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Absolutely. In corporate world it is a big thing as new organizations are laid out, downsizing, acquisitions, etc are rolled out.

As I just finished my 2nd week on staff, I have a few tips. -Bring a hamper for dirty laundry so they don’t shove it all into their foot locker - Backup power charger for adults (our power has gone out 4 times already this summer, once for a while day) - If not in first aid clip, nail clippers. I have seen SO many scouts ask the health officer to help with ingrown toenails, but isn’t allowed. Ill think of more eventually

Now that Scout is a rank and they "5. Demonstrate your knowledge of pocketknife safety." I woul dhave them do a quick review. But I know some troops automatically award Scout rank at cross over because all the requirements for Scouting Advenutre coincide with Scout rank. Arrow of Light Adventure: Scouting Adventure Complete the following Requirements. Prepare yourself to become a Boy Scout by completing at least a-c below: Repeat from memory the Scout Oath, Scout Law, Scout motto, and Scout slogan. In your own words, explain their meanings to your den leader, paren

My son just returned from his first camp. He chose Small Boat Sailing, Motorboating, and Kayaking and spent most of his day at the waterfront. During his free time (of which we made sure he had plenty) he was either snorkeling or shooting at the archery range. He attended a star watching party, even though he didn't take Astronomy, just because he loves stars (and it's hard to see them in our city). He went on an overnight canoing trip in which dolphins played next to the canoes. Sure, the camp was pricey if we thought about it as a weeklong merit badge university and gauged it as $/MB Ea

The general thinking is if a scout has demonstrated skills, he keeps the tool. We don't take away the tool simply because the scout hasn't had an opportunity to demonstrate to us. TC is a tool for troops with unruly boys. When we've had small numbers of crossovers and they seemed to be behaving, we didn't worry about their knives. We just taught skills. By summer camp, everything they needed to know would have been covered. If they asked for a TC card we would give it. Make of it what you will, but our behavior disorder kids never abused their knife and ax privileges. Lots of other i

I allow (as SM) the WC to cover having a knife for a new scout for the first few months. If they refuse to take one of our TC training classes then we have a discussion on why TC is important for a boy scout. That seems to motivate them.

My vote is that it's not officially defined. It would be pretty pedantic to force a scout to surrender his knife just because he bridged over.

I agree this is the problem. The G2SS has become a club to beat well meaning Scouters on issues orthogonal to safety. No where is this more apparent than on the gun related issues. The first parts of the guns restrictions are entirely reasonable but unrelated to safety. The ban on shooting at silhouettes isn't primarily a safety ban it is mostly philosophical. Now *I* strongly support this. I think having folks in the liberal church be willing to learn gun safety under the guise of marksmanship is a huge win. Having more Americans familiar with guns and gun safety as a tools, independe

I do get your point - and I agree, a warning of the danger would be a reasonable explanation, for a reasonable adult with common sense. Alas, these rules aren't being written for reasonable adults with common sense - they're being written for the adults that hold fireworks in their hands while lighting them, or who pour charcoal lighter fluid on a lit fire in order to make it burn faster. I agree that holding a Cub Scout upside down doesn't reach the level of hazing but I'll give the BSA the benefit of the doubt that they're just being over-emphatic about it to reach those folks that ju

I think this just might be the issue in a nutshell. The BSA isn't creating "rules" in the Guide to Safe Scouting for reasonable adults with common sense. They're creating them for the adults that almost every other warning out there is for. We may roll our eyes at the warning labels on the top steps of ladders that warn not to stand there, and on the sides of ladders saying don't use near power lines, but they are there because there are adult who stand on the top of ladders and reach beyond their limits that tumble and break their legs, or arms, or heads. There are adults that lack the co

I hadn't heard of "change management" before. Is that really a thing?