Volunteer leadership an effective model you need to know now more than ever volunteer administrators are called upon to strengthen their volunteer leadership skills the ability to inspire and influence is critical to a volunteer coordinators success on the job whether they work with volunteers community partners executive management or colleagues a coordinator must have skills in place that will inspire action. A group will also act as a type of checks and balances for volunteers whos leadership style is too directive which is a problem that is not uncommon in extension volunteer groups groups have a way of pulling those volunteers back and supporting them in practicing shared leadership therefore volunteer administrators should make it a priority to determine at least annually the . The core principle of volunteering is giving you help people and groups to surpass different challenges you make society better and thats the kind of passion you need for successful leadership choose a cause youre passionate about and maintain the enthusiasm throughout the process of volunteering. Leadership in volunteer multistakeholder groups tackling complex this chapter explores distributed leadership in volunteer multistake holder groups tackling complex problems focusing on community orga nizing practices to bridge the gap between health and health care in columbia south carolina