Introduction to Leadership Skills for Troops session
Starts, Stops, and Continues
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
Starts
- Open PLC to troop staff in addition to leaders.
- Bring Start/Stops/Continues list to each PLC meeting as a reminder.
- Improve use of patrol rosters and menus.
- Better supervision of campout food (SPL to approve menu).
- Complete menu planning two meetings before campout.
- Post roster and menu during campout (chuck box).
- Patrol grubmaster take more personal responsibility for food purchase.
- Rotate the Patrol grubmaster responsibilities.
- Improve scout recognition.
- Make better use of meeting time.
- Place meeting tables out for Patrol Corners during meetings.
- Have separate activities for Scouts not going on a campout.
- Use patrol report during meeting (to show leader accountability for members).
- Better understanding of member duties for the individual positions of responsibility.
- Scoutmaster / Scout contracts.Scoutmaster to benchmark Scout performance based on contract.
- Librarian to catalog Boy's life Magazine.
- Historian to capture troop events in photos.
- Make training / instruction during meetings "real" by relating it to something practical.
- Bring Boy's Life to the PLC annual planning conference.
- Provide more detail in meeting plans.
- Place meeting dates in the church bulletin.
- Periodic troop open house (in addition to Webelos Open House).
- Improve communication!
- Greater participation from the Scouts during camp outs.
Stops
Continues
- Keep pumpkin carving competition.
- More detailed meeting planning.
- Make better use of the troop scribe at planning meetings.
- Enforcement of "no electronics" rule on campouts.
- Enforcement of two-scouts-to-a-tent rule.
- Expand use of the adult patrol advisors.
- More use of Dutch ovens on camp outs.
Respectfully submitted,
Troop Webmaster