1. The Business Value of Scouting

2. Business Leadership Requirements  Business leaders must be able to:  Create and Execute a Business Plan – Determine Business Vision/Objectives – Create a Plan with Achievable Goals to Reach the Objectives – Manage the Plan Using Project Management Skills – Handle Unexpected Situations  Inspire and Lead People – Understand and Appreciate Diversity – Engage Using a Variety of Leadership Styles – Motivate Each Person – Create a Team From Groups of Individuals – Set a Personal Example  Create a Climate of Trust and Accountability – Integrity in All Matters – Accountability for Results – Independent Action in Support of the Team’s Goals

3. Scouts Are Prepared to be Business Leaders  Developing Leadership Through Scouting – Vision → Goals → Planning = Success – SMART Goals — Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timely – Planning and Problem Solving: What, Why, How, When, Who – Assessment: SSC→ Start, Stop, Continue  Learning to Inspire and Lead People – Practical Leadership Skills ROPE: Reach out, Organize, Practice, Experience Resolving Conflict –EAR: Express, Address, Resolve The Training EDGE™ –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. Team Building –Forming –Storming –Norming –Performing

4. 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.

5. Business Leadership That Works  Scouting produces leaders that are: – Trained, capable and experienced – Trustworthy and accountable  Support Scouting – Improve your business: Hire a Scout! – Contribute to your local Scout council – Become an adult Scout leader