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Manuscripts and Melodies: Why I Started Writing Music at 75 Years Old
The reason I started writing books was to move my message farther than my voice could carry it alone. I’ve always been passionate about adding value to people and helping them bring powerful, positive change to their world. Early in my career, the way I did that was through my speaking. Then one day, I was at lunch with my...
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If I Had to Start Over, Here’s What I’d Do Differently: Deliver the Hard Truth with Kindness
Personal Growth Through Adversity: 3 John Maxwell Quotes I’ve Lived
Unpopular Opinion: Speak Last — 3 Techniques for Active Listening
2 Fundamentals to Help You Win Beyond Work
If Generation Z Had a Perfect Working Environment
7 Leadership Skills to Excel and Influence in Any Role
This Mindset Will Change Your Leadership Forever
The BARS Method: A Simple, Scalable Model for Personal & Professional Success
Living like Jesus: 3 Reasons Christians Should be Leading on the High Road
Momentum: 6 Ways to Leverage the Next Big Trend in Team Development
Solving Puzzles, Not Problems: 5 Strategies for Growth in the Age of Change
5 Ways You Can Shift the Collateral Impact of Your Leadership
What Adversity Taught Me About Resilience
How to Move Forward When You Can’t Move On
5 Strategies for Women Leaders to Harness Resilience and Rebuild Tenacity
I Used to Procrastinate, Then I Learned to Prioritize
The 4 Levels of Growing Your Influence
Escape the Urgency Trap: 6 Ways Leaders Can Stay Focused on What Matters Most
Strength in Numbers: 5 Reasons Strong Leaders Need a Community
Finding Time for Leadership: 5 Ways to Lead Effectively on a Tight Schedule
3 Ways Growth Gives You Hope
The Leader’s Love Quotient: 5 Ways to Improve Your Relational Leadership
Resilience: A Critical Trait for Effective Leadership
Culture Catalysts: Empowering Teams to Transform the Workplace
5 Key Traits of Resilient People
From the Court to Corporate: A Page from a Winning Playbook
Sowing Seeds for Thriving Organizational Growth: Leadership Lessons from the Garden
Delegation Done Right: Strategies for Leading with Impact
Make Time for This Crucial Habit to Become a Better Leader
How Leadership Training Improves Employee Performance
I.N.V.E.S.T. Wisely and Watch Your Business Grow
Developing an Ownership Culture
Benefits of Executive Coaching
The Rule of 100: How I Improved My Life and Leadership with Generative AI
5 Ways Leaders Change Lives for the Better
Unlocking Potential Through Coaching
Leading on the High Road: Building Integrity in an Age of Image
Leading Through Team Tension
Dear Graduate
High Road Leadership Preview: 3 Ways High Road Leaders Keep from Keeping Score
Growth is Essential for a Better Tomorrow
High Road Leadership Preview: The 3 Leadership Roads We Can Take
Character: A Leader’s Most Important Quality
High Road Leadership Preview: The 3 Leadership Roads We Can Take
Why Leaders Should Focus on Improving Their Communication Skills
Celebrating 300 Episodes: 7 Leadership Lessons Learned Producing the Maxwell Leadership Podcast
The Do’s and Don’ts of Problem-Solving for Effective Leadership
Responding to God’s Call: Sinking is Better Than Sitting
Growing Your Leadership Influence: Practical Strategies for Success
6 Ways to Become an Unforgettable Public Speaker
Living Today for Tomorrow: 3 Leadership Practices for Securing Your Legacy
Embracing Transformation: How Executive Leaders Cultivate a Change Mindset
3 Things You Must Overcome Before Achieving Your Life Goals
When to Persevere and When to Let Go
5 Ways to Break the Habit of Procrastination
3 Ways to Fan Your Flame and Avoid Burnout
Embracing Transformation: How Executive Leaders Cultivate a Change Mindset
The 3 Kinds of People that Push You Toward Your Personal Goals
The Beginner’s Mindset: 2 Insights for Daily Leadership Development
5 Ways to Build Your Creative Problem-Solving Skills
5 Things Happy People Do Every Day
Can You Coach Your Team to Become Change Agents?
