Re: training options
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Sat, 13 Mar 1999 14:23:02 -0600
"Linda J. Soukup" <ljsoukup@EROLS.COM> asked a really great
question:
Is there training available for UNIT COMMITTEE MEMBERS??
There SHOULD BE, Linda; depending on your local Council. Many
local Councils have come up with a Unit Committeemember/Chair
training course which is done usually at a large "District-level"
training event like Scouterversity or University of Scouting, or
just done the same time as the Scoutmaster Fundamentals training
course.
I do know that National is working slowly on a Unit Committee
Training course which can "work just about anywhere" (that's the
main problem...the National Volunteer Training Committee has
received about 15 to 30 copies of local Council training courses
and seminars for Unit Committee (I think Harvey told me a while
back that it's up to 32 or something like that!) members and
chairs....
What they do with them is to take a look at them and if it looks
promising, they will "put on a mock version" of it amoung their
committeemembers to see if it's suitable and then take it "on the
road" to see if it'll "fly in Peoria." That's where the problem
lies...*so far*, there hasn't been one that will work just about
everywhere (I don't see what the problem is, but then, I'm NOT on
that committee!!)
Check with your Council and see if they have a course for Unit
Committeemembers. In most Councils, they will have you to attend
Scoutmaster Fundamentals, which is fine but doesn't address the
fine points of serving with a group of other adults in a committee
setting and doing those tasks that committees do together.
One of my goals for this year is to develop a package for Unit
Committees, because that's where I see a lot of questions coming
from and a lot of it is simply because nobody has coached them.
But whose job is that?? It doesn't fall under the Unit's
Commissioner, nor does it fall under those tasks of the Scoutmaster
nor Chartered Organizational Represenative. So the District HAS to
take this on as a neccessary task.
Besides, how else would a Unit Committeemember REALLY get to wear
the "Trained" strip without attending Scoutmaster Fundamentals or
Cub Scout Basic or the Venturing Leader Basic Course??
GREAT question, Linda!! Glad you asked it!! Maybe here we can see
some ways that other Councils have dealt with training of their
unit committeemembers and chairs!!
Settummanque!
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