 Wood Badge is a Scouting leadership programme and the related award for adult leaders in the programmes of Scout associations throughout the world . Wood Badge courses aim to make Scouters better leaders by teaching advanced leadership skills , and by creating a bond and commitment to the Scout movement . Courses generally have a combined classroom and practical outdoors @-@ based phase followed by a Wood Badge ticket , also known as the project phase . By " working the ticket " , participants put their newly gained experience into practice to attain ticket goals aiding the Scouting movement . The first Wood Badge training was organized by Francis " Skipper " Gidney and lectured at by Robert Baden @-@ Powell and others at Gilwell Park ( United Kingdom ) in September 1919 . Wood Badge training has since spread across the world with international variations . 
