Greetings, My boss "bribes" me with a paycheck every week...I.E. "keep up the good work and you can keep your job and get a paycheck to boot"...what a deal. Were doing the same things with the boys on a different level. Some boys will work strictly for the merits and verbal praise, others take a little more incentive....call it bribery if you must. $100 dollars seems excessive but I bet it got some excitement going. There are times when excess will "jump start" a positive response from the boys. My preference would be to give ALL of the boys in an outpost some kind of incentive in the form of a choice of trinkets for the smaller boys and for the older boys...$ credits to be applied toward camp gear or RR items of their choice. I say ALL of the boys because I think that too often we leave many boys behind while we heap all of the praise on one or two ranger of the year candidates...if they all work they all deserve some kind of reward according to the level of acheivement they obtain.
Mike Archer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Spirit Rider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 7:34 AM Subject: [RR] $100 merit race What I learned from rangernet All, You know its almost funny in a way. When ever an idea is tossed out on Rangernet. At least 2 out of 100 commanders will be against it. exp - Remember the fuss over Victor's perfect outpost? Point made. I'm not saying everyone has to agree but, It seems to me that in LTC we learned that if something works in YOUR outpost to stick with it. Later, Noel"Spirit Rider"Bell ---------------------------------------------------- Sign Up for NetZero Platinum Today Only $9.95 per month! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinum&refcd=PT97 _______ Let the Golden Rule be your daily rule. Please pray for your list sponsor: http://eBible.org/mpj/ To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://rangernet.org/subscribe.htm http://rangernet.org
