FH: Roundtable

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Bruce Street
Conway, AR 72032
The Role of Roundtables
Roundtables provide unit service that will assist unit leaders in preparing their youth to live the values of the Scout Oath and Law. Roundtables support unit leaders through delivering effective program ideas, relationship development, and timely communication. Roundtables also provide an opportunity for sharing experiences and enjoying fun and fellowship with other leaders.
There are two main purposes of Roundtable:
1. To provide the skill to do—skills, techniques, information, program ideas—the know-how that makes for successful unit operation.
2. To provide unit leadership with the will to do—the morale, enthusiasm, inspiration, and vision that periodically renew the desire to serve youth. When skillfully executed, the Roundtable experience will inspire, motivate, and enable unit leaders to provide a stronger program for their youth.
Who should attend Roundtable?
All unit leaders, unit committee members, chartered organization representatives (CORs) and commissioners should attend Roundtable. In the busy world today, it is understood that with everyone’s full schedules that all leaders might not be able to attend EVERY monthly Roundtable, but it is almost ALWAYS possible that at least one leader from each unit is available to attend the monthly Roundtable. Some units schedule rotations for their leaders to attend Roundtable to make sure there is always someone there each month.
Roundtables and Commissioner Service
How do Roundtables support the FIVE Focus Areas for Commissioners?
1. Supporting unit growth and retention. Roundtable provides a great opportunity to educate units how to grow their units and providing an effective program is the best thing a unit can do to retain their youth and their unit leaders.
2. Contacting units. Roundtable is the perfect place for Unit Commissioners and the Roundtable Team to meet new unit leaders and augment other types of unit contacts. Roundtable should also be part of every unit service plan for continuous improvement.
3. Linking unit needs to resources. There is no better place to link units with district and other resources than a district Roundtable. Roundtable is a great place to meet and network with all district leaders and to discuss unit needs and expectations.
4. Supporting timely charter renewals. Unit leaders that are active in Roundtable are normally much more proactive in completing their charter renewals. Roundtable provides instructions and reminders on how to routinely maintain the units’ youth and leader registrations throughout the year and special classes can be provided on how to effectively manage the recharter process.
5. Delivering effective roundtables. Effective Roundtables are essential to unit service by ensuring program ideas, relationship development and timely communication is provided to support all unit leaders. Roundtable should be the place to be in every district to obtain updates, networking opportunities and to learn how to make Scouting fun for our youth.

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