Welcome to the John Maxill Leadership Podcast. My name is Mark Cole and we are committed

to growing you, growing your leadership, growing your team. That's really good because that

is what today and next week podcast is all about. Building a team environment, one that

is focused on growth and improving and producing well. In fact, John recently did a talk about

building a team environment. It's so good that today my co-host Tracy Morrill and I are going to

break up this talk into two parts. This week we'll talk about building a team environment,

we'll give you five points on how John has built teams that last. Next week we'll pick up part two

and it'll be another five points that John will share with you. Now you've probably heard this

said before, one is too small of a number to achieve greatness. In other words, if you're going to

accomplish anything of significance, we need a team around us. In this series, John is teaching how

to build a team environment that will win and win and win again. He teaches us the ten questions

leaders must ask themselves in order to assess whether or not they're building a winning team environment.

So today I want to challenge you, go to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash team, download the show notes,

follow along as John begins to teach us the first five of these ten questions. Then join Tracy and

I after John is teaching and we will give you some application of how we apply these in John Maxwell's

organizations today. We'll talk to you soon for now. Listen to John Maxwell.

In the last three months, I've had two experiences that kind of motivated me to do a lesson on how

do you develop a team environment that is conducive to winning. One is I have the privilege. I'm asking

every year, I don't do it every year, but I had the privilege this year to speak for over 200

coaches at the NCAA Final Four. I always love that time because I love spending time with coaches

and getting to meet them and talk about their teams. In this setting, speaking to these coaches,

Billy Donovan, who of course coached the NCAA Champion in basketball this year at Florida,

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