Leadership in Action

LIA - a great piece to all three Cadette Journeys.  This is where the Cadette girls get to use leadership skills to teach their sister Brownies and participate in their Journey.

Each of the Cadette Journeys has a corresponding piece in the Brownie Journeys.  Now, while it would be great to have this info in each of the girl Journey books, it's not!  Your girls will probably need some adult/leader help sleuthing out the information.

Breathe Journey - pages 20 and 21 of the Adult Guide outline the requirements. The Cadette girls work with the Brownies as those little girls earn their WOW Journey patches.

Amaze Journey - well, you'll have to look in the Brownie Journey Adult Guide to find it! I'd give you page numbers, but I'm at work, and all I have are the older girl books!

Media Journey - page 9 of the Girl Journey book has a quick intro. pages 18 and 19 of the Adult Journey Guide has the requirements of how to earn this LIA working with a Brownie troop as they complete their A World of Girls Journey.

As your girls are moving through the Cadette program, they have the opportunity to take advantage of these built-in program pieces to use their leadership.  A great retention piece, as those little Brownies just LOVE the older girls coming in and helping. And the older girls just LOVE the positive attention!  A win-win all around. 

For the patch-happy, there's an LIA patch for each Journey to be earned!  And while we're not here to "decorate little girls" we are here to give them the opportunities to grow.  A patch is a small way to show their achievement!

Let the girls do it!

LIA - Leadership in Action

“…to teach is to learn twice…”

I just saw this aphorism posted on the old Orco Block building off the 55 freeway.  There is surely some truth to the statement.

As a trainer, I am supposed to have a really good knowledge of the subject I’m to teach.  But I don’t know everything!  And I don’t really KNOW it until I’ve taught it several times.  To the content of what I teach, I add in the discussion information from each class, the great ideas and the failures.  So when I go to teach again, I am not only teaching the syllabus, but I am re-learning the information I’m teaching, adding in new tidbits as I learn them.  Teaching certainly reinforces what I’ve learned!

Isn’t that what the Leadership in Action (LIA) is all about?  We ask our Cadettes to identify a team of Brownies who are working on the same Leadership Journey.  Using the Breathe Journey as an example, the girls take some of what they’ve learned for Breathe (experiments, facts, fun crafts, etc.) and figure out how to teach it to the younger girls.  They learn it twice!  Once when it was new, and then again as they teach the Brownies. What great reinforcement!

And what a great way for these Cadette-aged girls to use their leadership skills!  These little Brownies LOVE the older girls!  The older girls are there only for them, paying attention, focusing their efforts and having successes. It’s a win-win situation!

I would be remiss if I didn’t say, don’t forget to reinforce this with the girls. Be sure to take the time after they’ve completed the LIA to talk about what the girls discovered about them selves, how they connected with the younger girls and how taking action makes a difference.  Be sure that they see the value of using what they’ve learned to help others…..so that they make the world a better place!