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.
How to Lead During a Recession, Part 3: Your Organization
Most of us remember the Great Recession of 2007 – 2009, but your Gen Z (and even some of your Millennial) employees won’t have experienced firsthand this sort of shake-up in the business world. Many Millennials graduated college during the Great Recession, moved back home with their parents and struggled to find work. Some of your employees will remember losing their homes and some their businesses. If a recession does hit 2023, the people you lead may struggle with triggering memories from the last recession. In this article, the last in our how to lead during a recession series, we’ll share how you can proactively prepare your organization for a recession and how you can successfully lead through it.
How to Lead During a Recession, Part 2: Your Team leadership
We’re continuing our series on how to lead during a recession—and in this article, we’re focusing on how to lead your team. We’ll cover specific questions you can ask your team to help you brainstorm while in a recession and how to coach your team through three recession-induced issues. Our goal is to prepare you now before a recession (or slowcession) arrives so that you’re equipped to lead your team through uncertainty.
How to Lead During a Recession, Part 1: Your Self-leadership
We’re kicking off a three-part series on how to lead yourself, your team and your organization during what seems to be an impending economic recession. Of course, it all depends on who you’re listening to and what you’re reading as to if a recession (or a slowcession) will hit 2023, but regardless of whether or not it happens this calendar year, we are still living and leading through a time where the threat of a recession is top of mind for many. And with inflation impacting the price of common household goods (like eggs), it can feel as though the recession is fast approaching. In this article, we’ll discuss three ways you can best prepare for a potential recession and how to lead yourself well during one.
How To Lead Digital Nomads
We want to help you, a leader, best coach digital nomads so that not only will they grow and develop into their best selves professionally and personally, but also so that your organization will adapt and thrive with this new way of work. And, if you’re a digital nomad leader yourself, you’ll have even more insight into how to best coach your team in this ever-changing cultural environment and professional landscape. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how you can coach digital nomads and why embracing the concept of nomadic work can benefit your organization’s culture.
Why Psychological Safety in The Workplace Matters
Psychological safety in the workplace is the responsibility of both the leader and the employee. But as a leader, you set the tone. When your people feel safe, valued, and believe that their voice matters, your organization will experience higher levels of productivity and quality—along with a healthy culture. Watch this Coach Video Tip with Executive Coach Annette Pellinat and learn from her background in executive leadership and organizational development just how exactly to increase psychological safety in your workplace.
How to Prepare Your Team for a World with Rapidly Growing Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT is here—and causing quite a stir. Along with the many other artificial intelligence bots already present and yet to come, this growing technology will change the way we work, educate and live. And that can be scary because it’s new and unknown. But it can also be exciting because with change comes immense opportunity. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how you can develop a leadership mindset that views change as opportunity, and also, share three ways you can invest in your team now so they are prepared for the impact that AI will have in the professional world.
How to Set Professional Boundaries That Protect your Well-Being
Setting boundaries is vital to protect yourself against burnout. Organizations should promote and respect healthy boundaries in the workplace, but if yours doesn’t, then you need to know how to set them for yourself. In this blog, we’ll look at the importance of setting boundaries and give you some practical tips for learning how to protect yourself from the “hustle culture.”
The Power of Perseverance in Leadership
Leadership is a tough job. It requires a cool head and a firm commitment to your organization even through a crisis. That’s why perseverance is a critical skill for every leader. In this blog post, we’ll teach you the key traits of a persevering leader and how to develop your personal attitude and skills to support perseverance in your career.
You Can Choose Your Mindset
If we understood the power of our words, the power of every negative thought we latch onto and believe, we would consider differently the words we say, the thoughts we tend to, and the stories we tell ourselves about the circumstances of our lives.
To Become a Leader, You Must Advocate for Yourself
Becoming a self-advocate means being willing to speak up for yourself in the workplace. If no one knows you want to lead, then they don’t know to consider you when opportunities arise. Even though it can be scary, advocating for yourself is crucial to reaching your career goals. And we’re here to help.