Save Time - No More Sit Down Evals - Do This Instead

No More Evals.

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TLDR

Cancel sit down evals and just have your seasonal leaders fill out short weekly reports for you on all their staff. 4 questions

Scale 1-10 how awesome are they doing?

What are they awesome at?

What can they be better at?

What have they told you about?

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I stole/adapted this from Justin Pritikin at Everwood Day Camp. Walking around Everwood last week with Justin he got me thinking about 3 super tangible ideas.

No more evals

How hard it is for some staff to be in front of a group

Talking to kids isn’t just common sense (WHAT EVEN IS COMMON SENSE?!)

JUSTIN

If you haven’t had a chance to meet Justin, make sure you get to his Tristate sessions or listen to his many appearances on The Day Camp Pod or this one of him on TSCS pod.

I love Justin. He tells it like he sees it, doesn’t pull punches, AND has a ton of fun doing it. Plus he backs it up, works his ass off, and is constantly getting better.

No More Evals do This Instead Its Easier and Better (?)

Long story short, in 6-12 weeks taking a bunch of time to push staff who don’t want to get better to get better is a slog. It takes a lot of time and no one feels good after. What if instead we did 4 things?

Of course talk to staff members when there are serious issues

Praise the hell out of staff members when they do awesome stuff

Give staff feedback when they ask for it and when it is clear they have long term potential at camp

Keep track of how staff are doing behind the scenes for next year

Justin does something similar at Everwood. My version is these 4 questions. The last one Justin says “Just talk to them about anything! Listen!”

Scale 1-10 how awesome are they doing?

What are they awesome at?

What can they be better at?

What have they told you about?

Have your seasonal leaders fill these out weekly, read them, take action, and have a clear pulse on how things are going.

Being In Front of a Group and Talking To Kids is Hard

This email is already hella long so I will leave it at this and write more later.

Justin has me really thinking about how can we make it much much easier for our staff to feel confident and have specific skills for being in front of a group of people or start talking with young people.

One question Justin asks his staff “What are you going to say when you first meet a camper? No really, what specifically are you going to say? What next?”

THE WORK YOU ARE DOING TRULY MATTERS.

Jack Schott