The Communication Shift: Directing to Connecting

Maxwell Leadership Podcast

John Maxwell

Business, Leadership, Education, Johnmaxwell

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We recently released a brand-new digital course called “Leadershift,” where John C. Maxwell teaches on the 11 Essential Changes Every Leader Must Embrace. The Communication Shift is one of those important changes. In fact, it’s so important that we want to share it with you now. This episode includes John’s lesson from the online course, as well as Mark Cole and Richard Chancy walking through how to apply it.

John readily admits that making the communication shift was not a natural one for him. His upbringing, profession, and personality meant he leaned towards being a leader who directed rather than connected. However, he successfully made the shift, and now he shares the seven keys to connecting, as well as the difference it makes in the effectiveness of your leadership and your organization.

Being highly relational requires a great deal of intentionality. One must be intentional to listen, encourage, ask questions, and be generous—all to build authentic connection. Mark Cole and Richard Chancy walk through what it has looked like for them to put John’s advice into practice and make their own shifts from directing to connecting.

Our BONUS resource for this series is The Communication Shift Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes and exercises from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/connect and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”

References:

The Leadershift Online Course

Leadershift by John C. Maxwell

Personality Plus by Florence Littauer

Everyone Communicates, Few Connect by John C. Maxwell

The John Maxwell Online Store

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Richard Chansey with the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast, Buckle Your Seat
0:10.2	Bell.
0:11.2	We've got a great message for you today that comes right out of the Leadership Online
0:15.4	course.
0:16.4	It's called the Communication Shift.
0:18.2	We're going to talk about directing to connecting.
0:21.2	Now, if you want to find out more about Leadership, you can go on over to JohnMaxple.com,
0:25.9	forward slash Leadership.
0:27.5	Also, you're going to want to make sure you download the notes for this message at
0:31.0	Maxwellpodcast.com, forward slash Connect.
0:34.3	And also, there's a link to the Leadership Product on there as well.
0:37.7	Now, get ready.
0:39.0	Here's Dr. John C. Maxx.
0:41.4	The next lesson I want to teach on leader shifting is shifting from directing to connecting.
0:53.7	And I call this the Communication Shift.
0:58.0	Okay?
0:59.0	And I love this lesson, too, because I think that if I can help you, if I can help you
1:05.2	leadership in this area, it's going to be pretty amazing how much you're going to grow
1:10.4	and how much you're going to develop.
1:12.2	So let's talk about this.
1:13.8	First of all, this was not a natural shift for me.
1:17.9	In fact, of the shifts that I talk about in leader shifts, almost all of them were not natural.
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