National Youth Leadership Training
National Youth Leadership Training is an exciting, action-packed program designed to provide youth members of the Boy Scouts of America with leadership skills and experience they can use in their home troops and in other situations demanding leadership of self and others.
For many years, junior leader training (JLT) was an important part of the leadership-training continuum of the BSA. In 2003 and 2004 a task force of leadership experts and hundreds of Scouts in pilot courses across the nation reviewed and tested every aspect of the new NYLT syllabus, which incorporates the latest leadership ideas and presents fresh, vital, and meaningful training for today’s Scouts.
The new NYLT course centers around the concepts of what a leader must BE, what he must KNOW, and what he must DO. The key elements are then taught with a clear focus on HOW TO. The skills come alive during the weekends as the patrol goes on a Quest for the Meaning of Leadership. Patrol members find themselves going through four stages of team development – Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing. Challenges heighten the team development process, enabling them to use their awareness of the stages to build a highly effective team that can reach its full potential.
Because all troops need well-trained leaders, and since the Junior Leaders run the troop, it is vital that they be as well trained as possible. This Des Plaines Valley Council course has been successfully training our council’s junior leaders for 14 years.
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