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Leading Makes Use of Many Skills

Introduction

"Leading makes use of many skills...." is adapted from Patrol and Troop Leadership, the handbook on leadership development written for Patrol Leaders and published by the Boy Scouts of America in 1972.

Much of the original leadership development material contained in the Handbook, including the eleven skills of leadership, remain at the core of today's leadership experience in Scouting. Patrol and Troop Leadership covered nine of the skills presented at the Council Junior Leader Training Conference and other leadership development programs in Scouting.

Introduction

Leading makes use of many skills. We are going to take up nine of them here.

These nine skills are important. Many of them intertwine. Some cannot be used alone. If you can improve your skill in each of the nine, you'll improve your effectiveness as a leader.

With each skill, we'll follow this pattern:

• An example of the skill in use
• An explanation of the skill
• A use of the skill
• How to evaluate whether you are improving in that skill