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Organizational development
- Assessment of camp culture – the life blood of every camp
- How does your camp rate on organizational best practices (detailed report)
- Harness what your camp learns and knows to better the experience for everyone
- Find the better wheel someone else already created – benchmarking for success
- Innovation and continuous improvement review and development
- State-of-the-art camper and parent satisfaction surveys and reporting mechanisms
People power (recruiting, training, motivating, and developing)
- Novel and effective means of recruiting quality staff – achieve 10 applications per 1 hire
- Staff hiring process that successfully weeds out inappropriate applicants, and accurately
predicts future staff performance
- Implement best-practice staff performance evaluation systems
- Thorough review of orientation before campers arrive (including staff manual)
- On-going staff training review against best practices
- Review staff motivation strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
- Enhance your camp’s ability to manage the mistakes everyone makes
- Utilize emotional intelligence assessments to develop key staff
Meeting your mission
- Examine your outcomes (benefits) through easy to understand and communicate graphics
- Assessment of the degree to which your camp is currently meeting your mission
- Program, process, and system development to better meet your mission
- Return rate analysis – digging way beneath the surface (multi-page report based on your
data)
Marketing and communication
- Create a graphical map that analyzes where campers come from, and learn how to
capitalize on that information
- Implement a “Partnering with Parents” program to better position your camp, and
serve your youth development mission
- Website analysis and development -- meet or exceed current best practice
- Examination of camper recruiting practices and results (including newsletters)
Program development
- General clinic/activity review and development
- Expanding and innovating free-choice programs
- Camper activity selection process
- All-camp games and special events
- Cabin activities
- Community service
- Ceremonies and rituals
- Pickup games to energize down times
Speaking engagements are also possible on all the resource topics, as well as other areas
such as: ritual; community; media influence education; storytelling as an organizational
strategy; wish, wonder, and surprise; and more.
Thanks for reading this, and all the best in enriching lives and changing the world.
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