Leadership Training
A big part of Scouting is building leadership skills in our Scouts. This requires good mentors from various backgrounds. Many of our adult leaders have a background in leadership including everything from leading teams in the workplace, community leaders to leading troops in combat. Your leadership skills and ability to teach leadership and team building can be enhanced with some BSA specific leadership courses.
Wood Badge
Wood Badge is an advanced, national leadership course open only to Scouting volunteers and professionals.
The purpose of Wood Badge is to develop skilled leaders who can strengthen Scouting units in achieving the mission of the Boy Scouts of America.
When we accomplish the mission of Scouting, we do it in the units. Therefore, the short form of the purpose is, the purpose of Wood Badge is to strengthen units.
Although the course is different today, what Baden-Powell said in 1919 still applies:
"One of the purposes of Wood Badge training is to get Scouters to think about the practice of Scouting, to meet together, to exchange experiences, and to live together in the spirit of the Scout Oath."
The is the premier Leadership Course for the BSA and has been around since the beginning of Scouting
This week long (or two weekend) course teaches the BSA's style of leadership training
Learn and be a part of the Patrol Method
Even if you are former military, you will learn new leadership skills and better ways to develop leadership within our Troop
Wood Badge covers a lot of the material that is covered in NYLT (Scout version of this course)
Puts you on the same page as your senior Scouts in regards to team building
Come back with new Scouting Skills and a broader understanding of how Scouting works
Make connections with other scouters in this and local Councils
Recognition
If you are into swag, you get a globally recognized brown neckerchief, wood beads and a special woggle
Order of the Arrow
The Order of the Arrow is the honor society of the Boy Scouts of America, composed of Scouts and Scouters that are more active and involved in Scouting
Special training is conducted at different levels of the Order of the Arrow
Inclusion in the Order of the Arrow will also allow you to connect with some of the most active Adults in the BSA
We discuss this on our Order of the Arrow Page
Developing Youth Leadership Conference (DYLC)
The Developing Youth Leadership Conference (DYLC) will strengthen an adviser’s capacity to develop youth leadership within the lodge and chapter. Conference topics will include learning how to promote resilience, foster a growth mindset, provide constructive feedback, and create a life-long mentoring relationship. Conference participants will gain insights necessary to successfully mentor youth applying the leadership skills they gained during the National Leadership Seminar.
National Leadership Seminar (NLS)
This program is intended for mature youth arrowmen. Adults will often attend this program with youth.
The National Leadership Seminar (NLS) is a weekend conference that focuses on the skills and attributes of leadership. The program enhances the leadership skills of the Order of the Arrow’s key youth and adult members as they seek to improve their service to the Boy Scouts of America and the greater community. The weekend format complements the National Youth Leadership Training (for youth) and Wood Badge (for adults). Course participants make a promise to themselves to apply the skills learned on projects in their lodge, council, and community. NLS prepares Arrowmen to become better leaders both within and outside the Scouting program.