From Idea to Impact: 6 Steps for Preparing Content for Public Speaking
8 Personal Growth Practices for Protecting Your Self-Worth
3 Steps to Increase Your Capacity for Action
Navigating Change: The Art of Unwavering Leadership
4 Things You Need to Know About Personal Growth
The IF Factor: Turning Adversity into Opportunity
Work Smarter, Not Harder: 6 Tips for Leveraging Strategy
Decisions That Resonate All Year
5 Ways to Build Tenacity and Make Goal Achievement Your Superpower
Maxwell Leadership Guide to New Year’s Resolutions: 4 Exercises for Keeping Commitment Daily
Maxwell Leadership Guide to New Year’s Resolutions: 3 Ways to Master Your Priorities
Ensure Your Best Year Ever
Maxwell Leadership Guide to New Year’s Resolutions: Get Clarity, Get Results
This Christmas, Will You Be Intentional Creating Memories?
Developing an Unwillingness to Accept the Status Quo
Maxwell Leadership Guide to New Year’s Resolutions: 5 Reasons They (Mostly) Fail
The SHARE Framework: How to Use Stories When Public Speaking
Cultivating Gratitude in Leadership: Thanksgiving Reflections on Team Appreciation
3 Ways to Leverage Learning for Your Professional Development
Thanksgiving Gratitude
Personal Development in Practice: A 6-Step for Turning Intention into Action
The Power of Magical Feedback
The 3 Pillars of Team Development Success
One Change I’d Make to Engage Kids Better If I Had to Do It Over Again
How Leaders Make Failure Their Friend
4 Ways to Create Excitement When Public Speaking
A Tool to Foster Better Conversations with Your Kids
Are You Teaching, Telling, or Coaching?
5 Ways a Mentor Should Motivate Your Personal Development
Legendary Brands and the Engine that Runs Them
The 5 Ps That Can Keep Us from Living Out Our Values
How Culture Shapes the Success of Your Business
Your Personal Growth Roadmap: A 5-Step Values Inventory
Is “Insider-itis” Hurting Your Organization?
6 Ways to Help Lead Your Leader
How Are Insider/Outsider Dynamics Killing Engagement on Your Team?
6 Critical Areas of Self-Leadership
Deciding Isn’t Enough: 4 Ways to Become an Action-Oriented Leader
5 Mistakes That Make Life More Difficult (and How to Avoid Them)
A Missing Step in Today’s Parenting Path
Personal Growth Preparation: What’s In Your Toolbox?
Leaders: Stop Assuming Your People Are Doing Okay
3 Key Insights on Learning That Turn Experience into Personal Growth
3 Huge Mistakes We Make When Leading Kids
Instead of Being Happy WHEN, Will You Be Happy WHILE?
4 Ways to Distinguish Yourself as a Leader
How is Student Leadership Morphing for Generation Z?
How Leaders Can Kill a Change Effort
5 Ways Leaders Can Fail Forward
From Apathy to Action: 5 Communication Techniques to Motivate Others to Move
Teaching Kids About their Superpowers
Making the Leap from Boss to Leader
The Thinker’s Advantage: 5 Ways to Improve Your Thought Process
The Problem with Choices for Kids
Humility and Personal Growth: 4 Ways to Stay Teachable
Curiosity: The Miracle Skill for Leaders
If You Want to Grow, Make These 5 Strategic Changes
Assembling a Team of Voices to Reach Your Teens
5 Ways to Change Your World
Assembling a Team of Voices to Reach Your Teens
We Were Peers, but Now I’m Your Boss: 5 Tips for Navigating Relationships When Climbing the Leadership Ladder
5 Ways to Become a More Productive Thinker
A Conversation You Should Have About Grit With Your Teens
From Seeing to Seizing: Key Opportunities and How to Act on Them
3 Ways to Leverage Everything (Even Failure) for Your Personal Growth
How One Mom Kept Her Teen Off Social Media for 6 Years
Improving Communication to Grow Your Reputation as a Leader
The 4-Step Process to Grow Past Any Obstacle
How to Simplify Kids’ Lives Without Making Them Easier
Mapping Your Growth: The 4 Phases of Leadership Development
How to Capitalize on the Younger Generations on Your Team
Is Impatience Sabotaging Your Potential?
Is Your Team Concerned About the (Their) Future?
The Leader’s 5-Step Process for Solving Any Problem
What Parents Should Say as Their Kids Perform
We Are All Going to Die – What Impact Do You Want to Have Before Then?
