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 support successful units. District leaders mobilize resources to ensure the growth and success of Scouting units within the district territory. --THE DISTRICT 2009 Printing

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 DISTRICT 2009 Printing

FINANCE LEADERSHIP MEMBERSHIP UNIT SERVICE PROGRAM

6 Volunteer Driven – Professionally Guided

9 "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.”

FINANCE LEADERSHIP MEMBERSHIP UNIT SERVICE PROGRAM

FINANCE LEADERSHIP UNIT SERVICE PROGRAM

FINANCE MEMBERSHIP UNIT SERVICE PROGRAM

LEADERSHIP MEMBERSHIP UNIT SERVICE PROGRAM

14 How do we measure if we are delivering the promise of Scouting?

15 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 Standards 3 levels of Achievement:BronzeSilverGold

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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.

FINANCE LEADERSHIP MEMBERSHIP UNIT SERVICE PROGRAM

Unit Service Plan  How is the Unit Doing?  Provide Help  Evaluate Service

Unit Service Plan Unit Commissioners Unit District and Council Resources

Coordinated District Committee Meeting OPENING WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS REVIEW JTE DASHBOARD DISTRICT COMMISSIONER REPORT MONTHLY TRAINING TOPIC CLOSING DISTRICT EXECUTIVE COMMENTS BRIEF COMMITTEE REPORTS CREATE ACTION PLANS COMMITTEE BREAKOUTS

District And Council Resources Unit Commissioners Scout Satisfaction Unit Program Journey To Excellence Standard 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

39 Steps to Deploy Unit Service Plan

40 TROOP (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13) Advance- ment Retention Building Boy Scouting Trained Leadership Short-term Camping Long-term Camping Patrol Method Service Projects Webelos-to-Scout Transition Budget Courts of Honor/Parents Meetings Fitness Reregister On-time Troop JTE Evaluation Worksheet

41 UNITService to ProvideBy Date Measurement Method Volunteer Accountable Council/District Committee to carry out Action Status 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