Another novel aspect of the Venturing Crew organization is that it is much more business-like in certain aspects. The Boy Scout troop has a very hierarchical structure, focused on the Senior Patrol Leader and the Patrol Leader Council. The Varsity Scout team has a sports team structure, with the team captain, and then program managers who are responsible for the various emphases of Varsity Scouting. The Venturing program, on the other hand, has only a minimal set of offices. These offices include the President, two Vice Presidents (over activities and membership), a Secretary and Treasurer. (Depending on how the ward deals with the ward budget funds, there may or may not be aneed for the Treasurer.)
Other than these offices, the crew should function using committees and assignments. The business of the crew should take place in a business-like manner. The suggested format for business is using parliamentary procedure. This allows for issues to be raised for general discussion and provides the ability for democratic votes. In small crews, formal parliamentary procedure seems to break down and another model might need to be enacted, perhaps more of a crew council. Actually, having written this last sentence, I wonder if this might not be an even better model for business for a LDS crew. Have the crew presidency lead crew councils. Follow the ideas for councils as taught by the church leaders and handbooks.
Another important aspect of the business of the crew is the notion of making assignments. Again, in the Venturing discussions, I have heard comments about how some crews manage to work in a very relaxed and informal session, with members just taking on those tasks that they want and avoiding actual assignments. As I think about the idea of the priesthood quorum, I don't think that this is the model that should take place. Instead, I see the crew providing opportunities for the quorum president (bishop) and the crew president (possibly an assistant) to make crew (and therefore essentially priesthood) assignments to individual members. In this context, the business aspect of crew meetings takes on more of the role of a committee, where assignments are made and followed up.
Naturally the needs of the individual members of the quorum and their respective abilities should play a major portion of the assignments that they are given. This provides a useful topic of discussion for quorum presidency meetings and crew officers meetings (if they are not the same thing). But having actual assignments for activities and other business helps ensure that the young men have the ability to practice magnifying their callings and carrying out specific responsibilities. One aspect of this is the participation in the planning process.