The Eleven Skills of Leadership

The following links to sections describe the eleven leadership skills as they are taught within White Stag Leadership Development by those who learned from the program founders.

Some of the links below are to portions of the book Resources for Leadership. You can view the entire book in Acrobat PDF  or order a copy for yourself.

• Getting and Giving Information
• Understanding Group Needs and Characteristics
• Knowing and Understanding Group Resources
• Controlling the Group
• Counseling
• Setting the Example
• Representing the Group
• Problem-Solving
• Evaluation
• Sharing Leadership
• Manager of Learning

These eleven leadership skills were ideas that founder Bela Banathy adapted and borrowed liberally from the curriculum of Pual Hood’s project for the Army at HumRRO. Banathy was an experienced Scouter and in the early 1960s Chairman of the Leadership Training Committee of the Monterey Bay Area Council, Boy Scouts of America. He founded a program in 1958 to try out his theory of "leadership development by design". The National Council learned of the program's success and eventually adapted the concepts into its own programs.

The two sections below provide excellent detail for Managers of Learning about Teach/Learn methods and writing effective instructional objectives.

• Teach/Learn Methods
• Key Words in Instructional Objectives