UNIT GUIDER MISSION POCKETPAL To be a catalyst for girls empowering girls.
VISION
A better world, by girls.
RANGERS PHILOSOPHY 2019 - 2020 VISION - MISSION
Alberta Council
GIRL GUIDE PROMISE Be Prepared
I Promise to do my best, To be true to myself, my beliefs and Canada I will take action for a better world Lend a Hand And respect the Guiding Law Brownie Motto
PHILOSOPHY - MOTTO PHILOSOPHY - PROMISE
LAW
I challenge myself with the The Guiding Law challenges me to: Guiding Law to be honest and true
be honest and trustworthy To be wise in the use of resources I use my resources wisely have; To respect myself and others, too; respect myself and others recognize and use my talents To know and to use my gifts and skills; and abilities To protect our common world; protect our common environment Live with courage and strength; live with courage and strength And to share in the joys of the share in the sisterhood of Guiding Sisterhood! Guiding GUIDE LAW SONG
PHILOSOPHY – LAW
Rangers (ages 15 to 17+) for Fun, Friendships and New Adventures Sparks (ages 5 and 6) Sparks is a two-year program for five and six The Ranger program offers girls 15 to 17+ year olds the opportunity to create the experience Brownies (ages 7 and 8) they want – doing the activities they want in Brownies is a two-year program for seven and the way they want. Girls are given choice eight year olds. and flexibility in their programming and are Guides (ages 9-12) supported by adult mentors who help them Guides is a three-year program for nine to discover and develop their leadership skills. twelve year olds. Pathfinders (ages 12-15) Trips, camps, service projects or co-ed Pathfinders is a thee-year program for twelve to activities are a few of the ways these young fifteen year olds. women develop their independence, Rangers (ages 15-17+) leadership skills, and self-confidence as Rangers is a three-year program for fifteen to they step into adulthood. seventeen plus years olds Link (ages 18-30) Link is to allow 18-30 year old women to stay connected to Guiding RANGERS OVERVIEW Trefoil (ages 30+) Trefoil is for women 30+ to stay connected to Guiding
Flags and Guiding ACCESSING THE GIRLS FIRST In Guiding, you will often hear the terms, colours, PLATFORM colour ceremony and colour party. Colours means the flags. The colour ceremony is the raising or lowering of a flag and the colour party is the Go to this website: group that performs the ceremony. During a ceremony, meeting or special event https://experience.girlguides.ca/ggc- When the Canadian Flag is displayed on a staff login?_ga placed on a platform, stage or dais, it should be to the right of the speaker. When the Colours (flags) are used in the Guide You need your iMIS number to log horseshoe, the Canadian Flag is always on the into this, use your name as it appears Guider’s right and the World Flag on her left as she faces the horseshoe. in iMIS and the email address you When displayed in places of worship or on a have in iMIS speaker’s platform, the Canadian Flag should be displayed flat (hung horizontally) against the wall or on a staff on the celebrant’s or speaker’s right as she faces the audience or congregation. When used in the body of an auditorium the Canadian Flag should be on the right of the audience. FLAG ETIQUETTE
There are eight program areas and each HOW TO EARN BADGES program area has three themes under it. 1. Guide Together (Our Story, Spirit of Set and meet your own goals and Guiding, Camping and the Great objectives. Outdoors) 2. Explore Identities (Being You, Different Create your own series of experiences Together, Gender Power) based on a theme within a program 3. Build Skills (Money Sense, Life Stuff, area, using any combination of: How To) 4. Be Well (My Mighty Mind, My Physical Activities Self, My Healthy Relationships) Instant Meetings 5. Experiment and Create (Science Lab, Design Space, Art Studio) Challenges 6. Connect and Question (Local Or your own initiatives Communities, Canadian Connections, World Stage) 7. Take Action (Your Choice, Your Voice, Your Action) 8. Into the Outdoors (Nature Discoveries, Our Shared Planet, Camping Skills and Adventures)
COOKIE ALL STARS For a girl who has already been enrolled Cookie All Stars is the girl incentive program prizing for the combined Fall and Spring Campaigns. GUIDER: You made your first Promise 7-14 cases – Specially designed crest 15-29 cases – Specially designed crest and a $25.00 movie when you were enrolled as a voucher 30-39 cases – Specially designed crest and a $75.00 gift Guide/Pathfinder. Do you now have a card for Indigo Books and Music Inc. deeper understanding of the Promise and 40-79 cases – Specially designed crest and a $125.00 gift card for Best Buy. Law? 80+ cases – Specially designed crest and an adventure camera or a $250 Best Buy gift card. NEW RANGER: Yes, I believe that I do. Girls that participate in their Unit cookie selling event and GUIDER: Please reaffirm your Promise. their Unit sells 20 cases or more over the chocolatey mint and classic campaigns will receive a group sales crest. Registered Leaders with girls participating in Cookie All Stars NEW RANGER: (making the Guide Sign) I qualify for the leaders crest. Promise ... Individual and Group Sales are tracked separately Every girl who participates in Cookie All Stars will GUIDER: (As she pins on the red Enrolment receive a recognition certificate provided by Unit Pin and shakes hands with the new Guiders Girls who sell 40 cases or more will receive a Ranger.) The ____ Ranger Unit welcomes certificate signed by the Chief Commissioner you as a member and trusts you to make (these will be mailed with prizes) Girl tracking sheet is on the National Site for Unit the Promise and Law a part of your life. Guiders to track individual sales and group sales
RANGER ENROLMENT
GIRL GUIDE COOKIES INCLUSIVE GRACES
Selling Girl Guide cookies is the main CAMPFIRE GRACE fundraiser for units. In the fall, the (Tune: Fire’s Burning) We’re thankful, we’re thankful chocolate mint cookies are sold and in For friendship, for friendship the spring the classic chocolate and And for good food, and for good food vanilla sandwich cookies are sold. And hands that prepared it.
