This course discusses the focus of the new 2014 Methods of Venturing and in particular the method: Leadership and Mentoring. This is an overview course designed primarily for advisors to streee the importance of mentoring in a youth's life and to encourage them to train their youth using Mentoring for Venturers (released 2015)

1. Leadership and Mentoring:
A method of Venturing
Nathan Jarosz
Central Region Area 4 Venturing VP Training
Steven Myers
Central Region Area 4 Venturing Associate Advisor
Revised: February 2, 2015

2. For all Venturers and Venturing Aged Youth
Signup Deadline
March 22, 2015

3. 2 Mentoring Training courses
This presentation is a mixture of an older course and the material in the new Venturing
Advisor Guidebook, 2014
1) Mentoring
 Older course at http://scouting.org/training/youth
 An overview
2) Mentoring For Venturers
 Released in Jan 2015.
 Required for the Summit award and before doing Summit level
required mentoring
 An experiential course based on conversations, small group
discussion and role playing

4. Questions to answer today
1. What is the new Venturing vision and how is mentoring a part?
2. What is mentoring?
– Why do youth need mentoring?
– What does the Venturing Handbook and Venturing Advisor Guidebook say
about the mentors of our youth?
– Who is leading your crew? And who should be leading your crew?
– Can a prepared youth carry out this task?
3. What is coaching?
– How do you achieve effective crew leadership using a tool box of both
coaching and mentoring?
4. Which style of mentorship is most appropriate? (if there is time)
5. How does a mentoring relationship evolve?
6. What are the elements of a good mentoring conversation?

5. New Methods of Venturing, 2014
1. Leadership and Mentoring
2. Group activities and adventure
3. Recognition
4. Adult association
5. Ideals
6. Group Identity
7. Service
Most significant changes
Mentoring is emphasized in leadership
Teaching others is a part of leadership
Not just High Adventure
Added the importance of Group identity
Added Service

6. New Areas of Program Emphasis
Adventure
Leadership and Mentoring
Personal Growth
Service
To plan a successful Venturing program a crew should
incorporate into its annual plan all 4
areas of program emphasis

7. New Recognition Awards
Venturing Award (learning about Venturing)
Discovery Award (participating in Crew Adventures)
Pathfinder Award (leading Crew Adventures)
Summit Award (mentoring Crew Leaders)
Venturers who do more adventures, leadership, personal
growth and service need to be recognized

8. Mentoring and the ALPS planning and
recognition process
Planning
Elements
Awards
Adventure
Leadership
Personal
Growth
Service
SUMMIT Mentoring
PATHFINDER Leading
DISCOVERY Participating
VENTURING Learning

9. • Odysseus, when leaving for
the Trojan war, left his son,
Telemachus, under the
guidance of his friend
MENTOR. (Homers Odyssey)
• A Mentor is
– A wise teacher
– A guide
– A friend
– A sounding board
– A resource
• Mentoring is
– Listening
– Conversation, not instruction
– Questions that lead to
• Formulation of goals
• Analysis of problems
• Generation of plans
– Encouraging
– Challenging
– Never a put down
What is Mentoring?

10. “Mentoring is a fundamental form of development
where one person invests time, energy, and personal
knowledge in assisting another person to grow and
learn”
Mentoring for Venturers, 2015
Crews Facilitator Guide
What is Mentoring?

11. Q. Why do youth need Mentoring?
A. Because being a youth leader is a challenge!
• Lonely on top
• Standing out
• Overwhelming
• Adults!
Venturing Advisor Guidebook (2014, p. 66-67)

12. Q. Who are the mentors of our youth?
• Experienced youth
– Former officers
– Former crew activity chairs
– Others?
• Adults
– Crew Advisor
– Associate Advisors
– Others?

13. Read and share
“Mentoring does not come naturally to many of
us. We are more inclined to step in to solve others
people’s problems for them. But when we analyze
and solve other people’s problems for them, we
deprive them of an opportunity to think and grow
for themselves.”
1. What message is being sent here?
2. Why is it being sent?
Handbook for Venturers (2014, p. 108)

14. “Advisors work as mentors in life as well as in
Scouting. They are connected with youth they serve.
Advisors help coach from behind the scenes.”
1. What message is being sent here?
2. Why is it being sent?
Venturing Advisor Guidebook (2014, p. 24)
Read and share

15. BSA expects that
Venturing Crews are led by Venturers!
Sometimes a crew doesn’t come together and a Crew
Advisor becomes the leader of the crew.
Venturing Advisor Guidebook (2014, p. 66)
Who is leading your crew?

