An opportunity

 If I was to tell you about an opportunity to receive top management and leadership training, would you be interested?

What if I were to tell you that the course material for this management course would cost you thousands of dollars in the arena of consulting firms?

What if I added in that instead of weeks of full time course study, it could be accomplished in five days?

What if I told you that this training is available in the Pony Express Council, is two weekends, and only costs $200?

Do I have your attention yet?

If you are reading this but don't know me, let me introduce myself, and give you some background as to how I can make such audacious claims.

My name is Philip Lovesee, and am a retired Air Traffic Controller/ Facility manager for the Federal Aviation Administration. I spent my first 18 years employed as a controller, working in Topeka, Omaha, and at the Kansas City Enroute Center in Olathe, KS. While at the Center, I transitioned into management, spending my first 7 years at the Center, before becoming the manager of the Twin Falls Air Traffic Control Tower and Non-Radar Approach Control in Twin Falls, ID. I was there for three years before I retired.

During my 10 years in management, I attended 7 different management courses, as well as quarterly management team meetings during my time in Twin Falls. This training was critical, not just to my learning how to do my job better, but in job skills that are universally applied in employment, and life.

Skills such as:

Collaboration

Team Building

Maximizing a team's potential

Finding and maximizing each individual's potential, focusing on using their strengths, rather than forcing them into a preconceived mold of what they should be (the old using a hammer to force the round peg into the square hole).

I can't help it, Context is so important to me that I have to lay it out before the big reveal. (yes, another management course, Gallup Strengthfinders)

I am talking of course of Wood Badge, or as some may write it, Woodbadge. 

Wood Badge is the graduate level of Scouting for adults. It is not just for Scouts BSA, it is for any adult leader that has done the standard Training for their position, to take their Scouting skills to the next level. But it is so much more. I listed just a few skill sets that are taught in Wood Badge. Just a few drops in the bucket that is taught in five days. Want a few more?

The importance of diversity, in all its forms

Setting specific goals and follow through, though in all fairness and full disclosure, while the course is only five days, there is homework with these individual and specific goals that each participant must complete over eighteen months.

The reason that I am writing this, is that there is a course being organized for this year, so the specifics?

Where: Camp Geiger

When: April 29-May 1 and May 14-15

Course: The Scoutmaster of the course has set a theme, in this case it is Gary's Guide Service, with a fishing theme. The official course number is 5-311-2022.

Cost: A measly $200. Camperships may be available, If finances are what are stopping you from participating, reach out to the Council.

How to register: Here is the website Wood Badge 2022 signup

Wood Badge is not just great Scout Leader training. It is training that is applicable in all of our interactions in life.

For just five days and $200.00

Now that is value.

I am Philip Lovesee, a member of the Camp Geiger Staff, and Quartermaster for the Wood Badge Course this year. 

I am a Buffalo, course C5-311-2020

My Scoutmaster, Brian Miller

My Senior Patrol Leader, Gary Proffit

My Troop Guide, Eugene Lickenbrock.

If you don't know what that means, only one way to find out. Click the link above.

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