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Orion National Youth Leadership Training

"If You Can See It, You Can Be It"
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Overview Of The Course

  • The course models a month in the life of a troop.  Three troop meetings (one each day for the first three days) lead up to a big outdoor experience (an overnight outpost camp). The course uses the patrol method.  There is a Patrol Leader's Council meeting each day of the course. 

  • Patrols are challenged early in the week to present to the troop at the end of the week their “Quest for the Meaning of Leadership.” While the challenge is designed to have them go through the four stages of team development, it will help patrols and individual Scouts internalize the leadership skills and concepts being presented to them along the way.

  • Throughout the course, the staff will be modeling the concepts and skills that are the core content of the course. The focus of each session is not only knowledge but giving the youth a “Toolbox of Skills’ that equips them with the “how.”  

 

The Toolbox of leadership skills

  • Vision – Goals – Planning – Creating a positive future
  • SMART Goals – Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timely
  • Planning and Problem – Solving Tool – What, How, When, Who
  • Assessment Tool – SSC – Start, Stop, Continue
  • Teaching EDGE – Explain, Demonstrate, Guide, Enable
  • Stages of a Team – Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing
  • Leading EDGE– Explain, Demonstrate, Guide, Enable
  • Conflict Resolution Tool-EAR- Express, Address, Resolve
  • Ethical Decisions – Right vs. Wrong, Right vs. Right, Trivial
  • Communication - MaSeR – Message, Sender, Receiver
  • ROPE – Reach, Organize, Practice, Experience

Leadership Skills Being Taught

  • The leadership skills being taught at Orion NYLT are listed below by day of the course.  Click on the links to view outlines of the presentations.  You will need Acrobat Reader installed to view them.  Remember they are just outlines and not the complete presentations.  (Dial-up users may find download times rather long.  We've tried to minimize file sizes.)  

  • The course begins with the patrols finding their team vision and ends with the individuals refining a personal vision of how to take the skills back to their home troop and communicate what he has learned.