Hi Brian,

When I was PT, I was in the same boat as you are. I had trouble finding the right tool to track training. Being an Excel guy, I ended up greating my own spreadsheet. It was very large and very difficult for non-Excel people to read, so I created a summary sheet that listed each leader and what training they needed to take.

Another issue I had is that I had trouble getting help from my council. I called and e-mailed a couple of times asking them for training records from my pack. They were very nice and courteous, but I never got the training records. I eventually gave up and just nagged the leaders to give me copies of their training certificates, which I kept on file.

I'm sure there are those out there who did this better than me, but I've heard from enough people on the various Scouting forums to assume that we are not alone – that tracking leader training is a fairly difficult and manual process.

Now that more and more is moving on-line, I think things will get better. But what about those of us that took our training classes before this movement to on-line training? What happenes to those records?

Sorry I didn't really offer any assistance to you (other than the summary sheet for missing training records). But you aren't the only one with this issue. Even though I'm no longer PT, I will be interested to hear what people post concerning this.

In Scouting,

Count this as another vote for Packmaster