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Off to
A Fast
Start
BY ROBERT PETERSON
Photographs by Jim Kiihnl
Councils have discovered that Fast Start
videos can greatly improve the impact of
training for newly-recruited leaders.
ONE PICTURE MAY NOT
always be worth a thousand
words, but a videotape beats
a lecture every time when it
comes to speedy training of new leaders.
Take it from Scouters who use Fast Start
training videos to introduce raw recruits
to their roles in the Cub Scout and Boy
Scout programs.
As Joyce Herring, Cub Scout training
chairman for the Chickasaw Council in
Memphis, put it: "So many people can
listen all day long, but when they see they
comprehend a whole lot better."
Her colleague in the Chickasaw Coun-
cil, Eastern District Commissioner Ron
Edmonds, agreed. "When I first became
a Scout leader in the early '70s," he said,
"they had what was called Cornerstone
training. It was a forerunner of Fast Start.
It had a bunch of audiocassette tapes, and
I found it very hard to hold my attention.
"With the videos you can visualize
what a Scout meeting or a committee
meeting looks like, and I think it's a
hundred percent more effective."
Another virtue of Fast Start videos was
noted by Eastern District Training Chair-
man Daryl Skoog. "The BSA has on vid-
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eotape the messages it wants to put across
loud and clear and consistently," he
pointed out.
"If you tell three people one thing,
you'll get three different interpretations,
and, like any other large organization.
Scouting suffers from rumors and opin-
ions. So from a training standpoint, it's
really excellent that they have the videos."
Daryl Skoog said Fast Start videos
were an idea whose time had come. His
own district, he said, was considering de-
veloping its own training videos "when
the Boy Scouts of America beat us to the
punch and did an excellent job with it."
As the name Fast Start implies, the
training is designed to immerse a newly-
minted Cub Scout or Boy Scout leader in
the program without delay. Ideally, he or
she takes the training within two days of
recruitment. The heart of the training is a
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The three-part Boy Scout video runs
nearly an hour. The Cub Scout tape covers
five leadership positions.
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