Communicating With Unit Leaders

[SeattlePioneer]

How does formal communication of a program become translated into real action?

 

 

Last Thursday our DE gave a presentation on the new "Journey to Excellence" program that is replacing the Centennial Quality Unit Award program.

 

Now, I've heard that two or three times now, so I am beginning to get the point. But how does that translate into it actually making a difference to a unit?

 

Yesterday I Googled up "Cub Scout Journey to Excellence" and found that a PDF file was available that I could now e-mail to others.

 

So I sent the following e-mail to my new Pack Committee Chair who just took office witht the new year:

 

 

[SeattlePioneer]

Having written an e-mail that might get the "Journey to Excellence" program kicked off in my own unit, what else might I do to help communicate that program to other units?

 

 

What I did was to write a second e-mail to the Cubmaster and Pack Committee Chair of two other Cub Packs I work with pretty closely. Actually, one of the Cubmasters was at the Roundtable, and one of the Committee Chairs stopped by briefly, although she probably didn't hear the presentation on this program.

 

I sent the following e-mail to these people together with the PDF file on the program:

 

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My original e-mail was my effort to get the program used in my unit. The second e-mail was my effort to show two other units how they might make get the program started in their units.

 

 

Maybe I'm being preumptuous by proferring unasked for advice. If so, I figure my e-mail will be easy to ignore. But perhaps it will be picked up and used. At a minimum it will be another opportunity for people to hear about the program and consider if it's something they would like to try.

 

 

So those are two efforts to translate a formal program into something that might actually be used in a Scout unit.

 

A third effort is to post those examples here ---- perhaps someone else will find those methods useful to get something started in their own unit.

 

Are formal efforts to communicate like Roundtable presentations enough, or do we need to make informal efforts to communicate as well?