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Part II Detail Motivational Speeches, Staff Manual Pages, and Stories 44 From the podium • Opening welcome & opening staff campfire • The professor and the Buddhist • Stories from parents, campers, staff, past staff, “old” directors, school principal . . . • Last 24 hours • Hero song with transparencies • Co-counselor wedding spiel for staff training • You are powerful • The Green Bean/Being dream • What’s left after the ashes? • Wish, wonder, and surprise (provoke, invoke, evoke) • The worlds we know • What would the regular world look like if it were more like camp? • Where a kid can be a kid • 15 minutes and counting • Final staff gathering candle ritual • Banquet speech Staff manual thoughts (card stock) 67 • The modern hero (inside manual cover) – resides in expectation section • Life Changers (after vision, mission, and specifics of how they are achieved) • Life is a path & Quote page 1 (section marker) • Sermons we see & Children learn what they live (section marker) • The ten major thinking errors & Autobiography in five short chapters (section marker) • What is a counselor & Face emotions (section marker) • Quote page 2 and 3 (back cover of staff manual) Stories & Letters 79 • Letters from parents and campers • My spirit home • Mission stories from the staff who experienced them • Stories of failure, innovation, outcomes, and other stuff the staff share at meetings • Pop quiz • Four letters to the staff Setting Staff Expectations: Tools To Use Before The Interview 90 • Top 10 reasons to work at camp • Staff video • One-page assessment of fit and/or core values page • The modern day hero • Quotes from past staff • Job description • Performance standards • 7 a.m. to midnight graphic daily schedule of each job • Expectations / clarification review page Bonus Section: 10 Great Ways to De-motivate Your Staff 100 • Firing staff inhumanely and unjustly (in their eyes, not yours) • Not controlling termites, negative leaders, and poor performers immediately • Inhumane discipline • Being a jerk / ego / hubris / greed • Not varying your leadership style • Personnel policies • Gossip and politics • Disorganization • Asking people to do things you wouldn’t do • Doing someone else’s job for them © 2004 Randall Grayson, Ph.D. 2
Freely Available Resources All of the below resources can be downloaded free from www.visionrealization.com. In addition to these resources, you’ll find more on evaluation, what it takes to go from good to great, finding and implementing best practices, information about at-risk youth, uncommon knowledge about self-esteem, and program knowledge ranging from pick-up games to archery to special days. Free. 360 degree evaluation Behavior management Believing and doubting game Emotional intelligence Knowledge management Organizational culture at camps Organizational factors Process maps Title Description Staff training best practices The art and science of mistakes The learning camp Follow the Fortune 1000 in using this tool to develop your staff. You will get an overview of 360 degree evaluation, understand why it is so beneficial, understand how to conduct them, and become aware of the pitfalls and stumbling blocks. This resource is an extensive behavior management plan that is firmly rooted in developmental and counseling psychology. Elements of plans that work and don't, bases of power, 5 approaches to counseling, parenting styles, and a full description of a systematic plan for working with children are all included. Play this useful “game” when you are having almost any kind of controversial discussion, or are trying to increase creativity. Place the one-page description in front of everyone at the meeting, allow everyone to read it, and get ready to have a more open, creative, and, ultimately more productive discussion/meeting. Brief information in presentation format on what Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is, why it is so important, and how to develop it. Also includes information on how to measure EQ in a valid and reliable way. Knowledge management will save you time, money, be a staff perk, and help you achieve your mission much more effectively. Simple idea, difficult to implement well, profound results. More specific implementation advice and lists are provided as well as models to help organize efforts. Once you engage this tool, you'll wonder how you ever did without it! From a fuzzy and nebulous concept to a concrete, useful framework. Understand clearly what makes a camp culture and how far reaching it is. Determine how yours rates. Discover best practices in creating an exceptional culture. Learn how to develop or change your current culture without hitting the land mines. Understand why Bob Ditter called this approach "the next level" in camp performance. The topics presented here are definitely considered by camps, and often agonized about at length. The goal is to hopefully offer a nugget or two of new information, or new lines of thought. Addressed are camper return rates and session length, staff return rates, appropriate staffing levels, and staff quality. Utilizing this knowledge will help you understand and communicate what your camp does in an unprecedented way. The staff and campers will benefit enormously from this knowledge. Reach a new plateau of understanding and effectiveness about your mission, and how to achieve it. Learn how to take your camp training from good to best practice. Understand how to convey information so that it will be remembered and used. Learn how to capture the heart in addition to the mind. Understand how to make in-the-trenches training as effective as possible - includes guidelines for supervisors. Fortune 500 leadership training, Parent Effectiveness Training, and camp orientations don't achieve their objectives at an alarming rate. Learn why orientations, special trainings, and in-services fail and what to do about it. Directors, staff, and campers all make plenty of slip-ups. Learn the differences between mistakes and failure and how to find the humor and wisdom in life's disappointments. Teach children, staff, and your organization how to "fail forward." There isn't a single aspect of organizations or personal life this doesn't apply to! The book "The Fifth Discipline" made learning organizations popular, but a lot has happened in the decade since that research was done. There are eight pillars of a learning organization. Understand what they are and how to assess where you stand on each pillar by using an administrator and counselor survey - provided. © 2004 Randall Grayson, Ph.D. 3
Page 2 and 3: Advance Praise Randy's book gives a
Page 6 and 7: Introduction What is motivation? Mo
Page 8 and 9: Structures The elemental factors of
Page 10 and 11: Strongly disagree // Never Disagree
Page 12 and 13: Set expectations Satisfaction Reali
Page 14 and 15: Greatest regret? And, greatest less
Page 16 and 17: Camps usually have a stable of stor
Page 18 and 19: Trust Element Examples Credibility
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Page 22 and 23: I’m sure you could imagine each o
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You are Powerful {This speech is no
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“Being Powerful” means standing
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What’s left after the ashes? {Eve
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The Worlds We Know {If it fits, try
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15 Minutes and Counting Good mornin
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Honesty We expect people to be hone
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Come to the Edge, Life said. No we
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Children Learn What They Live If a
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Autobiography in Five Short Chapter
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Face emotions © 2004 Randall Grays
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A person who has not passed through
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My Spirit Home Camper for 8 summers
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Camp GoodFit Cabin cleanup Communit
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O u t c o m e s From the people Dur
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Four Letters To The Staff It’s ge
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Quotes from Staff “I am so psyche
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Dangers - not all roses As you may
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Notes / Feedback / Sharing / Action
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