Great Leaders Value All People
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
It's easy to value people you like. But as a leader, affirming people's worth isn't an option — even if you don't see eye to eye. In this week's episode, John Maxwell is sharing 4 practical ways you can develop the all-important skill of uplifting and valuing others!
After John's lesson, Mark Cole challenges you with 3 others-focused tasks to complete in the week to come so that you can apply this principle in your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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High road leaders value all people equally, even those different from them.
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Valuing people yields relational, emotional, and leadership returns.
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Valuing people is an intentional action, not a feeling.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Great Leaders Value All People Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/ValueAllPeople and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | My name is Mark Cole, and around here we make this statement all the time. |
| 0:14.0 | We are people of value that value people and add value to them. |
| 0:19.0 | It's what drives this podcast. This is a podcast that adds value to you, |
| 0:23.7 | so you will go multiply value to others. So today, when I tell you the title of our podcast, this episode |
| 0:32.9 | is all about realizing that great leaders value all people. We talk a lot about values around here, |
| 0:42.2 | but today we're going to talk about valuing all people. And so I want to challenge you. |
| 0:47.9 | John wrote a book recently called the High Road Leadership book. And in that book, we talk about valuing people. In fact, we realize you can't |
| 0:57.7 | pick and choose who you value, but you can decide you want to value all people. And so I want you to |
| 1:06.7 | grab a pen, grab a piece of paper. John's going to share with you today how you can make it a |
| 1:12.8 | discipline, an intentional discipline to value all people. If you would like to follow along with |
| 1:19.4 | our show notes, you can go to Maxwell Podcast.com forward slash value all people. And there you will |
| 1:27.2 | also find other episodes that will highlight in today's |
| 1:30.3 | episode. You'll find some tools, resources that will help you. We've got a couple of things we'll |
| 1:35.1 | add in there that'll be discounts for you along the way. And finally, you'll be able to watch us on |
| 1:40.2 | YouTube if you would like to follow along visually today. Hey, thanks for joining us. Here is John. |
| 1:46.4 | I'll be back shortly to talk about valuing all people. If you want to become the best leader |
| 1:59.2 | you can be, you need to learn how to lead people on the high road. |
| 2:03.6 | Now, how can you do that? |
| 2:05.6 | Start by valuing all people. |
| 2:08.6 | Here's what that means. |
| 2:11.6 | Embrace the value of all people. |
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