Brian and Nathan share an unscripted conversation about current life challenges and adaptation. We take one simple idea...

Is there such a thing as Strengths Balance?

01 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textThere is one question we seem to get a lot as it relates to the top 5 StrengthsFinder Theme report: Is there such a thing as Strengths B...

Understanding the Connection Between Strengths and Moral Conviction

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textIn this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we investigate how the language of Strengths can be used to understand how our moral c...

Executive Coaching with Strengths

15 Feb 2021

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Send us a textIn this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we discuss our process of executive coaching and what we’ve been learning over the p...

A Team Building Activity Using Your Images of Strength

25 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textIn this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we dive into a conversation from back in 2017 about images. We discuss the power of im...

What does Leadership Vision Stand For?

18 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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Embracing StrengthsFinder Theme Names 2.0

11 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textIn this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Nathan and Brian revisit the topic of embracing StrengthsFinder Theme names and focus ...

Understanding the Four Domains of Strength

04 Jan 2021

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Send us a textIn this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Nathan and Brian discuss the domains of Strength in-depth, describing what each of the...

Your Stories of Joy from 2020

21 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a text2020 has been challenging for all of us and it's easy to focus on the things that we're missing, or have gone wrong. But that&...

What are YOUR Values?

14 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textWe just finished a five-week series about our company and team values. We hope you learned a little bit more about us and about the impo...

Exploring our Value of Fun!

07 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textOn this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we explore our value of fun! We discuss the meaning of fun and why we believe having f...

Exploring our Value of TEAM

30 Nov 2020

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Send us a textOn this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we explore our value of TEAM. We discuss the meaning of team, why it's such a cor...

What We’re Grateful For At Leadership Vision In 2020

23 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textOn this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, our team members reflect on the things that we're most thankful for in 2020 and h...

Exploring our Value of Wisdom

16 Nov 2020

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Send us a textOn this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we explore the team value of wisdom. Nathan, Brian, and Linda discuss the meaning of w...

Exploring our Value of Courage

09 Nov 2020

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Send us a textOn this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we explore the team value of courage. Nathan, Brian, and Linda share their experiences...

Exploring our Value of Generosity

02 Nov 2020

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Send us a textOn this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we explore the team value of generosity. Nathan, Brian, and Linda share their experien...

An Introduction to the Leadership Vision Values

26 Oct 2020

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Send us a textOn this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Brian and Linda introduce and define our five core values: Generosity, Courage, Wisdo...

Three Ways You can Build Strong Teams

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textThree things we learned about Strengths-based teamwork from reading The Very Busy Spider that will help you build your team culture. Lis...

Adjusting to Zoom, Quarantine, and the Many Challenges of 2020

12 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textIn this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, Nathan, Brian, and Linda share a conversation about Zoom, quarantine, and adjusting to...

Strengths & Relationships

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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What Strength of someone else is helping you through this season?

28 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textThis month, we’re releasing a series of short episodes designed to cover a variety of Strengths questions. We hope this series will co...

Who Helps You Better Understand Your Strengths?

21 Sep 2020

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Send us a textThis month, we’re releasing a series of short episodes designed to cover a variety of Strengths questions. We hope this series will co...

What Childhood Toy Reveals something about your Strengths?

14 Sep 2020

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Send us a textThis month, we’re releasing a series of short episodes designed to cover a variety of Strengths questions. We hope this series will co...

What time of day does each of your strengths come alive?

07 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textWe're taking a little break from longer form episodes right now but wanted to continue helping you process how your Strengths show ...

Standing Still to move Forward

31 Aug 2020

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Send us a textOn this episode of the podcast, we explore what might happen if standstill. We talk about paying attention to what is going on around us...

The Transformational Nature of Strengths

24 Aug 2020

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Send us a textIn today's episode, we will talk about Strengths as being descriptive, generative, environmental, and transformational. Those words...

Shaping our Identity in the Crucible of 2020

17 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textIn this episode of the Leadership Vision Podcast, we invite you to reflect on this current moment to find meaning in and learning from o...

How our virtual Delivery Helps Teams Deal with Real-World Business Problems

10 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textToday on the podcast, Brian and Linda Schubring and I will be recapping two of our recent virtual events. We will discuss some of our bi...

On the Importance of Rest

03 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textIn this episode, we talk about how to make intentional interruptions in our lives to break the flow and monotony. We'll discuss res...

Understanding your Communication Patterns and Preferences

27 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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How to be a good team member

20 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textIn 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 inte...

A Strengths-Based Approach to Difficult Situations

13 Jul 2020

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Send us a textExploring how our Strengths can help us handle difficult situations. Specifically, challenges and conflicts. We define those terms and o...

How are Strengths Help us Make Commitments

06 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textToday on the podcast, Linda and Nathan discuss the book, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks. Brooks looks a...

See you Next Week!

