The document provides 7 habits for highly successful Venturing crews: 1) follow good crew sustainability practices like appointing successors and ongoing recruitment; 2) appoint an advisor for each officer to ensure continuity and support; 3) empower officers by setting expectations, providing training, and letting them lead; 4) encourage mentoring to keep experienced youth engaged; 5) embrace service through school and recruiting requirements; 6) adopt a "meet less, do more" philosophy using officer-only meetings and technology; 7) provide social opportunities and fun through joint activities at various levels of Scouting. Additional resources are listed to support the Venturing program.

1. 7 habits of a highly successful
Venturing crew
Insights to help Advisors in a
youth-led, adult-guided program
Kimberly Myers
Great Trail Council Venturing Officer Association
Advisor@GTCVenturing.org

2. “The Mission of the Boy Scouts of
America is to prepare young people to
make ethical and moral choices over
their lifetimes by instilling in them the
values of the Scout Oath and Law.”

3. 1. The Advisor follows Good
Crew-Sustainability Practices
Appoint your successor
Never ever stop recruiting
Follow the program as designed

4. 2. Appoint an Advisor for Every Officer
Ensures Continuity
Ensures their officer is prepared
Compensates for lack of ability
Shield officer when necessary

5. 3. Empower Your Officers
Set Expectations
Provide for their Training
Crew Bylaws
Let them Lead

6. 4. Encourage Mentoring
Mentoring keeps the experienced
youth engaged
New leaders learning from
experienced and trained peers

7. 5. Embrace Service
School Service Requirements
Recruiting Tool

8. 6. Adopt a
“Meet Less, Do More” Philosophy
Officer Only Meetings
Conference Calls
Activity “committee” meetings

9. 7. Provide Social Opportunities
and Plenty of Fun
Troop/Crew Joint Activities
Council Venturing Activities
Luau, Camp Manatoc – August 12, 2017
Fall Event, Camp Butler – November 3-4, 2017
Area Venturing Event
WorldFest, Seven Ranges – April 28-30, 2017
National Venturing Event
VenturingFest, Summit Bechtel Reserve - July 1–6, 2018

10. Journey to Excellence for Venturing Crews
Steps on the scorecard include standards in
A Adventure
L Leadership
P Personal Growth
S Service
Bonus step … get to gold
http://www.scouting.org/Home/Awards/JourneyToExcellence.aspx
Due to your unit commissioner on December 31 of each year.

11. Further help: read the Advisor
Guidebook and take the training
At your scout shop, scoutstuff.org
or Amazon.com
http://www.scouting.org/Training/Adult.aspx
Or online at my.scouting.org

12. Resources
Great Trail Council Venturing Officer Association
Report your Crew President GTCVenturing.org/crewpresident
Council Venturing President president@GTCVenturing.org
Council VOA Advisor advisor@GTCVenturing.org
Great Trail Council
GTC Venturing Website GTCVenturing.org
GTC Venturing News site GTCVenturing.org/news
Facebook Group facebook.com/groups/GTCVenturing
Facebook Page facebook.com/GTCVenturing
Area/Region Venturing
Area 4 Webpage Area4.crventuring.org
Central Region Venturing crventuring.org
National Venturing scouting.org/venturing