From On Scouting; an interview with a new guy from the National Meeting

[PACAN]

17 hours ago, Tron said:

What would you suggest?

My suggestions would be:

Just like other businesses (restaurant chains, retail operations?  close down (merge) underperforming councils.  No discussion just do it.

As much as it pains close/sell camps who have so much outstanding maintenance that cannot be supported by the council they are affiliated with. or their capacity is less than x% (each camp is probably different)

Downsize and Reorganize councils by function vs districts.  Districts are historically under staffed with holes in areas that should be under one person

Customer service is poor...fix it...waiting weeks for answers is unsatisfactory and make the volunteers thing they don't care so they ignore the councils/districts

I count 3 councils who have more scouts in April than they did in December.

 

I would propose - but no one cares what I think - to reorg by function:

 

Finance, Budget, fundraising

 

Operations, Membership, registrar, advancement, eagle process, clearances, data analysis

 

Unit Support, Commissioners, training

 

Facilities, camps

 

Camping, outdoor programs, summer camps, camporees,etc

 

 

 

Anyway as I said no one would even try  but the "traditional org" is not working.

 

[DuctTape]

Some good suggestions @PACAN.

I would add a change to the mission of the Councils and Districts to solely be "support the units". Nothing else matters. All metrics used to assess performance of Councils, Districts and their staff should be based only on their support of the units.