John Maxwell Leadership

After an in-depth reading and analyzation of How Successful People Lead by John C. Maxwell, I found myself uplifted, motivated and desiring more as a member of Jersey Mike’s. Maxwell gives a structured guide to how leadership works and what it takes to advance through the levels of leadership. Despite many thinking that leadership is represented through one’s own position and title, it is simply only the first step of five to actually being a SUCCESSFUL leader in an operation. Maxwell explains deeply in the reading that true leadership is earned through position, permission, production, people development and the pinnacle. He delves deep into each level with the upsides and downsides of each as well as the best behaviors and beliefs one should

Throughout the reading, I found numerous aspects of Maxwell’s teachings that I could deeply relate to in my experiences at Jersey Mike’s. In Position, the first level, Maxwell explains how the leadership roles in a facility are given to those that show the potential to grow and to lead a team. Maxwell conveys that position shows trust in individuals and gives them the responsibility to form their own leadership. I remember when I was promoted to being a shift leader, and that although I was happy to receive the position and label on the team, I still saw it as a position and that there was still work to do in order to earn respect, not for Jason the shift leader, but Jason Alston, the young man. Maxwell also brings into perspective the downs to Position in an organization, being that many individuals remain stagnant at an organization due to being misled by what their position actually values. These individuals

Maxwell insists that this can be a process that can take time, putting in the time, energy, and effort to build stable bods with yet the end results are always satisfactory as leaders will earn significant trust and respect from team members. I go back to my first few months at Jersey Mike’s, I was intent on working hard to show others what I was capable of as a worker, yet as time passed, I frequently observed the actions of managers and understood the importance of establishing bonds and communicating with workers to earn respect. It got through to me that the hard work was not the physical labor that came second nature to me, but instead, the efforts to build bonds with unique personalities and acquire different perspectives to have firm understanding of people, thus building chemistry and helping establish a great team environment. Maxwell also gives the downsides of the permission level, insisting that leaders can appear soft and be taking advantage due to their acts of leading by permission in an action-based, performance-relying environment. Maxwell also infers that achievers can find waiting for relationships to increase strength to be a significant challenge as they seek things to be done NOW. I can recall experiences where managers and shift leaders