What is a District? Purpose of a District The purpose of the district is to work through chartered organizations and community groups to organize and.

What is a District?

Purpose of a DistrictThe purpose of the district is to work through

chartered organizations and community groups

to organize and support successful units.

District leaders mobilize resources to ensure

the growth and success of Scouting units within

the district territory.--THE DISTRICT

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Purpose of a District

The end result of effective district support is

more and more youth members receiving a

more robust and exciting quality program.

--THE DISTRICT2009 Printing

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Council Board of Directors

Vice Chair Fund Development

Vice Chair Membership

FOS Steering Chair

Advancement Chair Leadership

Development Chair

Eagle Advisor

Merit Badge Counselors

Outreach Chair

Spring Recruitment

New Unit Coordinator

Adult Awards

Outdoor Programs Chair

Camporee

LDS Chair

Major Gifts Chair

SOR Sale

Popcorn Sale

Cub Scout

Boy Scout/Varsity

Assistant District Commissioners

Family FOS Chair

Webelos Woods

Day Camp Director

OA Chapter Advisor

Activities/Civic Srvc Chair

Scouting For Food

Appreciation Dinner

Program Director

Scout-O-Rama

Roundtable Commissioner

Unit Commissioners

Cub Scout R/T Cmsr

Boy Scout R/T Cmsr

District Vice-Chair

Nominating Committee

Leadership Chair

Risk Management Chair

Camp Promotions

District Chair

Public Relations Chair

Youth Protection

Charter Representatives

Webelos to Scout Transition

Fall Recruitment

Tiger Cub Recruitment

District Commissioner

Webmaster

District Chair Elect

Varsity R/T Cmsr

District Executive

Volunteer Driven – Professionally Guided

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"Scouting's Journey to Excellence is BSA's

performance program designed to

encourage and reward success and

measure the performance of units, districts,

and councils.”

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How do we measure if we are delivering the promise of

Scouting?

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BALANCED SCORECARD

•Shows Strengths and Weakness

•Trend Lines

•Drives Continuous Improvement

•Helps identify chronic issues and drives performance

• Packs

• Troops

• Teams

• Crews

• District

• Council

Scorecard

10-13 Standards

3 levels of Achievement:

BronzeBronzeSilverSilverGoldGold

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What Journey to Excellence Brings to Units

1. A framework for planning the year. • The Journey to Excellence standards are based on what

successful units do to continually improve.

• If your unit plans to achieve gold or silver Journey to Excellence, you’ll have a strong and active program.

2. A method for evaluating your unit. • Provides tangible measurements based on things you are

likely already tracking, such as how many campouts you have, how many youth are advancing, etc., and uses simple ways to calculate your performance.

What Journey to Excellence Brings to Units

3. Guidance in areas where you might do better. • As you track your performance against the Journey to

Excellence standards, you can easily see where you could do better.

4. Specific guidelines and standards of what is considered good performance.

• Journey to Excellence has specific, simple measures to help you. You can easily compare what you are doing against the standards.

What Journey to Excellence Brings to Units

5. Early warning of potential problem areas. • You track any areas where your unit is not performing as

you might like and have plenty of time to make corrections.

6. Recognition for good Scouting. • You can proudly receive your bronze, silver, or gold

recognition for your Scouting unit for the year.

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How is the Unit Doing?

Provide Help

Evaluate Service

Unit Service Plan

Unit Commissioners Unit

District and Council

Resources

Coordinated District Committee Meeting

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WELCOME &INTRODUCTIONS

REVIEW JTE DASHBOARD

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DISTRICT EXECUTIVECOMMENTS

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CouncilResources

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Unit Program

Journey To Excellence Standard

The Unit Service Plan

The Unit Service Plan

1.Journey to Excellence standards are reviewed with Units.

2. Best practices and areas of improvement are identified based on the Journey to Excellence standards and shared with each unit

3.Unit Commissioner identifies resources and develops the Unit Service Action Plan for each area of improvement.4. Best practices and Unit

Service Action Plans for every unit are shared with both commissioner staff and district committee

5. Unit commissioner and Unit “partner” to improve JTE score.

6. Unit annual program is written focusing on “partnered” improvement opportunities

7. Action Plan is implemented and Units improve program provided to their members

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Steps to Deploy Unit Service Plan

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TROOP

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13)

Advance-ment

RetentionBuilding

Boy Scouting

Trained Leadership

Short-term Camping

Long-term Camping

Patrol Method

Service Projects

Webelos-to-Scout Transition

BudgetCourts of

Honor/Parents Meetings

FitnessReregister

On-time

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UNIT Service to Provide By DateMeasurement

MethodVolunteer

Accountable

Council/District Committee to carry

out ActionStatus

Unit Service Action Plan

Holds Unit Key 3 Meetings

Has an active Unit Commissioner

Completes Unit Assessment twice a year

Achieves Journey to Excellence Criteria

Has an annual Unit Calendar and Budget

Recharters On-time

Has a strong relationship with Charter Partner

Has at least one representative at monthly Roundtables

Keys to High Performing Units