National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT)
National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) is a youth leadership development training program of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) conducted at the council level. It is intended to be in-depth training covering a number of leadership ideas and skills for Boy Scouts and Varsity Scouts.
Introduction
National Youth Leadership Training is an exciting, action-packed program designed for councils to provide youth members with leadership skills and experience they can use in their home troops and in other situations demanding leadership of self and others.
For many years, junior leader training (JLT) was an important part of the leadership training continuum of BSA local councils throughout America. In 2003 and 2004, a task force of leadership experts and hundreds of Scouts in pilot courses across the nation reviewed and tested every aspect of the new NYLT syllabus, which incorporates the latest leadership ideas and presents fresh, vital and meaningful training for today's Scouts.
The NYLT course centers around the concepts of what a leader must BE, what he must KNOW, and what he must DO. The key elements are then taught with a clear focus on HOW TO. The skills come alive during the week as the patrol goes on a Quest for the Meaning of Leadership.
NYLT is a six-day course. Content is delivered in a troop and patrol outdoor setting with an emphasis on immediate application of learning in a fun environment. Interconnecting concepts and work processes are introduced early, built upon, and aided by the use of memory aids, which allows participants to understand and employ the leadership skills much faster.
Built on the legacy of past JLT successes, the new NYLT integrates the best of modern leadership theory with the traditional strengths of the Scouting experience. Through activities, presentations, challenges, discussions, and audio-visual support, NYLT participants will be engaged in a unified approach to leadership that will give them the skill and confidence to lead well. Through a wide range of activities, games, and adventures, participants will work and play together as they put into action the best Scouting has to offer.
Course
The NYLT program is to be conducted in a one week program, but can be split over two weekends. Most NYLT courses are conducted at council-level camps, primarily because these camps are established, have proper facilities for a week long course. Courses range in size from 40 to 180 Scouts, generally forming one to four troops, with six to nine patrols in each. The content learned at any NYLT course is outlined in a national-level syllabus, however each council's NYLT may have small variations in the material taught, and may add in other events or special activities not required in the NYLT outline.
Organization
NYLT is run by youth leaders under adult supervision. Adults perform administrative services and ensure guidelines are met including health and safety. The course presentation and instruction is the responsibility of the senior youth leader who acts as the senior patrol leader. Assistant senior patrol leaders are usually directly responsible for staff issues. The quartermaster is responsible for food and equipment. Instructors are responsible for the primary presentation of sessions although the other youth leaders may conduct some presentations
Participants are organized as a standard Boy Scout troop. They are grouped into patrols of eight or so boys and elect their own patrol leader. A staff member is assigned to each patrol as a troop guide to coach and mentor the patrol leader.
Training
The training, information, and skills taught in the National Youth Leadership Training course are to comply with the NYLT syllabus, where many of the leadership tools and information is found. Training includes subjects like event planning, communication, team development, teaching, leadership styles, setting goals, and problem solving among the many skills covered in the program. The training itself is often conducted with a lesson in presentation style usually followed with a demonstration or an exercise to allow the participants to practice what they have learned.
Activities
The NYLT course isn't only course work and classroom study. Throughout the course, team games and other activities are used to exercise the skills that the participants learn in the lessons. Patrol competitions are also included in the course. Patrol competitions include a lashing game, and a geocache game to name a few from the list of many activities. Even so, the activities, like everything used in the NYLT course is not without reason, they all have leadership skill building in mind. Awards are sometimes given for these activities, and sometimes for other things deserving recognition, such as a best patrol award, a best campsite award, a best spirit award, best troop guide award.
National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience (NAYLE)
The National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience (NAYLE) is offered by the Philmont Training Center and based at the Rocky Mountain Scout Camp.
This camp is designed to provide you with a Philmont based wilderness encounter that motivates you to follow a life of helping others succeed based on the values expressed in the Scout Oath and Law. The Philmont leadership is committed to making NAYLE a very special experience. You will live in a patrol setting at Rocky Mountain Scout Camp where you will use leadership skills to resolve exciting and challenging back country situations. This week will conclude with a closing challenge for each Scout to build upon the Legacy of Waite Phillips, the benefactor of the Philmont Scout Ranch.
NAYLE will equip youth leaders to be better Troop Leaders, NYLT staff members and/or superior camp staff. It will help guide a Scouts’ journey in leadership service to others, able to develop all members of whichever team they lead. It provides life skills for now and the future.
What is NAYLE?
The new National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience (NAYLE) is an exciting new program where young men enhance their leadership skills in the Philmont Back country. Scouts will expand upon the team building and ethical decision making skills learned in National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT). NAYLE uses elements of the Philmont Ranger Training as well as advanced Search and Rescue skills to teach leadership, teamwork and the lessons of selfless service. NAYLE will offer Scouts an unforgettable back country wilderness experience where they live leadership and teamwork, using the core elements of NYLT to make their leadership skills intuitive.
What can you expect?
The Philmont leadership is committed to making NAYLE a very special experience. Scouts will live in a patrol setting at Rocky Mountain Scout Camp where they use their leadership skills to resolve exciting and challenging back country situations. The week will conclude with a closing challenge for each Scout to build upon the legacy of Waite Phillips, the benefactor of the Philmont Scout Ranch.
What are the Benefits?
NAYLE will equip youth leaders to be better troop leaders, NYLT staff members and/or superior camp staff. It will help guide their journey to become true "servant leaders', able to develop all members of whichever team they lead. It provides life skills for now and the future.
How has the mission changed?
NYLT now provides the content needed for councils to develop high performing youth training teams. As such, the "train the trainer" elements are now provided to the entire NYLT staff by their council rather than to the select few who attended the old NJLIC program. While these "train the trainer" elements have been removed from NAYLE, all the excitement remains, with even greater, life long leadership skills included.
Who can come?
Scouts must be 14 and not yet 18, hold a troop leadership position and have completed either NYLT or JLTC. Councils may send a council contingent or troops may send their Patrol Leader Council. Concurrent adult training will be available most weeks at Philmont for contingent leaders.
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