Healthy Camp Leadership

Melinda understands the unique challenges and joys of managing camps, conference and retreat centers. Take your leadership to the next level with training from Healthy Camp Leadership.

Managing Camp Staff

Many people think that managing people well is based on having the right personality or the ability to get staff to listen to you or like you. However, effective management is not about being charismatic. You can be an effective manager with the right tools. Healthy Camp Leadership’s Introduction to Personnel Management gives you the tools you need to lead your team with confidence. 

In addition, you will talk through the importance of policy and procedures, personnel handbooks, conflict resolution, gaining support/confidence, changing staff culture and the role of self-awareness.

Supervision of staff is often reported by camp, conference, and retreat professionals as the part of the job creating the most stress. You know that in the camp and retreat world, human resources can be more of a balancing act than in other settings. Whether a career or a ministry, the settings of camps and retreat centers are people-focused, multi-faceted, emphasize fun and the beauty of the outdoors. Staff are often required to do any number of jobs. For year-round programs, many staff live, eat and work together – often with each other’s family members – resulting in multi-layered relationships, informality, and blurred boundaries. Unit supervisors may have expertise in their areas of responsibility – like food service, facilities management or office administration – but do not have training in personnel management. Today’s challenging times means many sites are struggling just to get enough staff for full operation leading supervisors to feel reluctant to hold staff members accountable.

Participants of all four sessions will receive a Certification of Completion for Managing Camp Staff from Healthy Camp Leadership.

• Cost: $320 per person
• Want to send multiple people from one site? please inquire

Schedule

For Site Directors and Executive Directors:

Tuesdays, 3 – 5 pm ET
February 10 | February 17
February 24 | March 3

Department Managers such as food service, programming, housekeeping, maintenance:

Wednesdays, 3 – 5 pm ET
February 11 | February 18
February 25 | March 4

Register For Managing Camp Staff

Deadline to register is four business days before the course begins. Payment required before the first day of the course. Please mail a check to:

Healthy Camp Leadership
307 N. Hayford Ave.
Lansing, MI 48912

If you would like to pay online, please reach out to Melinda.

About Melinda Trotti

Melinda Trotti has years of experience both supervising staff members in camp, retreat, conference, and not-for-profit settings and in training supervisors to be more effective managers. She’s taught Personnel Management for Camps, Retreat Centers, and Not-for-Profits as an Adjunct Professor at Drew Seminary (Madison, NJ), as well as over 20 personnel management courses for United Methodist Camp & Retreat Ministry Association Gatherings of camping professionals.

Without jargon or hype, Melinda will lead you through a four-part training focusing on each area of Staff Supervision: Recruitment, Interviewing, Hiring/Onboarding, Training, Supervision, Evaluation, Discipline, and Termination. Each three-hour weekly session is led by Melinda and includes case studies and discussion time with fellow learners.