Leadership Essentials Online Camp Staff Training

To meet your training needs, CampSpirit is proud to offer Leadership Essentials, a brand-new, premium library of online video training modules, written and hosted by Dr. Christopher Thurber and friends. Each module teaches critical leadership skills that every youth development professional needs to effectively deal with the social, behavioral, and disciplinary issues that arise at all summer camps and outdoor programs.

Benefits of Leadership Essentials

• The most cost-effective professional training available
• Instant capacity to train your staff as soon you hire them
• World-wide access (with an Internet connection) to critical information
• Entertaining, insightful modules from the camping world's foremost educators
• Cutting-edge materials (online videos, handouts, quizzes) that engage staff in learning
• Quizzes that ensure comprehension of the material
• Benchmarks of outcomes, such as your staff's viewing history and quiz performance
• A jumpstart in meeting ACA or OCA standards in human resources

Leadership Essentials 2009

Building off the tremendous success of our debut season, the Leadership Essentials team is proud to have created 12 new modules, thus doubling the size of the video training library. Best of all, we welcome contributions from industry leaders including Scott Arizala, Faith Evans, and Cindy Ziobrowski. We're also improving the functionality of the site, allowing directors to categorize staff, bundle modules, and choose which staff see which modules. We've also improved the quiz feature, simplified the statistical output, and built new tutorials. Still wondering whether you'd like to join the hundreds of camps that participated in Leadership Essentials last year? Read Testimonials of Returning Subscribers.

Read Descriptions of the 2009 and 2008 video training modules

• Dr. Chris Thurber
• Scott Arizala
• Faith Evans
• Cindy Ziobrowski

Medical Essentials 2009

New for 2009, we're introducing the camp world to Medical Essentials, an extensive toolbox of online educational materials for camp nurses and doctors. Will the urologist you hire to be your camp doctor know how to treat poison ivy, head injuries, and broken bones? Be sure she can with updated, camp-specific medical education from leading experts. Available as a separate subscription for $499, your Medical Essentials subscription gives you and your medical staff (up to 10 people total) unlimited access to critical health care information online. For an addition fee, your camp nurses and doctors can even earn Continuing Medical Education credits when they participate in the Medical Essentials program.

• Dr. Warren Katz
• Dr. Edward Walton

Now you can begin training your staff as soon as they are hired, from anywhere in the world! Your yearly subscription to Leadership Essentials gives you and your staff unlimited online access to the entire web-based library of 12 modules, plus handouts, electronic quizzes, and thought-provoking discussion questions.

"We were very pleased with our decision to purchase Leadership Essentials for our staff. Feedback from staff about Leadership Essentials was extremely positive. Every staff member arrived for orientation with a much clearer idea of what we expected from them...and the video training modules gave us a common language and skill set to use throughout the summer. Bottom line: Our staff were ready for their counseling and leadership responsibilities right from opening day. Thank you, Chris. We'll be renewing our subscription in 2009!"