Unit commissioners may ask, "How will I know I'm doing a good job?" That's an important question for all Scouters.
There are several answers.
A unit commissioner is successful when the units the commissioner serves
are successful. Are your assigned units providing a quality program for
youth? Are your assigned units growing in membership? Did your units
register on time? Did they meet the requirements for the National Quality
Unit Award?
A good tangible "yardstick" that provides unit commissioners with
specific checkpoints of their effectiveness is the
Self-Evaluation for Unit Commissioners, No. 34424A.
This one-page form
has more than 20 areas to mark either "outstanding," "satisfactory," or "needs
improvement." After you have filled it out, review it with your assistant
district commissioner or district commissioner. Discuss with them how you
might provide even better service to units.
We often say that a commissioner's best work needs to be done with our
weakest units. Therefore, the fairest use of data in a unit commissioner's
evaluation is to measure the improvement in the unit from the time the
commissioner was first assigned to the unit, or by specific problems the
commissioner helped that unit to solve.
A commissioner is a person who sets high goals and has high
standards. America's youth deserve no less!
