Welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. My name is Chris Goady and I am excited

to be co-hosting today with Mark Cole. Today we are starting a series called Emotional

Intelligence. If you'd like to download the notes, please visit Maxwellpodcast.com

and slash Emotion. Now let's dive into today's lesson Emotional Intelligence by Dr. John

C. Maxwell.

Today I'd like to talk to you on the subject Emotional Intelligence. This is a book you

maybe have read, Emotional Intelligence. It's a good book. And when I teach sometimes, I

put a book out in front of you to say, if you haven't read it, you really need to read

it. And I would highly recommend this book. Emotional Intelligence. Daniel talks about the components,

the really the important components of a leader that give them what he calls Emotional Intelligence.

And in the moment we're going to talk about it. Before we get to that, I just want you

to say when I talk about the subject, what makes a leader? Leaders come in different sizes,

shapes, personalities. I mean, leaders are really different. But what I want you to understand

is even though the leaders are different, when it comes to the Emotional Intelligence of

leaders, there are five qualities we're going to study today that they have. And that I

would say that 80% of them have these qualities in their life. And what makes Emotional Intelligence

so important is that a lot of times our leadership is leading volunteers. I've always said that

if you are paying somebody to follow you, that's not being a leader. I mean, hello, I mean,

how good of a leader you have to have you say, you know what, if you don't follow me, I'm

going to fire you. I mean, hello, okay, they get in line. But when you're leading volunteers,

in fact, when I'm in the corporate world and they're saying, how do I pick my top leaders

in my company, I always say, put them in community volunteer projects and see how well they

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