(Unless specified, all quotes are from John Maxwell. A lot of my notes are word-for-word too.)
“If you had spent one hour a day everyday on one subject for five years, you could become an expert on that subject.” – Earl Nightingale
“Instead of asking myself ‘how long will it take’?, I started asking myself ‘how far can I go?’”
John Maxwell “Add Value” Daily Formula
- Value people
- Think of ways to add value to people
- Look for ways to add value to people when I’m in the setting; what can I do; what can I say
- Do things that add value to people
- Encourage others to add value to people
In order for this formula to work, you have to be intentional a consistent. Consistency compounds.
How To Learn
- Books
- Learning lunches
- Tell me about your greatest failure.
- Who do you know that I should know?
- “Before you lead people, you have to find them.”
- In order to lead, get off being lonely at the top, and start a relationship with people you lead
- Value people, and show you value them by start a relationship and lead them with their best interest in mind
- Character is developed out of adversity
- You can grow yourself if you don’t know yourself
- You have to be aware of yourself
- You need other peoples help
- Self awareness comes from other people speaking into my life
- Competence an Skillset is developed through time and practice
Evaluate every Experience
- Experience is not the best teacher; reflection turns experience into insight; experience isn’t enough: what did I learn from that?
- What did you learn?
- What did you love?
Leadership Table
- Everyone should have an invitation to the leadership table
- Where the discussion is Leadership
Agenda:
- Decisions you have to make
- Ask questions about things you need to do as a leader
Your Role:
- Participate
- Ask questions
- Be given a project to execute
- Everyone aught to come to the table, but that doesn’t mean everyone is going to stay there
- But not everyone will stay/have the capacity to stay at the table, then comes the tough conversation.
- “It’s one thing to be a friend: it’s good to be together and even good to work together, but you have to produce, we gotta have the results to have the road.”
- “It’s a big gap for many people to go from a relationship-level to a leadership-level where now we have to get you to be effective and fruitful.”
- “If I truly value you as a person, I’m going to share with you how you can improve.”
- “It’s one thing to say ‘I don’t like what you are doing’. It’s more important to say ‘there’s some things you are going to have to improve there.’”
- Always give people a path to improvement; give them the decision
- Can he/she?; compency
- Will he/she?; attitude
- Important for the leader to share their own difficulties/weaknesses
- Have upfront expectations; don’t friendship them through the process
- Leaders prepare their people for both the ups and downs
- 90% of leaders never develop leaders; they only have followers
How To Develop Leaders
“The greatest return a leader ever gets is developing other leaders. That when your leadership really begins to compound.”
The 3 Essentials To Develop Leadership
- Your own example; people do what people see; follow me
- Be intentional; commit yourself to finding them; let them come to the leadership table; discern their capacity; develop a program for them; you don’t automatically get better
- You have to empower them; let them practice; let them run; coach them when they don’t do it as well as you
5 Step Equipping Process
- I do it
- I do it; your with me
- You do it; I’m with you
- You do it;
- You do it; someone else is with you
- I want you to work yourself out of a job; find someone to replace you, and I’ll give you another job
- I can’t promote you until I replace you
- “Influence the influencer; you don’t have to get all the credit.”
- “If you learn good values and you live them out, you just become more valuable to yourself and other people.”