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.
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.
What “Better Humans Make Better Leaders” Really Means
It's more than a tagline. Discover the core philosophy behind Building Champions and why becoming a better human is the absolute secret to great leadership.
Why High-Performing Leaders Burn Out Without Whole-Person Support
Don't let your success destroy your health. Read why top leaders crash and how whole-person executive coaching from Building Champions prevents burnout.
The 3 Dimensions of Whole-Person Leadership (Mind, Body, Work)
Professional skills aren't enough. Discover how Building Champions coaches the 3 dimensions of leadership to prevent burnout and maximize team impact.
Belonging: The Antidote to the Great Detachment
Throughout the last few years, we’ve experienced the Great Resignation, quiet-quitting, and the Perk-cession, just to name a few of the buzzy terms assigned to workplace culture shifts. But for the last year or two, we’ve been wading through the Great Detachment. Employees are struggling to find contentedness in their roles, resulting in low levels of engagement and job satisfaction. And with economic fluctuations and increasing technological advancements, it makes sense that prolonged uncertainty and rapidly changing market needs could discourage employees from fully embracing their work.
So, what can be done about it? How do leaders help employees attach to their roles in a healthy way?
In this article, we cover the importance of belonging, how it can increase employee engagement, foster a dynamic organizational culture, and create an environment where people want to be.
Why Leadership Coaching That Ignores Your Personal Life Fails
Stop focusing only on professional skills. Discover the whole-person approach by Building Champions that creates lasting leadership transformation.
The 4 AI Strategies You Need
We’re currently living in what has been termed the New New Economy (and no, that’s not a typo). It means that the digital landscape and introduction of artificial intelligence have dramatically shifted and globally impacted the way we all do business, differentiating it from the New Economy launched by the dot com era. And when the way we work changes, the specific functions and skills needed to accomplish a new way of doing business must adapt too. Of course, many are interpreting that to mean that AI is taking away jobs, and in some cases, that will be true, but it’s also going to create new jobs—and it’s important to understand that technology will never replace human-centric skills.
In this article, we share four strategies you need surrounding how your organization embraces and integrates (or sometimes even rejects) artificial intelligence.
The Behaviors of a Stretch Culture
In this Coach Tip Video, COO Dan Foster and Executive Coach Annette Pellinat share how leaders can create a team culture where people are encouraged and expected to stretch beyond what feels comfortable. The result is a high-performing, connected team culture where people thrive, innovation increases, and top talent stays engaged because they feel challenged, supported, and inspired.