Working With a Difficult Coleader: How to Keep Your Troop (and Sanity) Intact
What if the biggest challenge in your troop isn’t a messy craft project or a rainy camping trip, but the person sitting right across from you at the planning table?…
TROOP MANAGEMENT
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Should I require every parent to volunteer for at least one meeting?
3-minute read: Setting a “One-Task Rule” at the beginning of the year is a great way to establish a culture of shared responsibility. While you can’t always make it a…
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How to Get More Help from Parents
What if your next troop meeting felt like a fun gathering with friends rather than a frantic race to find missing glue sticks? Most leaders start with big dreams but…
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How to Navigate Difficult Co-Leader Dynamics
4-minute read: Leading a troop is one of the most rewarding ways to mentor young scouts, but when your co-leader relationship hits a rocky patch, it can feel like youāre…
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Advice for New Leaders from Experienced Leaders
Stepping into the role of a new troop leader can feel like embarking on a grand adventure without a map. Between managing cookie season logistics, navigating parent expectations, and trying…
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The Best Badge We Never Earned: Why I Let My Juniors Take the Lead
Recently, my Junior troop spent a winter night at a (heated) cabin in the woods. What did we want to do? Set up programs to go snow-shoeing? Work on fire-building…
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Balancing Troop Leadership with a Full-Time Job
Leading a troop is one of the most rewarding things you can do, but letās be real: when youāre also clocking 40+ hours a week at a “real” job, it…
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How much time should I realistically spend on troop prep each week?
3-minute read: Letās be real: we all want to be that “Super Leader,” but we also have lives, jobs, and laundry piles that wonāt fold themselves. If youāre wondering how…
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50 Ideas to Make Your Girl Scout Meetings More Fun
Girl Scout leader Erica posted on Facebook:Help! I am drowning in frustration. Our meetings are so lame! I spend time searching for badges and trying to implement the suggestions but…
