The Building Champions Leadership Development Blog
Drawing upon their decades of leadership experience—and the hundreds of conversations they have each week with leaders across the country—our team of coaches deliver insights, strategies, and tips to help you improve how you lead and live.
Family Business Succession: Navigating Leadership Transitions Without Losing the Family
Secure your legacy without ruining Thanksgiving. Building Champions provides practical advice on separating ownership from leadership and building team trust.
What Makes a Great Sales Leader? Coaching Insights from the Field
Are you a manager or a true revenue driver? Building Champions explores the habits that separate average managers from top-tier executives in today's market.
Nonprofit Leadership Burnout: Why Mission-Driven Leaders Need Coaching Too
Leading a mission takes a massive toll on your energy. Building Champions offers expert coaching strategies to overcome exhaustion and lead with clear focus.
Self-Leadership: The Key to Leading Through Change
Change is disruptive but can also be very informative. It can expose systems that are too dependent on one person, communication habits that only work in predictable circumstances, or poor leadership behaviors that become obvious during times of stress. And it can also reveal leadership effectiveness, both the decision-making and influence of a leader.
At Building Champions, we believe that self-leadership precedes team leadership. Our approach to leadership is grounded in the belief that what’s happening on the inside of a leader directly affects what others experience on the outside. And strong leadership during times of uncertainty requires the self-awareness, resilience, and clarity to respond intentionally when circumstances are anything but predictable.
In this article, we discuss three ways to lead yourself in the midst of change, challenge, and uncertainty.
Does Virtual Coaching Work as Well as In-Person? What Leaders Should Know
Can a video call match the boardroom? Building Champions shares the exact truth about virtual executive coaching, building trust, and driving leader success.
How to Build a Leadership Bench Before You Need One
Don't wait for a crisis to find your next great manager. Building Champions explains how to spot true potential, give stretch assignments, and grow leaders.
Signs Your Leadership Team Needs Alignment Coaching
Is your executive group struggling? Building Champions reveals the hidden drag of misalignment and how coaching builds trust, clarity, and sustainable growth.
The First 90 Days as a Leader: What Actually Matters
New to your role? Building Champions outlines what matters in your first 90 days as a leader, helping you build trust and establish a strong culture.
How to Build Executive Presence Without Changing Who You Are
Stop performing and start leading. Building Champions reveals how to build executive presence by embracing your natural style rather than mimicking someone else.
The Two Things Determining Your Leadership Effectiveness
Many leaders spend years trying to improve every area of their leadership at once. They work on communication, strategy, delegation, executive presence, time management, emotional intelligence, and team performance. And while each of those competencies matters, leadership effectiveness can often be simplified to two essential measures: the decisions you make and the influence you have.
Your decisions shape direction. And your influence determines whether people trust that direction enough to engage and execute. When these two areas are strong, leaders create clarity, alignment, and momentum. When one is weak, even talented leaders can struggle to lead effectively.
In this article, we’ll look at why leadership effectiveness comes down to decisions and influence, why leaders often struggle with clarity under pressure, how poor decisions compound over time, and why influence becomes the multiplier of execution.