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 Think Like an Executive
The leap from manager to executive is more than a promotion; it’s a fundamental shift in perspective and leadership scope. It requires a transition from team-focused leadership to enterprise-level stewardship—because the way a leader thinks directly influences how they lead. And in order to have a positive impact at the executive level, you must first understand and address your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs and how they affect both your behaviors and decisions.
In this article, we cover the core beliefs that shape an executive mindset and allow for organizational impact.
The Behaviors of a High-Trust Team
If you want to understand the health of a team, don’t look at their strategy—watch how they behave. Trust is most visible in the everyday actions of a team: how they communicate, how they respond to mistakes, how they show up for one another. These behaviors reveal what kind of culture is being built. And if you're aiming to lead a high-trust team, there are essential patterns worth working toward.
In this article, we explore five fundamental behaviors that high-trust teams develop to best position them to grow together, meet their goals, and achieve collective success.
Defining High Trust
When trust is high, teams are energized, aligned, and able to tackle challenges together—with clarity and confidence. But when trust is low, collaboration breaks down, communication suffers, and even the most talented individuals struggle to perform at their best. The level of trust amongst teammates ultimately determines the health of a team.
At Building Champions, we’ve seen firsthand how the right mindset can transform a group of individuals into a united, high-performing team that meets their goals and takes accountability. In this article, we explore the mindset that defines a high-trust team—and the beliefs that influence the behaviors that either build or break trust.
The Mindset & Skills of a Coaching Leader
Effective leadership is about far more than managing projects and hitting targets—it requires an intentional focus on people development. At Building Champions, we’ve seen the positive ripple effect that coaching leadership can make within an organization because it brings out the best in both manager and employee. A coaching leader invests in people through consistent, intentional conversations that helps their team members to grow both personally and professionally. This kind of leadership isn’t about having all the answers—it’s about creating space for others to think, reflect, and grow.
In this article, we discuss the mindset and three essential skills every coaching leader must develop: active listening, powerful questions, and feedback.
Unlocking the Potential of Your Teammates
In this Coach Video Tip, learn from Coach Carlos Marín on how to develop a coaching culture within your organization that unlocks the potential of your teammates, fosters a healthy organizational environment, and drives lasting results.
The Benefits of a Coaching Culture
A coaching culture is not just about leadership development—it’s about creating an environment where people thrive, grow, and contribute at their highest level. It’s a strategic, people-centered shift that transforms how leaders lead and how teams function, fueling both individual and organizational success. And everyone within the organization gets to play a part in fostering such an environment.
In this article, we cover what a coaching culture is, why it’s important in today’s evolving workplace, and the benefits organizations can expect when they adopt this powerful leadership approach.
A Coaching Leadership Mindset
As a leader, what you believe about yourself and those around you will impact your leadership effectiveness and level of influence. To be a coaching leader, you must understand how your mindset shows up in your actions and your leadership. In this Coach Video Tip, learn from Coach Matt Cummings how to develop a coaching leadership mindset.
Coaching Leadership: The Key to Transformation
People development is often considered a function of the Human Resources department. But if you lead people, then people development should be one of your top priorities. However, we know that with the fast-paced nature of our lives and careers, it can be so difficult to even define our top priorities when our days feel urgent and hurried. But that’s why approaching leadership differently is so important.
At Building Champions, we believe that coaching leadership is key to transformational leadership. And in this article, we define coaching leadership, discuss why it’s important, and share how you too can become a coaching leader.
How to Stop the Rise of Quiet Quitting
Gallup recently released their State of the Global Workplace: 2023 Report and we dug into their key findings. We found their executive summary to have an overarching theme: employee engagement. Their report revealed that the majority of the world’s employees are quiet quitting and over half of employees have expressed intent to leave their jobs.
These data points tell a sad story; and it’s time for leaders to do something about it. Employee engagement levels are in major need of attention and we believe that coaching leadership can turn things around. In this article, we’ll share our take on how to address quiet quitting and employee retention—believing that today’s leaders can change the story told in next year’s Gallup report.
How to Grow Leadership Capacity within Your Organization
No matter your role, it’s easy to get bogged down in the day-to-day job functions and focus only on the urgent and immediate tasks—but, as a leader, you can’t forget about planning for the future. Developing leadership capacity should be a focus area of every company. But we know that when you’re running hard, it’s difficult to devote limited time and resources to a forward-thinking task. That’s why fostering a coaching culture is vital to your organization’s overall impact as it’ll give you the clarity needed to see your people as a top priority. In this article, we’ll cover the five core areas of leadership capacity to help your organization intentionally develop its leaders and best position itself for future opportunities—while fulfilling its vision along the way.