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The Business Value of Scouting Business Leadership Requirements Create and Execute a Business Plan Business leaders must have the ability to create a business plan and then execute that business plan. Creating a business plan has several different components. First, there must be a vision or objectives for the business. When you have clear business objectives, then you can create intermediate and ultimate business goals that support achieving your business vision. After the objectives are created, then you can create a plan to achieve your objectives. Goals that are specified in business plans must be specific, measurable, and attainable. After the plan is created, business manage the plan. Project management skills are key to managing the goals. The ability to handle unexpected contingencies or situations and keep theplan on track (or recover) is very important. Meeting the business objectives by attaining the component or milestone business goals is never easy. Leadership that can accomplish this is valuable to business. Inspire and Lead People Everyone in business is a different person with different motivations, different histories, different talents, and different levels of engagement in their work. Understanding people and how to bring their individual strengths to business is important. Working with people requires a variety of different leadership styles. Learning and using those leadership styles takes work and practice. Motivating each person to produce their best work makes a real difference in business. Creating teams of motivated individuals can transform a business. A personal example in matters of integrity, accountability, and respect encourages a positive business climate. Trust and Accountability Integrity in all matters is a fundamental foundation for business. No system of checks and balances can compensate for a lack of integrity. Accountability for results must be a part of the business fabric if a business is to flourish. Each person should understand their role and take action in support of the team’s goals. Scouts Are Prepared to be Business Leaders Developing Leadership Through Scouting Scout Leadership Scouts spend years learning and practicing leadership. The Boys Scouts of America teaches specific leadership skills in a framework of respect, integrity, and accountability. All Scouts receive extensive, repetitive training and practice in these skills over a period of years. The Scout leadership model starts with a vision. The vision describes the end state objective. Then, intermediate milestone goals that lead to the objective are created. Finally, plans are created that accomplish the goals. Scouts use SMART goals. SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timely This method of setting goals keeps them tight and focused, and thus ensures that the goals can be accomplished. Planning and Problem Solving Tool—What, Why, How, When, Who Scouts learn this easy-to-follow guide for setting priorities, assigning tasks, and deciding how to actually carry out a plan. Assessment Tool—SSC—Start, Stop, Continue Adaptability is very important to business. Start Stop Continue provides a nonthreatening and highly effective tool to assess progress of a team and/or an individual. By looking for new things to try, stopping actions that are not effective, and ending on a “what are we doing well” note, this tool keeps projects (and behavior) on track. Inspire and Lead People ROPE—Reach out, Organize, Practice, Experience is a skill that Scouts use to learn the individual value of each person. Scouts learn to reach out and get to know the individuals in their organizations. Scouts then learn to organize the individuals into teams (more on that in a moment). Scout practice the organization of teams again and again. In that practice, Scouts are encouraged to experience the world from the point of view of different team members. By doing this, Scout learn to appreciate the differences and leverage the strengths of all of the team’s members. Scouts learn and use EAR (Express, Address, Resolve) as a conflict resolution tool. No one likes conflict, and yet all of us face conflict at some point in our lives. Learning to effectively resolve conflict is a lifelong skill that is useful for a long life. Scout leadership training teaches youths how to listen to all sides, address each party’s concerns, and then work to effectively resolve the conflict. GUIDE when the group is in the NORMING phase. ENABLE when the group is in the PERFORMING phase. Scouts learn and use The Teaching EDGE™ tool as a simple four-step process used for teaching any skill. Explain—The trainer explains how something is done. Demonstrate—The trainer demonstrates while explaining again. Guide—The learner tries the skill while the trainer guides him through it. Enable—The learner works on his own under the eye of the trainer. Scouts learn and practice this leadership skill or technique with many different groups in varied settings over a period of years. Four Stages of Team Development All teams (and individuals) go through development stages when facing any new task or project. They begin as highly enthusiastic but relatively low-skilled team members. As they begin to realize the task may be harder than they thought, and that their skills may need some work, their enthusiasm dips. Soon, however, they begin to gain some expertise in the skill, and their confidence begins to grow. Finally, they get it, and are a highly capable and enthusiastic team. Phase Forming Storming Norming Performing Attitude High Enthusiasm Low Enthusiasm Rising Enthusiasm High Enthusiasm Team Skills Low Skills Low Skills Growing Skills High Skills Leadership behavior depends on the group: EXPLAIN when the group is in the FORMING phase. DEMONSTRATE when the group is in the STORMING phase. Scouts arrive at your business with a complete package of leadership skills that will help make them successful. Their ability to lead in differing situations with diverse teams can greatly improve your business. Instilling Lifelong Values: Integrity, Trust, and Accountability Cub Scout Promise I promise to do my best to do my duty to God and my country, to help other people, and to obey the Law of the Pack. Scout Oath On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight. Venturing Oath As a Venturer, I promise to do my duty to God and help strengthen America, to help others, and to seek truth, fairness, and adventure in our world. Scouts grow up in an organization that values Integrity, Trust, and Accountability. These virtues become character traits for Scouts through learning, knowledge, practice, and repetition. From Cub Scouts through Boy Scouts to Venturing, the focus is on doing your best, honesty, truth, and service to others. Scouts emerge from the Scouting programs with an ingrained service-based leadership model that serves them well for a lifetime in business. All businesses depend on these values. No system of safeguards can overcome a lack of these values in its leaders. Business Leadership That Works Your business needs well-trained, capable, and experience leaders. These leaders must be trustworthy and accountable. You can and do invest a lot of resources, time, and money in developing effective business leaders. Scouting helps your business by doing the foundational work. Scouts already know how to lead. When they apply that ability in your business, you win big. You can support scouting in several different ways. Hiring a Scout puts the value of Scout training to work in your business. Contributing to your local Scout council helps to ensure that Scouting has the funding it needs. And, becoming an adult Scout leader will enrich your life as well as the life of the kids you serve. Keith Rutledge Assistant Scoutmaster Troop 245, Taylors, SC The Teaching Edge is a trademark of the Boy Scouts of America.