Merit Badges (Thrift Store) - Revision history

Mkille at 21:54, 24 September 2013

2013-09-24T21:54:25Z

Liliana: /* Electives */

2012-12-26T20:12:37Z

Electives

Lynnae: training category

2012-02-04T19:28:10Z

training category

Tonyc: /* The Acme Thunderer */

2011-03-16T23:12:38Z

The Acme Thunderer

Tonyc at 22:58, 16 March 2011

2011-03-16T22:58:45Z

Tonyc: /* Program Elements */

2011-02-13T01:18:46Z

Program Elements

Tonyc: /* Evaluation */

2011-02-13T01:13:21Z

Evaluation

Tonyc at 01:05, 13 February 2011

2011-02-13T01:05:58Z

Tonyc at 23:48, 1 February 2011

2011-02-01T23:48:07Z

Ideath: /* Electives */

2010-01-30T22:01:44Z

Electives

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	Merit Badges are an experiment in volunteer/staff training being developed in the Thrift Store.		Merit Badges are an experiment in volunteer/staff training being developed in the Thrift Store.

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 *Making Ethernet cables
 *Safari Guide (the pith helmet)
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 *Making Ethernet cables
 *Safari Guide (the pith helmet)
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 Represents an ability to perform all duties required to run the Thrift Store in a Jedi-like fashion.]]
-The equivalent of knighting someone. The whistle requires the unprompted handling of a store [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru kobayashi maru].  Someone with a whistle can be scheduled to work a shift, solo. It's hard to imagine an instance where a whistled person wasn't getting paid, frankly. Existing subs would likely get a fast-track through this stage, given the demands of their regular positions. Easy to test-out, as any paid position here requires similar attributes...
+The equivalent of knighting someone. The whistle requires the unprompted handling of a store [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru Kobayashi Maru] scenario.
-These aren't so much trainable skills/tasks for volunteers, but qualities that need to be observed under fire; once you get so far, we start to keep an eye out for potential "whistletude." Obviously, the hardest thing to codify.
+These aren't so much trainable skills/tasks, but qualities that need to be observed under fire; once you get so far, we start to keep an eye out for potential "whistletude." Obviously, the hardest thing to codify.
-Possible areas for badges:
+Basic idea is to create badges based on Star Trek Captains from the original series, and assign a different attribute to each.
-*Demonstrate diplomacy and wit,
+Example:
-*project management.
-*brush-fire extinguishing (making an angry customer leave happy, without capitulating
+;Kirk
-*creating effective signs
+:Brinksmanship
-*suggesting and implementing procedural/structural changes that improve production/flow
-*suggesting and implementing changes that improve customer experience and sales
+;Spock
-*documentation (the scribe?), etc.
+:Analysis
 ==Electives==

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 ===Application===
-Each badge would have a corresponding "worksheet," essentially a Teachers' Guide to help track the fussy details of training. These will most likely being simple .txt files that are linked to from the badge's page, to be printed out and checked off on paper, of all things.
+Each badge would have a corresponding "worksheet," essentially a Teachers' Guide to help track the fussy details of training. These will most likely being simple .txt files that are linked to from the badge's page, to be printed out and checked off on paper, of all things. The cadet won't really see these, as they're mainly tools to help store folks with the training process.
 The worksheets gauge small steps and ensure all areas are covered.
 Volunteer Interns would be trained in the first two tiers of the program.
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 ===The Price Gun===
-*Prerequisite:  Teach another cadet two rubber-band ball badges.
+*Prerequisite:  Complete Rubber Band Ball
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 Represents an ability to perform full range of support, customer service and cash-handling tasks in the Thrift Store.]]
-(Badges named for charismatic mega-fauna?)
+(Badges named for classic video games)
 *'''Advanced Customer Service''' (20%)

