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Have you ever encountered someone in a leadership role who always seems to have the answers but doesn’t take the time to listen to others? What kind of results do they get from their team? The ability to listen is a skill that sets leaders apart. Legendary college basketball coach John Wooden believed that an effective leader starts with being…

Authors Chip and Dan Heath of the book Made to Stick tell the story of a Stanford University Ph.D. candidate studying a game called “Tappers & Listeners.” In this game, one person taps out a song by knocking on a table while the other person tries to guess the song’s name. The “tappers” predicted that the “listeners” would guess the…

There are generally two types of leaders in the world: one leader is better with people, and the other is better with process. In John C. Maxwell’s The 5 Levels of Leadership, the first leader is considered a natural Level 2 (relationship) leader, and the other is considered a natural Level 3 (production/results) leader. To be clear, you must be…

Here at Maxwell Leadership, we believe that leadership is influence—nothing more, nothing less. If you don’t have positive influence on others, your effectiveness as a leader and your leadership development will be diminished. So, what is influence, and how do you develop it? The dictionary definition of influence is the capacity or power of a person to be a compelling…

At a recent 5 Levels of Leadership workshop – one of Maxwell Leadership’s leadership coaching solutions – an attendee commented during a break that it didn’t make sense for their employer to host this workshop since everyone in the room was already a leader. The truth is that while everyone was already a manager, very few had made the transition…

In a recent executive coaching conversation, the leader being coached mentioned she was being promoted to replace a leader who was retiring. When I offered my congratulations, the executive told me she was nervous about the promotion because the person she was replacing was a hero to the organization. When I asked what that meant, she explained that this retiring…