29 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textWe are taking a break from the podcast this week due to the fourth of July holiday here in the United States. Visit our website for som...

How Strengths show up in our Daily Routines: a Conversation with Nathan, Steph & Brian

22 Jun 2020

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Send us a textBrian, Steph, and Nathan talk about how our Themes of Strength show up in one of our daily routines; working out. We believe strengths s...

Running a Virtual Marathon with our Team

15 Jun 2020

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Send us a textToday on the podcast, we're talking about a recent team-building event our team did. We ran a virtual marathon, but as you'll ...

A Brief Programming Note

08 Jun 2020

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Send us a textWe planed to publish a new episode today about a virtual team-building event we did recently. It was funny and quirky and ultimately did...

All Together Now on Memorial Day

25 May 2020

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Send us a textToday on the podcast, Nathan shares a brief Memorial Day reflection as all of us are experiencing the annual U.S Federal holiday alone, ...

5 Things Leaders Should Give Their Team Reflection

18 May 2020

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Send us a textToday on the podcast, Brian Schubring, and Nathan Freeburg discuss an article they both read recently called, 5 Things Every Leader Shou...

The Adaptive Capacities of Generation Z

11 May 2020

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Send us a textToday on the podcast, we're talking about the adaptive capacities of some of our favorite people part of Generation Z. A few weeks ...

21-Day Strengths Challenge Recap

04 May 2020

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Send us a textToday on the podcast, Nathan and Carrie reflect back on the 21-day Strengths Challenge that just wrapped up. They took the opportunity t...

21-Day Strengths Challenge with Melissa Hiatt

27 Apr 2020

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Send us a textToday on the podcast, Melissa Hiatt and Nathan Freeburg, Senior Consultants at Leadership Vision, each discuss one of the questions from...

Exploring the 21-Day Strengths Challenge

20 Apr 2020

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Send us a textToday on the podcast, Heather Kelly, our Director of Culture and Talent Investment, and Nathan Freeburg each discuss one of our question...

A 21-Day Strengths Challenge

13 Apr 2020

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Send us a textToday on the podcast, Carrie and Nathan introduce our 21-day Strengths Challenge! It's a way to help you process how your Themes of...

Leading In-Pandemic and Leading Post-Pandemic

06 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textToday on the podcast, Brian and Linda Schubring, our president and vice president, chat with me about what Leadership Vision is doing to...

Leadership Vision Preview: A sneak peak of our services delivered virtually

30 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textToday on the podcast, we're introducing a new Team Engagement curriculum addressing people's emotional and relational needs fo...

How our Team is Processing Everything

23 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textToday on the podcast, our team is processing how each of us is dealing with the shut down caused by the Coronavirus. There's lots o...

Exploring Strengths and Well-Being in Times of Uncertainty

16 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a text Yes, this is a podcast episode about COVID-19. No, it doesn't just repeat what you've already heard. It's a conversatio...

Self awareness and the Generative and Degenerative Nature of Strengths pt 2

09 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textIn today's podcast, Brian Schubring and I will help you understand the Generative and Degenerative expressions of your Strengths. W...

Self awareness and the Generative and Degenerative Nature of Strengths

02 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textNext week, Brian and I will be back with a full-length episode where we'll talk about the generative and degenerative nature of str...

Facilitating a Large Group through Organizational Change

24 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textToday on the podcast, Brian and Linda Schubring talk about a unique opportunity we had to lead a keynote workshop and keynote facilitati...

What we can learn by stepping into a challenge

17 Feb 2020

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Send us a textToday on the podcast, Brian and Linda Schubring, president and vice president of Leadership Vision, reflect on lessons they learned from...

The Importance of Understanding your Personal Leadership Story

10 Feb 2020

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Send us a textToday on the Leadership Vision Podcast, we are talking about leadership narrative and the importance of using the collective experiences...

What Well-Being Means to Us

03 Feb 2020

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Send us a textToday on the podcast, Nathan and Sara discuss what well-being means to the Leadership Vision Team.🎉 Unfolded is a National Bestseller...

What Does Well-Being Mean to You?

27 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textWhat does WELL-BEING mean to you?  By definition, well-being is the state of "being comfortable, healthy, or happy." So what ...

Well-being, the Brain, and Strengths

20 Jan 2020

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Send us a textToday we're going to be talking about well-being as it relates to the intellectual, emotional, influential, and unconscious life of...

Re-Release: Leading Through Change

13 Jan 2020

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Re-Release: Four Things StrengthsFinder Cannot Tell us about a Person

06 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textStrengths tell us a lot about what a person brings to a given situation. They can tell us how a person is showing up in a relationship a...

Re-Release - What do your Strengths need to Thrive and Survive

30 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textToday on the podcast, Brian Schubring, our founder and president (who has been working in the Strengths movement since 1999), talks to u...