Adult Training Journey          The journey from Fast Start to Wood Badge is a seamless progression for adults and an unending benefit for BSA youth. Fast Start Orientation and New Leader Essentials—the first two steps in new-leader training—introduce new leaders to the Boy Scouting program. Leader Specific Training, as the name implies, focuses on specific leader roles and will require several days to complete, depending on an individual's previous outdoor skills experience. Wood Badge has evolved into the premier leadership course of the BSA, strengthening a leader's ability to effectively work with groups of youth and adults. Fast Start Orientation      Welcome to Scouting! As a new Scout leader, you are joining our Scouting family, and we want you to understand how the program works. The Fast Start Orientation video and guide will help explain it. These materials present a quick introduction to get new leaders ready for your first Boy Scout meeting.      You will learn in Fast Start Orientation that Scouting employs eight fundamental methods to deliver its three aims of character development, citizenship training, and personal fitness. The eight methods are the ideals, the patrol method, the outdoors, advancement, association with adults, personal growth, leadership development, and the uniform. A troop functions best when all eight methods are employed. As a leader progresses through the levels of training, the eight methods are continually emphasized. New Leader Essentials      As the first section of Basic Leader Training, New Leader Essentials is a 90-minute introductory session that highlights the values, aims, history, funding, and methods of Scouting and provides new leaders with a look at the resources available to them. New Leader Essentials often is offered as the first part of Leader Specific Training. Scoutmaster and Assistant Scoutmaster Leader Specific Training Leader Specific Training is divided into four parts. The first three parts are designed to teach troop operations and can be completed in one full day or three evenings. The fourth part is completing "Introduction to Outdoor Leadership Skills," which are the skills required for the Tenderfoot, Second Class, and First Class ranks. Because emphasis is placed on a leader's previous knowledge of the skill rather than course attendance, a new leader can complete this course at an accelerated pace. Varsity Coach Leader Specific Training Varsity Coaches and assistant Coaches have similar training requirements to Scoutmasters and assistant Scoutmasters. Requirements for trained Varsity leaders are Varsity Fast Start Orientation, New Leader Essentials, Varsity Coach Leader Specific Training, and troduction to Outdoor Leadership Skills. Troop Committee Training For troop committee members, Leader Specific Training includes Troop Committee Challenge. Upon completion of the three-hour challenge, a troop committee member is considered trained. Wood Badge for the 21st Century Upon completion of Leader Specific Training, an adult is eligible to attend Wood Badge for the 21st Century. As the core leadership skills training course for the BSA, Wood Badge focuses on strengthening every volunteer's ability to work with groups of youth and adults and is less focused on outdoor skills, which are more effectively addressed in other training courses. The task force that developed Wood Badge for the 21st Century was charged with developing an adult training course that was on the cutting edge of training for the 21st century. They created a highly user-friendly course that would encourage BSA local councils to offer more courses and, ultimately, train more Scouters. The Wood Badge course has made significant accomplishments in both areas. Incorporating leadership concepts that are used in corporate America, the course teaches participants the basics of listening, communicating, valuing people, team development, situational leadership, problem solving, and managing conflict. Once the skill is learned, each member is given the opportunity to use the skill as a member of a successful working team. At the conclusion of the course, each participant develops a set of personal goals related to his or her Scouting role. Working toward these goals allows each participant to practice and demonstrate new skills. Nationwide over the past two years, Wood Badge courses have increased more than 30 percent. The course is for all Scouters—Boy Scout leaders, Cub Scout leaders, Venturing leaders, and district and council leaders. This has increased communication to allow for a more seamless connection among all BSA programs. Supplemental Training There is always something new to learn and experience in BSA training. A number of supplemental training modules are available on the BSA Web site. They are designed to be downloaded for one-hour course outlines or viewed as self-study courses. Most BSA local councils offer additional training for Scout leaders, focusing on outdoor skills, Youth Protection, and youth leadership development. At the national level, a number of training courses are conducted each summer at the Philmont Training Center in northern New Mexico. Courses focus on everything from teaching outdoor skills to working with the troop committee. Another supplemental training opportunity is the monthly district roundtable—meetings that bring together Scout leaders from a number of troops to share ideas and teach skills. Each meeting is an opportunity for enjoying fellowship and fun with others who are committed to Scouting's aims and ideals. Boy Scout Leader Assessment Tool Whether you have been in Scouting for many years or are just starting out, the Boy Scout Leader Assessment Tool is for you. The online assessment will help Scouters of all experience levels discover opportunities to refresh their understanding of Scouting and determine how to update their skills. Specifically, the Boy Scout Leader Assessment Tool will Identify which BSA training courses would be most beneficial to the individual Scouter. Allow local council trainer chairpersons to know and understand which courses should be offered. Remind long-term Scouters that there are new and interesting skills for them to learn. Allow adult leaders to determine their strengths and weaknesses regarding Boy Scout training. Help our adult leaders to have the latest and greatest skills to support and mentor our Scouts. This assessment tool is available at www.scouting.org/boyscouts/training/start.jsp				National Youth Leadership Training From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Owner Boy Scouts of America Country United States Founded 2003 Scouting portal National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) is a youth leadership development training program of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) conducted at the council level. It is intended to be in-depth training covering a number of leadership ideas and skills for Boy Scouts and Varsity Scouts. Youth leadership training continuum Youth leadership training is conducted at three levels:[1] Troop Leadership Training (TLT) is unit level three-hour training session for all new Scout leaders. TLT is designed to introduce the Scout leader to leadership and give him the initial skills to be an effective leader. National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) is run at the council level as a week-long course, generally for the senior Scout leaders. National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience (NAYLE) is the national level course, conducted at Philmont Training Center. It builds upon the skills learned in NYLT and expands on team building and ethical decision making skills. NYLT is the most current junior leader training program offered by the Boy Scouts of America. Beginning in 1974, the program was named Troop Leadership Development. That program incorporated for the first time eleven specific competencies of leadership. Junior leader training programs had until that time focused primarily on Scoutcraft skills. The eleven competencies were adapted from the White Stag Leadership Development Program.