MENTORING Definition: a wise and trusted guide and advisor Webster’s Dictionary

1. MENTORING Definition: a wise and trusted guide and advisor Webster’s Dictionary

2. Denis Waitley says successful people: • Identify Goals • Find Mentors • Regularly meet with mentors for advice • Regularly review goals “If you keep doing for the next 5 years what you did during the past 5 years, then you will never change.”

3. Every boy: • is looking for a place to belong • wants to feel needed • wants a man to affirm his manhood

4. Mentoring: • Middle Ages: Page-to-Squire-to-Knight • Early America: Apprentice to a Trade • 21st Century: Develop ways to create ceremonies or experiences which indicate a boy is crossing over into manhood • Special First Class ceremonies • Allowing scout to lead Troop JLT sessions • Allowing Scout to lead Camporee sessions • Special Awards (Totems) for a job well done

5. PRINCIPLES • Every boy has a position of leadership in the troop • Every boy has a clear job description with definite objectives for his position. • Every boy is paired with an adult or older scout mentor.

6. POSITION OF LEADERSHIP • SPL, ASPL’s and Patrol Leaders are elected All too often we forget the importance of: • Troop Quartermaster • Troop Librarian • Troop Scribe • Troop Historian • Troop Guide (especially for New Scout Patrol) • Troop Instructors

7. POSITION OF LEADERSHIP LARGER TROOP Other options are: • ASPL - Program, Outings, Advancement • Troop Guide - Program, New Scouts, Advancement, Den Chiefs • JASM - SPL Mentor, Troop Guides • Troop Instructors-Fire Building, Knots, Games

8. CLEAR JOB DESCRIPTION • Each scout has a clear description of his troop leadership position. • Defines his objectives and criteria he must satisfy for rank advancement

9. PAIRED WITH A MENTOR • Clearly identify the adult or older scout mentor • Clearly define a path of leadership development

10. PRINCIPLE In order to develop strong boy leaders the scout must: • Learn the Skill • Demonstrate the Skill • Teach the Skill

11. PRINCIPLE • Tell me, I’ll forget • Show me, I may remember • Engage me, I’ll understand

12. Leadership Development • Establish clear goals for the scout’s first 3 years. • Teach him about these goals at the beginning of his 2nd year (during First Class Board of Review ?)

13. Leadership Development 1st Year (Steps to First Class) • Work with Troop Guide, Troop Instructors, Adult Patrol Advisor, and ASM’s to attain First Class rank • Attend Troop JLT • Attend Summer Camp

14. Leadership Development 2nd Year (First Class & STAR) • Work with Mentor to go thru all of Patrol Leader’s Handbook. • Work through “Circle of Leadership” training • Periodically hold 15-20 minute JLT sessions on troop monthly outings • Incentive for younger scouts to reach First Class • Builds “esprit de corps” among older scouts

15. Leadership Development 3rd Year (Star & Life) • Work with Mentor to go thru all of Senior Patrol Leader’s Handbook (basically same as Patrol Leader’s Handbook. Consider Aid to Patrol Leadership) • Encourage Scout to attend Council JLT • Mentor these scouts to have them LEAD • JLT sessions on troop monthly outings • Troop JLT

16. Leadership Development 3rd Year (Star & Life) http://scoutingbooks.com

17. In 1914, Baden Powell said, "The Patrol System, after all, is merely putting your boys into permanent gangs under the leadership of one of their own number . . . But to get first class results from this system you have to give the leader a real free-handed responsibility." • If you give only partial responsibility, you will get only partial results.

18. Resource Materials • Circle of Leadership: • www.troop39.net (under LINKS) • Clear Job Descriptions: • www.scoutmaster.org (under Troop Positions)