SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL CREWS Kimberly Myers, VOA Advisor, Great Trail Council “The Mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.”

The Advisor follows Good Crew-Sustainability Practices

Appoint your successor Never ever stop recruiting

Follow the program as designed

Appoint an Advisor for Every Officer

Ensures Continuity Ensures their officer is

prepared

Compensates for lack of ability

Shield officer when necessary

Empower Your Officers Set Expectations Provide for their Training Crew Bylaws

Let them Lead

Encourage Mentoring Mentoring keeps the

experienced youth engaged New leaders learning from

experienced and trained peers

Embrace Service School Service Requirements Recruiting Tool

Adopt a “Meet Less, Do More” Philosophy

Officer Only Meetings Conference Calls Activity “committee” meetings

Provide Social Opportunities and Plenty of Fun

Troop/Crew Joint Activities Council Venturing Activities

Luau, Camp Manatoc –

August 12, 2017

Fall Event, Camp Butler –

November 3-4, 2017

Area Venturing Event WorldFest, Seven Ranges

– April 28-30, 2017

National Venturing Event VenturingFest, Summit

Bechtel Reserve - July 1–

6, 2018

BONUS Focus on achieving Gold on your Venturing Crew JTE form

http://www.scouting.org/f

ilestore/mission/pdf/2016

_JTE_Crew_Scorecard.pdf

Buy and read the Venturing Advisor Guidebook and take the Venturing Advisor Position-Specific Training

http://amzn.to/2iKdQIT

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