Four things to share today:
- Book: Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
“Great negotiators are able to question the assumptions that the rest of the involved players accept on faith or in arrogance, and thus remain more emotionally open to all possibilities, and more intellectually agile to a fluid situation.” - Article: An Exercise to Help Your Team Feel More Comfortable with Conflict By Liane Davey
I am presenting a session on “Difficult Conversations You have to have to be Successful”. In already presenting it once and having two additional presentations booked for it I am reading up on the idea of conflict. This article outlines why our teams need to have conflict and should have conflict. - Quote: “Except in extreme circumstances, happiness is mostly internal. One sets a ‘horizon line’ in one’s life and decides that everything above it is joy, everything below is grief. My horizon line is well placed to make sure that most of my landscape is happy.” R.J. Teller
- Idea: Camping is what I think about almost all the time. My thoughts are always moving toward what program can we find that will make parents say, “My kids have to go there. My kids have to take part in this program!” There are a few programs that I think have potential – world camp, plastic upcycling, Open Source Ecology (I am going to Belize in February to learn how to build with OSE). I think these ideas will change what summer camp can be. I think we need to make ourselves – as camps – an indispensable part of our communities. What programs are you searching for to make your camp more relevant?
If you have questions or just want to talk about camping, leadership, or life – send me an email: joe@yoyojoe.com