training issues
Vicki Barnes,
CEO, People Skills International
training ideas 2007
Motivational/Inspirational
Rules Review
Connecting/Team Building
Does One Week
Make a Difference?
Motivational
Building a Support System for Our Campers
Supplies and People Power:
•
Big ball of Yarn
•
•
Balloons–represents 2 campers (non helium)
5 to 15 people to toss the yarn around
Directions:
(Please record what you observe)
Derek Peterson
Derek@icar-us.com
www.icar-us.com
40 Developmental Assets
Thriving Indicators
Does One Week
Make a Difference?
Motivational
The right speaker can be very motivational and
inspiring. Things to look for in a speaker:
Qualifications:
• Heart for Abused Kids
• Has a story to tell that’s emotional and gratifying
and has the ability to tell it with heart.
• Use interviewing if the person is not comfortable
giving a short talk.
Does One Week
Make a Difference?
Motivational
Ideas for Resource People or Speakers
• Your own counselors or staff:
Select two or three of your own people who have been at
camp for 3 or more years. Everyone has a SOTO. Start with
them or disperse them throughout the day.
• Your Pastor if he/she has been to camp or
any church staff member
• Social Worker who Knows RFKC
• Group Home Director who has had kids at camp
• Private Care Person
• Foster Parents
• A Caregiver like a grandmother
• Any community leader who has interacted with RFKC
• FORMER CAMPER (Usually interviewing works best)
Additional Director Team Ideas
ABOUT US
This goes in the staff/counselor’s training notebook.
This promotes connecting.
Question
Answer
NA
Name
Position at RFKC this year.
NA
Years following Jesus.
Place answer in numbers
column
How many years at camp?
Place answer in numbers
column
Number of pets…fish &
reptiles count.
Place answer in numbers
column
Number of foreign countries
I have visited.
Place answer in numbers
column
Number of moving traffic
violations.
Place answer in numbers
column
A quick “Something About
You,” that will help us
remember you, i.e., Maria,
rode pigs as a child.
Number
NA
Additional Director Team Ideas
ABOUT US
Page 2
This is given to each Table Host Only
Instruction: After each person has filled this form out.
1. Go around the table and let each person share their form.
2. Fill in the Table Totals.
3. Select one person from your table to share their
“Something about Me,” story.
4. Be ready to report your table’s information.
Question
Answer
Number
TABLE TOTAL
for your table
Years following Jesus.
How many years at camp?
“
Number of pets…fish &
reptiles count.
“
Number of foreign countries I
have visited.
“
Number of moving traffic
violations.
“
A quick “Something About
You,” that will help us
remember you.
Have your table pick the most
interesting or different “Something
About You,” from the people at your
table. Have that person stand and
tell their “Something.”
NA
Additional Director Team Ideas
Training Leader, Host or Moderator:
Have this chart in your Power Point Presentation.
Ask the person running the PP to fill in the numbers
as each table host reports.
Question
Number
Years following Jesus.
How many years at camp?
Number of pets…fish & reptiles
count.
Number of foreign countries I
have visited.
Number of moving traffic
violations.
A quick “Something About
You,” that will help us
remember you.
ABOUT US – Page 2
Additional Director Team Ideas
The Tallest Tower
Instructions
•
The goal for this exercise is to have your team build the
Tallest Tower with the 50 index cards you have been
given. Here are the rules.
1. You will be given 8 minutes to plan how to build
your tower.
2. You will have 5 minutes for actual construction.
3. While you plan you MAY NOT DAMAGE THE CARDS IN
ANY WAY, but you MAY SPEAK.
4. While you build you MAY NOT SPEAK to each other.
5. The team with the Tallest Tower wins.
6. Take 5 minutes to have the team debrief
Additional Director Team Ideas
Debrief
Appoint a spokesperson to facilitate the team to discuss
these questions and share with the whole group if
called upon to do so.
• What behavior/actions helped the group
accomplish the task?
• What behaviors/actions hindered the group in
completing the task?
