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Play is an essential ingredient of summer camp! As camp staff, however, more responsibility tends to cause more office time. When I needed a break I turned to RPS 25. It's just Rock, Paper, Scissors - but there are 25 signs (and 300 outcomes)!
My co-director and I each had a print-out on our bulletin boards, and we would play when we needed a break. My faves: monkey, sponge, lightning and man (for obvious reasons...)!
photo by Travis Allison (@ Camp Kintail)
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Building Your Most Effective Staff Team
We hope that this section of our blog will offer you practical tips to ensure you run the most extensive and complete training to prepare your staff for a safe, healthy, happy and memorable camping season. Why do we dedicate so much of our work to this process? Well...
We're in it with you! Each week we'll be posting easy-to-implement ideas that will help you make your community a place that will change the world.
My tool of the week this week is the Buckeye Leadership Workshop. Every week I use some of the knowledge that I have gained from four years attending.
Buckeye Leadership Workshop is a one week (Wednesday night to Sunday Afternoon) workshop. Buckeye is like no other conference that I have ever been to. It is a community.
I have been attending the Buckeye Leadership Workshop since March of 2007 - it is the only conference that I make a must attend on my schedule each year.
After a couple of years attending, I joined the planning committee, I love it that much.
Jim Cain of Teamwork & Teamplay recommended it to me years ago, and Jim's Teamwork & Teamplay co-author, Barry Jolliff, sits on the planning committee still.
I'm glad Jim recommended it. Well worth attending.
This year's Buckeye Leadership Workshop is March 23 - 27 at Recreation Unlimited, just north of Columbus, Ohio.
Hope to see you there.
One of my photos from last fall's Cairn Alumni Weekend.
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Today the annual catalogue arrived from Rhode Island Novelty. This is like Christmas (insert your favorite holiday if Christmas isn't your thing) for camp directors in February.
There are so many things that I could order - but I need to be careful - you have to order most things by the dozen.
A few examples from the Rhode Island Novelty Catalog:
Here is a short list of some company websites:
http://www.orientaltrading.com - Oriental Trading Company - We have dealt with them to order coins and stuff - American Based
http://www.rinovelty.com/ - Rhode Island Novelty - Use to deal with them at another camp - American Based
http://www.funservices.ca - Fun Services - Never dealt with them - but wanted Canadian Content - Canadian Based.
You can sell many of these things in your tuck shop - imagine paying $0.12 per set of disguise glasses and selling them for a buck...just a thought.
Joe Richards
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