Candid Conversations: The Meeting Before the Meeting
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this Candid Conversation, John Maxwell and Mark Cole dive into the importance of preparing for important meetings and moments, especially when they're with people who are, as John says, "bigger, better, and faster" than you. John calls this preparation "the meeting before the meeting."
If you and your team want to walk away from meetings with confidence in each other, a clear vision, and the biggest return on your investment possible, this episode will equip you for your next meeting. John shares five strategies to implement in your meeting before the meeting, and he reminds us that the best meetings are paired with preparation on the front end and reflection on the back end.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. Today is another great day with a |
| 0:11.3 | candid conversation with John, John Maxwell. It is good to have a candid conversation with |
| 0:19.3 | you. Thanks for being on today. I love this time together with you Mark and love it with |
| 0:23.2 | our podcast listeners. You know, we're really getting a great response from the people |
| 0:27.4 | on the way. Yeah, we really are. I mean, so many are subscribing and, you know, and our |
| 0:31.8 | following keeps increasing. So it must mean that we're helping people. Well, you are. It's |
| 0:37.1 | kind of your deal. We add value to leaders who multiply value to others. I love that |
| 0:41.0 | purpose statement. It's the purpose statement of all of our companies. And it's the purpose |
| 0:45.2 | behind this podcast. I tell we tell our team all the time, John, make sure that the podcast |
| 0:51.3 | is adding value the day that it doesn't. We get, we get compliments all the time on the |
| 0:54.8 | road. We're in London today. And just last night I had probably a half a dozen people |
| 0:58.7 | come up and thank you and I for the podcast. And my question always, I've learned from |
| 1:03.5 | the best. My question always is is adding value to you. Sure. Because that's what we're |
| 1:07.3 | all about. Hey, we are in London. And I'll talk a little bit about this perhaps later. |
| 1:12.5 | But John, you've made a commitment in your life to help people do things for themselves, |
| 1:19.1 | to help people with things they could not do for themselves, to expose them to things, |
| 1:23.2 | to get them in rooms and in environments that are bigger than them. We talked a little |
| 1:29.3 | bit about them in the last candid conversation. So podcast listeners, what we're doing here |
| 1:33.8 | in London is the first time out of the United States, every, the first week of November, |
| 1:41.0 | every year, we do an event called exchange. And this year we're getting geared up, John, |
| 1:46.3 | I just saw a bunch of people in the lobby of the hotel where you and I are recording |
| 1:49.6 | this podcast. It's getting ready to be on. We've got over 120 business leaders, ministry |
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