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The Champion Forum Podcast with Jeff Hancher — 379 episodes

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Why High Achievers Secretly Feel Like Frauds

2

Stop Repeating Yourself and Start Leading

3

One Question Great Leaders Ask

4

Things Leaders Must Lose Part 2

5

Things Leaders Must Lose Part 1

6

How Leaders Accidentally Create Passive Teams (And How to Fix It)

7

Are you hard to lead? (and how to become more coachable)

8

Signs Your Team's Culture is Dangerous and How to Fix It Part 2

9

Signs Your Team Culture is Dangerous and How to Fix It Part 1

10

Why Your Best Employees Quietly Quit (And How Great Leaders Stop It)

11

Why Inconsistency Breaks Trust In Teams (And How to Rebuild It)

12

Why Open Door Policies Fail and How to Build Psychological Safety

13

Stop Blaming Employees for Low Motivation

14

How Leaders Accidentally Train Teams Not to Be Honest

15

Why you Need To Stop Saying "We're Family Here"

16

Why Hardworking Salespeople Fail (And How to Fix Your Sales Process)

17

Authentic Leadership at Work: Claude Silver on Leading with Heart as a Power Skill

18

Learning to Let Go Without Losing Confidence

19

Lessons From the Transfer Portal - Building Teams Without Destroying Culture

20

How to Get What You Want (Without Drifting Through Another Year)

21

Authentic Leadership That Amplifies Good | Chris Cooper on People-First Leadership

22

Stop Being A Mascot: Why Accountability Matters More Than Inspiration in Leadership

23

Three Common Leadership Blind Spots Every Leader Should Address

24

AI Will Redefine Leadership: How to Stay Relevant in the AI Era

25

Leadership Boredom: Why You Feel Burned Out and How to Reignite Your Drive

26

Why Delegation Fails—and How Strong Leaders Make It Work

27

How to Stop Starting Over: Break the Cycle and Build Momentum

28

How to Lead Through Adversity and Find Purpose: Eric McElvenny’s Story of Grit and Growth

29

The Future Begins with Z with Tim Elmore

30

The Truth About Servant Leadership Most Leaders Miss

31

How to Scale Your Business Without Losing Control: Rocco Cozza on the 4 Frames of Growth

32

How to Protect Your Business from Legal Blind Spots Every Founder Misses with Rocco Cozza

33

The Courage to Fire Peak Performers: Why Great Leaders Choose Culture Over Toxic High Performers

34

Leading Through Loss: Practical Leadership Tips for Navigating Loss, Setbacks, and Challenges

35

Leading at Home with Chris and Sara Goede | Applying the 5 Levels of Leadership

36

What Bjorn Borg Taught Me About Composure

37

Turning Feedback into Culture Change

38

The Ghost of Leaders Past: How Past Leaders Haunt Present Teams

39

How High-Impact Leaders Build Momentum and Empower Teams with JM Ryerson

40

Unlearning Leadership: The Behaviors That Made You Successful But Are Now Holding You Back

41

Why Loyalty Might Be Killing Your Company (and what to do about it)

42

Dark Side of Overachievement

43

From Drift to Drive with Chris Robinson

44

Leading When You Are Not Inspired

45

The Psychology of Over-Preparation

46

Why Leaders Struggle to Apologize (And How to Get It Right)

47

4 Outdated Leadership Habits That Are Holding You Back

48

Where Do You Need Support (4 Phrases Leaders Need to Know Part 4)

49

Bonus Episode - Announcement

50

That's Not Who We Are (4 Phrases Leaders Need to Know Part 3)

51

Heres What I Need From You (Four Phrases Leaders Need to Know Part 2)

52

Tell Me More (Four Phrases Leaders Need to Know Part 1)

53

Stop Being Your Team's Emotional Dumpster

54

Stop Cheering, Start Leading

55

The Problem With Always Being Available

56

Turn Meetings into Momentum: What Great Leaders Do After the Meeting

57

The First 5 Minutes of Leadership

58

Why do most new businesses fail? - Tax and Financial Insight with Stan Kleja

59

Leading a Defensive Peak Performer

60

Mastering Uncertainty with Rich Diviney

61

Adapting to the Future of Leadership

62

When Mentorship Goes Wrong

63

How to Set Healthy Leadership Boundaries

64

Keys to Growing and Scaling Your Business with Pallavi Golla

65

Hanch's How-To's 25.0 | How to Level Up Your Leadership

66

The Dark Side of Charisma

67

Building and Scaling a Business with Sarah Nuse

68

Forgiveness as a Leadership Strategy

69

Why Leaders Should Be Followers

70

The Power of Micro-Actions in Business Leadership

71

Power of Positive Feedback

72

Don't Tell Me What To Do: How To Lead Without Micromanaging

73

3 Lessons I Learned in My First 5 Years of Being an Entrepreneur

74

Power of the Pause

75

Are you a Vitamin or Pain Killer?

