NYLT Silver Bear

National Youth Leadership Training

Sequoia Council - BSA

What Is Its Purpose?

To provide youth members of the Boy Scouts of America with leadership skills and experience they can use in their home troops and in other situations demanding leadership of self and others.

NYLT is an exciting, action-packed six-day leadership training for Boy Scouts. The NYLT course centers around the concepts of what a leader must BE what he must KNOW and what he must DO. The key elements are then taught with a clear focus on HOW TO. The skills come alive during the week as the patrol goes on a Quest for the Meaning of Leadership.

The Youth Training Continuum

Youth leadership training is a three-phase training experience, and a common thread of the Leading EDGE^TM connects all three phases. The first phase begins at the home troop with the Senior Patrol Leader and Scoutmaster conducting a Troop Leader Training (click here for a Power Point Slide Show of TLT). Phase two is the National Youth Leadership Training conducted by the Sequoia Council. This course schedule parallels the program month of a troop using patrol method and patrol members will find themselves going through the four stages of Team Development. The third phase of the continuum is the National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience (NAYLE), a weeklong camp at Philmont's Rocky Mountain Scout Camp, near Cimarron, New Mexico. NAYLE includes backcountry first aid, COPE, search and rescue in a unique back-county Philmont setting.

National Youth Leadership Training offers the skills of visualizing success, setting goals to accomplish that vision and making a plan to get there, all core to developing the leader's role. The objectives of the conference are:

To give participants the confidence and knowledge to run the troop program.
To give participants a basic knowledge of leadership, team building & conflict resolution and help them relate these skills to their troop responsibilities.
To give participants the opportunity to share ideas and experiences with Scouts from other troops.
To create an atmosphere of Scouting at its best living by the Scout Oath and Law.
To enhance the relationship between the participant/candidate and his Scoutmaster
To have fun.