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Tenure Tips (from page 48)
questionnaires were returned. The team
also interviewed selected Cub Scouters,
and the findings from the questionnaire
and interviews were distilled into a report
titled Ten Top Tenure Tips.
It came as no surprise to the project
team that packs with the best leaders and
strongest programs were holding boys
longest. "Those that were following the
program had the best tenure," Mrs.
Chambers said. "They were holding boys
two to three years—through the whole
program of Cub Scouting—and when they
lost a boy it was often because he moved or
had to leave for some other reason," she
explained.
A summary of the Ten Top Tenure Tips
follows.
Quality Leaders. First on the project
team's "must" list is quality leaders for
dens and packs.
What is quality leadership? Tenure Tips
uses these words and phrases to describe a
quality leader: trained . . . knows what
programs adhere to the aims of the BSA
and the purposes of Cub Scouting . . .
knowledgeable . . . confident . . . uni-
formed . . . good example . . . responsible
... gives guidance ... patient... firm but
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fun ... lives the Promise, Law of the Pack,
and motto . . . has good attitudes and is
dependable . . . can make the purposes of
Cub Scouting live in the life of a boy . . .
friendly ... helps make Cub Scouting fun
for everyone.
Program. Sharing the top spot in Tenure
Tips with quality leaders is program. A
strong program is built on the nine serious
purposes of Cub Scouting as listed in the
opening pages of each of the basic leaders'
books. It should be well-planned, chal-
lenging to the boys, and have plenty of
active play and work. But most of all, it
must be fun. "Fun" is a boy's all-purpose
word for whatever interests or excites him.
A follow-up question on why it's fun
may elicit a little more information, but a
Cub Scout-age boy's vocabulary is not
extensive; "fun" covers a multitude of
pleasures. Unless a Cub Scout finds the
program "fun" (whatever that means in
context), he becomes a probable dropout.
Year-round den and pack activities are
recommended by Tenure Tips for packs
hoping to raise their retention rate. Also
recommended are keeping standards high,
making pack meetings the best show in
town, and planning den and pack pro-
grams as outlined in the basic literature.
Recognition and Advancement. One of the
outcomes of a good program is advance-
ment—or at least it should be. Although
Cub Scouts pass most of their require-
ments for advancement under the eyes of
their parents, many den activities should
provide practice and projects for those
requirements. And in Webelos Scouting,
where advancement is approved by the
den leader, there is a direct connection
between what the den does and how fast
the boy advances.
Research has shown that earning badges
and other awards is very important to
more than 80 percent of Cub Scout-age
boys. Receiving their awards in special
ceremonies is very important for 60 to 75
percent of them. So regular advancement,
and recognition in ceremonies, are vital to
Cub Scouts' tenure.
Packs with the best tenure records tend
to have good advancement ceremonies,
the project team found. Ceremonies
should be dignified, impressive, and
well-planned. Many packs use lighting
effects, ceremonial boards such as ad-
vancement ladders, and such props as
tom-toms.
A memorable advancement ceremony is
important not only to the boy being hon-
ored but to others in the pack, too, ac-
cording to Priscilla Growney, a leader in
the ceremonies workshop at the 1981 Pow
Wow of the Ocean County, N.J., Council.
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