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.

The Champion Leadership Effect on Your Organization
Women in Leadership Cara O'Halloran Women in Leadership Cara O'Halloran

The Champion Leadership Effect on Your Organization

As a Champion Leader, it’s important to not only be clear on your organization’s vision, but to understand how you can support it. You get to help others see how their daily job functions connect to both the company’s purpose and vision so that they feel engaged and inspired to do their best work. And when you’re practicing Champion Leadership, you’ll be equipped to support those around you and advocate for causes that are bigger than yourself.

In this article, we discuss how the Champion Leadership Effect can transform your organization and inspire your people to positively impact their communities, our society, and even the world.

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The Champion Leadership Effect on Your Team
Women in Leadership Dan Foster Women in Leadership Dan Foster

The Champion Leadership Effect on Your Team

As a leader, you have the unique opportunity to influence lives and shape futures. And the Champion Leadership Effect is about leveraging that influence to uplift others and create a legacy of positive impact that will be felt for generations to come within your organization.

In this Coach Video Tip, learn from Dan Foster, Executive Coach and Building Champions COO, on how to embrace your role as a Champion Leader. Create that ripple effect and watch as it grows into a wave of positive change, within your team, your organization, and your communities.

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Your Champion Leadership Effect
Women in Leadership Cara O'Halloran Women in Leadership Cara O'Halloran

Your Champion Leadership Effect

With a holistic approach to leadership, we understand that your home life affects your work, and your work affects your home life. And you’re more than your job title. So we help leaders get clear on their convictions, purpose, and vision so that they can lead with integrity and better serve those around them. And we call this the Champion Leadership Effect.

In this article, we define the Champion Leadership Effect and how it can positively impact your life and leadership. Plus, you’ll get a better understanding of what we do and who we do it for.

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The Extrovert and Executive Presence
Women in Leadership Cara O'Halloran Women in Leadership Cara O'Halloran

The Extrovert and Executive Presence

Throughout the last few years, executive presence has been redefined in many ways, mostly due to a substantial shift in remote work. But there are a few core traits that have remained: confidence, decisiveness, and communication, to name a few. Yet these executive presence traits show up differently in introverts than they do in extroverts—and both personality types are needed in leadership.

In this article, we discuss how executive presence shows up in an extrovert and also share three coaching tips for an extrovert to grow in their executive presence.

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The Introvert and Executive Presence
Women in Leadership Cara O'Halloran Women in Leadership Cara O'Halloran

The Introvert and Executive Presence

To be a leader that people actually want to follow, you must be conviction-driven and confident. Your convictions are deeply held beliefs that inform your decisions both in work and life, no matter how messy a situation. And confidence is the delivery of your convictions—because when you’re confident in your decisions, your words and actions follow.

However, confidence in an extroverted person will likely come across differently than it would in an introverted person. And that’s why it’s so important for a leader to first gain an awareness of their own wiring. By understanding how you deal with stimulation, where you find energy, and how you show up, you’ll be better equipped to capitalize on your strengths and grow your weaknesses.

In this article, we unpack how executive presence might show up in an introvert and also share three areas for an introvert to develop and strengthen their executive presence.

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Reimagine Your Vision Around Organizational Culture
Women in Leadership Cara O'Halloran Women in Leadership Cara O'Halloran

Reimagine Your Vision Around Organizational Culture

Company culture can be one of the biggest factors in an employee’s decision to stay or go. It’s even been reported that 86% of job applicants avoid companies with a bad reputation. So not only does an organization’s culture impact retention, but it also impacts hiring. And reputation matters—a company’s culture (for better or worse) can quickly determine the organization’s external-facing reputation. And this is why it’s necessary for leaders to consider how their organizational culture has changed as they bring employees back to the office following remote or hybrid models. In this article, we address how to reimagine your vision around organizational culture so that your employees feel heard, the return to the office is successful, and your company culture thrives.

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Returning to the Office
Women in Leadership Annette Pellinat Women in Leadership Annette Pellinat

Returning to the Office

2024 is in full swing—the year that many employers have brought their employees back to the office full-time. And with that decision, there are new dynamics, employee questions, and even emotions to address. So, in this Coach Video Tip, leaders can learn from Coach Annette Pellinat on how to positively navigate this change, grow their influence, and foster a healthy organizational culture in their offices. And employees can learn how to lead themselves well in this new reality and find the opportunity that always comes with change.

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How to Develop a Digital Leadership Vision
Women in Leadership Cara O'Halloran Women in Leadership Cara O'Halloran

How to Develop a Digital Leadership Vision

A digital vision is no longer isolated to the Marketing or IT departments, it is integral to how business is done—across all departments and within all industries. So, if you haven’t already, it’s time to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) in your business functions. AI can be a strategic partner in your work, a puzzle piece in your systems and strategies. But before a leader can cast a compelling digital vision, they must first lead themselves well so that they can develop an inspiring and successful digital vision that people want to work toward. In this article, we share three ways for a leader to develop a digital vision so that they can grow with rapidly changing technology and lead themselves, their teams, and their organizations in this digital age.

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Spiritual Well-Being: Your Sense of Purpose
Women in Leadership Cara O'Halloran Women in Leadership Cara O'Halloran

Spiritual Well-Being: Your Sense of Purpose

Do you know your purpose in both your life and leadership? Are your morals and ethics rooted in a firmly held belief? Do your convictions and values tie to a sense of meaning?

We’ve talked before about the four areas of well-being: physical, mental, social, and spiritual. But spiritual well-being can often be overlooked or misunderstood. So, we want to share our perspective on it and why we believe it’s core to an overall healthy well-being—which is key to self-leadership.

In this article, we define spiritual well-being and offer three ways for you to work toward getting your spiritual well-being to a healthy and impactful state.

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Why our Focus Plan is Better than a New Year’s Resolution
Women in Leadership Cara O'Halloran Women in Leadership Cara O'Halloran

Why our Focus Plan is Better than a New Year’s Resolution

It’s the first week of the new year—and that means that just days ago many people made inspiring yet challenging New Year’s resolutions. But sadly, statistics reveal that only 9% of adults keep their resolutions throughout the year and 80% of people forget their New Year’s resolutions by the middle of winter. Of course, there’s probably multiple factors hindering the success of a resolution, but the biggest hindrance is usually the lack of planning.

That’s why we created our Focus Plan. We’ve got a proven and easy-to-use tool to help you identify your goals along with the actions needed to actually achieve them—plus we give it away for free. In this article, we discuss how our well-being impacts our ability to focus and what you can do about it.

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