Leadership Expectations
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Many leaders inadvertently let external factors influence their lives. But, when we align our personal expectations for ourselves and others, we chart a course toward realizing the life we've envisioned. In this episode, John Maxwell shares insights on the crucial topic of expectations. Following John's lesson, Mark Cole and Traci Morrow provide practical strategies for you to implement these principles in your life and leadership.
Key Takeaways:
- Your life must be influenced by your expectations, not your experience.
- Great leaders set high expectations for themselves and others.
- Great leaders communicate clearly how those expectations look.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the “Leadership Expectations Worksheet,” which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Expectations and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
References:
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Intentional Living by John C. Maxwell
Relevant Episode: A Leadership Attitude Adjustment
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to your Maxwell Leadership Podcast. This is a podcast where we really have committed |
| 0:25.5 | ourselves to add value to you because we see you as a leader who can multiply value to others. |
| 0:32.7 | My name is Mark Cole and today my friend your friend John Maxwell is going to share some insights |
| 0:40.7 | on something I have observed within him for the last 23 years. He's going to talk about the |
| 0:47.1 | crucial topic of expectations. Many leaders inadvertently let external factors influence their |
| 0:56.3 | lives. Yet when we align our personal expectations for ourselves and others we chart a course |
| 1:06.1 | toward realizing the life maybe that we should have envisioned all along. |
| 1:11.7 | Following John's lesson today I'll be joined by my friend Tracy Morrow and together we'll |
| 1:17.5 | provide practical strategies for you to implement these principles the principles that John has |
| 1:24.0 | implemented in his life. We want you to implement these principles into your life and into your |
| 1:29.8 | leadership. If you prefer to watch this episode on YouTube or you would like to access our bonus |
| 1:37.9 | resource for this lesson visit MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash expectations and let's begin to |
| 1:47.9 | expect ourselves to live out the life we envisioned. Now let's go grab your pen grab your paper |
| 1:55.9 | let's dive into the wisdom of John Maxwell. I want to talk to you today about leadership |
| 2:01.5 | expectations and I've been looking forward to doing this lesson and if you'll allow me as an |
| 2:07.3 | introduction to this lesson what I want to do is I want to do a little reading from the first book |
| 2:13.5 | that I ever wrote. Think on these things was the first book that I ever wrote it back in 1979 |
| 2:21.4 | and in the book I talk about my friend Joe Sawyer who many years ago many years ago told me a |
| 2:25.2 | cute story about a boy who is fishing and he was in a kind of a farm pond and interestingly enough |
| 2:31.4 | on the other side of the pond was kind of an older veteran fisherman and with great interest he |
| 2:35.5 | watched this kid who would you know throw out his line and he catch these fish he just kept catching |
| 2:40.5 | fish and as soon as he catch when he kind of look at it and it was a big fish he threw it back in the |
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