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To us, a champion is not just the singular winner; it’s not the one that has the highest rank or score. A champion is someone who is taking action in the world that is taking good care of other people. Now, in the world of business, that’s called creating value. So, if you take action to create value for someone else and they’re a customer, they’re going to pay for it. If you take action to create value for a colleague inside of an organization, they’re going to appreciate it, and that’s going to boost your reputation and that’s kind of the pathway to leadership.

So, I think what’s important is to recognize that a champion is somebody who looks at a situation. You look at someone, whether it’s a customer, a colleague, a community, a company, an industry, a government, a city, and you think to yourself, what is the action that I could take that would create value for someone else? Who is that other person that I’m serving? That’s what we call service. And then of course, you don’t you’re not doing that and counting what am I going to get back? You will get back. We know that life comes around, life goes around, we’re all connected to each other.

So, the champion is the person who looks at a situation not selfishly, who says what can I get out of it, not complainingly, this isn’t fair. It’s the woman or whomever it is who says, I see the situation, I see what’s needed, I see what’s wanted, what would be valued, what would contribute to the well-being of those people, and then I go create. What action can I take? What’s the next action that I could take? How could I engage other people in helping me to take that action to create more value for the people we serve – that is an uplifting champion.