Welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. Today we start a two-part series on half-time adjustment.

I'm going to be joined by my co-host Chris Goady. In this lesson, John says that it's half-time

adjustments that separate the good coaches from the great coaches. In this episode, John will

share four adjustments that leaders need to make to properly lead through the second half of the

year. In today's episode, we're going to hear two of those adjustments and then Chris and I will share with

you our thoughts on how we're doing that in our business. Now, if you would like to download the notes, you can go

to MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash half-time. Click on the bonus resource button and then you will receive the

worksheet. Now, here is John Maxwell. I want to talk to you today about half-time adjustments. In the world of sports,

coaches have a pre-game plan and they basically look at the game that they're going to go into and they kind of

try to figure out what they want to accomplish against the opponent. They said, maybe the first

2012-15 plays, they've got a pre-game plan and pretty much they're going in and saying, this is how we want to

dictate the game. Then the game goes and begins and they play it out and most of the time, although a pre-game plan

is very important, there are surprises. The difference between a good coach and a great coach is not the pre-game plan or

all good coaches do that. It's the half-time adjustments that separate the good from the great coaches. After they play

in a half, they pretty well now know what their opponent is going to do and they now are dealing with more

reality. They go back in and say, we kind of thought this, but that wouldn't happen. Here's what we need to do. The great

coaches just make terrific half-time adjustments. When COVID-19 came to us, it was a big surprise. Nobody had

even had a pre-game plan for this. There was just no plan. We just got smacked upside. They had huge

surprises. All of us, totally unaware, blindsided. Oh my gosh, what's happening here? Now we've been doing this for

a few months. I kind of think that we see things a little bit better, a little bit clearer, more, you know,

a little different, for sure. We're not quite as surprised. I want to talk to you about four half-time

adjustments that I think we need to make as leaders. I'm going to make an observation for observations and I'll make

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