Here's my final day of notes for "Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others" by John C. Maxwell and Jim Dornan. Here's a link in case you'd like to buy a copy of the book from Amazon.com
.Chapter 10: A Person of Influence Reproduces Other Influencers
Teaching others is like handing off the baton in a relay race. It will take preparation, planning, training.
Benefits:
- Reproducing leaders raises your influence to a new level
- Reproducing leaders raises the new leaders’ personal potential
- Reproducing leaders multiples resources
- Reproducing leaders ensures a positive future for your organization
Awaken the reproducer in you:
- Lead yourself well (integrity, right priorities, self-discipline, problem-solving skills, positive attitude, etc.) - establish a specific game plan, don’t just think it’ll happen organically
- Look continually for potential leaders: “You’ve got to have good athletes to win, I don’t care who the coach is.” - Lou Holtz, Notre Dame
- Put the team first
- Commit yourself to developing leaders, not followers
"Many people live in maintenance mode.” - that is so true. I feel that way myself way too often.
- Scramble - always trying to find people to lose the ones who left
- Survival - the staff stays, but they’re unhappy. It’s all day-to-day without hope or promise. (50% of leaders)
- Siphon - leaders develop other leaders, but neglect relationships so newly trained leaders go elsewhere (10% of leaders)
- Synergy - high morale and job satisfaction (19% of leaders)
- Significance - the leaders produce other leaders (1% of leaders)
Don’t forget to:
- model integrity
- nurture people
- show faith
- listen
- understand
- enlarge
- navigate them through life’s difficulties
- connect with them
- empower them
Checklist:
- Develop your own leadership potential
- Find people with leadership potential
- Teach the person to be a leader, not just perform tasks
- Multiply (help them find someone to mentor)
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