3 Daily Practices for Living Out Your Values
The Key is to Serve
My Gen Z Wants a Promotion… Now!
If You Want to Master Personal Growth, Make These 3 Changes
7 Reasons Why Some Leaders Don’t Empower Others
The Quality That Separates Success from Significance
Lift Your Lid: The Best Time to Grow is Today
Do Your People Bring You Bad News?
Getting it Done: 4 Ways to Make Personal Growth a Priority
The Difference Maker: 4 Insights for Keeping Up Commitment
Do This Before You Set a Goal
How to Become a High-Character Leader
Reflect and Revise: A 5-Step Process for Personal Growth
7 Ways to Up-Level Your Leadership
7 Questions to Help You Make Your Best Decisions
What to Do Before You Graduate
How Can a Leader Become More Decisive?
These 3 Questions Help You Get the Most Out of Your Best Resource
Corporate Team Leaders: Is This Habit Communicating Distrust to Your Team?
What is Your Message?: The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication and You
The Road Back to Integrity: 5 Ways to Rebuild Trust with Your Team
The Speaker’s Guide to Variety: 4 Ways John Maxwell Pulls in the Audience
Manuscripts and Melodies: Learning to Get Over Myself
Connecting Through Charisma: 3 Ways to Attract Others to Your Message
Are Charismatic Leaders Born or Developed?
The Journey to Expert Communication: John Maxwell’s 4 Stages of Communication Growth
Closing the Chasm Between You and Your Audience
The Best Message and the Big Message: 4 Questions to Help You Prepare to Communicate
Manuscripts and Melodies: Why I Started Writing Music at 75 Years Old
Can Leaders Teach Accountability?
5 Keys to Better Connection with Everyone You Meet
Commentators vs. Communicators: How to Make Sure Your Message Changes Lives
Why Your Culture Isn’t Working as Designed
4 Communication Barriers that Keep Us From Finding Common Ground
The Best Way to Improve Your Communication Skills
Uplevel Your Communication with these 6 Powerful Principles of Persuasion
5 Powerful Communication Lessons to Learn from Coach Sean McDermott After the Damar Hamlin Crisis
The 4 Prerequisites for Leadership Excellence
4 Keys to Communicating One-on-One, in a Group, or Onstage
5 Steps for Connecting with Others
Breaking Through Barriers: Battling Our Fears to Connect With Others
5 Ways to Make Your Communication More Powerful by Keeping it Uncomplicated
When You Have Something Hard to Say, But You Just Can’t Say It
How to Keep Your Star Performers Away from the Transfer Portal
The Lost Art of Listening: 7 Ways to Improve Your Retention, Rapport, and Relationships
Asking Big: Communicating Big Needs FOR Big Dreams
Connecting Visually: How to Communicate More Effectively Without Changing What You Say
Corporate Truth on the Table
How to Lead a Team in a Matrix Organization
Communicating Credibility: 3 Factors That Make People Listen
7 Steps to Get Your Point Across
The Gateway to Communication: 3 Questions Everyone is Asking About You
Commit to Your Values, Not Resolutions
Be Honest With Yourself
How Leaders Help Themselves and Others Overcome Imposter Syndrome
4 Keys for Communicating to a Crowd
The Difference Between Managing and Leading
Louder Than Words: 3 Things Your Character Communicates About You
Chick-fil-A’s VP Dan Cathy: 3 Reasons to Give it Your All
Setting Yourself Up for Reading Success
From Want to Won: 3 Differences Between Those Who Hold Themselves Accountable and Those Who Don’t
4 Everyday Ways to Positively Influence Others
3 Qualities of Effective, Big-Picture Leaders
Take Initiative!
Process, Not Just Results
5 Ways to Foster a Personal Growth Culture by Valuing Others
You Are the Company You Keep: 6 Growth-Minded Changes to Make to Your Environment
5 Areas of Personal Growth Where You Should Be the Expert
Do I Have a Future Here?
5 Strategic Steps to Securing Your Dream
4 Ways to Intentionally Win With People
4 Things Condoleezza Rice Says Make or Break a Team
5 Thoughts on How to Treat Your Productivity Paranoia
5 “Downhill” Habits and How to Defeat Them
The Huddle – A Leadership Lesson From Football
The Difference Between Accidental Growth and Intentional Growth
Lessons Learned 2 Years Into Change
Stop Wishing Things Were Easier
8 Growth Myths – Debunked
How to Develop Growth-Friendly Habits
The Key to Success: Understanding Your Passion
5 Experiences We Must Offer to the Next Generation
Are You Trusted as Much as You Think You Are?
