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 Tips to Improve Your Virtual Leadership
At Building Champions, we know you don’t have to be in the same room as your team to help them develop their full potential. You do, however, have to make an effort to engage, empower and support them. In this article, we’ll look at the key skills every virtual leader needs and four ways you can help your team succeed.
Understanding and Adjusting to the Workplace of the Future
The future of work is in the hands of employees, so it’s critical that organizations understand exactly what they’re asking for.
Identifying Potential: How to Recognize and Develop Leaders on Your Team
As a team leader, you’re always looking for employees with potential. In this blog, you’ll learn how to hone raw talents and turn them into leadership skills.
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.