Things I Wouldn’t Know If I Didn’t Go To Camp Part 7: Saying No

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Let me start by saying I can’t believe it has been about 3 weeks since my last post!  Things have been busy!  I have you, the readers to thank for a lot of that!  My book The Cabin Path: Leadership Lessons Learned At Camp launched on April 7th and the support has been exceptional!  Thanks [...]

Summer Camp Staff Training – Email Roundtable and Contest

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Where do you get your best summer camp staff training ideas? We are excited to partner with Curt “Moose” Jackson from Summer Camp Program Director on a new project just in time for your summer camp staff training preparations. Summer Camp Staff Training E-Mail Roundtable and Contest (The last day to submit ideas is Wednesday, [...]

Does Your Summer Camp Staff Have Excess Baggage?

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Now is the time to plan your staff training sessions It is that time of year again (hooray!) when we begin to plan sessions for our leadership trainings.  Finding new and creative ways to discuss the same topics each year can be a bit difficult – especially when we have so many returning staff members. [...]

Things I Wouldn’t Know If I Didn’t Go To Camp: Part 6

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Approachability A camp is a business.  The camp organization may not always visually look like a business that operates out of a tall office tower, but there are some similarities between the two. In any business, there are junior employees, mid-level employees, and senior employees (who are sometimes business owners or camp directors).  One common [...]

Things I Wouldn’t Know If I Didn’t Go To Camp: Part 5

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Becoming a role model I have to say that yes, if I didn’t go to camp, I’m sure I would have found other ways to learn about the various topics in my “If I Didn’t Go To Camp” posts.  However, I will acknowledge that because I did go to camp, it was the first place [...]