Posts Tagged ‘The Experience’

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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You’ve Got More to Give

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

I absolutely believe the Bib­li­cal truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. And I think it is true for all of us!

The prob­lem is that many have lost per­spec­tive. It is easy for this to hap­pen when we have lost things such as love, friends, income, jobs, fam­ily norms…and the list goes on. We can eas­ily fall into the trap of think­ing about how to pro­tect our­selves rather than how we can help others.

So ask your­selves these ques­tions daily if you want to increase your lev­els of pas­sion, pur­pose and over­all fulfillment:

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We Can’t Give Away What We Don’t Possess

Thursday, July 14th, 2011

At least not legally or eth­i­cally. And if we under­stand that one key to suc­ceed­ing in life and in busi­ness is to add value to those around us, why are we not more inten­tional with our own development?

Our com­pany, Build­ing Cham­pi­ons, has five con­vic­tions that act as fil­ters for our deci­sions and clar­ify what our team­mates belong to. One of those con­vic­tions is as fol­lows: “We are life­long learn­ers. We can only give away what we possess.”

I think most of you would agree that at the end of the day — or at the end of your life — you want to have led a life of con­tri­bu­tion. You want to have made a sig­nif­i­cant dif­fer­ence in the lives of those around you at home, at work, and in your community.

My encour­age­ment to you is to get off the fast-moving tread­mill once in a while. Make sure that you are con­tin­u­ally chal­leng­ing your­self to learn and grow in the areas of your life that are most impor­tant to you. This is where hav­ing a Life Plan can really make a difference.

Be proac­tive and cre­ate a devel­op­ment plan that is so spe­cific with how and when you will grow that your actions are schedu­la­ble. Don’t just hope that you will lead a life and busi­ness of value. Instead, be one of the very few who are clear on this con­vic­tion of life­long learn­ing, so that you can give away more as the result of pos­sess­ing more.

At this year’s Expe­ri­ence, our theme is Con­tri­bu­tion. We all have more to give, and if you are seri­ous about devel­op­ing your­self so that you can con­tribute more, con­sider join­ing us in September.

Here’s to liv­ing and lead­ing proac­tively and inten­tion­ally, and to ulti­mately mak­ing a greater difference!

It Has to Lead to Contribution

Friday, April 29th, 2011

The last few years have been espe­cially hard on most of us. Heck, nor­mal life with­out the ram­i­fi­ca­tions of this global eco­nomic melt­down was chal­leng­ing enough. The sad real­ity is that many peo­ple we work with have begun to ques­tion their abil­ity to con­tribute. Maybe we’ve even had those doubts our­selves at times.

Are you hear­ing and believ­ing any of the following?

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Are You Raising Kids or Growing Adults?

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Numer­ous stud­ies have shown us that many young adults are strug­gling as they make their first pil­grim­ages into the work­force, mar­riage, and par­ent­ing. One major cause of this, accord­ing to researchers, is that they are not equipped with the real life skills required to nav­i­gate suc­cess­fully through these sig­nif­i­cant changes.

This is a par­ent­ing issue.

Just a few weeks ago, my wife Sheri and I had the priv­i­lege of lead­ing a par­ent­ing work­shop at the Build­ing Cham­pi­ons Expe­ri­ence. We called the pre­sen­ta­tion, “Are you Rais­ing Kids or Grow­ing Adults?” I think the ques­tion is worth pondering.

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