7 Steps to Successful Pack Meetings - Opening

by Baloo

Now the moment has arrived. After all the planning the meeting starts.
Since you have encouraged everyone to get to the meeting place on time with a gathering activity, it is very important that you start on time. The opening “ceremony” is another way to encourage people to be on time and indicates that the meeting [...]

7 Steps to Successful Pack Meetings - Gathering

by Baloo

Do people turn up late to Pack meetings? Are you constantly interrupted while preparing for a Pack meeting? Do your meetings start on time? Are boys constantly getting into trouble before the meeting?
The gathering phase of the Pack meeting could be your answer.
When presenting the Pack meeting plan to your Leaders include some time before [...]

7 Steps to Successful Pack Meetings - The Plan

by Baloo

As I mentioned in my previous article, “the failure to plan to to plan to fail”. So this
step is extremely important as it lays the foundation for a meeting which fun, exiting and
meets its requirements.
When starting a plan I use a quote from Rudyard Kipling.
I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I [...]

7 Steps to Successful Pack Meetings

by Baloo

When running Pack Pizzazz classes at Pow Wow students are told “failure to plan is planning to fail”. With that in mind the class is provided with a checklist of steps to help them plan a successful meeting. Future postings will cover each step in more detail, but here is the summary of steps.
1. Plan [...]