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 AI is Transforming Decision-Making
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly growing, but no matter how capable it becomes, human discernment will always be needed—and that’s where leadership comes in. AI should be viewed as an assistant. It can pull together information in a matter of seconds, preview options, and tackle routine work so you, the leader, can stay focused on the human side of the business. AI won’t replace leaders, but it is a tool to be utilized by leaders. In this article, we cover how AI can help leaders make decisions faster, how it reduces bias, and what leaders should be aware of when factoring it into their decision-making.

4 Ways to Welcome Innovation
Innovation is often born of necessity, but it can be proactively fostered when given time, space, and creative freedom. As a leader, you can invite your teammates to innovate through your leadership: by modeling curiosity, asking honest questions, and resisting the urge to provide quick answers. By encouraging your teammates to seek answers for themselves, their resourcefulness may lead to new ways of thinking or working that might not have otherwise been realized.
In this article, we share four ways a leader can welcome innovation to their team and foster an organizational culture of creativity.

Creating an Environment of Collaboration
Collaboration is key to team effectiveness. But it requires effort to create a team culture where it is fostered. For healthy collaboration, teams need a high-trust environment where partnership is expected and ideas are shared freely—and that necessitates leadership.
In this article, we discuss how a leader can create an environment of collaboration within their teams so that people learn to work together creatively, strategically, and purposely.