76

What to Say to Overcome Sales Objections

77

This Simple Tool Will Help You Close More Sales

78

When Tempers Flare: How to Address Disrespect at Work

79

From Burned out to CEO - How Intentionality Helped Mark Cole Stand Out and Increase His Impact

80

Celebrating 300 Episodes of The Champion Forum Podcast!

81

How To Create Better Work-Life Balance For Your Employees

82

What Your Employees REALLY Want (Part 2)

83

What your employees REALLY want (Part 1)

84

Hanch's How-To's 24: Building and Keeping Leadership Credibility

85

Managing Toxic People Part 2 - How to Address Toxic Behavior

86

Managing Toxic People Part 1 - How to Identify a Toxic Employee

87

Leading Through Crisis

88

What Your Leadership Scars Say About You

89

Maximizing Your One-On-One

90

Four Phrases Leaders Need To Stop Using

91

What They Didn't Tell You About Change

92

Intent Matters

93

What A Potato Farmer Taught Me About Success

94

Curiosity: The Underutilized Key to Leadership Success

95

Leveraging Self-Discipline To Reach Your Goals

96

Overcoming Resistance to Change at Work

97

The Secret Society of Success with Tim Schurrer

98

How to Be A More Credible Leader

99

Bravery, Unity, and Other Lessons from 1776

100

Get The How Out: The key to moving from compliance to engagement

101

If Only I Knew Then

102

Addressing Passive Aggressive Employee

103

Increase Your Sales With Creative Prospecting

104

Winning Begins At Home with Randy Gravitt

105

5 Strategies For Leading People Older Than You

106

Three Ways To Embrace Vulnerability As A Leader

107

Coffee is for Closers

108

How to Make Small Wins Generate Big Impact

109

Moving Past Micromanagement: How to Identify and Deal With A Micromanaging Boss

110

"The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking" with Michael Watkins

111

Seven Ways You Can Be A More Resilient Leader

112

Ken Blanchard and Randy Conley on Leadership Strategies that Work and Advice for Leaders in 2024

113

Increasing Referrals to Close More Sales

114

The Power of Trust, Building a Championship Team and Becoming an Excellent Storyteller with Don Yaeger

115

How to Craft a Memorable Elevator Pitch You Actually Want To Use

116

The Deadly Sales F Word

117

You Don't Know What You Don't Know

118

Four Ways To Develop Potential Leaders

119

How To Create New Leaders

120

The Value of Debriefing

121

How To Tell Them They Didn't Get the Promotion

122

Hanch's How To's 23.0 - Creating a culture of improvement, not perfectionism

123

Acres of Diamonds: The Mindset That Will Help You Achieve More

124

How to Avoid Hiring Entitled (and narcissistic) Employees

125

The Power Of Questions To Elevate Your Leadership

126

Becoming an Unshakeable Leader

127

Fix Your Face

128

Leading Beyond Success

129

The Best Tool For Driving Employee Growth and Success

130

The Best Way to Be A Visionary Leader

131

The Leadership Skill Top-Level Managers Master

132

Do Your Employees Understand Success?

133

Your Future Starts With Honoring The Past

134

Escaping The People-Pleasing Cycle

135

Hanch's How-To's 20.0 - Keys To Achieving Your Career Goals and Making Difficult Decisions

136

Short-Term Thinking Causes Long-Term Problems

137

Should Leaders Prioritize People or Results?

138

Insecure Leadership

139

Culture Rules with Mark Miller: Building an Intentional Culture

140

Four Wrong Ways To Give Feedback

141

Collaborative Feedback

142

The First-Time Sales Manager with Mike Weinberg

143

Direct Feedback

144

Feedback Avoidance

145

Feedback Is A Gift

146

Unveiling The Internship Experience

147

Developing New Leaders

148

Strategic Thinking

149

Managing the Heaviness Of Leadership

150

Building Your Leadership Composure

151

Mind Your Mindset with Michael Hyatt

152

Secrets to Sales Success with Chris Fava

153

Hanch's How-To's 21

154

How To Address (And Prevent) Disengaged Employees

155

3 Fears That Are Killing Your Dream (And 5 Ways To Overcome Them)

156

Leading with AI with Anand Butani

157

Help!!! My boss is an ALPHA!

