Death Spiral: Governance Edition

National Governance, Opinions 10 Comments board of directors, core business strategy, councils, delegate, democratic process, governance, gsg, gsle, gsusa, national board, national delegate, volunteers

Last June, I wrote a post called Death Spiral which discussed signs pointing to a council that could potentially fail – or one that’s already on its way. The signs included the disintegration of the service unit structure leading to isolation of troops and volunteers.

There is another sign of a failing council, and it’s one that comes from the governance side of things. It’s the failing of the democratic process. This unfortunately probably speaks for a great many councils these days, and it isn’t a good sign for the long term health of the Girl Scout Movement. Continue reading

February 19 2019

Junior Think Like an Engineer Rewrite

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I finally got around to finishing the Junior Think Like A … Journey Trilogy series by completing the Junior Think Like an Engineer Journey. Like the others, I took the set of 6 sessions from Volunteer Toolkit and slimmed it down by reformatting and removing any duplicate material. You can also find the original set from the Farthest North council’s website. This UNOFFICIAL rewrite includes all of the additional handouts and GSUSA survey in an appendix. It’s been consolidated from 125 to 35 pages! Your printer will thank you.

And so, without further ado, here it is! Please let me know if there are any type-os or missing information in it. Junior Think Like an Engineer Journey Rewrite

Looking for the other two Junior Think Like A … Journeys in the series?

I’ll be creating other UNOFFICIAL guides in the future, and you’ll be able to find them here. I’m not sure if I’ll be doing any other Journey rewrites, but never say never!

February 9 2019

Mystery Solved

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This blog post is more dramatic if you read it while playing the Unsolved Mysteries theme song. I guess though EVERYTHING is more dramatic with the Unsolved Mysteries theme song playing as the soundtrack. It’s too bad I don’t have Robert Stack narrating this. He died back in 2003, in case you were wondering.