Maxwell Leadership Podcast Questions to Ask When Developing Leaders
Motivation-Based Leadership
- Understand your team's motivations by asking "What keeps you in the game?".
- Lead individuals based on their unique motivations, not your own.
Strength-Based Development
- Identify team members' strengths by asking about their number one strength.
- Develop leaders by focusing on their strengths, not weaknesses.
Improving Teamwork
- Improve teamwork by asking, "How can we work better together?".
- This question encourages feedback and improves collaboration.
There are a few key questions that John Maxwell asks when he’s beginning to develop leaders, and he’s sharing them with you in this episode! You can ask them of yourself to develop yourself as a leader, and then you can ask them of your people to develop them as well.
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede talk about these questions and help you to apply them to your own life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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Whatever you do well, that’s where you’re going to get your return.
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Awareness is an important asset in improving your game.
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So many times, people are working hard, but they have the wrong resources, so you want to find that out for them.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Questions to Ask When Developing Leaders Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/DevelopLeaders and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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