Welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast, the podcast that adds value to leaders who

multiplies value to others.

My name is Mark Cole and today we are finishing our series on how to gain influence.

Today in part two, John Maxwell is going to teach you six more ways to grow your influence

as a leader.

Then after John's lesson, I and my co-host Chris Goady will be back to discuss John's

lesson and other ways for you to apply these principles to your leadership.

If you would like to download our bonus resource, which is a fill in the blank worksheet

from John's lesson, please go to MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash gain.

Click the bonus resource button and fill in the blanks as Dr. John Maxwell teaches.

Here is John.

The letter U, are you ready for that one?

An influencer understands people and an influencer understands people.

In the book climbing the executive ladder is this paragraph, few things will pay you

bigger dividends than the time and trouble you take to understand people.

Almost nothing will add more to your stature as an executive or a person.

Nothing will give you a greater satisfaction or bring you more happiness.

To understand the mind of a person, look at what he has already achieved or she has.

To understand the heart of a person, look at what he or she has dreams of becoming.

So those are the two things.

You can just search their mind, look at what they are achieving, to search their heart,

look what they are dreaming about.

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