Breakdown of cookie money: KNIFE, FORK, SPOON Dare: $21.75 I’m a knife a fork a spoon a spatula, cha cha cha National: $4.75 I’m a knife a fork a spoon a spatula, cha cha cha I’m a knife a fork a spoon, I’m a knife a fork a Province: $5.75 spoon, I’m a knife a fork a spoon a spatula, cha Area: cha cha District: Unit:
Ranger Awards and/or presentation. o Customer Service Rep - Talks to customers and develops a short sales The Ranger Service Project is designed to help pitch to catch the customer’s interest; she may you use your skills, creativity, and feelings to also coach team members on how to present make a positive contribution to your themselves to customers. o Finance Manager - community. Tracks the costs and expenses of cookie sales. o RANGERS AWARDS Cookie Campaign Challenge Marketing Manager - Finds new places to sell, Award Requirements Take an active role in identifies new types of customers, and creates supporting the sale of unit cookies in at least thank-you messages. o Public Relations four cookie campaigns using at least two Specialist – Writes news items to highlight the different methods over the four campaigns. group’s successes; lets people know about who There are three methods outlined below; has benefited from the sales. b) Create a sales however, others may also be used. 1) Getting pitch with others in your unit and learn about Ready for Your Cookie Campaign a) Have a clear making cold calls. c) With a group, role-play idea of what you’re going to do with the funds possible scenarios that cookie sellers may raised, what you’ll learn from the experience encounter. d) Get copies of any sales aids and what your sales goal is. Find out how much available from the national office (check your unit earns per case. b) Research the cost of www.girlguides.ca and Member Zone). Invite a an activity and then figure out how many boxes marketing specialist to a meeting to talk about of cookies would be needed to support it. c) branding. e) Check into the dollars and cents of Create personal goals for what you want to get managing cookie sales. Your cookie campaign is out of selling cookies. d) Get to know your a hands-on chance to gain experience in money product to get ready to sell and answer management. o Create a budget for your questions. e) Understand the motivations of campaign (or for the activity which the cookies your customer. Put yourself in the customer’s will fund). o Manage the cash. Show younger shoes to understand what is appealing about girls how to make change, use a spreadsheet to the cookies. Put together your thoughts on track sales and profits and help prepare bank what motivates customers. f) Brainstorm a list deposits. This challenge is designed to develop of typical customers and where and how you skills in event planning, money management, can reach them. g) Ask relatives or friends to communications, public speaking and customer assist you in finding out what kind of service. information would be appealing as an incentive RANGERS AWARDS Award Requirements - cont. to buy cookies. 2) Marketing Your Cookies a) 3) Sell those cookies. a) Choose one of the Play a role in developing your unit’s marketing following options for pitching and selling your plan. You could take on one of the following cookies, or create one entirely of your own: o roles or another needed within you unit. Use Set up events to promote and sell cookies (this your skills to choose a position that can make is referred to as “in-field marketing”). Create a use of what you like and are good at. o Event list of all the tasks that will be part of the event. Planner - This person organizes the where, what Estimate when each item should be organized and when for a cookie sales event. o Art or completed. o Set up and complete a Director - Designs the cookie booth display neighbourhood cookie blitz. Create a list of all the tasks that will be part of the event. Estimate your unit, in your community/school or through when each item should be organized or a bridging activity or meeting with another unit. completed. o Set up and complete a cookie selling partnership with a local business. Create Trailblazer Leadership Award a list of all the tasks that will be part of the The Trailblazer Leadership Award is the highest event. Estimate when each item should be award a Ranger can earn. This prestigious award organized or completed. 