It has occurred to me more than once recently that Scouting is much better when played as a team game.  We go to great lengths to organise our young people into lodges, sixes and patrols that have the right balance of experience, numbers, talents and skills.   In so doing we try to ensure that the teams work well together and when the teams work well the whole section benefits.  But do we take the same care with our teams of adults?  It feels so much harder where adults are involved.  Our choices and options seem so much more limited.  While you may be able to tell a Cub that he needs to move from Green to Blue six to balance the numbers and we can generally assume that most Scouts would like to become Patrol Leader if offered the job, we can’t make these assumptions with adults.  We have to persuade them to change roles or take on an additional responsibility and it all seems that bit more difficult.