John Maxwell's #12 Law of Leadership: The Law of Empowerment

This is the Admiral Show. Twenty-one Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Series Law Twelve, The Law of Empowerment. Look, average leaders need to be needed. I've seen this a lot in my career. Great leaders build people who don't need them forever. Welcome back to the special leadership series on John Maxwell's twenty-one irrefutable laws of leadership. Today's principle is the law of empowerment, and this law is one of the biggest tests of a leader's security.

Because empowerment sounds simple, but for many leaders it's incredibly difficult. Why? Because empowerment requires trust. Look, if you're like me, you're probably a control freak and it's very difficult to let go of things. But one of the things I've learned as a leader in business is one of my main jobs is to transfer belief And skill to people. The transfer of belief and skill is what makes a great leader. And once you've done that, you've got to give people space

to improve and to grow and even make decisions. in some cases. So it requires releasing control. It requires letting someone else carry responsibility and it requires being secure enough to celebrate when someone else grows. One of the greatest mistakes leaders make is believing they're more valuable when everything depends on them. So they hold on to everything. They make every decision. They control every detail. Actually they become the bottleneck. And then they wonder why the organization isn't growing. But here's the truth.

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