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Unit commissioners, roundtables and district service. Commissioners shared how they helped units thrive, from the first unit visit to charter renewal time.
109 posts · 2006–2019
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Commissioner Keith Comments: Scouting's Best Kept Secrets : "There's an old saying that is still repeated by scouts and scouters throughout the world and that saying is, 'What happens at camp, stays at..."
Commissioner Keith Comments: The Falling Eagles : "I know four scouts, all of which have earned the rank of Life Scout, and have the potential to become Eagle Scouts. One scout has completed ..."
2 Vote On Idea There are some listing mistakes online for Commissioner service. The Commissioner Manuals listing on scouting.org/commissioners has incorrect item numbers for the following manuals: Commissioner Fieldbook for Unit Service and Commissioner Helps for Packs, Troops, and Crews.
Recently, I stepped down as an Assistant Commissioner and while being away from that part of the scouting program, I have found that several scouting friends and acquaintences do still approach me for counsel and advice on issues that they have within their respective units.
About mid February, I registered a URL for my district UC service and a toy for me. I wanted to see how google apps and sites tied together and how best to use it. You can get an awesome front end view from the Scouting units that have come to use Google apps.
2 Vote On Idea receiving several comments about issues logging on and reporting, below is a cut and paste from a e-mail from one of my ADC's. seems to be a consistent issue: I want to report more Unit Commissioner Report MyScouting web site problems.
-1 Vote On Idea I put this idea together from "Merit Badges and Scoutmasters" as well as from the comments posted in that idea then inserted some information from my past experiences and slammed them all together and am putting out two ideas; this one and one on Merit Badge Policy – Education & Actions / Possible Template.
2 Vote On Idea At our staff planning conference we discussed how to encourage better performance of commissioners. When reviewing the award criteria for Commissioners we noticed that they were not really supporting the requirements for Quality District and Council.
