The Value of Contextual Leadership
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
No matter what your leadership looks like, the more context you have, the better a leader you are to those around you. In this episode, John Maxwell shares a list of 9 kinds of context that empower you to make your most effective leadership decisions!
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Traci Morrow sit down to have a conversation about what John has shared and give you practical ways to apply it to your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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Leaders must humbly seek information, even if it feels vulnerable.
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Collaboration is so important in learning how to lead and how to make decisions.
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Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:10.2 | We're the podcast that commits ourselves to add value to you so that you will multiply value to others. |
| 0:17.7 | Today I'm joined with Tracy Marl as we co-host an exciting lesson that John is going |
| 0:24.3 | to talk on the value of contextual leadership. Oftentimes in leadership, the why behind the decision |
| 0:34.2 | is as important as the decision itself. But always in leadership empowerment, |
| 0:41.6 | the why is just as important as the what. So today, John Maxwell is going to go through |
| 0:47.5 | contextual leadership and will identify nine ways to give context to a leadership decision. |
| 0:54.8 | I'm really excited because Tracy and I will come back and we'll begin to live that out |
| 0:59.0 | so that it can apply to your life and to your leadership. |
| 1:03.1 | If you would like to download the free bonus resource for this episode |
| 1:07.3 | or you would like to watch this episode on YouTube, |
| 1:10.1 | go to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash |
| 1:14.3 | context now here is john maxwell I want to teach a lesson today that I sure wish somebody would have taught me 25, 30 years ago, |
| 1:30.1 | because it could have really helped me in seeing the big picture. |
| 1:33.9 | It could have helped me in making decisions. |
| 1:36.8 | And so I'm going to teach a lesson called the value of contextual leadership. |
| 1:43.0 | Now, I usually don't like words like contextual. It's kind of a big word, |
| 1:47.0 | and I'm kind of a simple person. I like to kind of break it down. But when Mark and I are talking |
| 1:52.1 | about decision making in our organization, the word context comes up continually. Mark will come to me and he'll give me a scenario of maybe a decision |
| 2:05.3 | that needs to be made and I'll say now, Mark, I need the context on that. And when I'm asking for |
| 2:11.5 | context, I'm really asking for, give me the total picture. Give me all the factors or all may be too strong |
| 2:19.4 | give me most of the factors that I need to know to understand the situation so that I can make |
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