Activity Description: Youth make a personal goals stick to track cookie sales progress.
Items Needed:
- Have a Troop Goal already decided
- Wooden paint stirrers or rulers
- Black markers
- Rubber bands or thin ribbons
- (Optional) Coloring supplies for decorating
Before the Meeting Starts:
- Create a Sample Stick. (5-10 min)
- Mark one paint stirrer or ruler to make a sample stick to as a way to show what the markings should look like.
- Keep the numbers off the stick until the meeting when the troop goal is decided.
Instructions (Estimated Total Time: 20-40 min):
- Track troop goals. (5-10 min)
- Show the sample stick created before the meeting to explain how the stick is used to track goals.
- Use a black marker to write the correct number for the troop goal on the top of the stick. Start with a low number at the bottom and move up to the main goal at the top.
- Wrap a rubber band or thin ribbon around the bottom of the stick.
- Place the decorated tracker in a visible spot for the troop. Explain that it will be updated each meeting to celebrate progress together.
- Mark cookie goals. (10 min)
- Give each youth a wooden paint stirrer or ruler.
- Youth use a black marker to write or draw cookie goals along the stick. Start with a low number at the bottom and move up to the main goal at the top.
- (Optional) Draw pictures on one side to remind them of their goals.
- Add the tracker band. (5 min)
- Wrap a rubber band or thin ribbon around the bottom of the stick.
- Youth will move the band upward each time a sales goal is met.
- (Optional) Share and celebrate. (5-10 min)
- Youth show their personal goal sticks.
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Info Needed for Set Goals: Brainstorm ideas, pick one to make a troop sales goal, and set your personal goal.
- Fulfills Step 2 of GSUSA Daisy My First Cookie Business badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 1 of GSUSA Daisy Cookie Goal Setter badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 2 of GSUSA Brownie My Cookie Customers badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 2 of GSUSA Brownie Cookie Decision Maker badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 2 of GSUSA Junior My Cookie Team badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 2 of GSUSA Junior Cookie Collaborator badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 2 of GSUSA Cadette My Cookie Venture badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 2 of GSUSA Cadette Cookie Market Researcher badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 2 of GSUSA Cadette Cookie Innovator badge requirements.
Info Needed for Budget Goals: Set a troop goal and budget and get feedback
- Fulfills Step 3 of GSUSA Junior Cookie Collaborator badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 2 of GSUSA Senior My Cookie Network badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 1 of GSUSA Ambassador My Cookie Business Resume badge requirements.
Info Needed for SMART Goals: Learn what SMART is and apply it to the troop sales goal.
- Fulfills Step 2 of GSUSA Senior Cookie Boss badge requirements.
Info Needed for Tracking: Make a way to track sales with a goal tracker or using the online sales tracking feature.
- Fulfills Step 2 of GSUSA Daisy Cookie Goal Setter badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 4 of GSUSA Brownie Cookie Decision Maker badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 3 of GSUSA Junior My Cookie Team badge requirements.
This activity does not meet any Scouting America Requirements
