Building a Diverse Team (Part 1)
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever have trouble gaining the right perspective in your business, your leadership, or your life? When you possess an accurate perspective, you can more easily identify key problems and, more importantly, identify key solutions in your leadership. But perspective isn’t gained alone. You need people on your team who think, look, and act differently than you do. You need diversity on your team.
This week on the Maxwell Leadership Podcast, we begin a new series on building a diverse team. That’s because diversity is an asset to any leader that wants to create powerful, positive change in their organization or community. In part one of this series, John Maxwell shares the barriers that often get in the way of building diverse teams. During the application portion of the episode, Mark Cole and Chris Goede discuss John’s lesson and how the fear of conflict can get in the way of building diverse teams. If you want to build and unleash an all-star team in your organization, you do not want to miss this series.
Our BONUS resource for this series is the “Building a Diverse Team Worksheet,” which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Diverse and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | MUSIC |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the Maxville Leadership Podcast, the podcast that adds value to leaders who multiply |
| 0:22.8 | value to others. |
| 0:24.4 | My name is Mark Cole and we are so glad you're here with us today. |
| 0:29.8 | This week we are beginning a series on building a diverse team. |
| 0:36.3 | Diversity is an asset when it comes to leadership, but most leaders, they're more comfortable |
| 0:42.0 | surrounding themselves with people really that's just like them. |
| 0:46.5 | So in part one, John Maxwell will teach us some of the barriers that get in the way of building |
| 0:52.0 | a diverse team. |
| 0:53.9 | Then next week we'll learn the benefits of building a diverse team. |
| 0:57.9 | So after John's lesson today, my co-host Chris Goody and I will be back to discuss John's |
| 1:03.4 | teaching and offer some application, so be sure to stick around, keep your note pad out. |
| 1:10.4 | Each week we have a bonus resource which is a fill in the blank PDF that accompanies |
| 1:15.5 | John's lesson. |
| 1:17.0 | If you would like to download that resource, please go to maxwillpodcast.com forward slash |
| 1:23.9 | diverse and click the bonus resource button. |
| 1:27.4 | That's it. |
| 1:28.5 | Get ready to be impacted and challenged. |
| 1:31.4 | Now here is John Maxwell. |
| 1:39.6 | For some people, the topic of diversity in the workplace brings to mind awkward and necessary |
| 1:45.0 | hoops that might be jumped through in the name of political correctness or diversity training |
| 1:51.3 | days or quotas. |
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