6 Steps to Successful Personal Change
3 Questions to Guide Your Strategic Thinking
Seeing Potential in Others
6 Qualities of a Successful System
9 Pieces of Advice I Want to Offer to Generation Z
5 Questions to Help You Grow Others as You Grow
Can You Really Make Time For That?
Personal Growth and Your Own Comfort Zone
7 Subtle Mistakes Leaders Make
3 Insights Learned in Relentless Pursuit of a Dream
10 Characteristics of a Growth Environment
You Want Feedback… NOW?
The 6 Steps of an Intentional Growth Plan
How to Reframe Your Vision to Capture People’s Imagination
5 Areas of Personal Growth That Lead to a Life of Significance
Change-Makers Create Powerful, Positive Change
The Waiting Room: How A Pause Can Fuel Your Personal Growth
5 Leadership Development Questions to Ask Before Giving Feedback in Public
How to Choose Significance Over Self in Your Leadership Development Journey
8 Reasons Why Now’s the Right Time to Develop Young Leaders
3 Ways to Develop Your Influence as a Coach
Intentional Personal Growth: 4 Ways to Take Your Next Best Step Toward a Life of Significance
Leading With Integrity, and the Tests You Will Face
Overcoming the Leadership Development Myths We Tell Ourselves About Success
Beyond Success: 3 Personal Growth Questions to Help You Pursue a Life of Significance
How Can a Leader Make People Like Them, and Should They?
Goal vs. Growth Mindsets: How to Avoid a Personal Growth and Development Plateau
Failing Forward: How a Personal Growth Plan Helps You Make the Most of Your Mistakes
5 Leader Lessons from the Craziest Kentucky Derby Ever
Growing Past Good Enough: 4 Ways to Keep Your Personal Growth Goals on Track
The Leadership Development Freedoms That Pave the Way for Progress
From Dreams to Success: Turning Your Goals into a Personal Growth Journey
The Power of Storytelling in Leadership Communication
Executive Coaching: The Character Choices Every Leader Makes
Leadership Development Skills: Communication That Inspires Action
Leadership Development Goals: Communicating Your Vision to Achieve Your Dreams
Executive Coaching Tips: 10 Ways to Handle Confrontation
3 Inclusive Communication Habits Every Leader Should Adopt
5 Experiences of Personal Growth to Offer the Next Generation
Confronting Leadership Challenges in a Post-Pandemic World
Effective Communication Skills: Are You Connecting or Just Impressing?
3 Questions to Ask Before Making a Career Change
Communicating Effectively: Is Your Communication Style Working For or Against You?
The 5 Characteristics of Communication That Connects
Communicating with Clarity – A Leadership Development Game Changer
The Power of Relationships in Personal Growth and Development
5 Leadership Development Tips for Delivering Results – Whether or Not You’re a People Person
The Attitude Factor of Personal Growth and Its Impact on Your Success
Leadership Development That Grows More Leaders, Not Followers
Corporate Leadership Skills: 10 Character Traits of High-Influence Leaders
Executive Coaching: The High Calling of Leadership
Leadership Development Lessons That Stand the Test of Time
3 Effective Communication Skills to Influence and Inspire
The Leadership Development Role Leaders Play in the Story of Their Team
Leadership Coaching – 4 Inspiring Ways to Regain and Maintain Your Motivation
7 Leadership Development Questions to Improve Team Performance
Executive Leadership Coaching: 4 Ways to Increase Your Influence
Leadership Coaching – The Millennial In The Middle
C.L.E.A.R. – Your Personal Growth Plan for the Leader in You
Three Ways Small Wins Can Lead to Big Successes
Start Building Your “Someday” Business Today!
5 Ways to Increase Your Confidence as a Leader
The Three Types of Mentors Every Person Needs to Become Successful
John C. Maxwell’s Legacy Continues as Successor, Mark Cole, Rebrands the Company
One Is Too Small A Number To Achieve Greatness
Four Steps To Lifting The Lid On Your Potential
The Power of Significance and Leading with Hope
Introducing Maxwell Leadership®: One Brand, One Goal
What Are the Key Differences Between Leadership vs Management?
