Week 1: Defining Leadership: Influence Beyond a Title
Podcast: Maxwell Leadership Podcast
Episode: “The 5 Levels of Leadership”
Description: In this episode, John teaches one of his best-known leadership paradigms, The 5 Levels of Leadership. John walks through each of the 5 Levels and discusses their key characteristics, the qualifying factors required to reach each level, and how the levels build upon one another.
Discussion Questions:
- Which of the 5 Levels of Leadership most describes where you are today and why?
- What would it look like for you to move up one level in your current leadership context?
- How does Maxwell’s definition of leadership as influence challenge how you think about titles and authority?
Required Reading:
Developing the Leader Within You 2.0 by John Maxwell
LESSON 1 | The Definition of Leadership: Influence
- Maxwell defines leadership as influence. Where do you see that principle most clearly in your life or ministry context?
- Where do you currently influence people without a formal leadership title?
- Where do you have a title but limited influence, and why might that be?
- What behaviors most increase or decrease your influence with others?
- How can you intentionally grow influence this week?
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