The Key to Ultimate Leadership

The Key to Ultimate Leadership…

Strong leaders are made, not born…Make the most of yourself at PLC.

What Is PLC?

PLC will provide participants with a Philmont-based wilderness experience

that motivates them to follow a life of helping others succeed based on the values expressed

in the Scout Oath and Law.

The Philmont Leadership Challenge

PLC is an exciting, week-long training program designed to enhance Wood Badge leadership skills

PLC is an exciting, weeklong training program

designed to enhance Wood Badge leadership skills.

What Do I Learn at PLC?You will learn to:

¨ Act as a servant leader who shares the skills of Wood Badge and helps develop other leaders through your enhanced understanding of the material.

¨ See the parallels between youth and adult leadership lessons.

¨ Be an advocate for all youth and adult leadership development training in your local council.

¨ Share with and learn from other participants to help others to be successful.

¨ Intuitively use the Wood Badge leadership skills in all aspects of your life.

What Can I Expect?¨ A backcountry experience based

at Philmont’s brand new Rayado Ridge Camp

¨ Challenging but fun backcountry activities

¨ An experience that will enable you to build upon the legacy of Waite Phillips, the man who gave us Philmont

¨ Learning to live a life of servant leadership

Primus inter pares - First among equals.

Wood Badge Review and more..

We focus on four pillars of sharing:

1. Reinforcing Wood Badge skills2. Showing the alignment between

youth and adult training3. Sharing expertise with

participants from across the nation

4. Taking lessons home to share with your unit and Council

The ModulesThe seven exciting PLC modules are designed to practice Wood Badge skills in a realistic and challenging setting:

• Project COPE• Wilderness First Aid• GPS and Geocaching• Search and Rescue• Leave No Trace • Conservation• Philmont HistoryAnd there is so much more!

The Modules Teach These Skills

Module Purpose Leadership Skills

Project COPE

Team development Valuing people, leadership behaviors

Wilderness First Aid

Learn advanced skills for later application in search and rescue

Planning, communication,problem solving

Geocaching

Outdoor skills, allow Storming stage of team development

Teaching EDGE, conflict resolution, problem solving

Search and Rescue

Learn advanced outdoor skills for application throughout the course

Teaching EDGE, communication, problem solving

Leave No Trace

Learn advanced outdoor skills for application throughout the course

Ethical decision making

Conservation

Give back to Philmont through service

Teaching EDGE, servant leadership

PhilmontHistory

Understand the value of a legacy

Servant leadership

Project COPE Purpose: Team development

Wood Badge skills: • Valuing people• Leadership behaviors

Wilderness First Aid Purpose: Learn advanced

outdoor skills

Wood Badge skills:• Planning• Communication

• Problem solving

GPS and Geocaching Purpose: Learn advanced

outdoor skills; allows Storming stage

Wood Badge skills: • Teaching EDGE • Conflict resolution• Problem solving

Search and Rescue Purpose: Learn advanced

outdoor skills

Wood Badge skills: • Teaching EDGE• Communication• Problem solving

Backcountry ExperiencePurpose: Learn Leave No

Trace

Wood Badge skill: Ethical decision making

Leave No Trace - Ethics in Action

Keeping the beauty of Philmont pristine for future generations

ConservationPurpose: Give back to Philmont

through service

Wood Badge skills: • Teaching EDGE• Servant leadership

Philmont HistoryPurpose: Understand the value of

a legacy

Wood Badge skill:• Servant leadership

“Beyond Wood Badge….”¨ We have added tested material

from a number of leadership books and concepts that expand upon ideas presented in Wood Badge.

And most of all . . .Servant Leadership

The core of PLC is “servant leadership”—learning to lead for the

good of others.

What Will You Take Home?

• The ability and motivation to be a dynamic and effective leader, gained through advanced, practical applications of Wood Badge skills

• Innovative techniques to deliver Wood Badge skills to units and Councils

• Nationwide resources …and friends!

• Life skills for now and forever

• A personal, written commitment for your unit, District and/or Council

• Wonderful memories of a great Philmont backcountry experience!

The journal captures WB and NYLT skills, and so

much more…

We See These Course Outcomes

¨ Increased self-confidence ¨ Growing self-awareness

– A daily assessment of strengths and limitations

¨ New creativity and ideas to take home

¨ The happiness from helping others succeed

¨ Understanding that everyone is a leader– Everyone in the group contributes in a

significant way to team success¨ Knowing leadership is a way of life

From Those Who Have Been There:

“This course has changed the way that I approach my personal, business and scouting life. Thank

you for that gift.”

“The truth is, it is hard to find words to adequately express

my experience. The course far exceeded my expectations.

I truly left Philmont with the desire to be a servant leader.”

“PLC exceeded my expectations and more importantly,

I left Philmont with lots of new friends, a bag full of resources, and a deep desire of wanting more!!!”

“As for home, church, and Scouting...I believe I got my batteries re-charged

and see life a bit more differently than before.” 

“I find it more important than ever to be more of a life partner with my wife, a contributing member of my church, and a Scouter who is needed in my

District.”

Am I Ready?To attend PLC, you must:

¨ Have completed or staffed Wood Badge If you have staffed NYLT or NAYLE, you also

qualify

¨ Successfully complete a BSA Health & Medical Report physical (Parts A, B, and C)(meet the Philmont backcountry medical requirements)

PLC is not just for Wood Badge staff… Unit leaders, Board members, and Council staff will all

benefit

For the first time, two PLC opportunities will be offered this year: July 20-26 and September 14-20, 2014…

Don’t wait…

Find out how to sign up and more information at

www.philmontscoutranch.org/PTC/

Remember . . .

Strong leaders are not born,

…they’re made.

Make the most of yourself…

at PLC