How to Receive (and Give!) Feedback - First Class Counselors #20
First Class Counsellors show their maturity when they are able to receive and follow through on feedback. Here’s how to do it.
Welcome to episode 20 of First Class Counsellors!
Feedback. As a counselor you get a lot of feedback. Most of it is typically tough to hear or difficult to adapt to.
You are ultimately responsible for your behaviour and there are some things you may need to change.
How you receive that feedback and interpret it is important.
We are mostly going to talk about the tough conversations today but we want everyone to know that feedback is all positive because it is all aimed to get better. If you keep that growth mindset these conversations will not only be productive but a lot easier.
On this episode of First Class Counselors, we give you the tools to both receive and give feedback in the most productive was possible.
Tune in to this episode to hear about:
What’s it like for the person giving feedback?
Tips for listening to feedback so you get the most out of it
How to make the change that the feedback is asking you to make
What changes when it comes to evaluations?
How to give feedback to a co-counsellor?
What about positive feedback? How do we give and receive it?
We hope you enjoy this episode, and most importantly, find it useful!
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If you have any feedback, or a suggestion for a future FCC show, send Matt an email at matt@gocamp.pro
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Oliver: Draw a picture of your favorite camp song, send it to your director
Matt: The Crisis Text Line offers text-based support in Canada, Ireland, the UK, and the US. Services can also be accessed via Facebook Messenger. This service was just expanded to Canada and Ireland so your stakeholders may not be aware of it.
Check out the access numbers here https://www.crisistextline.org/.
Please note that it appears that parts of the website indicate that service hasn't launched in Ireland yet. But there is a contact number for Ireland on the landing page, so it looks like service is available but not fully ramped up yet.
Crisis Text Line is also looking for volunteers in all the countries they service and this could be a great opportunity for your staff and volunteers to support their communities at this time.
Host Links
Oliver Gregan, Summer and Families Camp Director at YMCA Camp Jewell
Matt Honsberger, Executive Producer of Podcasting at Go Camp Pro
What is First Class Counsellors?
Camp Directors, this Podcast isn’t for you. It’s time to delegate! First Class Counsellors is for your counselling staff, the ones who are on the ground, playing with kids and changing lives.
Each week, we’ll cover practical and accessible tips that will level up your camp counsellor skills. These are things every counsellor should know, but that you may not have time to teach in staff training.
Our two hosts, Oliver Gregan, Summer and Families Camp Director at YMCA Camp Jewell and Matt Honsberger from Go Camp Pro are excited to be able to provide this resource to camp counsellors and up and coming staff, who they believe, have the most important job at camp.