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NYLT, IOLS, position-specific courses and the trainers who ran them. These posts follow adults and youth learning to lead, and the people who taught them.
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The National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT), previously an all male leadership training course, is now open to all Venturing youth between the ages of 13 and 17. Yes, you read correctly. NYLT is open to male and female youth. The course focuses on what a leader must BE, what a leader must KNOW, and what
Saturday was a perfectly beautiful fall day, great for being outside. The district had it's Camporee and I held Intro to Outdoor Leader Skills training at the same time and location so adult leaders could camp with their troops and spend their day getting trained while the scouts were doing 'stuff'.
Intro to Outdoor Leadership Skills (IOLS) training will be held in conjunction with the district camporee next weekend. I've cajoled a handful of scouters to present the sessions and now just hope it fits the schedules of enough untrained scouters to make it work.
At the battle of San Juan Hill over a hundred years ago, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt (later the first and only Chief Scout Citizen) didn't shout "Charge," or "Go Get 'em" to his Rough Riders! He shouted, "FOLLOW ME!" NAYLE is the BSA's premiere Outdoor Leadership Training for Scouts, Venturers and Sea Scouts-both young men and…
One of my Scouts was out last fall for a while playing football and was thinking about not coming back. His dad encouraged him, he came back, and in February he was elected Patrol Leader. This led to him participating in our Troop Leader Training Conference (TLT).
National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) is an intense week long leadership training class for youth
I am switching it up and posting the next morning because I do a lot of work into the night... An almost NON-Scout day, as in no meetings but plenty of work was done! - worked on the TLT Powerpoint for this weekend.
Last night at Round table I was asked to give the Scoutmaster Minute, go figure. Anyway, I had not really prepared as it was a last minute thing, but as the evening progressed a central theme hit me. We were talking about training.
