Boy Scouts of America

Journey To Excellence

Journey to Excellence

Journey to Excellence is the Boy Scouts of America program to help Packs, Troops, Crews, Ships and Posts to plan, monitor and evaluate their performance and their ability to serve youth.   There are specific criteria for the unit to plan and accomplish. 

Journey to Excellence is a number of performance measurements that are known to make for a successful Scouting program.  It is designed as a planning tool.  The Pack, Troop, Crew, Ship, or Post leadership reviews the performance measurements and makes plans to achieve as many objectives as possible.  There are four major areas that Journey to Excellence focuses on, planning and budgeting, membership, program, and volunteer leadership.  Each of the four major areas has specific and measurable objectives. These standards are reviewed each year and if needed, revised.

Each objective has a point value and uses a balanced scorecard approach.  This allows for excellence in some areas and effective in others and still have an excellent program.  Each of the performance standards has three levels of achievement, Bronze, Silver, and Gold.  Achieving gold gets you maximum points.  Adding up all the points for the performance standards gives you overall total points that equal Bronze, Silver, or Gold. 

Achieving bronze is delivering an effective program and should be celebrated.  Silver is considered to have an excellent program. Gold is exceptional and is difficult to achieve year after year. 

Please share with us your thoughts about JTE and any suggestions that you have for improvement. Please sent them to jte@scouting.org

Sea Scout Ships
Explorer Posts

JTE Support Documents

Bray Barnes

Director, Global Security Innovative
Strategies

Bray Barnes is a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Silver
Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Learning for Life Distinguished
Service Award. He received the Messengers of Peace Hero award from
the royal family of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and he’s a life member of
the 101st Airborne Association and Vietnam Veterans Association. Barnes
serves as a senior fellow for the Global Federation of Competitiveness
Councils, a nonpartisan network of corporate CEOs, university presidents, and
national laboratory directors. He has also served as a senior executive for the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, leading the first-responder program
and has two U.S. presidential appointments

David Alexander

Managing Member Calje

David Alexander is a Baden-Powell Fellow, Summit Bechtel Reserve philanthropist, and recipient of the Silver Buffalo and Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. He is the founder of Caljet, one of the largest independent motor fuels terminals in the U.S. He has served the Arizona Petroleum Marketers Association, Teen Lifeline, and American Heart Association. A triathlete who has completed hundreds of races, Alexander has also mentored the women’s triathlon team at Arizona State University.

Glenn Adams

President, CEO & Managing Director
Stonetex Oil Corp.

Glenn Adams is a recipient of the Silver Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. He is the former president of the National Eagle Scout Association and established the Glenn A. and Melinda W. Adams National Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award. He has more than 40 years of experience in the oil, gas, and energy fields, including serving as a president, owner, and CEO. Adams has also received multiple service awards from the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers.