9 Things You Must Do With Your First Year Staff - Camp Code #108
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May 25, 2022
Discover essential strategies to successfully integrate first-year staff at camp. Learn how to create a welcoming environment that values new arrivals and fosters connections with returning team members. Emphasize clear communication and shared experiences to enhance team dynamics. Find out how to give new staff space to adjust while also providing them with support systems. Through engaging activities and personal touches, set the stage for a transformative training season that cultivates confidence and a strong camp community.
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Make New Staff Feel Welcomed
Make new staff feel expected and welcomed from the moment they arrive at camp.
Use personalized greetings, signage, and small swag to create a warm first impression.
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Use Returning Staff to Welcome New
Have returning staff reverse engineer the ideal end-of-summer experience and plan how to support new staff.
Empower both returning and new staff to take responsibility for welcoming and connecting with each other.
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Manage Arrival & Technology Pickup
Allow new staff to contact home upon arrival, then collect their technology to encourage connection to camp.
Make clear where new staff's things go and ensure their workspace or lodging is ready and welcoming.
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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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