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The committee chair: Primary responsibilities

A recent article aimed at the new committee chair listed a few things that I’ve found to be helpful when starting the job or any job in Scouting. But what are the actual responsibilities of the committee chair?

Hopefully if you’ve been to training, or taken it online, you can answer that, according to the handbook. The committee is generally responsible for the mechanics of the unit, and while a lot of miscellaneous items fall to the committee chair, the main points include: Continue reading “The committee chair: Primary responsibilities”

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The new Committee Chair

So you’ve just stepped into the job of Committee Chair for your pack or troop. Now what?

Committee Chair is an important role – indeed, the unit can’t function properly without one – but there are ways in which a person new to the position can get off to a great start without going crazy.

Hopefully, one of the first things you’ll do is read the position description in the appropriate handbook. Continue reading “The new Committee Chair”

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Keeping meetings on course

You know the feeling. It’s time for the monthly unit committee meeting, and you dread sitting through a long drawn-out meeting which usually degenerates into an open-ended discussion or retelling of old “war stories.”

Perhaps you’re the committee chair and you equally dread the meeting, not knowing how it’s going to go, what you need to accomplish or why you’re even having a meeting in the first place.

Sound familiar?

Continue reading “Keeping meetings on course”

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Helping the committee go

As a committee chair, what do you think your biggest challenges are? Conducting the monthly committee meetings? Keeping track of finances and advancement? Helping out at pack meetings or troop campouts?

These are all challenges faced by committee chairs, but there’s one challenge common to all of us: Keeping our committee members feeling useful and appreciated.

If there’s one thing we all crave, it’s to be wanted, needed and appreciated, especially in something we care about, like Scouting. Continue reading “Helping the committee go”