Leadership is Influence

Of all of the definition that I have heard in this class I think that the best definition for leadership is by John C. Maxwell. Maxwell said that “leadership is influence nothing more nothing less.” After everything that we have learned this year in class I can turn just about all of it back to this definition. Influence is so important because if you cannot influence others to do something than it is impossible for you to lead them. So as a leader you want to learn how to influence the people around you. There are many ways to do this but I think that the most powerful way is to build personal relationships with people. People are naturally influenced by people that they know. Therefore if you are able to build up relationship with the people that you are trying to lead you are going to be much more effective in leading them because you will have more of an influence over them. By learning this it will make me a more effective leader because now I know that it’s important to get to know the people that you are working with. This is the reason that companies have their employees go on trips together and other social activities with each other. It is proven that these relationships between people make for better working situations because it makes people willing to listen to each other.