5 LEVELS of Leadership LEVEL 2 - DOWNSIDE

BruceandBrian.com,  Brian Benedict

The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential, is an excellent source for understanding leadership growth and how to progress in your leadership abilities and ultimately your expanding your influence.

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.

Level 2: Permission

• Based entirely on relationships

• People follow because they want to

• When you like people and treat them like individuals, you begin to develop influence with them. You develop trust.

• Agenda is not preserving position but instead it’s getting to know their people and figuring out how to get along with them.

• Leaders find out who their pe