5 Levels of Leadership: LEVEL 1: Downside Part 2

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Overview of the 5 Levels of Leadership Level 1: Position

• Position is lowest level of leadership

• Your only influence comes by way of your job title

• People follow because the have to.

• Based on rights granted by the position and title.

• Everything is wrong with using position to get people to follow you.

• Position is a poor substitute for influence.

• Never a leader at this level, only a boss

• Have subordinates not team members

• Rely on rules, regulations, policies and organization charts to control their people.

• People will only follow within stated boundaries of their authority

• People do only what is required of them.

• Don’t get discretionary effort.

• Usually have difficulty working with volunteers, younger people, and the highly educated.

• Have no influence

• Tend to be more independent • Does not require effort or ability to achieve this level.

• Anyone can be appointed a position.

source: John Maxwell 

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