From The Camp Director blog’s post:
What Summer Camps Can Teach Startups About Supervising Interns and Young People:
Great Post Jenn.
@admbrown (a director who worked for me) used to lead a training session with his staff facetiously titled something like “Don’t make your own decisions – your brain isn’t fully formed”.A great advantage of the summer camp staff experience is that it provides a safe place – with plenty of back up – to make mistakes.
One thing that we drilled in to our staff (it became our most important mission-tool) was the “4 S’s”. The Four S’s are a decision making instrument that all staff and campers must practise.
In order to do anything at camp you must first answer Yes to ALL of the Four S Questions:
- Is it Safe?
- Does it Serve the others in the community?
- Does it build Self-Esteem?
- Is it good Stewardship of the environment?Only then can you proceed.
That made a HUGE difference in our camp culture and made it easy to trust the decision making skills of our young adults.
Originally posted as a comment
by zoic
on The Camp Director using DISQUS.