158

Why New Salespeople Fail (And How to Overcome It)

159

You Are Being Watched

160

Proximity is Powerful

161

Leading the Alphas

162

Turning Pressure Into Potential

163

The Right Way To Embrace Your Weaknesses

164

Helping Your Team Grow

165

Hanch's How To's: 20

166

What I Learned From A $700 Gumball Machine

167

Leadership is Earned

168

Generational Diversity with Tim Elmore

169

Bro You Stink

170

Hanch's How To's: 19

171

Let's Get Critical

172

Leading In A Down Economy

173

Selling in a Down Economy

174

The Question that EVERY Salesperson must answer

175

Leaders are Coaches

176

Leading a Dominant Employee

177

Keys to Leading Yourself

178

How to Close More Sales

179

When They Cry

180

Performance Review Mistakes to Avoid

181

Overcoming Insecurity as a Leader

182

Keys to Growing and Scaling a Business with Brandon Dawson

183

A Better Way To Show Thanks

184

What It Really Means To Be A Team Player

185

What To Do When They Blow It

186

Upward Influence

187

5 Questions Leaders Must Ask Themselves

188

Is TikTok Right For My Business? With Austin Armstrong

189

Becoming Bold with Fred Joyal

190

Lost Motivation

191

What They Didn't Tell You About Leadership

192

Replacing a Bad Leader

193

Lessons from The Journey

194

Hanch's How To's 18

195

How to fix the mistake most salespeople are making

196

Passionate Performance with Lee Colan

197

Is it Better to be Liked or Respected?

198

Dry Socks and Water

199

Advice for Leaders in Any Industry

200

5 Questions for Accountability

201

New Job Blunders to Avoid

202

Forgiveness As A Leadership Strategy

203

Hanch's How-To's 17.0

204

What To Do When You Can't Promote Them

205

What You Say Matters

206

Leveraging Silence in Your Leadership Strategy

207

Getting Started in Public Speaking with Grant Baldwin

208

Memorial Day Tribute

209

Are You Fit To Lead?

210

Leadership Perspective from Navy Seal, Larry Yatch

211

Navigating Criticism

212

Friendly Not Friends

213

Can't Do vs. Won't Do

214

The Power of Masterminds with Aaron Walker

215

Staying Humble in the Age of Arrogance

216

Overcoming Self-Doubt and Reaching Your Human Potential With Paul Martinelli

217

Hanch's How To's 16

218

Stop Overthinking

219

Vulnerability Mistakes

220

Vulnerability - The Leadership Superpower

221

Shut Up And Listen

222

Temporary Emotions Are Dangerous

223

Leadership Lessons From Lem Woodson

224

Prepare To Win

225

Celebrating the Small Wins

226

Navigating A Bad Boss

227

Combating Low Morale

228

Scaling Your Business

229

Why New Year's Resolutions Don't Work

230

Finishing The Year Strong

231

A Very Champion Forum Christmas

232

Hanch's How To's 16 - Promotions, Communication, and Succession Planning

233

Creating a Culture of Autonomy in the Workplace

234

Five things to do the Next Time You Feel Discouraged

235

The Secret to Finding Great Employees in 2021

236

Hanch's How To's 15

237

Act Like a New Hire

238

The Best Interview Question

239

Hanch's How To's 14

240

Conquering the Counteroffer

241

Direct Communication Pt. 2

242

Direct Communication

243

Hanch's How To's 13

244

Leadership In Impossible Situations With Chad Hymas

245

Hunters vs. Farmers - Who Do You Need On Your Sales Team?

246

Strategic Account Management

247

Raising Leaders

248

Hanch's How To's 12

249

Two errors leaders make in their company culture (and how to fix them!)

250

Making the Most of Employee Training

251

Making Your Boss a Better Communicator

252

Servant Leadership Is Not What You Think With Joel Manby

253

Hanch's How To's 11.0

254

The Number One Employee Benefit

255

Sales Management Simplified with Mike Weinberg

256

Identifying Key Stakeholders

257

The Power of Storytelling in Business with Ty Bennet

258

Hanch's How To's 10.0

259

Developing Your Leadership Presence

260

Humility is Trendy

261

Business Lessons From the Military on Memorial Day

262

Your Leadership Legacy

263

Hanch's How To's 9.0

264

Emotional Intelligence and the Enneagram with Karissa Harrison

265

Hanch's How To's 8.0

266

The Potential Trap with Mark Benedetti

267

Addressing Difficult Employees

268

"I Love It Here". Retention and the Employee Experience with Clint Pulver

269

Personal Growth as a Leader and Entrepreneur with David McGlennen

270

Hanch's How To's 7.0

271

Confidence Wins with Wendy May

272

Creating Healthy Disruptions In The Workplace

273

The Attributes - Hidden Keys To Building Successful Teams With Rich Diviney

274

Hanch's How To's 6.0

275

**BONUS EPISODE**: Should Yourself Outtakes

276

Don't Should Yourself

277

7 Signs You Are Ready To Lead

278

How To Improve Your Memory With Jennifer Little-Fleck

279

Hanch's How To's 5.0

280

Forget The Feedback Sandwich

281

The Case For Diversity With Brandon Harvey

282

Excuse Makers

283

Healthy Tension Makes Stronger Teams

284

Santa Claus Is Coming (to give leadership advice!)