4) Additional options is the culmination of your work as a girl a) Review what you have learned from your member. A Ranger must demonstrate her campaign that will benefit you in the future. leadership and management skills by setting her Make this part of the next cookie campaign. b) own learning goals, organizing community Determine how to use the cookie campaign service, creating events for peers and younger sales aids most effectively (collaborate with girls and running cookie selling campaigns. The other units or groups; assign neighbourhoods or award recognizes a girl’s outstanding parts of your community to different groups). c) achievement and her commitment to the Cookie campaigns can help you explore careers Vision, Mission and Values of Girl Guides of — particularly those involving sales, marketing Canada—Guides du Canada. There are three and public relations. But here are a few levels to this award – Bronze, Silver and Gold. If additional fields to investigate. Meet with you are interested in earning the Trailblazer someone in one of the careers from the Leadership Gold award, you will need to start following list or go to hi Award Requirements planning early as a Ranger. There are activities Part 1 Complete one Theme in each Program in the digital platform to help you plan out how Area, plus one additional Theme from any you can earn this award. Be sure to check out Program Area. Program Areas include: • Guide the Trailblazer Leadership Award Activity and Together • Explore Identities • Build Skills • Be Trailblazer Awards Planning Resource. Bronze Well • Experiment and Create • Connect and Award RANGERS AWARDS RANGERS AWARDS Question • Take Action To complete a Theme, Silver Award Part 2 Complete one additional Rangers should work on two topics within that Theme in each Program Area, plus two Theme. Rangers can use existing program additional Themes in any two Program Areas challenges, instant meetings and activities to (same or different from those in the Bronze complete a topic. OR Rangers can work Award). To complete a Theme, Rangers should independently, in groups or as a unit to develop work on two topics within that Theme. Rangers a challenge on a topic of their choice. In can use existing program challenges, instant developing a challenge, it should be completed meetings and activities to complete a topic. OR over at least two meetings, and Rangers will Rangers can work independently, in groups or need to: • Develop outcomes, objectives, as a unit to develop a challenge on a topic of themes and skills appropriate to the topic. • their choice. In developing a challenge, it should Develop activities for the challenge (either new be completed over at least two meetings, and or utilising those existing within the program) to Rangers will need to: • Develop outcomes, be completed individually or as a group. • objectives, themes and skills appropriate to the Leading the meetings in which the challenge is topic. • Develop activities for the challenge completed. • Sharing what you’ve learned – in (either new or utilising those existing within the program) to be completed individually or as a plan. You could take on one of the following group. • Leading the meetings in which the roles or another needed within you unit. Use challenge is completed. • Sharing what you’ve your skills to choose a position that can make learned – in your unit, in your use of what you like and are good at. o Event community/school or through a bridging activity Planner - This person organizes the where, what or meeting with another unit. Note: No Theme and when for a cookie sales event. o Art in any Program Area can be complete more Director - Designs the cookie booth display than one time in the attainment of the Silver or and/or presentation. o Customer Service Rep - Gold Award. Part 1 Complete the Bronze Award Talks to customers and develops a short sales Award Requirements Gold Award Part 1 pitch to catch the customer’s interest; she may Complete the Bronze Award and the Silver also coach team members on how to present Award. Complete all remaining Themes (four) themselves to customers. o Finance Manager - from the Program Areas not already completed Tracks the costs and expenses of cookie sales. o in the Silver or Bronze Awards. To complete a Marketing Manager - Finds new places to sell, Theme, Rangers should work on two topi Gold identifies new types of customers, and creates Award Part 3 Cookie Campaign Challenge Take thank-you messages. o Public Relations an active role in supporting the sale of unit Specialist – Writes news items to highlight the cookies in at least four cookie campaigns using group’s successes; lets people know about who at least two different methods across the four has benefited from the sales. b) Create a sales campaigns. There are three methods outlined pitch with others in your unit and learn about below; however, others may also be used. 1) making cold calls. c) With a group, role-play Getting Ready for Your Cookie Campaign a) possible scenarios that cookie sellers may Have a clear idea of what you’re going to do encounter. d) Get copies of any sales aids with the funds raised, what you’ll learn from the available from the national office (check experience and what your sales goal is. Find out www.girlguides.ca and Member Zone). Invite a how much your unit earns per case. b) Research marketing specialist to a meeting to talk about the cost of an activity and then figure out how branding. Award Requirements RANGERS many boxes of cookies would be needed to AWARDS Gold Award Part 3 cont, e) Check into support it. c) Create personal goals for what you the dollars and cents of managing cookie sales. want to get out of selling cookies. d) Get to Your cookie campaign is a hands-on chance to know your product to get ready to sell and gain experience in money management. o answer questions. e) Understand the Create a budget for your campaign (or for the motivations of your customer. Put yourself in activity which the cookies will fund). o Manage the customer’s shoes to understand what is the cash. Show younger girls how to make appealing about the cookies. Put together your change, use a spread sheet to track sales and thoughts on what motivates customers. f) profits and help prepare bank deposits. 