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 These represent the four major leaps forward. Each milestone would have a set of required badges, and possibly. Once the appropriate badges have been received, the final step to advancing to the next milestone is to recite a stupid oath; a trinket may be involved, as well.
 ===Application===
-Each badge would have a corresponding "worksheet," essentially a Teachers' Guide to help track the fussy details of training.
+Each badge would have a corresponding "worksheet," essentially a Teachers' Guide to help track the fussy details of training. These will most likely being simple .txt files that are linked to from the badge's page, to be printed out and checked off on paper, of all things.
 The worksheets gauge small steps and ensure all areas are covered.
-Each trainee would have a worksheet printed out, and on this paper sheet, staff will initial steps as they are covered, as detailed on the sheet.
+Additionally, for each Tier there's a fancy, colorful sheet to display in a public place. On this sheet, completed badges are tracked in a way that makes the cadet feel warm and hopefully a little bit fuzzy.
-Additionally, there's a fancy, colorful sheet to display in a public place. On this sheet, completed badges and milestones are tracked in a way that makes the cadet feel warm and hopefully a little bit fuzzy.
+As time goes on, we will develop the higher-level tiers to aid in training store staff.
 ==A Closer Look At the Tiers==

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-Merit Badges are an experiment in volunteer/staff training being rolled out in the Thrift Store. It is in its beta stage, but we are going to start using it and develop the program on the fly.
+Merit Badges are an experiment in volunteer/staff training being developed in the Thrift Store.
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 ==Purpose==
-Merit Badges are an experiment in volunteer/staff training being rolled out in the Thrift Store. It is in its beta stage, but we are going to start using it and develop the program on the fly. Individuals' progress will be tracked on the cork board in the back room of the store. (The page [[The Sash]] was originally intended for this purpose, but has proved too clunky. Now printouts of each tier and its corresponding badges will just be filled out manually. I think. [[User:Tonyc|Tonyc]])
+Merit Badges are an experiment in volunteer/staff training being rolled out in the Thrift Store. It is meant to allow for training duties to be shared among store staff, and to ensure nothing is missed and that training proceeds in an orderly fashion.
 ==Structure==
 A four-tiered path to mastery based loosely on the Cub Scouts' model, where there are four milestones, each requiring a subset of training, education and the demonstration of skills.
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 ===Badges===
-Badges represent specific areas of learning. They may require full understanding of a particular area, or could be further broken into basic, intermediate and advanced levels. Each Milestone would have four critical badges that would be required. Additionally, there would be a list of potential elective badges, representing useful, non-critical skills that we need to have around, but don't need every single person to accomplish.
+Badges represent specific areas of learning. They may require full understanding of a particular area, or could be further broken into basic, intermediate and advanced levels.
-===Milestones===
+===Tiers===
-These represent the four major leaps forward. Each milestone would have a set of four required badges, and four elective badges. Once the appropriate badges have been received, the final step to advancing to the next milestone is to effectively train another person in x-amount of required badges (2?).
+These represent the four major leaps forward. Each milestone would have a set of required badges, and possibly. Once the appropriate badges have been received, the final step to advancing to the next milestone is to recite a stupid oath; a trinket may be involved, as well.
 ===Evaluation===
+Each badge would have a corresponding "worksheet," essentially a Teachers' Guide to help track the fussy details of training.
 The worksheets gauge small steps and ensure all areas are covered.

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 ==Program Elements==
 ===Badges===
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 The worksheets gauge small steps and ensure all areas are covered.
 ==A Closer Look At the Tiers==
-The skills required to run the store properly are divided into four tiers with an ascending level of difficulty.  Tiers have individual subjects of focus that are called badges (based on the scouts' Merit badge system).  At the end of each tier a trainee will recite an oath. Please note that the degree of understanding expected is in parenthesis.  This whole paragraph and the one up top may be better merged [[User:Luiz|Luiz]] 20:12, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
+The skills required to run the store properly are divided into four tiers with an ascending level of difficulty. The first two tiers are applicable for all volunteers and workers in the store. Volunteers will hopefully be trained up through the first two tiers. The remaining tiers are for staff only.
 ===[[Rubber Band Ball | The Rubber Band Ball]]===

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 **Package mouse balls
 **Burn Distros
-**laminate 2032 cards
+**[[Laminating|laminate]] 2032 cards
 *File System development
 *Documentation