Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. This is the podcast that adds value to you, a leader, so that you'll multiply value to others.

My name is Mark Cole and I'm the CEO of Maxwell Leadership. As you will learn in today's lesson, values determine the foundation of your team. That's true for my team, it's true for your team.

This means that wherever you go, whatever you hope for in your team, your organization, your family, or your community, it all starts with what you value.

In this lesson, John Maxwell will share the vital role values play in our organization. You'll even hear the original values that John used to build his very first business.

Then my co-host Tracy Marrow and I will talk about these values, how they evolved into our values today, and how they serve the organization and the vision of Maxwell Leadership.

If you would like to download our bonus resource for this lesson, which is a free fill in the blank worksheet that accompanies John's lesson, you can find that at MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash values.

Also, if you prefer to watch the video of this podcast, you can do that at MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash YouTube.

Here we go, grab your pen, grab your paper, here is John Maxwell.

Values determine the foundation of the team.

And I define personal value in your notes as something that influences and guides my behavior.

An organization's value is something that influences and guides the team's behavior.

In the laws of teamwork, one of the laws I teach is the law of identity. And the law of identity says shared values define the team.

They define the team, they become the foundation of the team. And values do several things for an organization.

Things such as number one, they're like glue. They hold the organization together.

It's literally the values that you have are the glue that hold you together. Or two, they're a foundation. They provide stability for the company to grow on.

Or three, they're like a ruler. They set the standard for the team's performance. There's a way of measurement that way.

Or a compass number four, they give direction and guidance. Values are like a magnet. They attract like-minded people.

Number six, they're an identity. They define and identify who the team is.

In your notes, I have something for you to just pass special attention to.

If your values are the same as your team's values, you become more valuable.

When I'm asked, and I am asked sometimes about hiring, when I do leadership consulting.

What I'm asked about hiring, one of the things I encourage organizations to do is to very upfront not only understand its values, but in the hiring interview process to flesh out what the values of the person is that you're looking at hiring.

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