Healthy communication starts with healthy people.

It feels good to engage with people who:

• Listen well
• Use positive body language
• Ask meaningful questions
• Express genuine interest in others

Highly effective communicators understand how important their engagement with other people is and what an impact it has on their ability to build strong relationships.

Communication is so much more than speaking.

Did you know that the majority of what is being said between people is non-verbal? It’s true. The bulk of communication isn’t verbal at all. Most of what we communicate with each other is conveyed by

• Our body language
• Our facial expressions
• The tone of our voice
• The gestures we use

This makes it important to consider not only what we say, but how we say it. People pick up on discrepancies between what we say and what we convey in other ways. Great communicators integrate the two seamlessly to build better relationships. They understand how important it is to be consistent with the entire message they are sending out.

When our communication style is healthy, we have the ability to be better leaders and better family members. We will also generally have more positive outcomes in all our interactions with others.

Unhealthy communicators tend to

• Create distrust or defensiveness
• Alienate people
• Fail to read non-verbal cues
• Cause strife rather than creating consensus

Though there may not be an intention to derail communication, a lack of self-awareness can prevent creating a meaningful connection. Learning new and better ways to communicate can help

• Build rapport
• Establish authority
• Create trust
• Develop empathy

Each of these characteristics leads to more fulfilling relationships and easier interactions with both business colleagues and friends and family.

There’s always more to learn.

Becoming a better communicator is a life-long pursuit. There is no limit to developing great communication and it can be fun learning new skills and techniques. Begin by developing high-quality

• • Listening skills
  • Non-verbal communication

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  • Interpersonal relationships

   

From there you can dive deeper and further develop your skills. In the end, you’ll have developed a unique communication style all your own that is healthy and effective. You’ll have better outcomes in your career as well as with your family and friends.

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“John Maxwell Team members are people of value who value people and add value to them.”

This past August, Mike and I attended the live International Maxwell Certification event in Orlando, Florida. It was an amazing experience getting to be around such a wonderful group of positive energetic people. 🙂 Here are just a few golden nuggets of wisdom from the event.

• We must value ourselves before we can value others. We cannot give what we do not have.
• Success happens to us. Significance happens through us.
• We teach what we know, but we reproduce who we are.
• Eeyore is the spirit animal of the pessimist.
• Leadership is making decisions based on principles, not on optics.
• If you do nothing, you drift. No one has ever drifted to a desired location.
• We overcome difficult times on the outside by Becoming bigger and better on the inside.
• There are some people on your team who need to be off the bus.
• How we view things is how we do things.
• Don’t hide your light. When you hide your light, you’re keeping it from someone else.
• Hold tightly to purpose and loosely to plans.
• Speak life into the lives of others including the one in the mirror.
• Fear keeps us safe but also keeps us from opportunity.
• Your story is your superpower.
• It’s only over when you choose to quit.
• Spectacular results are always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
• Success happens day by day not in a day.
• You’ve got to get really good at cheering for yourself. Others will cheer for you after you’ve made it.
• To grow as an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with things being done in a way different from how you would do them.
• When we think nothing is happening, something is happening. The effort you put in to grow and develop is never wasted, it is stored.

Celebrating 10 Years of the John Maxwell Team

**Special note: As of March 2022, the John Maxwell Team is now known as the Maxwell Leadership Certified Team.

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