Course Overview
Rick Ryan
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Wood Badge Staff
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Let’s Play A
Word Association Game
Wood Badge = Leadership
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Boy Scouts of America
Training Continuum
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Youth Protection (Renew Every Two Years)
Fast Start Training
This Is Scouting
Leader-Specific Training
Appropriate Outdoor Skills Training
Wood Badge
Philmont Leadership Challenge
Lifelong Learning
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What can you expect from
Wood Badge?
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A global view of Scouting
Contemporary leadership concepts
Team development experience
Leadership practice
Fun and fellowship
A renewed commitment.
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Wood Badge Central Themes
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Living the Values
Bringing the Vision to Life
Models for Success
Tools of the Trade
Leading to Make a Difference
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Values
Mission
Vision
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• Listening to Learn
• Communication
• Leveraging Diversity Through
Inclusiveness
• Generations in Scouting
• Coaching and Mentoring
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• Stages of Team Development
• The Leading EDGETM /
The Teaching EDGETM
• Generations in Scouting
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Project Planning
Leading Change
Problem Solving and Decision Making
Managing Conflict
Self-Assessment
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Servant Leadership
Leaving a legacy
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Why a Troop Setting?
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Framework to practice leadership
Translates to any Scouting program
Days 1-2-3 = 3 weeks of troop meetings
Days 4-5-6 = Outdoor experience
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The Gilwell Gazette
• Provides access to information.
• Tells what’s going on.
• Is distributed each day.
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Patrol Project
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Each patrol plans and produces
Covers a universal aspect of Scouting
Presentation involves all members
Is presented on Day Five
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Wood Badge Ticket
• A Wood Badge tradition
• Action plan for your goals
• A plan to take home
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Summary
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Central Themes
Troop format
The Gilwell Gazette
Patrol Project
Wood Badge Ticket
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Questions
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What Do I need
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1 Check the Web Page for the Equipment List
2. Dry Tent
3. Bug Repellant
4. Sun Screen
5. Water Bottle
6. Flash Light
5. Lawn Chair.
6. Pen and Paper
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What Don’t I need
• Cell Phones
• I Pads
• Computers
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When Do I Arrive
• 07:30 22 August.
• Please don’t be late and don’t be early.
• If you’re early, there are great breakfasts
at Linda’s in Wilmot. We shall not feed
you,
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An Army Travels on its
Stomach
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On day one we shall provide lunch, dinner
and a cracker barrel
One day two all three meals and a cracker
Barrel
One day three breakfast and lunch.
We will have refreshments available
during the day.
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Home Work?
• Optional See the moving Remember the
Titans.
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