Category: 10 of Each
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Cool Board Games With Joe – Buckeye Leadership Workshop 2016
At the Buckeye Leadership Workshop 2016 I led a session called Cool Board Games with Joe. We played a bunch of games. I choose games that might be new to people and can be entertaining for all ages and all abilities. Here is a list of some of the games we played (all links to…
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CYOA – Choose Your Own Adventure @ Camp
We have a program at camp called Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA). It happens everyday and we have no idea what it will be each week. It changes week to week – and we are so proud of that. Our camp staff have a variety of passions. Some of them love to write poetry,…
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Game – Sponge Warz
Sponge Warz is more than a game. Sponge Warz is more like a way of life. It is an all camp game that I have been playing since the early 1990’s. A good friend brought Sponge Warz back to Kenesserie from another camp in the late 1980’s. The key is to make this game an…
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Money to Leave – Buy Into Our Camp Culture
At Pearce Williams we will pay you to quit. Years ago I read about Zappos and how they offered employees money to quit or leave. You can read about it here. And here. And here. Would this work at camp? We do not offer a great sum. Our offer has ranged from $200 to $300…
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No Drama. Not My Circus. Not My Monkey’s.
Years ago we decided that Camp would be better if we had “No Drama”. I had implemented a ratings scale for our staff that we used at the end of each summer. We would rate staff on a 1 to 4 scale. 1 being that we would recruit them to come back even if they…