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  Permission Level Permission Level is based entirely on relationship. On the Permission level, people follow because they want to. When you like people and treat them like individuals who have value, you begin to develop influence with them. You develop trust. The environment becomes much more positive—whether at home, on the job, at play, or while volunteering. The agenda for leaders on Level 2 isn’t preserving their position. It’s getting to know their people and figuring out how to get along with them. Leaders find out who their people are. Followers find out who their leaders are. People build solid, lasting relationships. Your  focus as a leader at this level is relationship development with your follower(s) and the way to achieve this is by liking them you can't develop relationship with people you don't like, you need to show your follower that you like them and that you're interested in them,this will automatically get you attracted to them and they will be willing...

I know you will definitely be surprised!! If you are hearing this for the first time that " Position is the first level of leadership"  Position is the lowest level of leadership—Infact it is the entry level.  If all that makes you a leader is the position you occupied then you are not a leader yet, because, position doesn't make your a leader.  I told you in our last discussion that leadership is about influencing your follower(s) and  the only influence a positional leader has is that which comes with the title,office or the position he/she occupies, which implies that people follow because they have to and not because they like or want to .  Positional leadership is based on the rights granted by the position and title.  "Nothing is wrong with having a leadership position. Everything is wrong with using position to get people to follow"  because   Position is a poor substitute for influence . People who make it only to Level ...

In the next couple of weeks, we will be considering Levels or stages of leadership. As a leader it's important for you to know the level that you're in, in your journey of leadership, that will help you to know the level or stage that you are and consequently give you the opportunity to move to the next level. But before we proceed in this journey let's quickly say something about Leadership today. What's leadership? Scholar's in different dispensation at various times have attempted to define what leadership is, but in the context of this write -up, I will like us to stay with this definition which has been the best ever for me.   " Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration, motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.”   Dr. Myles Egbert Munroe This definition is loaded with everything there's to know about leadership. Let me take some time to explain this definition, there...