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.
4 Conversations of Great Coaching Leaders
Coaching leaders are not afraid to have conversations with the people they lead. Unfortunately, most conversations that leaders have with the direct reports are either very superficials (weather, sports, weekend plans) or they only focus on one thing: performance. In this post we explore four foundational conversation topics that all coaching leaders must be skilled in discussing to be effective coaches to the people they lead.
The Importance of Leadership Coaching and Development
Leadership coaching isn’t just about teaching developing professionals to be better managers, but it’s about enhancing their personal drive for success throughout everything that they do. True leadership is about real human relationships and taking responsibility for the success of others around you. A developing leader of tomorrow can’t be expected to succeed though until they have learned how to properly self-lead, set goals for success, and establish the baseline they need to continue honing their craft throughout their careers.
Understanding and Harnessing Executive Presence
The key element at the center of executive presence is a high level of confidence and an ability to easily make connections with the people around you. Having executive presence means showing your value, and that you belong in the room where it’s happening. This trait can be hard to define and even harder to learn, but it’s not impossible to cultivate.
Gain Trust as a Leader
Are you a trustworthy leader? Trust is the foundation of every healthy relationship. And before you, as a leader, can be trusted, you must be able to answer four key questions. Building Champions Coach Dan Foster unpacks each question in the newest Virtual Coaching Tip!
Boss vs. Leader: Which One Are You?
True leaders inspire others to be their best while providing clarity, purpose and guiding people to realize their set objectives. Unfortunately, not everyone in a leadership position is a good leader.
3 Ways to Calculate Vision
As humans, we spend a lot of time looking forward, to both determine our direction so we know what’s to come and build excitement for future experiences. And as leaders, it’s one of the most important things we bring to our team. After all, leadership without vision is just management.
Giving Better Feedback
The topic of feedback comes up a lot in coaching sessions. Giving feedback is an important part of any leader's job—according to research, 98% of employees will fail to be engaged without adequate feedback! In this Virtual Coaching Tip, Executive Coach Todd Mosetter shares the one grave mistake managers—new and experienced—make when they attempt to give feedback.
Fighting The Drift In Life
We all know the dangers of distracted driving — it claims thousands of lives each year. But even if you don’t drive distracted, there’s a good chance you’ve lived distracted at some point. And that has a consequence, too. It’s called The Drift.
Leading in Uncertain Times: When You Don't Have All the Answers
Leaders don’t, and can’t, know everything—but the pressure to act like you do can be great—especially in this day and age of direct social connection. The way you show up in those moments where you just don’t have the answers can impact the degree of influence you have within your team, organization, community and society.