108 | Staff Training: Practice Camp
In this podcast we are talking big ideas, actual and actionable takeaways, and lots of fun with the camp community and professionals!
This episode brings together Jack, Scott Arizala, Nelson Strickland & Paige Moffett to take a deeper dive into staff training. They discuss different ways to artificially create the “second session feeling”, strength based approaches to training sessions, and more.
The ideas start to form and are dissected to cover all different types of camps and training set ups. How do you create training opportunities that don’t add to the “staff crunch”? If you’re looking for close to a million ways to think through staff training, this is the pod for you.
Producer EmJ’s takeaways:
- If your campers learn differently, why wouldn’t your staff? Consider a Personal Learning Plan for staff members!
- The concept of “needing 80% of you” seems much more realistic and digestible as an expectation as opposed to 100% all the time.
- Asking returning staff to role play as “campers” that have complexity to them throughout the week is a great way for staff to learn different personalities and isn’t just a one-off scenario. (I will play a camper for your staff training, just let me know.)
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