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Program - NYLT
 The NYLT course simulates a month in the life of a troop. It is a six-day course, usually held at a council camp or other outdoor setting. It reinforces and expands upon Be-Know-Do leadership. Scouts learn a number of leadership skills and concepts summarized on the memory tips card. The youth learn about the stages of team development and how to match the most appropriate leadership style with the developmental stage of the individual or team. The course has many challenges for the youths, including its culmination where they undergo a quest for the meaning of leadership, which they then present to the entire NYLT troop.
The NYLT course has Eight Key Elements
- A Month in the Life of a Troop
- Four Stages of Team Development
- Leadership Requires Vision, Goals, and Plans
- Toolbox of Leadership Skills
- Consistent Leadership Modeling
- Scout Oath and Law
- Have Fun!
- Traditions
What will the Scouts learn?
The Scouts come away from their NYLT experience with exposure to the best of the best of leadership techniques. They have learned so many invaluable skills about how create a vision of success, how to set goals and make plans, how to listen and solve problems, and how to teach and lead. Most of all, they learn the bigger picture of how to put the needs of others first in order to be a truly great leader. They learn to use the Scout Oath and Law to make hard decisions and to remain true to Scouting's values.
How can they use this to support our Unit's program in a Troop Setting?
The applications to a home troop are immediate and obvious. The Scout comes home from NYLT with a new toolbox of skills at his disposal. He has lived the patrol method and has spent the week thinking about his own quest for the meaning of leadership. He will provide great value to the troop with his ability to coach and mentor the other scouts, using the Leading and Teaching EDGE(TM). In addition, while at NYLT the Scout has made a commitment to take on a challenge to better his home troop. He needs to share his challenge with the troop's leaders upon his return from training and enlist their aid in evaluating his effort.
How can they use this at home, school, or church?
All of these skills are applicable to every part of a Scout's life. They will follow him to adulthood, enabling him to be the most effective leader—and follower—in any setting.
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