The document outlines 10 ways to master leadership skills: 1) Preparing, 2) Volunteering, 3) Keeping an open mind, 4) Giving speeches, 5) Developing discipline, 6) Meeting deadlines, 7) Staying in touch, 8) Listening, 9) Cooperating, and 10) Doing things for others. It provides further details on being prepared, committing to a cause, keeping an open mind, rehearsing speeches, developing discipline, meeting deadlines, maintaining contact, listening, cooperating, and putting others first.

1. Leadership:
a Subject
Ten Ways to Master Leadership Skills
Loeb M, Kindel S. Leadership For Dummies. For Dummies; 1999.

2. Ten Ways to Master Leadership Skills
1. Preparing
2. Volunteering
3. Keeping an open mind
4. Giving speeches
5. Developing discipline
6. Meeting deadlines
7. Staying in touch
8. Listening
9. Cooperating
10. Doing things for others

3. Work on preparation
• You can’t be too prepared
• Make new discoveries from every
situation and every person you encounter

4. Pick a cause and make it your own
• Commit yourself to a cause, embrace it, and
develop your own vision for it
• Look for a cause that improves people’s lives or
the world around you
• Start at a local level then expand your horizons

5. Keep an open mind
• Your vision is your own, but you should be
open to the thoughts and dreams of others
• If you can see the benefits in someone else’s
ideas, your ideas will become better

6. Rehearse speeches
• You have to be able to persuade people of the
validity of your cause if you’re going to be a
leader
• Practice your delivery until you’re comfortable
• Hollywood adage: If you can fake sincerity,
you’ve got it made
• Slow down, and talk to your audience

7. Be disciplined
• Leadership is a set of disciplines:
oVision
oPlans
oExecution
oGoals
• Leaders must learn to be proficient at all

8. Master deadlines
• Projects require deadlines
• The leader has to be the one to set and
enforce deadlines
• As a leader you must meet

9. Maintain contact with your group
• Keep in touch!
• Maintain a close distance between yourself and
your followers
• Use informal time to communicate and learn from
your group
• If someone has a problem, stop what you’re doing,
listen, and nudge them to solve their own problem
if possible
• Address group concerns swiftly

10. Remember to Listen
• Authority does not give you permission to
“know it all”
• Listening also means figuring out what people
are indirectly saying
• Don’t just hear what people have to say, be
sure to listen to what they mean

11. Cooperate with the world around you
• Teamwork, Teamwork, Teamwork
• Cooperate with the people above you, with
team members, and with the outside world
• Learn to mediate disputes
• Today’s opponent may very well become
tomorrow’s ally

12. Always put others before yourself
• Watch out for selfishness
• Learn to appreciate the needs of others
• When you can do a favor at little cost to
yourself, then do it!

13. Recap- Ten Ways to Master Leadership Skills
1. Preparing
2. Volunteering
3. Keeping an open mind
4. Giving Giving speeches
5. Developing discipline
6. Meeting deadlines
7. Staying in touch
8. Listening
9. Cooperating
10. Doing things for others

14. Leadership:
a Subject
Ten Ways to Master Leadership Skills
Loeb M, Kindel S. Leadership For Dummies. For Dummies; 1999.