Boy leadership of boys is supposed to be how Scouting works. Many times leaders can only guess if they are being effective. A planned program of junior leader training can take the chance out of teaching leadership skills.

Wood Badge is the most advanced training available to Boy Scout Leaders.

The Wood Badge Home Page The First Scoutmasters' Course at Gilwell Park, September, 1919 Baden-Powell is seated center in the front row. On the morning of September 8, 1919, a 61 year-old retired general of the British Army stepped out into the center of a clearing at Gilwell Park, in Epping Forest, outside London, England. He raised to his lips the horn of a Greater Kudu, one of the largest of ...