TSCS PODCAST 26: Seasonal Leadership: Supervising Your Friends
26 | Seasonal Leadership: Supervising Your Friends
In this podcast we are talking big ideas, actual and actionable takeaways, and lots of fun with the camp community and professionals!
On this episode Allison Krabill is joined by Laura Grube, Hanna Sue Percy, and Lenny Lorenz, all season leadership staff at their respective camps. This group talks through year-round engagement, supervising their peers, and what they wish you, their boss, knew. Producer EmJ looks at this episode as “something I wish I would have heard when I was younger”. (Hint: send it to your leadership staff!)
If you’re looking for perspectives on camp from your middle management and the next batch of young professional, this is the pod for you.
Producer EmJ’s takeaways:
I <3 the framing, “do you want me to listen or do you want me to find solutions?”
There are so many ways to provide and receive feedback!
As they were talking about checking-in on staff and off-time activities, it made me wonder if camps set in place off-time for their non-counselor roles. Does your camp leadership team have an off-schedule? If so, can you send it to me?
Want to bring your staff and staff training to the next level this summer?
SHOW NOTES:
Brittany Patterson is the one who shares about pouring from an empty cup
We still don’t know who said the Diet Coke thing…do you?
Lenny lorenz
Lenny Lorenz is a seasonal Unit Manager at Camp Mosey Wood in Eastern PA.
When not at camp she is a college student at Colorado College in Colorado Springs.
To get in contact, email leonardalorenz@gmail.com
HANNA SUE PERCY
Hanna Sue works as the Program Director for a non profit youth camp in Up State New York in the Adirondack mountains. She has recently graduated with a degree in International Education Studies and hopes to bring these culturally responsive pedagogies and teaching practices with her into a year round job in the outdoor education industry. Hanna Sue's love for the outdoors began in the Adirondacks and she cannot wait to combine this love with her passion for youth development and outdoor education.
To get in contact, email hpercy@eagleisland.org
Laura Grube
Laura Grube is a violinist and orchestral conductor from Ohio. She has worked at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp since 2018, serving as a Cabin Counselor, Unit Director, and now as an Associate Staff Director. Laura has earned her BM in Music Education from WVU, and an MM in Violin Performance from Ithaca College. In the rest of the year, she works as a Music Intern and Assistant Orchestra Director at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. Laura enjoys spending time with her family and friends, exploring new places, and doing crafts like crochet and painting.
To get in contact, email lmgrube49@gmail.com
Allison krabill
Allison Krabill first chanted the camp name to light the magic campfire at age 6 and quickly became that one kid that never stops talking about camp. At 28, she became one of the youngest YMCA executive directors in the country as she led YMCA Camp Immokalee through doubling the budget, master planning, board restructuring, capital improvements, and more. She loves being a camp director to camp directors through TSCS and will never turn down a game of a Gaga.
To get in contact, email allison@thesummercampsociety.com
The Summer Camp Society Podcast is edited and produced by EmJ Juszczyk.