16. “Could a prepared youth carry out this task?”
If Yes, what would it take to move the crew officers
into leadership positions?
Venturing Advisor Guidebook (2014, p. 66)
So who should be leading your crew?

17. What would it take to move the crew
officers into leadership positions?
Are mentoring and
coaching really the
same thing?

18. How are mentoring and coaching different?
Coaching Mentoring
Goals To complete an
objective, to correct
To transfer
knowledge, to
support and guide
Initiative
Focus
Roles

19. How are mentoring and coaching different?
Coaching Mentoring
Goals To complete an
objective, to correct
To transfer knowledge,
to support and guide
Initiative With the coach, and
is often a brief
encounter
The mentee, and is
often an ongoing
relationship
Focus
Roles

20. How are mentoring and coaching different?
Coaching Mentoring
Goals To complete an
objective, to correct
To transfer knowledge,
to support and guide
Initiative With the coach, and is
often a brief encounter
The mentee, and is often
an ongoing relationship
Focus Immediate
situation, and is
content-focused
Long-term, and is
process-focused
Roles

21. How are mentoring and coaching different?
Coaching Mentoring
Goals To complete an
objective, to correct
To transfer knowledge,
to support and guide
Initiative With the coach, and is
often a brief encounter
The mentee, and is often
an ongoing relationship
Focus Immediate situation,
and is content-focused
Long-term, and is
process-focused
Roles Heavy on telling
and focusing on
specific issues
Heavy on listening
and focused on a
relationship

22. YOU CAN USE
COACHING AND MENTORING
TO ACHIEVE
EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP
IN YOUR CREW
Venturing Advisor Guidebook (2014, p. 67)

23. What are Levels of Effective Leadership?
Levels of
Effective
Leadership
Venturing Leader
Awareness Venturers are not conscience of
the need leadership
LOWEST LEVEL
Interaction Ventures begin to see the need
for leadership and seek ways to
be a more effective leader
Integration Leadership becomes part of the
Venturing Leader’s problem
solving tool box.
HIGHEST LEVEL
Venturing Advisor Guidebook (2014, p. 67)

24. What are Levels of Effective Leadership?
Levels of
Effective
Leadership
Venturing Leader What is needed? A
coach or mentor?
Awareness Venturers are not conscience of
the need leadership
Coach
Interaction Ventures begin to see the need
for leadership and seek ways to
be a more effective leader
Mentor
Integration Leadership becomes part of the
Venturing Leader’s problem
solving tool box.
Mentor who enables
their leadership and
encourages them to
seek other mentors.
Venturing Advisor Guidebook (2014, p. 67)

25. Levels of Effective Leadership &
The Leading EDGE
Levels of
Effective
Leadership
Venturing Leader What is needed? A coach
or mentor?
Awareness Venturers are not conscience of
the need leadership
FORMING / STORMING
Coach
EXPLAIN/DEMONSTRATE
Interaction Ventures begin to see the need
for leadership and seek ways to
be a more effective leader
NORMING
Mentor
GUIDE
Integration Leadership becomes part of the
Venturing Leader’s problem
solving tool box.
PERFORMING
Mentor who ENABLEs their
leadership and encourages
them to seek other mentors.
Venturing Advisor Guidebook (2014, p. 67)

26. Hints to Advisors to build effective crew
leadership
1. Work with youth officers in advance of meetings and
activities
2. Start with coaching, e.g., focusing on specific tasks
3. Move to mentoring, e.g., focusing on helping crew officers
make independent decisions as to how best to lead the crew.
4. Use reflection after every event as a building block
5. Help your Venturers apply the Leading EDGE
6. Keep your eye open to develop future leaders
Venturing Advisor Guidebook (2014, pp. 67, 76, 83)

27. Mentoring Impact in Venturing
Leadership &
Mentoring
Personal
Growth
Adventure Service
• Venturing Award
– Learning about
Venturing
• Discovery Award
– Participating in Crew
Activities and
Adventures
• Pathfinder Award
– Leading Crew Activities
• Summit Award
– Mentoring Crew
Leaders

