Leading Difficult Personalities
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
As a leader, your people are your greatest asset. But, as you well know, people can also be your greatest frustration. Today, we’re going to talk about how to lead difficult personalities successfully. Anyone who’s led a difficult person knows how frustrating and draining it can be. You also know that leading them successfully is easier said than done.
So, when John Maxwell is done with his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede join to offer some application they’ve learned throughout their own leadership experiences so that you can apply these principles to your own life as a leader. After you hear this episode, you be a little more equipped to deal with the difficult personalities you lead.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the “Leading Difficult Personalities Worksheet,” which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Personality and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey podcast listeners, Mark Cole here on the CEO of Maxville Leadership and I would like |
| 0:22.2 | to welcome you to the Maxville Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:26.9 | This is the podcast that adds value to leaders who multiply value to others. |
| 0:32.7 | Did you know that one of the greatest assets to mine and your leadership is the people |
| 0:38.2 | we lead? |
| 0:39.7 | Did you also know that one of the most frustrating aspects of mine and your leadership is the |
| 0:45.5 | people we lead? |
| 0:46.9 | See, today we're going to talk about how to lead difficult personalities successfully. |
| 0:54.8 | Someone who's led a difficult person, you know how frustrating, how draining that can |
| 0:59.7 | be to us. |
| 1:01.3 | You also know that leading them successfully is easier said than done. |
| 1:06.5 | So when John Maxwell is done with this lesson today, I'll be back with one of my most |
| 1:12.0 | difficult, I'm just kidding, I'll be back with my co-host Chris Cody to offer some |
| 1:17.6 | application that we've learned throughout our own leadership experiences. |
| 1:22.6 | That way you and I can apply these principles today to our leadership. |
| 1:28.4 | We can add value to our life and to the life of those difficult leaders around us. |
| 1:34.8 | Every week we provide a bonus resource which is a fill in the blank worksheet that accompanies |
| 1:40.2 | John's lesson. |
| 1:41.6 | If you'd like to access that PDF please visit maxwellpodcast.com forward slash personality |
| 1:49.9 | and click the bonus resource button. |
| 1:51.8 | Hey, if you're listening to the podcast today, you may not know this but we now have the |
| 1:56.6 | video version of the Maxwell podcast. |
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