Three Indicators of an Empowering Leader
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
John Maxwell shares that truly great leaders make themselves replaceable by empowering the leaders around them. Do you wonder if you’re an empowering leader? Find out as John himself shares the 3 signs to look for!
After his lesson, Mark Cole takes what John has shared and helps you to apply it to your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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We need a willingness to empower people.
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Trust is the foundation of an empowering leader.
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If you want to develop leaders, you have to delegate authority.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Three Indicators of an Empowering Leader Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Empower and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | This is the podcast that adds value to leaders who multiply value to others. |
| 0:15.8 | My name is Mark Cole, and on this week's episode, John Maxwell is sharing a lesson on what an empowering leader looks like, what they smell like, what they taste like, how we interact with one another. |
| 0:28.4 | And we're going to let you know, we're going to discover together if you're a leader that empowers the people that you lead. |
| 0:35.8 | Now, after John's lesson, I'll be back to walk through with you |
| 0:39.3 | what he has taught us, and I want to help you apply what you've learned to your life and to your |
| 0:45.4 | leadership. If you would like to download the free bonus resource for this episode or watch it |
| 0:50.9 | on YouTube, go to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash empower. |
| 0:57.0 | Now get ready. |
| 0:58.1 | Here is John Maxwell. |
| 1:05.2 | We need a willingness to empower people. |
| 1:10.6 | I began to think about this because I think |
| 1:13.6 | empowerment is difficult for a lot of people. |
| 1:16.6 | So in doing this lesson, I just wrote down, because of time, |
| 1:21.6 | three empowerment indicators. |
| 1:25.6 | Let me give them to you. |
| 1:26.6 | How do you know that you are an empowering leader? |
| 1:29.3 | I'm going to give you three ways that you can know that you are. One, the only decisions you make |
| 1:36.3 | are the decisions only you can make. |
| 1:45.7 | That's very insightful. |
| 1:49.5 | You see, decisions should be made at the lowest level possible in organization, |
| 1:51.6 | not the highest level possible in the organization. |
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