28. Click here if
you are running
out of time.
Sponsorship
MENTOR
Protégé
Developmental
Comparing Mentoring Models
MENTOR YOU

29. Sponsorship
1. The mentor is more
influential and
hierarchically senior
2. The mentor gives, the
protégé receives, the
organization benefits
Developmental
1. The mentor is more
experienced in issues
relevant to mentee’s
learning needs
2. A process of mutual
growth
Comparing Mentoring Models

30. Sponsorship
3. The mentor actively
champions and promotes
the cause of the protégé
4. The mentor gives the
protégé the benefit of
their wisdom
Developmental
3. The mentor helps the
mentee to think for
themselves
4. The mentor helps the
mentee develop their own
wisdom
Comparing Mentoring Models

31. Sponsorship
5. The mentor steers the
protégé through the
acquisition of experience
and resources
6. The primary objective is
career success
Developmental
5. The mentor helps the
mentee towards personal
insights from which they
can steer their own
development
6. The primary objective is
personal development
Comparing Mentoring Models

32. Sponsorship
7. Good advice is central to
the success of the
relationship
8. Social exchange
emphasizes loyalty
Developmental
7. Good questions are
central to the success of
the relationship
8. The social exchange
emphasis learning
Comparing Mentoring Models

33. Which mentoring model is this?
• Advisor and Associate Advisor
• Unit Commissioner and Crew Advisor
• Crew Advisor and Crew President
• Last years crew leader for Philmont and this years
crew activity chair for Sea Base
• Other examples?

34. A Quality Mentoring
Relationship includes
• Goal clarity
• The ability to create and manage rapport
• Understanding of the role and its boundaries
• Voluntarism
• Basic competencies on the part of the mentor and
mentee
• Commitment to learning and to helping others learn
• Proactive behaviors by mentee and developmental
behaviors by the mentor
• Measurement and review

35. Evolution of The Relationship
1 3 4 5
2
1. Building rapport
2. Setting direction
3. Progression
4. Winding up
5. Moving on
intensity
Time or length of mentoring relationship

36. A Mentoring Conversation
• (Establish or) Reaffirm your relationship
– Listen Attentively
• Identify the issue
– Get all the facts
• Build mutual understanding
– Summarize what is said
• Exploring alternative solutions
– The mentee chooses
• Final check
– Determine who will do what and when
– Follow up if necessary

37. For you, do the benefits of
Mentoring outweigh the costs?
Benefits
• For the mentee
– Improved knowledge and skills
– Greater confidence and well-being
• For the mentor
– Greater satisfaction
– New knowledge and skills
– Leadership development
• For Scouting
– Improved morale, motivation, and relationships
The Costs
• Your time invested in the personal development of another.

38. LEADERSHIP AND
MENTORING
Nathan Jarosz
area4VP-training@CRVenturing.org
Steve Myers
area4aa-communications@CRVenturing.org
Area4.CRVenturing.org
facebook.com/groups/CRV.Area4/
twitter.com/area4venturing (@Area4Venturing)

39. Resources
BSA. (2014). Handbook for Venturers. no. 33494
BSA. (2014). Venturing Advisor Guidebook. No. 34655
Luecke, R. (2004). Coaching and mentoring: How to develop top talent and
achieve stronger performance. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing
Corporation.
Megginson, D., Clutterbuck, D., Garvey, B., Stokes, P., & Garrett-Harris, R.
(2006). Mentoring in action: A practical guide (2nd ed.). Philadelphia:
Kogan Page.
Mentor. (2006, October 30). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved
November 7, 2006, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentor
Predaptive. (2006). Coaching and mentoring are critical in today's flat
meritocratic organisations. Retrieved July 19, 2006 from
http://www.predaptive.com/resources_article2.htm
Virginia Office of Volunteerism. (1995). Volunteer mentor programs: an
introductory guide. Richmond, VA: Author

40. Index: Mentoring in the new resources
• Venturing for Venturers Crews Facilitator Guide, 2015 (all
pages)
• Venturing Advisor Guidebook (your best source)
– 21, 25, 45, 59, 63-83, 107, 110, 148
• Handbook for Venturers
– 108
• Venturing Advisor Position-Specific Training
– 7, 21, 32, 39-40, 55
• Crew Committee Challenge
– 6, 23