Effective Rally Training

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Effective Rally Training

• Arrowhead District
• Circle Ten Council

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Why Have Rally Training?

• Be Prepared!
• Tell the same story
• Leave a good first impression
• Distribute Rally materials

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Setting Your Training Schedule

• When is your training?
• Two (or more) training sessions
• Begin in July
• Use different days (not same day of week)
• Where is your training?
• Use multiple locations across your District

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Training Participants

• Who should attend your Rally Training?
• Pack Membership Chair
• Pack Rally Team
• District Membership and Recruiting staff
• District Commissioners
• Any other interested persons
• Every member of your
• District is responsible
• for recruiting!

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Get the Word Out about Training

• Send invitations well in advance mail, e-mail
• Reminder phone calls one week before
• Get commitments
• Follow-up calls for those who missed first
  training
• Additional mail-out if time

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Prepare for Your Training

• Have a Training Agenda
• Rally Manual customize for your District, if
  desired
• Rehearse your Training with your District Team in
  June/July
• Have materials and incentivesprepared / packaged

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Setting up for Your Training

• Run your Training like a Rally demonstrate!
• Arrange tables and chairs
• Table signs
• Name tags / rosters
• Decorations Posters
• Activity displays

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Conducting Your Training

• Make it high-energy and fun!
• Solicit ideas from participants
• Run it like a Rally
• Review Rally Agenda (its your script!)
• Demonstrate activities
• Emphasize key points
• Distribute materials and incentives
• Evaluate

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Points to Emphasize

• Public Relations get the word out
• Signs / posters / flyers
• Newspapers / newsletters
• Cubs in uniform
• Be creative!
• Boy Talks
• Demonstrate how to do
• Emphasize that they work

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Points to Emphasize

• Play the newspaper game
• Rally reporting, and apps/money turn-in
• Separate parent event following
• Parent orientation
• Recruit Leaders
• Second-chance Rally

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Distribute Rally Materials

• Rally Night materials
• Rally manuals instructions
• Pack recruiting folders
• Applications youth adult, English Spanish
• Posters, flyers
• Have materials readily available
• Extra materials on-hand
• Downloadable from website

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Incentives to Attend Training

• Make participants feel welcome and wanted
• Good Turn thank-you candies
• Door prizes
• Success Kits
• Useful supplies for running a rally
• Pens, pencils, sharpener, tape, markers, candy
• Nametags, table signs, puzzle/activity sheets
• Fun signs, Welcome Letter template, District
  newsletter

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Remember

• Be Prepared.
• Do Your Best.
• Have fun!

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