The 5 Levels of Leadership
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
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.
For the application portion of this episode, Mark Cole asks Chris Goede for his insights into the 5 Levels and what he's learned from training leaders around the globe in this leadership model. Chris Goede is one of the leading authorities in The 5 Levels of Leadership, and he shares valuable takeaways from this lesson, reminds us that we are all on different levels with everyone we know, and inspires us to lean in to the challenge of reaching new levels of influence with others.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is The 5 Levels of Leadership Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/5Levels and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
References:
The 5 Levels of Leadership by John C. Maxwell
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast, Mark Cole here and I am glad to spend |
| 0:14.5 | the next 30 minutes with you growing, learning and becoming better for the world. |
| 0:19.9 | In fact, many of you may know John just released his book, Change Your World in the last |
| 0:26.4 | couple of months. |
| 0:28.0 | And one of the chapters of this book, John talks about the importance of we over me. |
| 0:34.1 | It was as I was reading that, I realized that the importance of building influence with |
| 0:38.9 | others and equipping them to accomplish great things relies on our ability to take leaders |
| 0:46.7 | on a journey. |
| 0:48.9 | We decided for this episode of the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast, we would teach you John's |
| 0:54.7 | philosophy, John's structure of how to build influence with others. |
| 0:59.9 | In this episode, John's going to walk us through the five levels of leadership and |
| 1:06.0 | briefly talk about each level throughout the lesson. |
| 1:10.5 | Now Chris Goady is the head of our corporate solutions group, you know him as our co-host |
| 1:15.8 | to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 1:18.0 | I know him as the resident expert on the five levels of leadership. |
| 1:23.1 | I'll talk more about that after John's lesson. |
| 1:26.7 | You're going to hear John talk about our nonprofit equip. |
| 1:30.2 | This is an organization that is committed to training leaders around the world. |
| 1:35.3 | You can find out more about equip by going to iEquip.org. |
| 1:39.5 | But today in this podcast, we're going to talk about five levels of leadership and Chris |
| 1:45.7 | is going to talk to us about what he is seeing in corporations and nonprofit organizations |
| 1:52.8 | as it applies the five levels. |
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