Why Can’t I Hold This Together” If you are struggling to simply hold your team together, stop.  When you’re in a hole stop digging.  Go back to the basics.  Reevaluate your value proposition and go back to the basics of leadership. Leadership – Bringing out the best in others Your first position of leadership is [...]

Why You Need A Compelling Why. I have heard it said, “People lose their way when they lose their why.” Every outpost Commander needs to have a goal or two for his outpost for the year.  Something that’s personally valuable to them.  A value proposition that they can esteem. Your goals may not change from [...]

rec·i·proc·i·ty noun The practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit, The quality or state of being reciprocal: mutual dependence, action, or influence   We all have a vision of families and royal rangers being highly engages, responsive, and devoted to their Outpost.  So, how does that happen.  Is it just the natural, organic result of [...]

Why do we call it the “ALARM” clock?  Why isn’t it the opportunity chronograph.  When the alarm sounds, we are called into action as though there is an emergency that is going to require mountains of effort and most of the day to resolve.  What if the “opportunity clock”, and the sound it makes [...]

College Bound?  Don’t forget to take your faith. If you son or daughter is on a trajectory that is leading them toward college they you’ll want to pay close attention to this podcast episode.  In this episode we will be talking with a second semester seniors and hearing directly from him concerning some very [...]

Adult Facilitate Boy Led “Common sense is not common practice” The greatest example of “adult facilitated, boy led” for me was SMC abroad.  An entire four-day camp led entirely by boys.  Now, some of you may be saying, “yeah, but those were high school boys”.  True, but the principles work at every grade level.  They [...]

“The Basics Of Rangers” Spiritual – The ministry philosophy Discipleship – Discipleship is the process of poring Gods truths and wisdom into someone life and is a lot more relational than any other type of training or teaching. “We are to build a bridge of trust that will bear the weight of truth.” Mentoring [...]

Reality Can Catch Up to Your Beliefs Building a successful Outpost is hard work and can ware on someone who has not armed themselves with solid personal goals as well as a sound business plan, yes business plan.  Even though Rangers is a God inspired initiative there are plenty of naysayers out there that can [...]

5 ways to avoid killing your dream. Take each of these and think of a personal experience. Discouragement 2.  Disappointment – Gape between expectation and reality. Avoid hope dashing 3.  Settling for average.  You can reach for a dream and stay safely mediocre at the same time. 4.  Lack of Confidence Dreams are at their [...]

Scoreboards and Scales “Common sense is not common practice” Scoreboards People play differently when they’re keeping score. If you doubt this, watch any group of teenagers playing basketball and see how the game changes the minute scorekeeping begins. However, the truth of this statement is more clearly revealed by a change in emphasis: People play [...]