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Page updated: April 12, 2024

Journey to Excellence is a 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.

“Journey to Excellence is a roadmap or a guide or benchmark to show and indicate what a (unit) can and should be doing.”

Plans for 2024 not complete.

All Units in Great Trail Council should use the JTE framework. Key 3's of each unit will receive a personalized link on September 15, 2023, at their registered email. Your unit's Journey to Excellence Scores will then be entered in the Unit Health Reporting Tool. All Key 3 members are asked to complete the questions in the Tool, but only one will actually be asked to enter the JTE scores.

What Journey to Excellence Brings to Your Unit

A framework for planning the year.
- The Journey to Excellence standards are based on what successful units do to continually improve.
- If your unit plans to achieve gold or silver Journey to Excellence, you’ll have a strong and active program.
A method for evaluating your unit.
- Journey to Excellence provides tangible measurements based on things you are likely already tracking, such as how many campouts you have, how many youth are advancing, etc., and uses simple ways to calculate your performance.
Guidance in areas where you might do better.
- As you track your performance against the Journey to Excellence standards, you can easily see where you could do better.
Specific guidelines and standards of what is considered good performance.
- Journey to Excellence has specific, simple measures to help you. You can easily compare what you are doing against the standards.
Early warning of potential problem areas.
- You track any areas where your unit is not performing as you might like and have plenty of time to make corrections.
Recognition for good Scouting.
- You can proudly receive your bronze, silver, or gold recognition for your Scouting unit for the year.
Benchmarking to get ideas and tips from other good units.
- You can receive help and best practices in areas where other units have met the gold standard.
- In the areas where you are doing well, you can give help and ideas to other units