Hey podcast family, welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast.

The podcast that adds value to leaders who will multiply value to others.

My name is Mark Cole and I'm excited today because we're going to talk about something

that everyone has but everyone wants more of it and that's influence.

See John Maxwell says that leadership is influence nothing more nothing less and if

you're going to lead others you need to gain influence every single day.

So today John's going to begin this two-part series on how to gain more influence.

And I and my co-host Chris Goady will be back to discuss John's lesson and offer some

ways, some ideas, some experiences in which we have had so that you can apply these

principles to your own leadership.

As always we have a free fill in the blank worksheet that we call our bonus resource.

If you would like to fill this out as you listen to John please go to Maxwellpodcast.com

forward slash gain, click the bonus resource button and then follow along with John.

Now here is John's seed Maxwell.

Let me ask you a question before I start this.

How many of you would like to gain influence in your life?

In the lives of others?

Okay you've got this?

Okay what I wanted to do is I'm going to lay out almost in sequential in a sequential pattern

how to gain influencers by sharing with you how influencers influence people.

And we're going to take the word influence and I'm going to take each one of those letters

and I'm going to build off of it.

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