How Leaders Find Common Ground

Maxwell Leadership Podcast

John Maxwell

Business, Leadership, Education, Johnmaxwell

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Today, you’re going to learn how to bridge relational and perspective gaps between you and the people you lead. In this episode, John Maxwell shares one of the principles from his book Leadershift. This principle is called the Communication Shift, which is the shift from directing people to connecting with people. One key component of this shift is the ability to find common ground. This is a tool that has the potential to take your leadership to the next level. You see, we have more in common than we have differences. But somehow, our differences tend to take precedent over our similarities––creating obstacles and ripples at work and in our leadership.

After John’s lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede discuss how they find common ground with those they lead in order to create alignment on their teams. They also share the aspects of this lesson that are most difficult for them, and they challenge you to join them during their growth journeys.

Our BONUS resource for this episode is the “How Leaders Find Common Ground Worksheet,” which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/CommonGround and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Maximum Leadership Podcast. This is the podcast that adds value to leaders
0:22.4	who multiply value to others. My name is Mark Cole and today you're going to learn how
0:27.8	to bridge relational and prospective gaps between you and the people you lead. Are you ready? I know
0:36.2	I am. I don't want these gaps to minimize my effectiveness. In fact, in this episode, John
0:43.2	Maxwell shares one of the principles from his book, Leader Shift. This principle is called the
0:48.8	Communication Shift, which is the shift from directing people to connecting with people. One key
0:55.4	component of this shift is the ability to find a common ground. And I think this tool in and
1:01.6	of itself has the potential to take your leadership to the next level. You see, we have more in
1:07.9	common than we have differences. But sometime our differences tend to take precedent over
1:14.3	similarities. And I don't need to tell you the obstacles and ripples that that can create
1:20.4	between a work relationship and a teammate in our leadership. So I'm excited. This valuable
1:28.4	lesson will impact you and will impact me today. I'm certain that you will be better after
1:36.0	this lesson. But first, if you'd like to download this episode's bonus resource, which is a
1:41.5	fill in the blank PDF that accompanies John's lesson, just go to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash
1:49.0	common ground and click the bonus resource button. You can also watch this episode on YouTube
1:55.0	by visiting Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash YouTube. That's it for now. Here is John C. Maxwell.
2:03.3	The next lesson I want to teach on Leader Shift is shifting from directing to connecting.
2:15.4	And I call this the communication shift. And I love this lesson too because I think that
2:25.7	if I can help you, if I can help you leadership in this area, it's going to be pretty amazing
2:32.0	how much you're going to grow and how much you're going to develop. So let's talk about this.
2:37.0	First of all, this was not a natural shift for me. In fact, of the shifts that I talk about
2:42.7	in leader shifts, almost all of them were not natural. The difference between directing
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