Discover Your Working Genius with Patrick Lencioni
Release Date: 09/16/2022
What You Focus On Expands (Part 2)
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
If what you focus on expands and what you put behind you shrinks, your focus impacts the trajectory of your leadership. This week, we’re continuing our two-part series where John Maxwell shares 4 things that you should focus on! After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Robinson discuss John’s insights and give you practical ways that you can apply them to your life and leadership. Key takeaways: Take action on things that are worthwhile. The main difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do. Don’t allow others to control...
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What You Focus on Expands (Part 1)
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
If what you focus on expands and what you put behind you shrinks, what should you be focusing on in your leadership? This week, we’re starting a two-part series where John Maxwell answers this question and gives you 4 things that you need to put in front of you! After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Robinson discuss what John has shared and offer you practical advice for how you can apply it to your life and leadership. Key takeaways: Spend time with the right people. You equip people off of strengths; you counsel people off of weaknesses. ...
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The Value of Contextual Leadership
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
No matter what your leadership looks like, the more context you have, the better a leader you are to those around you. In this episode, John Maxwell shares a list of 9 kinds of context that empower you to make your most effective leadership decisions! After his lesson, Mark Cole and Traci Morrow sit down to have a conversation about what John has shared and give you practical ways to apply it to your life and leadership. Key takeaways: Leaders must humbly seek information, even if it feels vulnerable. Collaboration is so important in learning how to lead...
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How to Close the Thinking Gap
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
If the greatest gap between successful and unsuccessful people is the thinking gap, how can you close it? In this episode, John Maxwell is sharing the key to shrinking the distance between where you are and where you want to be! After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede sit down to talk about what John has shared and offer you practical application for your own life and leadership. Key takeaways: The most effective leaders give themselves permission to think about what’s possible, not just what’s probable. If I think that there is an answer, I’ll...
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*Never* Hire Your Friends
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
If you want to love the people you work with and lead them effectively, build a community of friendship in the workplace. In this bonus episode of the Maxwell Leadership Podcast, Mark Cole is joined by special guest Marcylle Combs to discuss her brand-new book, Never Hire Your Friends! Key takeaways: Too many people say that humility is a weakness and not a strength. Speak honesty with kindness, especially when it’s going to hurt. Having fun with your team isn't just a nice idea — it's serious business. Our BONUS resource for this...
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Turn Bad into Better: How to Grow From Tough Experiences
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
How can you take something bad and make it better? In today’s episode, John C. Maxwell answers this question and shares a lesson on how you can grow from tough experiences! After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Robinson sit down to discuss what John shared and give you practical ways to apply it to your life and leadership. Key takeaways: Be intentional in your personal time to do something that will make you better. People need encouragement and added value more during difficult times than in any other time. What action will I take to improve...
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How to Be a Relatable Leader
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
The greatest way to identify with other people is to say, “I know what you’re going through.” In today’s episode, John C. Maxwell is sharing a lesson on how you can be a relatable leader for the people around you! After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede sit down to have a conversation on what John has shared, as well as offer you practical leadership wisdom and application. Key takeaways: Adversity makes you relatable to others. Success and failure are not opposites. Wisdom always comes out of crisis. Our BONUS resource...
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The Art of Leading Complicated People (Including Yourself) with Ryan Leak
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
In life and in leadership, you’ll meet complicated people. How do you work with them? Do you change them? Challenge them? Ignore them? Or is there a better way to approach them? In today’s episode, Mark Cole and Jared Cagle are joined by Ryan Leak for a special look at his new book, How to Work with Complicated People! Key takeaways: Focus on influencing and serving your people rather than controlling them. On the other side of each and every one of us is complexity. The best leaders humbly examine themselves first. Our BONUS resource for this...
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Adjust Your Way to Victory
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
The most effective coaches make powerful halftime adjustments. In this episode, John C. Maxwell explains the power of adaptability and how you can leverage it to adjust your way to victory! After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Robinson have a conversation about what John has shared and offer you practical ways to apply what you’ve learned to your life and leadership. Key takeaways: You have to get a result in order to change a result. There’s a profound difference between conformity and adaptability. Adaptability is adjusting not out...
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Building the Business You Love with Dave Ramsey
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
We have a special episode this week on the Maxwell Leadership Podcast! Mark Cole is joined by personal finance expert, best-selling author, and CEO of Ramsey Solutions, Dave Ramsey. In this episode, they discuss Dave’s latest book, Build a Business You Love, and walk through the 5 stages of business growth. Key takeaways: Time management is one of the ways you level up. The people you put your DNA in define your success. Don't wait until it's too late to ensure your business can thrive without you. Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Building...
info_outlinePodcast family, the way you think about your own leadership strengths and abilities is about to change! That’s because in today’s episode, Mark Cole is joined by his and John’s long-time friend Patrick Lencioni. Pat is one of the founders of The Table Group and is the pioneer of the organizational health movement. He is the author of 12 books, which have sold over 7 million copies, and have been translated into more than 30 languages.
As President of the Table Group, Pat spends his time speaking and writing about leadership, teamwork, and organizational health and consulting with executives and their teams. We can say personally, our team at Maxwell Leadership is better because of Pat and the rest of our friends at The Table Group.
In this episode Pat shares about his new book The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team, which releases at the end of September. This book is a companion to the impactful assessment Pat and his team created last year, The 6 Types of Working Genius. If you want to understand yourself and your team better in order to be healthier and more efficient, be sure to pre-order The 6 Types of Working Genius, and take the assessment!
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References:
The 6 Types of Working Genius Book
The 6 Types of Working Genius Assessment