Posts Tagged ‘Leadership’

Be Hungry and Humble (Increasing Your Leadership Capacity Series — Step 4 of 8)

Friday, January 13th, 2012

Increas­ing our lead­er­ship capac­ity requires more than just knowl­edge. It truly requires us to be fully engaged and pas­sion­ate in the cause. We must change and grow, which means we must enter into the uncom­fort­able zone. As lead­ers, we need to always start with our­selves when we want to make an orga­ni­za­tion improve. The ques­tion of “how must I change or adapt in order for this ini­tia­tive or improve­ment to take root” is a great start­ing point. Note: This post is part of a series on Increas­ing Your Lead­er­ship Capac­ity. Click here for the pre­vi­ous step.

This step comes from a les­son our Build­ing Cham­pi­ons lead­er­ship team learned a few years back dur­ing a part­ner plan­ning and con­nec­tion ses­sion with our friends at Patrick Lencioni’s com­pany, The Table Group. Patrick shared that one of their con­vic­tions was to be hum­ble and hungry.

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6 Steps to Improve Your Thinking (Increasing Your Leadership Capacity Series — Step 3 of 8)

Friday, January 6th, 2012

As we work on how to best increase our lead­er­ship capac­ity, we must be aware of how our think­ing either helps or hin­ders our lead­er­ship effec­tive­ness. You see, our think­ing impacts our beliefs, our beliefs impact our actions, and our actions impact our results. Note: This post is part of a series on Increas­ing Your Lead­er­ship Capac­ity. Click here for the pre­vi­ous step.

As an exec­u­tive coach at Build­ing Cham­pi­ons, I have seen count­less break­throughs with busi­ness lead­ers as the result of them work­ing to improve how they think.
Here are 6 tips for you to improve your think­ing.
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Be Healthy (Increasing Your Leadership Capacity Series — Step 2 of 8)

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

In order to increase our lead­er­ship capac­ity, we must truly believe that self lead­er­ship pre­cedes our abil­ity to effec­tively lead oth­ers. I am sim­ply call­ing this step Be Healthy. Note: This post is part of a series on Increas­ing Your Lead­er­ship Capac­ity. Click here for the pre­vi­ous step.

A healthy leader repli­cates and attracts healthy fol­low­ers. And the con­verse is true as well: an unhealthy leader repli­cates and attracts those who are unhealthy.
In order to be effec­tive, we as lead­ers must be healthy in how we think, how we process, how we care for our­selves and those clos­est to us, how we treat our teams, how we deal with chal­lenges and how we communicate.

Here are some ques­tions to ask your­self to help you iden­tify where you might be able to improve your health — and ulti­mately your abil­ity to lead.
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8 Steps to Increase Your Leadership Capacity (Series)

Friday, December 16th, 2011

This topic is front and cen­ter for me right now as the CEO of Build­ing Cham­pi­ons. I know that we must be very inten­tional with how we tap into and develop those that are on the team. They all have gifts, tal­ents and pas­sions that if inten­tion­ally devel­oped will enable them to help the orga­ni­za­tion grow in the years ahead.

So many times, lead­ers will make the mis­take of look­ing exter­nally for this needed capac­ity before really exam­in­ing who on the team has the poten­tial to fit the need and already under­stands the DNA and lingo of their culture.

Over the next sev­eral weeks, I will share one step per post to help you grow your lead­er­ship capac­ity and expand your organization’s reach and effectiveness.

Step #1 — Own Your Role
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How Little I Know

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

I have really enjoyed this year. It has not come with­out its tri­als and chal­lenges but the bless­ings have so out­weighed any of the dif­fi­cul­ties. There is just so much to be grate­ful for.

Now this may come as a sur­prise, but one of the things that I am most grate­ful for is a deeper aware­ness of just how lit­tle I know. If I leave it at this, many of you might be some­what con­cerned. After all, you invest time in this blog look­ing for insights — not the ram­blings of some­one who knows nothing.

But this aware­ness of how lit­tle I know has been really free­ing and excit­ing. The truth of the mat­ter is that I am most likely more than halfway through this jour­ney called life, and I still feel like so much of it is an experiment.

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