From a drawing in the 1937 Scoutmaster’s Handbook

The Attributes of a Good Troop

These are attributes of a good troop.
Check to see how you measure up.

Yes No
	Troop has earned Quality Unit Award.
	Scoutmaster has completed basic training.
	Troop follows traditional troop-meeting pattern (standard troop-meeting plan with two or more skills-training groups).
	Troop has a high ratio of active adults to youth.
	Leaders regularly attend Roundtables.
	Troop meetings are planned at patrol leaders’ council meetings.
	Woods Wisdom is used in planning troop program.
	A patrol for new Scouts exists, with a troop guide and assistant Scoutmaster.
	Troop adds at least ten Scouts each year.
	Troop has an annual minimum of twenty-five days and nights of camping.
	Troop attends a council long-term camp.
	Leaders are proficient in outdoor skills.
	Troop has at least twenty-one Scouts.
	Troop has a program for older Scouts.

Contents:

• Return to the Introduction
• Are You Delivering the Promise?
• Adult Leadership
• Outdoor Program
• Boy Leadership
• The Image of Scouting
• Upsizing Your Troop
• The Attributes of a Good Troop
• Forward to the last section Ask Yourself the Question
   

Adapted from Delivering the Promise, No. 18-251, Boy Scouts of America, 1993

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