Posts Tagged ‘Teamwork’

Leadership Wisdom From a Beaver

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

I had just boarded my flight from Port­land to Dal­las to help con­duct a Build­ing Cham­pi­ons Exec­u­tive Retreat.

For those of you who travel often for busi­ness, you have your travel habits, depend­ing on your mood or work­load. Some­times you sit down, open the brief­case, put on the head phones, and get your work done. And then there are the times when get­ting to know your flight buddy can be the best part of your busi­ness trip.

Sit­ting next to me on this flight was Linus Rhode, Head Coach of the Ore­gon State Beavers women’s soc­cer team.

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11 Tips for Intentional Living and Leading in Uncertain Times

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

Psy­chotic swings on Wall Street. Riots in the UK. Major coun­tries in finan­cial cri­sis, suf­fer­ing from polit­i­cal unrest, con­tin­ued unem­ploy­ment, and water short­ages. Polit­i­cal lead­ers who can’t see eye-to-eye on anything.

These are times of uncer­tainty. As I look back, I see that this is a mes­sage that I have deliv­ered more than once since August of 2007 when much of this began. Ear­lier this week, I addressed the topic again on our monthly Champion’s Edge Con­fer­ence Call, because I believe it’s a mes­sage we still need to hear.

Dif­fi­cult and uncer­tain times take their toll on us humans. When we live in this uncer­tainty for extended peri­ods, we can lose our way or lose per­spec­tive.

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Leadership Moment: Set the Example

Monday, August 15th, 2011

As lead­ers, our team­mates are watch­ing all aspects of who we are. In this Lead­er­ship Moment, Daniel explains how your self-leadership impacts your organization.

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Leadership Moment: Systems Check

Monday, August 8th, 2011

If you are respon­si­ble for lead­ing a team, you must have a sys­tem in place for coach­ing and man­ag­ing your team­mates. In this Lead­er­ship Moment, Daniel shares a few quick tips for set­ting up your system.

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Why Off-Site?

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

One of the best things I get to do as an Exec­u­tive Coach at Build­ing Cham­pi­ons is to facil­i­tate Exec­u­tive Retreats. I love see­ing how each unique mem­ber of the exec­u­tive team trans­forms just hours after the retreat launches. I wish I could say that my coach­ing was solely respon­si­ble for this beau­ti­ful trans­for­ma­tion, but it is not.

There is some­thing mag­i­cal that hap­pens when a small group of tal­ented and busy lead­ers pull away from their desks, leave their offices, trade in their suits for jeans and check out of their homes and into an envi­ron­ment that is dif­fer­ent than the norm for a day or two.

The expe­ri­ence of an off-site retreat can be of incred­i­ble value.

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