How to Solve Problems (Part 1)
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Being an effective problem solver can equip you to removing the barriers that stand in your way of changing your world. This week on The John Maxwell Leadership Podcast, we're beginning a new series on problem-solving effectively. In part one, John shares nine observations about the nature of problems and problem-solving. In part two, he teaches us the seven R's of effective problem-solving.
During the application portion of part one, Mark Cole and Jason Brooks discuss their own thoughts on problem-solving, the importance of identifying options, and the roles that hope, optimism, and pessimism can play in solving problems.
Our BONUS resource for this series is the How to Solve Problems Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Solve and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
References:
Change Your World by John C. Maxwell
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast or maybe welcome for the first time. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm glad you're here. |
| 0:13.0 | My name is Mark Cole and I am the co-host to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast and today |
| 0:19.2 | I am very excited because today we're going to go back to an environment where John talked |
| 0:25.5 | on the subject of problem solving. How do we as leaders solve problems? I'm reminded |
| 0:32.7 | of a podcast episode we had with Carly Furena. Now if you haven't heard that you need to go |
| 0:37.9 | back into our archives because that podcast was incredible. One of the things that she |
| 0:43.0 | said in that podcast she said, I define leadership as the ability to solve problems. If you can |
| 0:50.1 | solve problems you are making a way for a leadership path for yourself and for the impact |
| 0:56.7 | of others. I think Carly was right and it is because of that I want to bring to you two |
| 1:03.8 | weeks of John Maxwell speaking on problem solving. Part one this week will be John giving |
| 1:11.0 | you nine observations about problems and problem solving. Next week looking forward we |
| 1:18.5 | will invite you back to seven ways to effectively solve problems. It's going to be two weeks |
| 1:26.9 | of incredible opportunity for you to learn to be a better leader as Carly Furena says. |
| 1:34.0 | Now this is important to us because we're right now as a brand. John Maxwell's brand is |
| 1:39.8 | trying to solve the problem of a lack of values based leadership. We're calling that |
| 1:45.5 | change your world. It's a book that John released a couple of months ago we've done several |
| 1:50.3 | podcasts on it but we're truly as the John Maxwell Enterprise trying to solve the problem |
| 1:57.1 | of a lack of values based people centered servant leadership. We invite you into that. In |
| 2:03.4 | fact if you would like more information go to changeyourworld.com and you'll be able to |
| 2:08.3 | take that journey with us. Now enough about our problem of changing the world, enough |
| 2:14.6 | about my problems. Let's hear John today in part one give us nine observations about |
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