Creating a Training Culture

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Creating a Training Culture

• Dan Zaccara Chairman Volunteer Development
• Joe Glasscock Team Leader Volunteer Development
• Mary Stevens PhD, Leadership Devel.
• Randy Cline, Philmont Training Center
• Marie Diffley, Training Inventory
• Bob Sirhal, Required Training Training Records

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Step One

• Make it part of the Council/District Strategic
  Plan
• Measure Results Monthly at Board Meetings
• Recognize Units with 100

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Step Two

• Get the Right People in the Right Seats on
  Training Teams
• Trainers and Teachers
• Program Experts ONLY if they can Train
• Make it Fun and Rewarding for Trainers
• RECOGNIZE Trainers

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Step Three

• Drive DOWN the cost of Training!
• Lose the ACCESSORIES that drive up costs!
• Stick to the Syllabus (Incremental content often
  incremental costs )
• Out of the box Delivery (When Where Customer
  is)
• Efficient use of Staff Participant Time!
• Well Planned Training Budgets
• Reduce Facility Costs

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Step Four

• Create and Keep a work Process to record and
• Verify Training Records
• District Level
• Council Level

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Step Five

• Make the new Required Training Plan work
• Select Pilot Councils in 2010
• ALL Top level Leaders Trained in 2011
• Direct Contact Leaders in 2012
• Make Training a Unit Expectation Point of
  Pride! AND stress how this is relevant for all
  aspects of their lives
• My Scouting Community to create Learning
  Cohorts within the Council

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Whats new in Training _at_ the National Level?

• A National Volunteer Development Committee
• charged with reviewing and developing ALL
  Training within the BSA for all Program elements.
• The National Committee is supported by regional
  mirror committees whose role is to facilitate the
  delivering of the National Training Elements and
  offer Feedback. No Training is developed by
  regions.

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Whats new in Training _at_ the National Level?

• 4 Strategic Training Priorities for Task Forces
• Inventory of Training
• Leadership Development
• Philmont Training Center
• Required Training Council Records
• Scouting.org/Scouting Community
• Expansion of Supplemental Training Topics
• More On Line Delivery

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Inventory of Training

• Task 1 Finished - List of BSA Training
• Current BSA Training Leader Scout
• Basic, Supplemental, Advanced, On-line, Philmont
• Courses Best Practices, Enhancements, Interest
• Next Step
• Required Training...What is a trained leader?
• The Scouting Continuum Program ? Training
• Define nomenclature for Training
• Transition Training Strategies to Training
  Culture

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Inventory of Training...the Task Forces

• Review Purpose, Content
• Note relevancy, redundancy, directional changes
• Prioritize, Recommendations - editing, new
• Method approach to delivery
• Deliver create/edit, review, release the
  training
• Market Communicate
• Track the Training, Leadership Leaders, Scouts
• Evaluate the Training - Effectiveness
• Training Records

Contact Marie Diffley, Buffalo14_at_aol.com
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Leadership Development
Vision Each member of the BSA (youth and adult)
will possess the skills and ability to serve as
an effective leader in his/her unit, council,
work, school and in all aspects of their lives.
They will exhibit the very best leadership skills
that BSA can offer to our youth, volunteers and
our Nation.

• Our Leadership Training is Scoutings
• Best Kept Secret!
• Equal to or better than many Corporate
  Trainings.and beginning at age 14!

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Leadership Development Goals

• Design an over-arching umbrella of lexicon and
  skills across all programs for both youth and
  adult

• Troop Leader Training (TLT)
• Crew Officers Training
• Kodiak and Kodiak X
• The Trainers EDGE
• National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT)
• National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience
  (NAYLE)
• Den Chief Training
• Wood Badge (WB)
• Powder Horn
• The Philmont Leadership Challenge (PLC)
• Area and Regional CDC material to support the
  above courses
• New cutting edge Leadership opportunities for all
  levels of Scouting

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Philmont Training Center Task Force

• Vision
• PTC will model and set the standard for BSA
  training experiences nationwide.
• Areas of Focus
• Promotion/marketing
• Innovative, relevant conferences curriculum
• Outstanding, distinguished faculty and staff
• Guest feedback to drive continuous improvement