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One more comment to make, The real problem is that volunteers and youth are not seen as assets for the organization's leadership. Talent is ignored in many cases and, because of that, the prof. have to spend countless hours on recruitment of those that are not even worth recruiting. Training and Development of both youth and adult should be integrated into the strategic strategy on a national, regional,council and district level. Training, development and succession planning of volunteers by adult and youth should play a key role in the strategy development. People from those areas should be on the strategy team for the entire organization.

This is just another example of the task force's misunderstanding of the culture and values of the Boy Scouts.

Rewarding someone for doing the job is not fixing the problem. Yes, it is an incentive to get people to take on the responsibilities. However, this does not reward someone for performance, it only rewards a person for being willing to be a body for the job. This is a misunderstanding of the values of the the BSA's youth training. The person that takes the job for the beads is not the type of scouter the BSA is looking for. We want the person that takes the job to serve and whose mission is to improve the leadership skills of the youth leaders. Bottom line, your youth will follow in the direction of the course director. And, we are rewarding adults for taking the job, not for their performance, or their commitment to the values of servant leadership.

Instead, the task force should have found a way to reward those scoutmasters and council's that produce talented scouts. Come up with an evaluation system for council NYLT courses and reward the course director for good feedback. Help troops make NYLT a continued training. For example, most of the council's New Jersey have great NYLT courses. The BSA should go down there and figure out why their training courses are working and other council's courses aren't. The problem is that the Boy Scouts is run by those that have the money and not necessarily by those that have the education or background to support their fullish ideas. I know we have some smart people in the BSA, I know we have some (MBA's, lawyers, Doctors, professors and successful business people.) Find these people and recruit them to help the organization grow. And, by the way, it should be the guys down in the trenches that are screaming when things like this happen!!!