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Camping Magazine archives from September 2004
A Peace Corps Volunteer goes to camp: a place to share.
September 1, 2004... "I'm one of those boring business volunteers who teaches courses like marketing to college students," I warned a fellow Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) when I offered to help out at her summer camp in western Ukraine. To my surprise, volunteering...
Holding up the world: building principles.(retaining walls)
September 1, 2004... "Appearances can be deceiving," it's been said. Nowhere is this truer than in the public works infrastructure where there are few, if any, visible moving parts. Recently, we've had a spate of calls concerning retaining walls that are not, well,...
Employee involvement: applications for summer camp.
September 1, 2004... Imagine you are the director of a summer camp. It's April, and your camper registrations are not coming in fast enough. You are not sure how many staff to hire with such low numbers of campers. You hope the situation will improve, but for now,...
From recruitment to retention: one camp director's secrets to staff success.
September 1, 2004... I'll never forget these words spoken by Jack Weiner, former American Camp Association, Wisconsin executive. Building a great staff is a lot like building a good home. You must start with a strong foundation. Staff retention begins with solid...
Post-incident risk management: risk management.
September 1, 2004... Managing risk is a year-round, 24/7 challenge for most businesses. As we have indicated in the past, the primary goal of risk management is preserving the assets of your organization. The process of identifying, evaluating, controlling,...
Teaching a man to fish: Seacamp's gift to Russia and Ukraine.(Seacamp Association Inc.)
September 1, 2004... Seacamp Association, Inc. has applied the lesson of this Chinese proverb both literally and figuratively through their combined approach to marine science and the global camp community. Founded in 1966, Seacamp is the parent organization of two...
Choosing the right software for your camp: TechnoTrends.
September 1, 2004... Camp management can be an imposing task. No longer is it confined to just managing campers and staff. Now data management is an even more important component. This means that in order to compete and survive in today's market, camp owners and...
The psychology of learning and behavior management: what it means for camp and staff training.
September 1, 2004... One of the greatest contributions psychology has made to humanity is its explanation of how people learn--how we come to know what we know, and how we change our knowledge and behavior in response to experience. Decades of psychological...
Tools for optimizing your plan: realizing unprecedented success--second in a series of articles.
September 1, 2004... Working Your Plan
After outlining the basic elements of a strategic plan and discussing a process that engages your key stakeholder groups (Camping Magazine, September/October 2004), we now concentrate on the tools necessary to assist you...