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.
Performance Culture in Action
In this Coach Tip Video, Building Champions President Dan Foster explains why many organizations struggle to build a performance culture: they talk about it, but they haven’t clearly defined it. And without a shared understanding at the leadership level, performance culture can mean something different to every person.
Learn why creating a culture of performance starts at the top with a simple, compelling, and shared vision. Before leaders can build a strategy, cascade expectations, or hold teams accountable, they must first align around what performance culture means inside their organization.
If you’re a leader who wants to create greater alignment, accountability, and clarity across your organization, this video will help you take the first step and define performance culture.
From Founder to CEO: The Leadership Shift No One Talks About
The shift from founder to CEO can feel deeply disorienting. Discover how Building Champions helps you master this critical transition and scale your leadership.
Why Fast-Growing Tech Leaders Burn Out
Past growth shouldn't cost you your well-being. Learn why tech leaders burn out and how Building Champions helps you build sustainable leadership rhythms.
Leadership Burnout in Healthcare: Causes and Solutions
Healthcare leaders carry a unique emotional load. Discover how Building Champions helps executives overcome burnout and build sustainable leadership rhythms.
Creating a Culture of Performance
Every leader wants a high-performing team, but not every leader knows how to create the environment needed to cultivate performance.
As a leader, you get the unique privilege to establish a healthy, positive, and thriving culture within your team, but it starts with your self-leadership. Your people are watching what you prioritize, tolerate, celebrate, and how you respond during seasons of challenge and uncertainty. And we don’t state that to create negative pressure, but rather to encourage you toward growth in your own performance, because if you want a team that performs with focus and purpose, you must first create the conditions that make that performance possible.
In this article, we share how to create a culture of performance by defining vision, connecting to strategy, setting clear expectations, modeling expected behaviors, and giving both regular feedback and encouragement. By following these steps, you too can create a culture of performance within your team and organization.
Navigating Change in Healthcare Organizations as a Leader
Healthcare change management starts with you. Join Building Champions to explore how self-leadership and clear communication build highly resilient teams.
Physician to Leader: The Transition No One Prepares You For
Medical school didn't prepare you to manage people. Learn how Building Champions helps you navigate the complex physician-to-leader transition with confidence.
The Unique Leadership Challenges Women Face (And How Coaching Helps)
Women leaders face a unique set of systemic and internal barriers. Discover how Building Champions uses executive coaching to help female leaders thrive.
The Cost of Ignoring the Human Side of Leadership
Is your culture toxic? Learn the real business cost of one-dimensional leadership development and how Building Champions builds healthier organizations.
The Power of Reflection
Greek philosopher Socrates famously stated, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” And from this statement, we can infer meaning that to live a life without self-assessment, intentionality, and feedback would risk purpose, potential, and fulfillment. And that’s why self-reflection is so necessary for a human seeking purpose in both life and leadership. We all need course corrections and adjustments at times, but it’s impossible to know the changes needed if we don’t take the time to pause and reflect.
In this article, we discuss the power of reflection and the three key areas every leader must regularly reflect upon in order to be their best both personally and professionally.