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Level 4: People Development
On Level 3, the emphasis is on personal and corporate
productivity. The ability to create a high-productivity team,
department, or organization indicates a higher level of
leadership ability than most others display. But to reach the
upper levels of leadership that create elite organizations, leaders
must expand beyond production to development of others.
• Leaders must transition from producers to developers. Why?
Because people are any organization’s most appreciable asset.
• Leaders Invest time, energy, money, and thinking into growing
others as leaders = reproducing themselves.
• Leaders shift their focus from the production achieved by
others to the development of their potential.
Students in the 2018 Leadership League City
Class posing with State Representative Dr. Greg
Bonnen.
John Maxwell says that leaders at Level 4 should put 20 % of
their focus on their personal productivity while putting 80 % of it
on developing and leading others. This can be a difficult shift for
highly productive people who are used to getting their hands
dirty, but it’s a change that can revolutionize an organization and
give it a much brighter future.
Level 5: The Pinnacle
Rare is the leader who reaches Level 5.
• Requires some amount of natural leadership ability.
• Level 1-4 can be learned, Level 5 requires not only effort, but a
high degree of skill and requires intentionality
Students in the 2018 Leadership League City
Class posing with Jed Webb of Congressman
Randy Weber’s office.
• Develops other leaders to Level 4 leadership
• Creates a legacy of leadership in the organization they serve
• They seem to bring success with them wherever they go.
• Leadership at this high level lifts the entire organization and
creates an environment that benefits everyone in it,
contributing to their success.
• Level 5 leaders often possess an influence that transcends the
organization and the industry the leader works in.
Lead well, lead broad and do the right thing. That’s what Leaders
do.
Students in the 2018 Leadership League City
Class posing with Judge Mark Henry
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