Re-prints from "The Scout Executive"

THE JOB OF THE EXECUTIVE

1. It is not dealing directly with the boys. The Scout Executive is not a leader of boys but a leader of leaders of boys. He is not a troop leader but a troop committee leader. His contact with boys is through leaders.

2. It is not carrying the entire responsibility of the council but rather seeing to it that the members of the council carry their responsibility. 3. It is not passing criticism upon the indolence or failure of the volunteer workers but on the other hand it is the task of enthusing, inspiring, encouraging, and educating them to do their best. Their failure to do well is not primarily their failure but the failure of the Scout Executive to give statesmanlike leadership to them.

In addition the job of the Executive is:

4. To represent the Scout movement in the community in which he is located.

To interpret the Scouting program.

To safeguard its tested and accepted principles and methods.

To sustain friendly and co-operative relations to other agencies working for or with boys.

To carefully study the needs of boys in his community and to present the facts in careful, sane, and discriminating fashion.

To cultivate helpful relations to all institutions in the community, such as the churches, the schools, the industries.

To sustain an advisory relation to such community enterprises as Chambers of Commerce, Municipal Boards, Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs. Such relations may be both direct or indirect. In the latter he would work through members of his council.

5. To be a friendly interpreter, exponent, and supporter of the plans and policies of the National Council and of its program.

6. To submit annually a comprehensive program to the Local Council and when the program is adopted faithfully carry it out through the committees of the council and not attempt to do it alone.

7. To assemble the council at least quarterly and the Executive Board at least monthly and have important things for them to discuss when they do meet. Meetings will have an agenda and data will be assembled bearing upon the subjects brought up for discussion.

8. To prepare an adequate budget in co-operation with the finance committee and then stick to it and live within it.

9. To have a careful and accurate system for keeping records permanently.

10. To deal with all business matters with despatch and courtesy.

To be master of details and not be mastered by them.

11. To discover, recruit, and train leaders and workers, a supreme function.

12. To be fair and frank and friendly to his associates.

13. To conduct the affairs of Scouting with reason

able economy and always open to public scrutiny. 14. To be neat in person and dress, clean in speech, unimpeachable in habits. Avoid glamor, the spectacular, and the superficial, and constantly display that dignity in manner and humility in spirit as becomes one who dares represent to the community its most precious human asset. Some job. It's big, worthwhile, happy, satisfying to the man who puts himself and all that is best in him into the task. It is not a job. It is a profession. It is not a position. It is a vocation.