The Leading Edge

By Sue Gibbs, a certified John Maxwell Team coach, speaker, and trainer. I frequently joke with my husband that I promise to use my super powers only for good and never for evil. The same should hold true for social media, but sadly that is seldom the case. That is why I get so excited…

By Randy Wheeler, a certified John Maxwell Team coach, speaker, and trainer. Each of us has been led by someone. As children we did not internalize the words that our parents said as much as the character they exemplified. If you’re a parent you know the reality of that thought. We learn from an early…

By Heather Manzano, a certified John Maxwell Team coach, speaker, and trainer. Think about this for a moment: What do you believe about generosity? How does it present itself in your life? Does it show up as a feeling? Is it a state of doing or being? Is it a “pay it forward” to someone…

By Mitch Tublin, a certified John Maxwell Team coach, speaker, and trainer. Many often wonder how it is possible for everyone to be a leader. After all, if everyone is a leader and a leader needs followers, then who are the followers? Everyone leads and follows at the same time! For example, consider the captain…

By Amy Malay, a certified John Maxwell Team coach, speaker, and trainer. When I was almost 19, I became a big sister for the fourth time. Within a few minutes of my baby sister’s birth, the doctors and nurses and my parents realized that Rachael had a little something extra: an extra chromosome on her…

By Dr. Andrea Bowens-Jones, a certified John Maxwell Team coach, speaker, and trainer. A few years back, my husband turned his passion for basketball into an opportunity to coach a high school girls’ basketball team. Although he had the practical knowledge and mechanics of the game, the skeptical group of girls didn’t automatically follow him.…

By Karen Aloy, a certified John Maxwell Team coach, speaker, and trainer. Historically, coaching was understood as a sports-oriented career. If you Google “great coaches”, names like Vince Lombardi, John Wooden, Phil Jackson, and Tom Landry appear. I’ve always believed that a coach knew more than any student they were training and they probably knew…

By Michael Todd Bauer, certified John Maxwell Team coach, speaker, and trainer John was a Vice President of Finance with years of exceptional vision and achievement working in a small firm, until about six months ago, when the organization made another leap in growth and his responsibilities doubled. He could produce results while his department…

By Jack Henshaw, certified John Maxwell Team coach, speaker, and trainer. “Coach” is a word used broadly in today’s world. Coaching is simple, it’s just not easy. I learned what coaching is, and what it’s not, from the John Maxwell Team. I believe so much in coaching because I’ve been on both sides. I’ve seen…