Questions to Ask the Leader in the Mirror
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In leadership, it’s important to take a step back and ask a few key questions that will help you reflect on where you’ve been and then look forward to what’s next. That’s exactly what we’re talking about in this week’s episode! John C. Maxwell shares key questions that every leader must ask themselves when it comes to their life and leadership in order to assess performance, acknowledge gaps, and stay on track with where they want to go. After John’s lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede discuss valuable takeaways that you can apply to your leadership as well.
Key takeaways:
- “There comes a point in your career when the best way to figure out how you’re doing is to step back and ask yourself a few questions. Having all the answers is less important than knowing what to ask.” — Robert S. Kaplan
- It’s impossible to have your priorities correct or your passion intact if you don’t clearly see your dream.
- The better you know yourself and the truer you are to yourself, the greater your success.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Questions to Ask the Leader in the Mirror Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Mirror and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. Our goal with this, with this next 30 to 35 minutes, is to add value |
| 0:16.2 | to you, a leader, because we know you'll multiply value to others. My name is Mark Cole, |
| 0:22.1 | and today's episode John is going to share a few |
| 0:26.2 | important questions that all leaders, every one of us, should make sure to step |
| 0:31.4 | back and ask ourselves at different points in our leadership journey. |
| 0:36.0 | Now after John is done teaching, I'll be joined by Chris Gody to discuss how we can apply John's |
| 0:41.7 | lessons to our life and to our leadership. |
| 0:44.8 | I'm excited for you today to sit down with me and listen and learn from John Maxwell. |
| 0:50.9 | Now, if you would like to watch this podcast on YouTube when you want to |
| 0:55.6 | download the bonus resource you can go to Maxwell Podcast.com forward slash |
| 1:01.9 | mirror and you'll see a bunch of bonus resources there the link to watch |
| 1:06.9 | as well as the bonus resource hey here we go here is John Maxwell. Robert S Kaplan said, |
| 1:17.0 | there comes a point in your career |
| 1:22.0 | when the best way to figure out how you're doing is to step back and ask yourself a few questions. |
| 1:28.0 | Having all the answers is less important than knowing what to ask. To assess your performance and my |
| 1:35.8 | performance and stay on track I would encourage you to step back and ask yourself these key questions. The first question deals with vision and |
| 1:49.1 | priorities. What do I see and how am I going to make it happen? |
| 1:57.0 | What's out in front of me? |
| 1:59.0 | What's important today to make sure I achieve what's out in front of me. |
| 2:04.8 | Let's go to your notes. |
| 2:06.8 | In the press of day-to-day activities, leaders often fail to adequately communicate their |
| 2:11.0 | vision to the organization, in particular they don't |
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