Youth Leadership

Prepare Senior Patrol Leaders and Patrol Leaders to take on a leadership role within the troop.

Leader Advice and Inspiration

Preparing Boys for Leadership

By Scouting magazine

A three-level training continuum provides progressively sophisticated tools for developing youth leaders in your troop.

Leaders

Let Your Scouts Lead

By Scouting magazine

Want to achieve a youth-led unit? Find the balancing point between helping them succeed and letting them flounder. Here’s how.

Leader Advice and Inspiration

This is Not a Test

By Scouting magazine

A board of review should gauge the quality of a Scout’s troop experience and encourage future advancement, not ask him to pass rank requirements — again.

Leaders

Peer-to-Peer: The OA Scoutreach Mentoring Program

By Scouting magazine

Some young boys grasp basic Scouting skills within a short time of joining a troop. Others need more time and someone to look up to. The Order of the Arrow’s Scoutreach Mentoring program tries to fill that gap.

Leader Advice and Inspiration

Creating functional Boy Scout patrols

By Scouting magazine

Scouter A.S.’s troop has two patrols: the “chaos” patrol of new Scouts and the “I’m too cool” patrol of veterans. He asked for ideas on creating a better unit structure, where older Scouts teach younger ones.

Cub Scout Leadership

How to make better use of Den Chiefs

By Scouting magazine

Because den chiefs play such an important role in supporting den leaders and encouraging Cub Scouts to cross over into Boy Scouting, Scouter J.W. wants suggestions on how pack and troop leaders can recruit and retain quality Boy Scouts for this position.

Leaders

A New Vision of Youth Leadership

By Scouting magazine

Revised council-level training will help prepare Scouts more than ever to provide important leadership to their troops.