by Jody Oates | Oct 15, 2021 | Assessments & Best Practices
Back in April, we did an article on The State of Camps. In that piece, we noted a pattern we saw in camps squarely in the “have” or “have not” categories. There wasn’t much in between. Even now, this trend continues. We are still getting regular calls from camps in...
by Jody Oates | Sep 21, 2021 | Assessments & Best Practices
Every single summer, camps deal with crises. Whether it’s a nasty case of bed bugs, camper injury, financial mismanagement, or storm damage, camp management is risky. If you’ve been in this business long enough, you can name a crisis or two that you...
by Jody Oates | Sep 7, 2021 | Assessments & Best Practices
It’s widely known that the summer camp season wipes out even physically strong and emotionally resilient leaders. Camp leaders work long, hard hours doing physically demanding tasks and supporting staff and campers through growing and sometimes challenging...
by Jody Oates | Aug 23, 2021 | Assessments & Best Practices
Most camps have a board of directors. Some function as an operations board, others as a governing board. Either way, the executive director of the organization is charged with answering to the board of directors. This relationship is critical to the success of the...
by Jody Oates | Aug 9, 2021 | Assessments & Best Practices
We’ve been hearing about the “Great Resignation” for a couple of months now. It’s this idea that employees, during the pandemic, stayed in jobs that they would have left but held off because of the uncertainty of the pandemic market. Combine that with the general...
by Jody Oates | Jul 6, 2021 | Assessments & Best Practices
I was in a meeting recently that went really, really well. At least I thought so until 10 minutes after the call. The leader of the group I was meeting with called me to say that the majority of the group had no idea what I was talking about. I screwed up. Like many...