The Book

Using Scouting as a model, Doug and Richard show a leader in any field how to easily remember and use the skills of leadership - the ones you already know - plus lots of others!

Our 200+ page book is a compilation with added material of the main articles from our first 14 issues dealing with the Wood Badge Leadershp Skills. This is THE BOOK for anyone interested in leadership including corporate, private business managers and WBer's wanting to enhance and review for themselves or in connection with their being on staff of a course.

FOREWORD
by Darryl Alder

Purportedly, when asked for his phone number, Einstein reached for a phone book. The inquirer asked why and Einstein replied that he chose not to clutter his mind with things that are already catalogued. That's how I feel about this book and its memory devices. It is a catalogue of leadership skills. Its memory devices are easy to recall.

So easy, in fact, that within days of my reading, I was able to use two of the leadership skill memory devices to plan important training. Based on past experiences and the devices for Planning and Delegation, it was easy to think out lesson plans during a one hour commute. Then, using the Effective Teaching memory model, I organized my thoughts and in no time had two lessons ready. They both worked great...maybe better than usual because of the spontaneity this process allows.

That was only the beginning. At work we were planning an educational seminar. We felt past seminars had missed the mark by not motivating the participants enough. So we invited our speakers to a planning meeting. These speakers were a large firm's human resource manager, an attorney and the head of a division of state government - not your usual Boy Scout trainees. Both the Planning skill and the Effective Teaching skill came to play in the success of that meeting. The skills were too important to miss, but the setting too formal for Wood Badge notes. So I just recalled the skills and taught them the steps of Effective Teaching. They probably already knew them, but not so succinctly. We went on to have the best session our firm had ever offered.

Years ago such a similar event would have required weeks of study and preparation, extensive planning and writing. This system is so easy to use that you will be forever grateful to Doug and Richard for making it possible.

About the Authors:
Doug and Richard have 22 Wood Badge, Junior Leader Training, or Philmont staff experiences. They have maxed the square knot patch space on their Scout Uniforms and hold doctor's degrees from the College of Commissioner Science where they have administrated and taught numerous times. They have held Scouting assignments from unit to area level.

Doug Brewer is business manager for a construction company and was an operations sergeant in Viet Nam. Richard was principal of a private school for 11 years and was a major in the Army Reserve. They are active in church and community.

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