Happy Mother's Day Fellow Commissioner!
(I sure hope you remembered!!!)
Cha-cha-cha-changes ... if you have not paid attention to the signature block on Randy's emails, then you may have missed an important detail -- Randy has received a promotion! He's now a District Director, and also has the Council Hispanic Initiatives reporting to him now. Congratulations Randy! Of course, hopefully you have heard that Don Martino, who has served our District as District Commissioner, Unit Commissioner, and most recently as one of our Assistant District Commissioners, has been selected to be our new District Chairman! This means we need to find a new Commissioner to work with Pack 529 and Troop 196. I am working with the Committee Chairman of Troop 854 to see if there may be a Assistant Scoutmaster or Committee Member who would like to work with the Pack as their Unit Commissioner. And for the time being, I will watch over Troop 196.
Well, come mid-week, Norm Kasch and his wife should be leaving for New Mexico for the summer. They will both be working at Philmont Scout Ranch. Good luck Norm, and we hope you have a great time in the Sangre de Cristo range. We'll see you in late August!
Thursday night, 7:30 p.m., is the monthly Commissioners' Meeting. We will be talking about "Mid-Year Health Checks" and "Reviewing Your Unit's Progress on JTE" -- two extremely important mid-year tasks (before summer camp) that Commissioners need to do. In addition to the standard JTE forms, they now have spreadsheets you can use with your units if you are interested.
Looking for the List of Commissioner Assignments? You can sort the page by any field shown, and you can download this list as a spreadsheet. If you see any changes or corrections, please, let me know.
Looking for the District and Council Calendar of Events?
Leadership Notes #3 - Situational Leadership
(This series of "notes" first appeared in the YahooGroup "VenturingList" and are written by Michael Brown. I thought that they were worth sharing with the Commissioner Corps.)
What may be a well known leadership concept is "Situational Leadership" (SL). Despite what some on other forums claim, it's a widely used leadership idea, NOT a "corporate management tool" or the like. Many organizations include this in their LD program. I was fortunate to attend an "executive briefing" on Situational Leadership a few years back, given by the co-developer of SL, Dr. Paul Hersey. Hersey provides training in SL thru his Center for Leadership Studies http://www.situational.com/ (Ken Blanchard, the other co-developer, does the same with his version of SL, called SLII, thru the Ken Blanchard Companies http://kenblanchard.com/ ).
While I am familiar with SL, I felt that going to such a presentation, given by a co-creator, would give some good insights into it. I wasn't wrong. Below are my notes of his presentation, with some additional comments by myself in brackets. Please pardon the crude attempt at ascii art. :)
Leadership is basically influence [as noted in LN #2]. Someone in the audience asked if that wasn't also manipulation. Hersey replied that manipulation is where you get someone to do something for YOUR benefit, whereas influence (leadership) is to get them to do something for THEIR benefit (and the group/companies). It's not the same.
The old view of leadership was of a graph with 2 extremes:
democratic |--------------------------------------------------| autocratic
[I have also seen some works that extend this graph to left to the concept of "abdicratic", where the leader abdicates their position and allows the group to run itself, which may or may not work. In an earlier edition of the Scoutmaster Handbook, we had a scale of leadership from "hardnose" to "no nose" to illustrate the same concept.]
You're Invited!
The annual Central Florida Council Recognition Banquet is scheduled for Friday, June 10th at the Buena Vista Palace Hotel.
Our Keynote Speaker for the evening, Giovanni Livera, is so excited about this year's festivities, that Gio has sent you his personal invitation to attend this year's event.
So check out your personal invitation from Giovanni, and we hope to see you at the Council Recognition Banquet! (Don't forget, Don Martino is one of this year's recipients, so let's turn out for Don!)
Commissioner Basic Training
Seminole Springs District will be hosting Commissioner Basic Training on Saturday, June 18th from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. We are looking for individuals who would be interested in teaching one or more of the course modules that day. If you'd like to help with training, please, let me know.
The training will be held at the Winter Park Masonic Lodge, located at 1495 Grand Road Winter Park, FL 32792 (map). A Continental Breakfast and Lunch will be served. The cost for the course will be $8.00 to cover the continental breakfast and lunch. Online registration will be available shortly.
All new commissioners (Unit and Roundtable) in our District should plan on attending.
College of Commissioner Science
If you are were unable to attend the CFC College of Commissioner Science, you missed a great event, but, here are some dates from surrounding Councils where you can still attend their Commissioners' College:
- May 20-21 - Gulf Stream Council at Camp Tanah Keeta
- August 13th - North Florida Council - location TBD
Dates and such
May 9-10 - New Unit Blitz
May 12th - District Committee Meeting, 6:30 p.m.
May 12th - Commissioners' Meeting, 7:30 p.m.
May 13th - Seminole Springs District Banquet - 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. - Lake Mary LDS Ward (map) - Online Registration
May 13-15 - Cub Scout Summer Explosion at Camp La-No-Che - Online Registration, Registration Form
May 19th - District Roundtable, 7:00 p.m. at the Lake Mary LDS Ward
May 20-22 - Venturing Powderhorn Weekend 2 at Camp La-No-Che - Flyer
May 21st - Council Program Launch and District Committee Orientation Location - LDS Church 5449 N Dean Rd Orlando 32817 [North of University & Dean] (map) - Flyer - Online Registration
May 28th - Daytona Cubs Scout Night Sleepover - Flyer
June 10th - Council Annual Business Meeting 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. at the Buena Vista Palace Hotel - Flyer - Online Registration
June 10th - Council Annual Recognition Banquet 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. at the Buena Vista Palace Hotel - Flyer - Online Registration
June 12-19 - Commissioner Training Week at Philmont Training Center - Conference Catalog
June 18th - Commissioner Basic Training - 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Location: Winter Park Masonic Lodge, 1495 Grand Road Winter Park, FL 32792 (map). A Continental Breakfast and Lunch will be served.
June 20-24 - District Cub Day Camp - Lake Mary LDS Ward
July 3-8 - Air Conditioned Eagle Encampment at Camp Ithiel - Information - Online Registration
July 24-30 - Eagle Week at Camp La-No-Che
July 24-29 - NYLT at Camp La-No-Che
August 1-6, OA Indian Summer - Online Registration
September 23-25, Fall Woodbadge Weekend I (S4-83-11-2) at Camp La-No-Che - Information - Online Registration
October 8th - District Training Day
October 7-9, Fall Woodbadge Weekend II (S4-83-11-2) at Camp La-No-Che - Information - Online Registration
October 14-15 - District Cub Family Camp-out
November 5th - Outdoor Leadership Skills for Webelos Leaders
December 2-4 - Council Camporee at Camp La-No-Che - Leader's Guide - Online Registration
December 10-11 - BALOO Training
December 21-30 - 1st Central Florida Council International Scouting Jamborette at Camp La-No-Che - Leader's Guide
December 26-29 - Winter Camp at Camp La-No-Che
January 28, 2012 - University of Scouting at Timber Creek High School (map)
* New additions to the calendar since the last issue.
"Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example." - Baden-Powell
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