by Ryan Moore | Dec 18, 2024 | Assessments & Best Practices
Listening Through the Questions Are there more chairs in the world or people? There are many questions like this one, but this was always my go-to during staff training as we prepared young adults to navigate and steward the experience of the campers that summer. When...
by Jody Oates | May 15, 2024 | Assessments & Best Practices
Tackling Deferred Maintenance Challenges at Camps At camp, it’s common for leaders to zoom in on programming, community building, and fostering memorable experiences for attendees. Unfortunately, when the focus is only on this, the neglected deferred maintenance...
by Jody Oates | May 1, 2024 | Assessments & Best Practices
The Changing Landscape of Summer Camps By Jody Oates, Kaleidoscope CEO Summer camp starts soon!! Let’s take a look at the changing landscape of summer camps. Sessions are full with waiting lists. Or, registration is down from last year and the year before. Or,...
by Jody Oates | Apr 10, 2024 | Assessments & Best Practices
3 Core Practices of Executive Perspective When a Camp Leader has an Executive Perspective, the Organization Thrives. It is easy for a camp director to get sucked into the urgent over the important and spend their days churning out task after task. This churn may even...
by Jody Oates | Oct 2, 2023 | Assessments & Best Practices
Get ready to be swept away as we explore how camps have shaped the past and are shaping the future in an interview with dynamic camp expertise duo: Kathy Trotter and Jody Oates. We want to note that in this interview Kathy references “Christian camps.” This is simply...
by Jody Oates | Jul 3, 2023 | Assessments & Best Practices
Situational Crises vs. Organizational Crises A summer camp can face its most daunting challenge when it confronts the possibility of being in a crisis, which could stem from financial constraints, low registration numbers, staffing complications, and other related...
