9 Things You Must Do With Your First Year Staff - Camp Code #108

You probably have more new staff than ever, here’s how to set them (and yourself!) up for success!

Training season is almost here. This summer, we want to be sure our new staff members are set up for success. Here are our top tips for doing just that.

  • Make them feel like you’ve been waiting all year for them to arrive. Send a link the day before with instructions for when they arrive on the camp road. 

  • With return staff, reverse engineer and imagine what the last day of camp will look like AND THEN, have them think through how do we accomplish that vision starting with when staff arrive

  • Give them space to let home know they have made it okay and then take away their technology

  • Bring your returning staff in before the new staff

  • Create times for new staff to show skills that they have

  • Have multiple avenues for asking questions

  • Provide them with a support system!

  • Reinforce the idea that not everyone will remember everything from staff training, then show them the transformation of what they learn now compared to before training

  • Do camp chores together!

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Best Practice for Leadership Training

From Gabz (Borrowed from Claudes Cameron)

Bring your staff together! One thing you can do is offer old camp swag to new staff members. Staff could donate what they wanted to the campership fund. The asking price was $1. Doing this gives new staffers old camp swag, giving the perception that they have always belonged to that camp.

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