What Your Dream Team Should Look Like
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
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šļø 27 May 2026
ā±ļø 40 minutes
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Summary
Myth: Leaders need to be balanced. Fact: Together, you and your team can be balanced. In this week's episode, John Maxwell reveals why the dream teamĀ isn'tĀ about perfection in individuals, but about creating collective balance through diversity of skills, passion, and perspective.
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede dig into high-level strategy for building a team where everyone's strengthsĀ thriveĀ and the leader's vision multiplies.
Key takeaways:Ā
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A balanced team is built on diverse strengthsāno single leader can or should do it all alone.
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Exceptional leaders replace assumptions with curiosity, listeningĀ and learning from their team before leading.Ā
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The most successful teams are intentionally shaped through shared values, growth, and a genuine commitment to multiplying each other's impact.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the What Your Dream Team Should Look Like Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visitingĀ MaxwellPodcast.com/DreamTeamĀ and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."Ā Ā
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome everybody to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | And when I say everybody, some of you have literally listened to all 400 plus episodes. |
| 0:17.5 | You're like a junkie. |
| 0:19.5 | You keep listening, hanging in there saying, as Mark and Chris |
| 0:21.8 | Godi are going to ever get good? Then others of you are brand new to this or you just start at the |
| 0:25.9 | beginning of this year, no matter where you are on that spectrum of podcast engagement. We're so |
| 0:31.4 | glad that you're here. In fact, today, I'm so glad you're here because I want you to think not |
| 0:36.5 | just as a podcast listener, but I want you to think about like a podcast team member. |
| 0:43.5 | Because today we're going to talk about what your dream team should look like. |
| 0:48.0 | And I got to tell you, you're our dream team because we're a podcast that adds value to you with the expectation you'll go multiply value to |
| 0:56.1 | others. That's the ultimate dream team for a podcast, is we add value to you and you go do something |
| 1:01.3 | with it. I'm so excited. John makes a statement, I can't wait to get to it. John makes a statement |
| 1:06.2 | that says, there's no such thing as a balanced leader. Can somebody say that's right? |
| 1:13.5 | But he says, you can as a balanced leader. Can somebody say that's right? But he says you can have a balanced team. And then he spends today several minutes talking to us about how to develop, how to |
| 1:21.5 | create, and how to expect a balanced team. So stay tuned. John is coming. By the way, if you'd like to watch this podcast, |
| 1:29.2 | if you'd like to download a bonus resource we've created for you to take notes and just kind of |
| 1:33.9 | capture this, you can find all of that at Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash dream team. |
| 1:40.9 | We'll probably make that worth your while and just something you want to do by adding stuff in throughout the show today. You can go to Maxwell Podcast. Again, Maxwellpodcast.com |
| 1:49.5 | forward slash dream team. Hey, grab the pen, grab the paper. Here is John Maxwell. There's no such thing as a balanced leader, |
| 2:01.6 | but there is such a thing as a balanced team. |
| 2:05.6 | But there is such a thing as a balanced team. |
| 2:10.6 | People are asking me about balance all the time. |
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