285

Copywriting - The Hidden Leadership Skill with Abigail Condon

286

Sales Tips for Surviving the Holiday Slump

287

Hanch's How-To's 4.0

288

Remote Onboarding with Michael Watkins

289

The People Have Spoken

290

Veterans Day With Mike Hertzendorf

291

Hanch's How To's 3.0

292

The Talent War With Mike Sarraille and George Randle

293

Why Leaders Fail

294

The First 90 Days with Michael Watkins

295

Hiring Great Leaders

296

Third Shift Entrepreneur with Todd Connor

297

Creating Good Habits

298

Hanch's How To's 2.0

299

The Questions You Should Be Asking

300

What Are You Saying

301

Act As If

302

It's YOUR Responsibility

303

Pursuing Success and Entrepreneurship: Tips  from Tippi Toes co-founder and Shark Tank contestant

304

Hanch's How To's

305

Women in Leadership with Aisling MacRunnels

306

Overcoming the Dread of Delegation

307

Tough-Minded Leadership

308

Leadership Lessons From a Naval Commander

309

Bonus Episode: Bravery, Unity, and Other Lessons from 1776

310

Do The Right Thing

311

How Approachable Are You?

312

Visionaries: Step Up!

313

Persistence Wins

314

Demystifying Leadership Presence

315

The Value of Reflection in Leadership

316

Leadership Lessons From a Pandemic

317

Dan Cockerell - Creating Culture in Your Kingdom

318

From Bankruptcy imminent to Profitable and Thriving with Jim Shorkey

319

Leadership Magic with Lee Cockerell

320

Can't Do Versus Won't Do

321

Navigating Criticism

322

Miracle on the Hudson Survivor Dave Sanderson

323

Perspective In Adversity

324

Leading Through Uncertainty

325

Managing Toxic People - Part 2

326

Managing Toxic People - Part 1

327

Habits of a Champion with World Series Champion Dana Cavalea

328

Becoming An Intentional Leader

329

The Value of Journaling with Doug Smith

330

Preventing Burnout with David McGlennen

331

Remote Leadership Best Practices with Gina Michnowicz

332

Creating An Engaged Team

333

What Every New Professional Wants To Know with Austin Armstrong - Part 2

334

What Every New Professional Wants To Know with Austin Armstrong

335

New Year's Resolutions Are Overrated

336

Servant Leadership with Dan Billie

337

Leadership Lessons From A Green Beret

338

7 Common Leadership Mistakes (and what you can do to avoid them)

339

Heather Monahan—Creating Confidence

340

The Dynamics of Mentoring

341

Give Thanks

342

The Art of Storytelling

343

From Obese and Depressed To Fit And Thriving: A Conversation with Nicholas Bayerle

344

From Marine to Entrepreneur with Rich Cardona (Veteran's Day Tribute)

345

Self-Awareness : The Essence of Leadership

346

Think And Grow Rich with Chuck Bolena - Part 2

347

Think And Grow Rich with Chuck Bolena

348

Retaining Top Talent

349

Public Speaking Can Change Your Life

350

Assertive Leadership

351

Listen Up!

352

Leading Without Authority

353

Stop Wasting My Time

354

Navigating Tough Conversations - Part 2

355

Navigating Tough Conversations

356

Becoming The Obvious Choice - Part 2

357

Becoming The Obvious Choice

358

If I Could Turn Back Time...

359

A Message To Young Professionals

360

Accountability vs Micromanagement - Part 2

361

Accountability vs Micromanagement

362

Aspiring To Lead

363

Time Management: Taking Control Of Your Day - Part 2

364

Time Management: Taking Control Of Your Day - Part 1

365

Leading Through Change - Part 2

366

Leading Through Change - Part 1

367

Company Culture with David McGlennen

368

Overcoming Setbacks

369

The Personality Paradox of Leadership--Fine Tuning Your Leadership Through Personality Assessment

370

The Personality Paradox of Leadership--The Business of Personality

371

The Personality Paradox of Leadership--Understanding Personality

372

Dream Killers

373

5 Steps To Becoming A Visionary Leader

374

What Every New Leader Must Know

375

The Pursuit of Success with Jessica Sell

376

Building Your Leadership Brand with Dan Billie

377

Your State of Readiness

378

Leading With Influence--Maximizing Your Leadership Impact

379

Why Everyone Can (And Should) Lead