Tag: feedback
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The Power of Expeditions – Interview with Clay Colvig
Clay Colvig from Colvig Silver Camps The phrase “summer camp” evokes a very specific image for many people – large campfires by a lake, eating in a mess hall with hundreds of other campers, making life long memories in your cabin. But what if there was more to overnight camping than this conventional picture? Recently…
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Feedback at Camp – Interview with Sarah Horner Fish
Feedback is a gift. I expand upon this concept highlighted in a previous blog during a recent interview with Tom Sawyer Camps’ Executive Director Sarah Horner Fish. What stood out most about Tom Sawyer’s counselor evaluation process is that staff are consistently providing each other structured feedback. Rather than merely receiving feedback, as is the…
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The Dream Camp Director
After speaking with 50+ camp directors and traveling the country visiting camps, I’ve developed a sense for what makes a camp director succeed. With this perspective, if I were to craft my dream camp director, I’d call upon six components from these camp standouts… The heart of Shibley Day Camp’s Heath Levine – Just as…
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What Camp Can Learn From Corporate America
Last post, I wrote about the 3 lessons that corporate America can learn from summer camps. In this post, I’ll describe the inverse… the three largest lessons that summer camps can learn from the traditional business world. 1) Feedback is a gift – seek it out The single most important lesson I learned at Stanford’s…
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