Archive for February, 2012

Leadership Moment — Talking to Teenagers

Monday, February 27th, 2012

As a par­ent, you need to have an inten­tional plan about how you are going to raise your kids — espe­cially when they hit the teenage years. Watch as Daniel gives some advice on how to talk to your teenagers.

If You Don’t Think It Will Truly Make A Difference, Then Don’t Sell It

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

So many times in our work here at Build­ing Cham­pi­ons, we coaches help our clients gain clar­ity on their “why” — their “why” being the real why or value offered by the prod­ucts they cre­ate or ser­vices they pro­vide. We have to know and believe in our “why” if we are going to lead some­thing meaningful.

In Sep­tem­ber of this year, our entire Build­ing Cham­pi­ons team will join 225 busi­ness pro­fes­sion­als from many indus­tries in Sun­river, Ore­gon, for the Build­ing Cham­pi­ons Expe­ri­ence. This will be our 5th year of cre­at­ing this very unique 3.5-day coach­ing experience.

It is an amaz­ing time to reflect, plan and con­nect with other like-minded pro­fes­sion­als who seri­ously want to improve how they lead, serve and live. I absolutely believe that these 3.5 days in Cen­tral Ore­gon with us will make a sig­nif­i­cant dif­fer­ence for those who attend by chang­ing how they lead and live. I believe this because for many who have attended in the past 4 years, it has.

I don’t nor­mally use this blog to openly pro­mote or sell Build­ing Cham­pi­ons, but I truly believe that this Expe­ri­ence can have a last­ing impact in the way you lead your busi­ness and life. We often tell our clients that if they don’t know their why, if they don’t think what they do or sell will truly make a dif­fer­ence, then they shouldn’t sell it.

I truly believe in our Expe­ri­ence and hope that you con­sider join­ing us in September.

Our spe­cial Early Bird Pric­ing ends this Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 24. Hope to con­nect with you all in Sunriver

Leadership Moment — Do You Remember?

Monday, February 20th, 2012

As a leader, sim­ply hav­ing a vision isn’t enough. Watch as Daniel encour­ages lead­ers to reg­u­larly share their vision with their teams — and how it can increase your leadership.

Get Rid of Your Job (Increasing Your Leadership Capacity Series — Step 7 of 8)

Monday, February 13th, 2012

If you give it some thought, it just makes sense. There is no way to increase our lead­er­ship capac­ity if our days are only filled with the activ­i­ties required to sim­ply man­age today’s busi­ness. Now my assump­tion is that you are like most lead­ers that we coach at Build­ing Cham­pi­ons with your sched­ules being filled beyond 100 per­cent. If this is so, then how and when can any of us increase our lead­er­ship capac­ity? One solu­tion: we must get rid of our jobs. Note: This post is part of a series on Increas­ing Your Lead­er­ship Capac­ity. Click here for the pre­vi­ous step.

Here are 6 spe­cific steps you can take that are guar­an­teed to free you up so you and your team can grow.
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