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.
5 Steps To Achieve Your Leadership Development Goals
For over 25 years, we’ve worked with leaders, at all levels, using a five-step process to help them create and achieve their development goals and increase their leadership effectiveness. This process works for individuals, teams, and organizations who are looking for a process to help them move from where they are to where they want to be in the future. Let’s take a look at each of the five steps.
7 Warning Signs Your Employees Are Burnt Out (and Tips to Prevent It)
Everyone has experienced burnout—whether in your personal life or at work, the feelings are similar. Agitation, exhaustion, even physical illness are all symptoms of working beyond your capacity. And in today’s world, more people are pushing their limits and suffering the consequences.
5 Strategies For Leading Your Team Through Uncertainty
There may never have been a more difficult time to lead a team than today. Our world has become uniquely volatile (Ukraine), uncertain (COVID), complex (social media), and ambiguous (culture wars). Talent shortages, supply chain issues, inflationary pressures, and rising interest rates are only a few of the many challenges leadership teams are facing. Is it any surprise that burnout is pervasive among employees and leaders alike?
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.
4 Key Areas of CEO Well-Being And How To Improve In Them
As a CEO you must lead by example when it comes to executive well-being. Remember people are always watching and listening to see how you handle yourself. You set the tone for your organization. Lead by example and the entire organization, your key stakeholders, and your customers will all benefit.
5 Best Practices For Creating A Great Morning Routine
The way your morning begins can set a pace and rhythm for your entire day—drastically affecting how you lead yourself and those around you. There will be days when you simply can’t follow your morning routine because life gets in the way. And that’s okay.
How To Be The (CSO) Chief Stewardship Officer For Your Organization
The idea of the CEO as the Chief Stewardship Officer (CSO) has the potential to provide near term benefit as well as long term value to the company and its stakeholders.
The 7 Perspectives Of Effective Leaders
Leadership today is as difficult as it has ever been. With the amount of change, uncertainty, and disruption businesses face, it can be nearly impossible for a leaders to stay on top of everything that comes their way. But rather than constructing an equally complex framework to navigate this environment, the key to effective leadership can be found by keeping it simple. Your leadership effectiveness will be determined by just two things: the decisions you make and the influence you have.
3 Things Every CEO Must Do To Lead Well In Challenging Times
In today’s continually challenging marketplace filled with uncertainty and exhaustion—people expect leaders to give them information, reassurance, and a plan. Yet, in times like the ones we are living, those three things are difficult to deliver. However, I’ve come to believe that no matter the crisis you find yourself leading through, your organization will benefit if you follow these three principles.
How to Recognize and Approach Advancement Opportunities in Your Career
How do you take your career to the next level? Learn how to identify career advancement opportunities and reach your professional goals using leadership skills.