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.
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.
When Things Don’t Go as Planned
If setting hard and fast goals for your life is a bit overwhelming, I just want to say, “I get it.” Life can throw major curveballs and your trajectory can change dramatically—sometimes it’s exciting, sometimes it’s heartbreaking—and sometimes it’s both.
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.
The Multitasking Myth
Many of us defend multitasking and insist it makes us more efficient. After all, why do one thing when you can get two, three, maybe even four things done? The multitasking truth may be hard to swallow, but accepting it is the first step to a more productive future. In this quick Virtual Coaching Tip, Executive Coach Todd Mosetter shares the truth about multitasking and the alternative method that will make you more productive.
Pulling Back Can Help You Push Further Ahead
Taking time to pull back, to stop, reflect, think and adjust, can be hard. In our endless quest to get things done, many of us find ourselves running from activity to activity with little time to pull back. But often that time is exactly what we need to be more focused, efficient, and productive—both for ourselves and our teams.
Improve your mindset with one phrase
In this quick Virtual Coaching Tip, Executive Coach Todd Mosetter shares one simple phrase you can start using immediately to improve your mindset and get everything on your list done.
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.