Category: 10 Ideas
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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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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…
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To Do What Needs To Be Done
Years ago I read an article about a factory in one of the Nordic countries. The thing that was facinating to me is that the factory had a one line job description. It read: To do what needs to be done. This fascinated me. The fact that you could take an entire factory and have…
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We are in the business of making memories.
We are in the business of making memories. When you get right down to it, summer camps are in the business of making memories, that is what we do. If you create good memories, campers come back; if you fail to create good memories, campers move on in search of a camp that can help…