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Mar 2021
48m 53s

The 5 Levels of Leadership

JOHN MAXWELL
About this episode

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

5LevelsLeadership.com

Change Your World by John C. Maxwell

ChangeYourWorld.com

iEQUIP.org

The John Maxwell Online Store

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