John Maxwell, a renowned leadership expert and author of 'The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership,' shares key insights on inspiring communication. He emphasizes the importance of emotional connections, revealing how kindness can uplift others during tough times. Maxwell discusses the power of feelings in communication and highlights the 'three C's': connection, confidence, and challenge. Mark Cole and Chris Goede dive into how effective communication should motivate individuals to take action, stressing the need for clarity in guiding the audience's next steps.
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insights INSIGHT
Feelings Outlast Words
People remember how you make them feel more than what you say or do.
Emotion transfers through the feelings of the communicator, making authentic emotion crucial.
question_answer ANECDOTE
Empathy on the Golf Course
John Maxwell shared a story about encouraging a volunteer berated for mistakenly picking up a golf ball.
He showed empathy and uplifted the volunteer by relating to his own mistakes.
volunteer_activism ADVICE
Feel It Yourself First
Never communicate anything unless you feel it yourself first.
Genuine emotion from the speaker is essential for the audience to feel it too.
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First released in 1993, John C. Maxwell’s now-classic work revolutionized the way leaders are made. This thoroughly revised and updated edition includes two new chapters with leadership insights and practices learned over the decades. The book outlines principles for inspiring, motivating, and influencing others from any leadership position, including business executives, church leaders, teachers, and parents. It covers key areas such as influence using the 5 Levels of Leadership, character through good ethics and self-leadership, service by asking eight questions to serve others daily, and vision by including eight components to paint a vision for your people.
EVERYONE COMMUNICATES, FEW CONNECT
John C. Maxwell
In 'Everyone Communicates, Few Connect', John C. Maxwell provides five principles and five practices to help leaders and individuals build strong relationships and enhance their communication skills. The book emphasizes the importance of genuine interest, simplicity, and authenticity in connecting with others.
Change Your World
How Anyone, Anywhere Can Make a Difference
John C. Maxwell
Rob Hoskins
In this book, John C. Maxwell and Rob Hoskins share their real-world experiences in transforming communities, businesses, and millions of lives. They provide a practical roadmap for identifying your cause, living out values that make a difference, becoming a catalyst for change, joining or recruiting the right team, working together with others, and measuring your impact. The authors emphasize the importance of collaboration, values, and transformation conversations, highlighting the concept of 'transformation tables' where small groups gather to discuss and apply good values to their lives.
Today we finish our two-part series, Communication that Inspires. In this episode, John walks through the last two questions he asks himself to make sure he’s an inspirational communicator. By asking yourself these questions, you can identify growth areas in your own communication, and improve your ability to inspire others.
In the application portion of the episode, Mark Cole and Chris Goede discuss how communication should empower others to act and why pairing communication with application will equip others to act.
Our BONUS resource for this series is the Communication that Inspires Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Inspire and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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