https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/myth-middle-management

There’s an interesting trend happening in the camp profession: If your program director, assistant director, or other full-time middle management employee has not recently left your organization,...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/job-making-mensches-campers-integrity-honor

Clayton M. Christensen (2017), professor at the Harvard Business School and one of the foremost authorities on disruptive innovation, wrote: "Customers rarely make buying decisions around what...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/sit-get-wont-grow-dendrites-professional-learning-strategies-engage-adult-brain

by Marcia L. Tate, Ph.D. Visualize the worst presentation or training session that you ever attended. The chances are that you were talked at by a presenter who was either boring or argumentative...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/social-capital-organized-camping-its-about-community

We can't really define it, but we know it when we see it. We lament the loss of it to our friends and neighbors as we continually look for new ways to build it. What is IT? It is a sense of community...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/theres-no-business-trade-show-business

Trade shows, camp fairs, and community expos bring vendors together in a virtual mega mall where like-minded people can efficiently research and compare products, services, solutions, and ideas. It's...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/finding-certified-waterfront-staff

It’s that time when camp directors ask themselves "where am I going to find enough certified waterfront staff, specifically boating staff?" Standard PA-20, a mandatory standard, states that camps (...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/challenge-course-zip-line-safety

Recently, serious accidents and fatalities in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, and other states have prompted government in these and several other states to review and/or discuss how...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-research-your-link-between-work-you-love-real-world

Yes, I said it. “Research” — that nasty stuff your teachers make you do in school, typically involving math, Excel, APA citations, etc. When I was in school, writing research papers always felt so...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/5000-girls-camp-kear-sarge-reunion-story

Standing on a dark platform at Grand Central Station in June 1965, I saw a huge pile of black trunks with silver latch hooks and little locks just like mine. I had watched my mother pack my...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/rogue-camp-volunteer-management-when-old-campers-love-camp-too-much

At the ACA National Conference in Atlanta in 2016, 4-H camp directors from across the country spent a day exploring relevant topics. Nationally, 4-H is one branch of the Extension Services, which...