LEADER Magazine
Girl Scouts' Quarterly National Magazine for Adults in Girl Scouting and Future Volunteers

Winter 2002 Highlights

What makes the Girl Scout team tick? The winter 2002 issue of LEADER explores team building from several angles.

Find out how volunteers and staff cooperate at all levels of the organization in "Councils, GSUSA and You." New volunteers might find this article particularly helpful.

"Way to Go, Girls!" provides leaders with advice on shaping a troop or group into a cohesive team. This article emphasizes the importance of understanding girls' learning styles and outlines the stages of a team's development. Chatty and personal, "What a Great Team: Working Well with Your Co-Leader" features interviews with successful Girl Scout co-leaders. Learn how they balance their responsibilities and cement their partnerships.

In "Today's Girl Scout Volunteers: Who Are We…Really?" a leader, co-leader and assistant leader tell how they manage to work Girl Scouting into their busy lives. Superwomen? Only up to a point. Along with their management skills and dedication, they've learned the secret of working very well with others.

That message also comes across in the Leader-to-Leader column, as volunteers across the country answer: "What do other leaders do to feel connected…to get support from other adults?"

"When Your Daughter Is in Your Troop" will hit home with the many leaders in that category. Harriet Mosatche, GSUSA's Director of Program Development and co-author with her daughter of Getting to Know the Real You: 50 Fun Quizzes Just for Girls (Prima, 2002), has led her daughter's troop for nine years. Dr. Mosatche gives her usual solid, sensible and inspiring advice.

Word is out: STUDIO 2B is in! Based on extensive research into the needs of preteen and teen girls, this program approach—launched at the National Council Session in October 2002—is fully explained in "STUDIO 2B: An Innovative Program Approach for Girls 11-17."

And there's more. Find out why it's so important to protect the Girl Scout service marks and insignia. And learn about some remarkable World Thinking Day projects in "The Great Girl Scout Global Think-In."

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