Suppose you are at the Camporee, suppose its Saturday, late afternoon and time to turn in the troop score sheet. You get up from your chair and start walking in the direction of the radio tower, or some other perceived spot of operations control. You arrive with troop in tow and ask where to turn the sheet in, I will turn to your SPL and ask him were you at the meeting last night. He replies affirmative so I say to him where were you told to turn it in? He says back there at the flag pole.
So what just happened?
As adult leaders its easy for us to "take over" the troop even if we have the best of intentions to let it be a "boy run troop" because we are looked on as the leaders. Next time stay in your chair, call your SPL over to you and whisper to him a reminder what comes next, let him take the lead.
See; The Scoutmaster Whisper at; <
http://bsaroundtable.com/smwhisper.html>
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