3) Sell Brainstorm a list of typical customers and where those cookies. a) Choose one of the following and how you can reach them. g) Ask relatives or options for pitching and selling your cookies, or friends to assist you in finding out what kind of create one entirely of your own: o Set up events information would be appealing as an incentive to promote and sell cookies (this is referred to to buy cookies. 2) Marketing Your Cookies a) as “in-field marketing”). Create a list of all the Play a role in developing your unit’s marketing tasks that will be part of the event. Estimate when each item should be organized or seniors’ home or promote cookie campaigns as completed. o Set up and complete a a way of teaching skills and raising the profile of neighbourhood cookie blitz. Create a list of all Girl Guides of Canada in your community. the tasks that will be part of the event. Estimate when each item should be organized or completed. o Set up and complete a cookie selling partnership with a local business. Create a list of all the tasks that will be part of the event. Estimate when each item should be organized or completed. 4) Additional options a) Review what you have learned from your campaign that will benefit you in the future. Make this part of the next cookie campaign. b) Determine how to use the cookie campaign
sales aids most effectively (collaborate with other unit or groups; assign neighbourhoods or parts of your community to different groups). c) Cookie campaigns can help you explore careers — particularly those involving sales, marketing
and public relations. But here are a few additional fields to investigate. Meet with WORLD ASSOCIATION OF GIRL someone in one of the careers from the GUIDES AND GIRL SCOUTS following list or go to his or her workplace for a (WAGGGS) tour: o Communications o Media Relations o Accounting or Finance o Graphic Design o Canada was a founding Member Advertising o Branding o Product Development 150 Member Organizations o Nutrition o Food Sciences o Journalism o Culinary Arts o Entrepreneurial Studies o Food 10 million Members Manufacturing Award Requirements RANGERS AWARDS Gold Award d) Review what skills Largest female organization in the world you’ve learned through selling cookies that you Guiding began in 1909, spread to could transfer to your resume and make these Canada in 1910 and Alberta in 1913 updates. Your skills clearly relate to sales and retail jobs. However, you’ve also learned “soft” www.wagggs.org skills that can be used to describe the kind of person you are and how you approach a job. Use your cookie-selling goals and sales record to demonstrate measurable successes. e) Find ways to use cookie sales as a way to give back to your community and put it into action. For example: Invite people to buy a box of cookies to donate to a women’s shelter, group home or
Thinking Day FIVE WORLD CENTRES Thinking Day is on February 22nd, and is the shared birthday of Lord and Lady There are five world centres for Girl Guides. Baden-Powell who were the founders of 1. Pax Lodge – England Girl Guides. It is celebrated by Guiding and Scouting members world wide. 2. Our Chalet – Switzerland 3. Our Cabana – Mexico
The WAGGGS website usually has 4. Sangam – India activities to do each year for Thinking Day and a crest associated with this. 5. Kusafiri – virtual world centre in Africa There are programs and events held for Girl Guides around the world at the world centres. Their websites (www.waggggs.org) has more information.
Canadian World Friendship Fund (CWFF) RESOURCES This fund is supported by Girl Guide members in Canada and is used to support My GGC - www.girlguides.ca international and national travel trips, the 5 - Check your unit roster World Centres and Guiding in countries Guiding Essentials around the world. Safe Guide The goal is to raise $5.00 per member for Insurance Booklet the CWFF. There is a provincial challenge National and Provincial Fundraising with a crest for raising $5.00 per member. Policy There are a variety of ways to raise funds Emergency Response Card for the CWFF, talk to your District The Brand Centre Commissioner for information on this. brandcentre.girlguides.ca The Guide Store thegirlguidestore.ca Area Standing Committee Advisers Provincial website: www.girlguides.ca/ab
NOTES AWARDS
There are awards for your contributions to Guiding and for those of the amazing women with whom you work.
Check the Alberta Council Awards Booklet on the provincial website, girlguides.ca/ab to get all the details for the awards.
Check with your District Commissioner for more information about awards.
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