{"id":288,"date":"2018-09-29T19:41:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T02:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/myjourney\/?p=288"},"modified":"2020-07-02T09:07:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T16:07:15","slug":"follow-the-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/myjourney\/2018\/09\/29\/follow-the-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow the leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnCMaxwell\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnCMaxwell\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-289\" src=\"http:\/\/create.twu.ca\/myjourney\/files\/2018\/09\/john-maxwell.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I became familiar with John Maxwell&#8217;s work as a teenager. Growing up in the church I had the privilege to be around leaders who required us to read wide and to engage in leadership development.\u00a0Each leader brought different things to the table, but somehow John Maxwell won me over. The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, The 17 indisputable laws of teamwork, Failing Forward among others.<\/p>\n<p>In all of John&#8217;s work, the central idea or theme that flows is that Leadership is about influence.<\/p>\n<p>This has been Johns dream of sharing with the world that leadership is not just about leading people but how we can influence others. At the inial teaching about servant-leadership the world wasn&#8217;t\u00a0ready, so he turned to other areas but brought a soft version of the message<\/p>\n<p>#2. Two significant ideas espoused by John is that Leadership is about influence and secondly, the leader needs to be relational.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I believe that in the context of my work, the influence and relational connection is critical. To lead people in an environment where you are not paid to be there, it is critical that you find ways to influence. One way of doing this is through the relational connection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>#3 my advice to John would be the need to make leadership training more affordable and use all the online channels to provide this training. I would also like to see where he identifies him within the post as opposed to persons generically responding on his behalf.<\/p>\n<p>#4 His values, ethics, and principles are similar to mine. His background is coming from the pastoral with an aim leadership through a Godly perspective.<\/p>\n<p>This is the principle of servant leadership.<\/p>\n<p>So I close with the question, can one lead, and be influential without being relational?<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-288\" data-postid=\"288\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-288 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnCMaxwell\/\u00a0 I became familiar with John Maxwell&#8217;s work as a teenager. Growing up in the church I had the privilege to be around leaders who required us to read wide and to engage in leadership development.\u00a0Each leader brought different things to the table, but somehow John Maxwell won me over. 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