Leadership is a combination of hard and soft skills. Hard skills focus on the specific tasks of leadership, such as finances, strategic planning, project management, and sermon preparation. These technical skills help you fulfill responsibilities that are unique to the role. But leadership also encompasses soft skills. The soft skills of leadership focus on people, teams, and the qualities that build enduring influence. Soft skills are transferrable from one job to the next and are essential regardless of the context. This edition of Make it Count explores 10 soft skills of leadership and considers ways to master each.