Building the Pillars

Lodge Leadership
• What is Leadership?
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• The ability to motivate people to do

what you ask!
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• Who are the leaders?

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• People like you and me who when

asked will take charge and
motivate people to do more than
they think they can achieve.
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• Why do people or plans fail?

• What we have here is a failure to

communicate!
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• You! As Master of your Lodge

have the responsibility to lead
and motivate the members and
officers of your Lodge
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• Remember you are the Master

and responsible for leadership
and operation of your Lodge
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• How?
• Be organized
• Delegate
• Know what you want and
who you want to oversee the
project to see that it’s done
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• Know your members
• Build fraternal relationships
• Find out all you can about
your members and their
families to help you develop
interesting programs that will
keep your members
returning to Lodge
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• Allow members to be
creative and encourage
them
• Follow up on the progress
• Implement the plan
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• Realize there is a need for both the
traditional and non-traditional
member in your Lodge
• Be open to new ideas with regards
to planning activities for the
members
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• Just because you did it that
way in the past, may not be
the way of the future
• I’m not talking about the
ritual-I’m talking about the
leadership of the Master and
officers
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• No such thing as bad luck, just

poor planning
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• A good leader:
• listens
• reacts
• follows through
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• Form committees with an active
chairman and have them give
reports back to the Lodge
• The members need to know what
is going on in their Lodge and
offer support
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• When planning your year, you
should remember what your role
as Master should be
• To attract, retain, and motivate
your members to return to
Lodge, participate and promote
membership
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• If we are going to attract and
keep the new member we
must listen to what their
concerns are and respond to
make Lodge meetings an
enjoyable and rewarding
experience for all.
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• Form committees with a
chairman and have them give
reports to the Lodge. The
members need to know what
is going on in their Lodge
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• You and your officers need to
work and develop the new
leaders in your Lodge if we
are going to be successful in
the future!
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• Form study groups to learn ritual, lectures
and charges
• Form a degree team for each degree and
lecture
• Assign a Past Master to each officer as a
mentor and coach
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• When planing for the future remember the
words of General George S. Patton
• “ A good plan executed right now is far
better than a perfect plan executed next
week”.