N6 524 17 Employer Letter

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Dear employer,
Your employee is considering signing up for an exceptional training course known as Wood Badge. This course is
being presented by the PA Dutch and Chester County Councils of the Boy Scouts of America during two three-day
weekends in the spring of 2017. I am providing this information to you to help you understand how this course will
enhance the skills of your employee and provide benefits to you and your company.
What is Wood Badge? It is the most advanced leadership training course available to adult leaders of the Boy Scouts.
During this intensive six-day course, the participants are immersed in a curriculum which follows the model
established for leadership training by some of our country’s experts in the field. I have included a partial list of the
resource material our training is based on with this letter.
Seminars held to teach these skills at the corporate level routinely cost thousands of dollars per student to attend.
I’ve personally sat through some of these seminars and can assure you the way Wood Badge is presented
accomplishes the same objectives in a fun way much more beneficial to the learner. We do the same thing in a better
way for $270.00.
Here are just a few of the skills your employee will bring back to your workplace after completing Wood Badge:
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They will be able to determine the health of your team and adopt a leadership style which will guide your team
to become the high performing group you would like them to be.
They will be better communicators and have the ability to be empathetic listeners and manage conflict between
team members which enhance the group’s ability to maintain higher morale and increase productivity.
They will be problem solvers and critical thinkers, understanding how every team member brings something
positive to every challenge.
Most importantly, they will become peer leaders guiding your team to achieve success and support the vision
and mission of your organization.

As an adult Scouter, your employee is a special person. They volunteer to work with youth, instilling the values and
ethics of the Scouting program, allowing these young people to be tomorrow’s leaders who make ethical decisions
based on the character-driven values of the Scouting program.
I hope you can see the benefit of supporting your employee in this endeavor. Your consideration in adjusting their
schedule, if needed, to allow attendance and reimbursement of the portion of tuition cost you deem appropriate will
go a long way toward providing your employee with skills and expertise which will benefit them and your
organization.
If I can be of further assistance in providing any other information regarding our course, please contact me at
717.291.4658.
Yours truly,

Thomas Schmuck
Thomas Schmuck
Course Director
Wood Badge Course N6-524-17
Email: woodbadge17@comcast.net
PA Dutch Council Web Site: http://padutchbsa.org/training/wood-badge/

Wood Badge Training Resources
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to Lead—A Workbook on Becoming a Leader.
Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing
Company, 1997.
Bennis, Warren. Managing People Is Like Herding
Cats. Provo, Utah: Executive Excellence
Publishing, 1997.
Bennis, Warren. Old Dogs, New Tricks. Provo,
Utah: Executive Excellence Publishing, 1999.
Bennis, Warren. On Becoming a Leader. Reading,
Mass.: Perseus Books, 1994.
Bennis, Warren. Why Leaders Can’t Lead—
The Unconscious Conspiracy Continues. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1989.
Blanchard, Ken, Bill Hybels, and Phil Hodges.
Leadership by the Book—Tools to Transform
Your Workplace. New York: William Morrow
and Company, 1999.
Blanchard, Ken, John P. Carlos, and W. Alan
Randolph. Empowerment Takes More Than
a Minute. New York: Berrett-Koehler
Publishers, 1996.
Blanchard, Ken, John P. Carlos, and Alan Randolph.
The 3 Keys to Empowerment—Release the
Power Within People for Astonishing Results.
New York: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999.
Blanchard, Ken, Sheldon Bowles, Don Carew, and
Eunice Parisi-Carew. High Five!—The Magic of
Working Together. New York: William Morrow
and Company, 2001.
Blanchard, Kenneth, and Norman Vincent Peale.
The Power of Ethical Management. New York:
William Morrow and Company, 1988.
Blanchard, Ken, Donald Carew, and Eunice ParisiCarew. The One Minute Manager® Builds High
Performing Teams. New York: William Morrow
and Company, 2000.
Blanchard, Kenneth, Patricia Zigarmi, and Drea
Zigarmi. Leadership and the One Minute
Manager—Increasing Effectiveness Through
Situational Leadership. New York: William
Morrow and Company, 1985.
Covey, Stephen R. Principle-Centered Leadership.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.
Covey, Stephen R. The Seven Habits of Highly
Effective People. New York: Simon & Schuster,
1989.

Covey, Stephen R., A. Roger Merrill, and Rebecca
R. Merrill. First Things First. New York: Simon
& Schuster, 1994.
De Pree, Max. Leadership Is an Art. New York:
Doubleday, 1989.
De Pree, Max. Leadership Jazz. New York:
Currency Doubleday, 1992.
De Pree, Max. Leading Without Power: Finding
Hope in Serving Community. San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass, 1997.
Deeprose, Diana. The Team Coach. American
Management Association, 1995.
Giber, David, Louis Carter, and Marshall Goldsmith.
Best Practices in Leadership Development
Handbook. Linkage, 1999.
Greenberg, Eric, and Weber, Karl. Generation WE,
Emeryville, California, Pachatusan, 2008.
Greenleaf, Robert K. Servant Leadership—A
Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power
and Greatness. New York: Paulist Press, 1991.
Heenan, David A., and Warren Bennis. Co-Leaders:
The Power of Great Partnerships. New York:
John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
Hersey, Paul, Kenneth H. Blanchard, and Dewey
E. Johnson. Management of Organizational
Behavior: Leading Human Resources. 8th ed.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.
Howe, Neil, and Strauss, William. Millennials
Rising: The Next Great Generation. New York:
Vintage Books, 2006.
Howe, Neil, and Strauss, William. Generations:
The History of America’s Future. New York:
William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991.
Johnson, Spencer. Who Moved My Cheese? New
York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 1998.
Kotter, John P. Leading Change. Boston, Mass.:
Harvard Business School Press, 1996.
Lee, Blaine. The Power Principle—Influence With
Honor. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
McCauley, Cynthia D., Russ S. Moxley, and Ellen
Van Velsor, eds. Handbook of Leadership
Development. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998.
Weaver, Richard G., and John D. Farrell. Managers
as Facilitators: A Practical Guide to Getting
Work Done in a Changing Workplace. San
Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999.



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