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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & ParentingA Positive Psychology Primer
$10.00Capitalize on each team member’s signature strengths to promote authentic happiness and curb problematic behavior. This handout provides a conceptual map of positive psychology and a list of terrific camp-…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Appreciative Inquiry
$10.00Organizations such as are full of problems to be solved, right? Wrong. If you think this way, you’ll stagnate. This handout introduces the technique of Appreciative Inquiry and will reset…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Appreciative Inquiry: Assessment Exercise
$10.00The two versions of this assessment of mood and creativity is the ideal pre-post measure of how attitudes influence motivation to change. Give alternate versions to each half of your…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Assess Your Emotional Leadership Style (ELS)
$10.00This intriguing questionnaire, based on emotional intelligence and parenting research, will help your staff get a rapid glance at their emotional leadership style. Questions are customized to a youth population…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Breakthrough Advising Techniques: New Pathways from Awful to Optimal
$10.00Advising–by boarding staff or dorm faculty–is the relational foundation of student well-being. This handout provides conceptual and practical guidance for adults at all levels who share an investment in the…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Case Studies of Language and Culture
$10.00Are your staff ready to respond when campers casually drop words like “gay” or “fag” or “wife beater”? The four provocative case studies on this handout push staff to create…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Design a Successful CIT/LIT Program
$10.00Preliminary questions and an outline of ten perennial problems associated with internal leadership development serve as the basis for solution-focused design on this compact handout. Best used as the basis…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Effective Communication and Empathy: Building Connections with Parents, Staff, Campers, and Students
$10.00De-fusing emotional “bombs” is an essential prerequisite to problem-solving, but one that’s often overlooked. Learn how to promote connection and understanding with students, parents, campers, and peers. Includes a blank…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Four solid reasons you should Lead By Example on the Internet
$10.00The Internet is public space. How you behave in that space—like all other behavior—should set a sterling example for young people to follow. This focused handout gives adult leaders practical…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback
$10.00Providing feedback to one’s colleagues is an essential skill for leadership growth and development. This advanced handout describes how to preserve good relationships while providing clear feedback in ways that…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Independent School Health & Wellness Center Self-Audit of Essential Best Practices
$10.00Take an objective look at the strengths and weaknesses of your school’s health and wellness center by distributing this list of best practices to your leadership team. Then, aggregate the…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Internal Leadership Development
$10.00Handouts are available a la carte for $10 apiece, but you could save $800 by purchasing the entire Thurber Handout Portfolio for $199.
Thinking about an All-Camp Prep4Camp membership or an…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Interpret Your Emotional Leadership Style (ELS) – Key
$10.00This scoring key accompanies the “Emotional Leadership Style: Assessment” questionnaire and provides insight for your staff into how their style of dealing with campers’ emotions may be positively or negatively…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Junior Counselor + Unit Leader Scenarios: Balancing allegiance with responsibility
$10.00Internal leadership development is one of the keys to cultivating a skilled staff, but unique conflicts and quandaries arise with junior staff interact with senior staff (especially when their ages…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Kickin’ Kitchens: Re-engineering Your Dining Services Systems
$10.00The kitchen is the heart of you school, camp, or youth program. But a poorly run kitchen poses serious health and safety risks that cause illness and injury. This handout…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Leadership Pinnacles and Pitfalls
$10.00Here are the top ten ways for a cabin leader or bunk counselor to succeed. Based on Chris’s most popular staff training workshop, this roadmap to achievement also outlines the…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Letter Home from Camp
$10.00One simple way to inspire your staff is to read a letter that a young person might write near the end of camp. What have they achieved? How have they…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Mistakes Young Leaders Make: Coaching the Transition from Student to Proctor/Prefect
$10.00Who among your student supervisors is ready for all the immature and impulsive things other students do? This vital handout prepares newly minted proctors/prefects to identify and respond skillfully to…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Personal Achievement Letter
$10.00This clever “Letter to Self” forces staff to articulate personal and professional goals for the summer and closes with an opportunity for staff to write words of encouragement to themselves….
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Positive Leadership in the Workplace
$10.00Help your staff stop responding to negative behavior with more of the same. Learn to use a calm tone, effective praise, and a positive spin. Teach your staff to be…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Presentation Matters: Engaging Participants by Delivering Essential Content in Memorable Ways
$10.00In-service training is the backbone of continuous professional development, but not all wise adults are skilled presenters. This uplifting handout explains techniques to keep audiences engaged, learning, and inspired. Set…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Self-Analysis of Your Behavior in Groups
$10.00An especially useful handout for young staff or new hires, this exercise stirs thinking about behavior changes in different group settings. Promotes insight into competitiveness, concentration, creativity, and integrity. Includes…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Situational Leadership: Contextual Analysis and Adaptation
$10.00Contextual analysis and adaptation are essential for flexible leadership. Prevent your staff from pigeonholing themselves into one or another kind of leadership. Use this basic outline with film clips or…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
The Phone Call: Smart Strategies for Diffusing Emotional Bombs
$10.00Within seconds, you know it’s going to be one of “those calls,” so why not be prepared? This is a handout you’ll keep by your phone or laptop so you…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Things a “Problem Child” Needs to Hear
$10.00A pithy summary of how to make young people feel powerful, competent, and emotionally safe, without hurting themselves or others in the process. This handout includes six areas to challenge…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Wise Use of Time Off
$10.00Staff need to spend their time of wisely so when they’re on duty they’re ready for anything. If they return to camp exhausted or hung-over, they’re likely to burn out…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Working with Anxious and Overprotective Parents
$10.00We can’t arrest our anxious and over-involved parents, but we can do lots to soothe their anxiety and curb their micromanagement impulses. This practical handout helps staff help parents prevent…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Working with Difficult Parents: Partnering with Overwhelmed, Anxious, Bossy, Defiant, and Unhappy Caregivers
$10.00This essential handout summarizes the typology of difficult parents along with realistic and clever ways to respond…all without compromising your students’ or campers’ best interests. Partnering with primary caregivers is…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Becoming a Youth Development Professional: Your Example is Your Most Powerful Teaching Too
$10.00Day and overnight camps are powerful, positive developmental experiences for children. This honest handout explains how staff transition from focusing on themselves to focusing on the needs of the young…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Equity & Diversity, Part 1
$10.00Celebrating the differences among people introduces a new level of enjoyment to the experience of the day and overnight camp. It may be human to fear differences at first, but…
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Handouts (PDFs), Leadership & Parenting
Writing Leadership Jobs on Your Resume
$10.00This is the single most-requested handout because most of your staff need to move on to other jobs. Help them feel good about the work they’re doing at your youth-serving…
