Leadership Training

My career as a amateur and, very occasionally, professional actor has demonstrated that people raise their performance level astronomically when they have a real audience.

I have seen people who rehearse poorly preform brilliantly.

I see similar difference in scouting; when the boys are being trained they rarely perform at the same level as when they are doing real work.

Troop leadership need brief and useful time to itself to mark out plans and prepare for them, but they do not need elaborate and, to most boys, tiresome ‘training’. They will learn more from actually doing the work rather than rehearsing.

Leadership training is not an event, syllabus or session; it is a constant relationship between the members of a troop built on a basis of shared responsibility and service.