Scout Leadership Course Session Overview

In this session, we learn the key skills of Speaking and Listening. Any leader will tell you how important it is to listen to people around you. Being able to speak clearly and confidently is the best way to pass on information.

Time to allocate for this session

30 minutes

Recomended programming for this session

This session can take place at any time.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the session, Scouts will:

• Know different ways of speaking for effect
• Understand the importance of listening to others
• Have practised speaking clearly and confidently

Content to be Covered

During the session, you must cover:

• Examples of speaking for different purposes
• An exercise in listening
• An exercise in speaking

Measuring Success

The session outcomes will have been achieved if:

• Scouts show listening skills and state why this is important.
• Scouts state that different types of speaking are appropriate to different situations.
• Scouts can speak confidently and effectively to each other, to adults and to the group.

Suggested Activities and Resources

Choose one Speaking and one Listening exercise or a combined Speak and Listening activity similar to these recomended activities for this session:
Either:

Activity	Type of activity	Resources
Listening Exercise - Activity Choice 1: the Unknown Scout	Can you recall facts from what was heard?	Unknown Scout and questions
Listening Exercise - Activity Choice 2: Paper Exercise	Same instructions, different outcomes! Indoor activitiy.
Listening Exercise - Activity Choice 3: Kims Game	Kim’s game – spoken items
Then
Speaking Exercise - Activity Choice 1: Elevator Pitch	Presenting your own Elevator Pitch	Elevator Pitch cue cards
Speaking Exercise - Activity Choice 2: Creature lecture	Talking to the animals	Speech cue cards

Or:

Activity	Type of activity	Resources
Speaking & Listening - Activity Choice 1: Guest Speaker	An address by a motivational speaker on leadership
Speaking & Listening - Activity Choice 2: Instructions	Giving clear instructions

Participant Handouts

Resources that can be printed or included on a disk to take home:

Speaking and Listening

Training Adult Leaders

Adult Leaders attending for training purposes should:

• Demonstrate their own ability to speak and listen
• demonstrate and understand the training and support required to develop Scout's ability to speak confidently and listen carefully