[2] Back in the 1960's the armed forces of the United States became concerned about the quality of leadership among noncommissioned officers. Experiments were carried out in noncommissioned officer schools at Fort Hood in California.[3] Several Scouters from the Monterey Bay Area Council learned of this program and designed a junior leadership training experience using some of the competencies or skills of leadership identified in this Army training, and it was known as the "White Stag" program.[4][5] In reaction to other changes to Scouting, including advancement rules that no longer required Scouts to take a hike before obtaining the first class rank, the Boy Scouts introduced Brownsea Double-Two in 1976. This week-long course was a "back-to-basics" program for Senior Patrol Leaders that was "program- and action-oriented."[6] In 1979, the next iteration of junior leader training was introduced in the Troop Leader Training Conference. It was published "to eventually replace Troop Leader Development (#6544) and also provide the Scoutcraft skills experiences of Brownsea Double Two."[7] While the stated aim was to consolidate the two programs, many councils continued to put on both programs or used elements from the previous programs, producing inconsistency in how junior leader training was delivered nation-wide.[8] In 1993, another revision was issued titled Junior Leader Training Conference. The leadership competencies introduced in the 1974 TLD program were dramatically changed, including deleting a great deal of material previously described as Manager of Learning and re-naming it Effective Teaching. Other changes were made to the competencies Setting the Example, Controlling the Group, and a number of new reflection activities were added. This syllabus was revised again in 1995.[9] In 1989 Pine Tree Camp, the Junior Leader Training Conference of the former Viking Council in Minneapolis, Minnesota served as the proving grounds for a redesign of the Junior Leader Training Conference, a week-long leadership development program sponsored by local Councils for the top youth leaders of Scout troops. The Pine Tree's Syllabus was adapted for national use in 1996.[10] After successful regional pilot courses, NYLT was mandated to be used in place of all other JLT programs in the nation, effectively creating a standard of training that would be consistent around the country. The consistency is achieved by removing responsibility for presenting much of the core content from the youth, instead relying on projectors and computers to present PowerPoint slides and videos. Councils are allowed to use their traditional names for their junior leader training programs only if they include National Youth Leadership Training in the program name.[11] The content contained in the Boy Scouts of America junior leader training program has evolved as the business world's models for leadership training have changed. In the 1960s, concepts of participatory leadership were evolving from trait-based leadership to Rensis Likert's System 4 leadership model and Blake and Moulton's Managerial grid model. The Boy Scout's junior leader training program similarly evolved, adapting comparable principles from the White Stag program in the late 1960s.[12] Since then, the program has evolved to keep pace with changes to the adult Wood Badge program, which now emphasizes the stages of team development based on the principles described by Bruce Tuckman in 1965 as forming-storming-norming-performing. The course was renamed using Youth in the title rather than Junior based on feedback from the youth themselves who prefer the term "youth."[13] The NYLT program is to be conducted in a one week program, but can be split over two weekends. Most NYLT courses are conducted at council-level camps, primarily because these camps are established and have proper facilities for a week-long course. Courses range in size from 40 to 180 Scouts, generally forming one to four troops, with four to six patrols in each. The content learned at any NYLT course is outlined in a national-level syllabus. It stipulates that, "Each of the core sessions outlined in the syllabus must be presented, with no additional content sessions" and that "The core sessions must be taught in the order that is laid out in the syllabus and with in the six-day time frame." Some councils nonetheless implement small variations in the material taught and may add in other events or special activities not required in the NYLT outline. Organization NYLT is run by youth leaders under adult supervision. Adults perform administrative services and ensure guidelines are met including health and safety. The course presentation and instruction is the responsibility of the senior youth leader who acts as the senior patrol leader. Assistant senior patrol leaders are usually directly responsible for staff issues. The quartermaster is responsible for food and equipment. Instructors are responsible for the primary presentation of sessions although the other youth leaders may conduct some presentations. Participants are organized as a standard Boy Scout troop. They are grouped into patrols of eight or so boys and elect their own patrol leader. A staff member is assigned to each patrol as a troop guide to coach and mentor the patrol leader. Training The training, information, and skills taught in the National Youth Leadership Training course are to comply with the NYLT syllabus, where many of the leadership tools and information is found. Training includes subjects like event planning, communication, team development, teaching, leadership styles, setting goals, and problem solving among the many skills covered in the program. The idea is to work as a proper troop would work for an entire month, boiled down to one week. Some courses included in the North East region are ran on weekend courses. This is includes two weekends with a week in between. The training itself is often conducted with a lesson in presentation style usually followed with a demonstration or an exercise to allow the participants to practice what they have learned. Activities The NYLT course is not completely course work and classroom study. Throughout the course, team games and other activities are used to exercise the skills that the participants learn in the lessons. Patrol competitions are also included in the course, such as a lashing game, a geocache game, and many other activities. Even so, the activities, like everything used in the NYLT course is not without reason. They all have leadership skill building in mind. Awards are sometimes given for these activities and other things deserving recognition, such as an Honor Patrol award, a best campsite award, a best spirit award, and best troop guide award.Also to get the participants have enthusiasm they give out sprit totems. These are given at the discretion of the course staff.

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