Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. This is the podcast that adds value to leaders

who multiply value to others. My name is Mark Cole on the CEO of Maxwell Leadership and today I am a co-learner with you in the Maxwell Leadership Podcast.

See, the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. As John Maxwell reminds us today in this lesson, leadership is more caught than taught.

But today, John is going to teach on embracing the three E's of developing leaders. This is a great lesson for all of us who want to build a winning team of people who can take our organization to the next level.

After John's lesson, I will be joined by my co-host Tracy Morrow and we will discuss how we develop leaders within Maxwell Leadership and how we're learning along the way.

I'll tell you right now, developing leaders isn't always easy, but it is fulfilling.

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This PDF will help you capture all the points, all the key takeaways from John's lesson.

So just visit MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash developing and click the bonus resource button.

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That's all for now. Now here is our friend, John Maxwell.

Leadership is developed, not discovered. The truly born leader will always emerge, but to stay on top natural leadership characteristics must be developed.

So the question is this, how do we develop our leadership qualities and characteristics in our leadership skills?

About a month and a half ago I was thinking about this because I was in a Q&A and while I was in teaching leadership, somebody raised that question.

They said, John, you talk a lot about developing leaders. Can you give me a handle? Can you just give me some things that I can really remember that will help me to do so?

And off the cuff, I shared with them the basically the outline that I'm going to give with you today with some content in between.

So let's look at it. There are three, what I call the three E's of leadership development. The first is environment.

I have found that leaders that are developed are leader, they're developed because they are in some kind of a leadership environment. This is incarnational.

This, this transfers leadership is almost in an incarnational or a way that this is how leadership is fleshed out.

Leaders do what leaders experience. And when I talk about environment, I'm talking about putting an environment in a person's life that they begin to experience leadership.

They, they see it around them, they feel it. And they understand it, they understand it not because they set down on took a lesson on leadership, they understand it because they were around leaders.

They understand it because leadership principles and leadership values were talked about, lived out, fleshed out, embraced.

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