Scouters seem to be addicted to meetings. In your unit, you either conduct meetings with the youth (den and pack meetings, for instance), or hover way in the background during troop and patrol meetings. We have meetings of our own, too – committee and leader meetings, district committee and commissioner meetings, Roundtable, and all sorts of subcommittee and planning meetings.
It seems as though our “one hour a week” doesn’t begin to include the meetings we attend, plan or participate in.
To be sure, meetings are necessary. They facilitate face-to-face communication and instant feedback from stakeholders and participants. E-mail can convey information and can be a tool for collaboration, but nothing takes the place of an in-person meeting for doing business.
And meetings are sometimes rightfully dreaded by most people who are expected to attend them. Continue reading “Making meetings less painful”
Prepared for Life.
As we approach the end of the year, packs, troops and all other units are working to compile their statistics for the 2015 
It seems like we live our life by rule books. We have policies and procedures to follow at work. The clubs and organizations we belong to have by-laws, rules and regulations. Every sport has an official rule book, and most sports teams have a policy manual of some sort for parents and participants.