• How did leadership emerge on the team?
• How is your team feeling about your tower?
• Did you remember IT’S PROCESS NOT
PRODUCT?!!!
What We Need at Camp to
Create Positive Memories
Personality Type Groups Team Building Exercise
Form groups of up to twelve with the same personality type
assigned to different areas around the training facility. Over
all exercise time 45 to 60 minutes.
Supplies:
• Banner paper cut in 12 foot lengths. Could be rolled and
tied with construction tape. 1 banner per group.
• One set of 6 to 8 colored marking pens per group.
• One set of instructions per group.
• If you use Power Point, a slide with the instructions on the
screen for all the groups to review.
Instructions:
• Go to your designated area with your supplies.
• Appoint a spokesperson to read the instructions.
• Read the Instructions.
(This is kind of a Pictionary model without guessing and each person
thinks up their own “What We Need at Camp” picture to draw.)
What We Need at Camp to
Create Positive Memories
•
Our team has 13 minutes to complete this exercise once the
instructions have been read and a short discussion (no longer than
2 minutes) takes place to make sure everyone knows what to do.
•
DO NOT share what you plan to draw with the team. WE need to
decide the order for who draws when. If our team has 12
members everyone draws one “What We Need at Camp” picture on
the banner.
•
If our team only has 4 members then each person would draw 3
different things. EVERY banner must contain 12 “What We Need at
Camp” pictures. If there are 6 team members then everyone will
draw 2 and so on.
•
One team member cannot draw for other team members.
What We Need at Camp to
Create Positive Memories
•
Our team is on the HONOR SYSTEM, we need to appoint someone to
time the 13 minutes.
•
Each person gets one minute to draw their “What We Need at Camp.”
•
When your minute is up and our team time keeper calls time, you must
stop even if you are not finished. The next team member starts drawing
and is timed. Change team members quickly. There is a built in time
allotment of five seconds between team members.
•
Each person should have in their mind three or four things they could
draw in case the person in front of you draws what you were planning.
•
Any questions? We now have two minutes to get a time keeper. Also
select another time keeper, for when the time keeper has his turn to
draw. We need to decide our drawing order and how to handle the
colored markers most efficiently.
•
At the end of two minutes our first drawer should begin his or her one
minute picture. If our team members have to draw more than one
picture because there are not 12 of us, take turns don’t draw more than
one at a time.
What We Need at Camp to
Create Positive Memories
READ these after the banner is finished
• You now have 10 minutes to have everyone tell:
 What you drew.
 Why do you think it needs to be at camp?
 How were you feeling about your drawing skills?
GROUP DEBRIEF:
• Discuss how our campers feel when we encourage
them to do things outside of their skills or confidence
level and conversely what they might feel within their
skills/confidence level.
• Ask one of each color group to share their banners
and tell what they experienced that the campers
might also feel.
What Else?
Icebreaker – RFKC Bingo
Chart for Camper’s Application
Certification
RFKC BINGO
• Find someone in this room who has
done, can do, or qualifies to
answer something in one of the
boxes.
•Write their name in that box. You
must find a different person for each
box. When the time is called, the
person with the most boxes filled wins!
What Else?
RFKC BINGO
Born outside
of the U.S.
Been skydiving
Added a
person to your
immediate
family in 07
Wearing a belt
that is not
black, brown,
navy or tan
Changed jobs
or companies
2 or more
times in 06.
Can complete
this RFKC
statement:
“It’s the
process, ___
___ ____”
Grandparents
of 3 or more
Grandchildren
Hospitalized
(not
emergency
room) in the
last year
Skied in
Europe in the
last 5 years.
Favorite color
purple
Wearing
bright or crazy
socks.
RFKC’s
mission
statement is
____ _____
______
Name the 9
Fruits of the
Spirit, found
in Galations.
Wearing 4
primary
colors: (red,
blue, yellow or
green)
Owns or
owned a
motorcycle
Attended a
wedding in a
foreign
country other
than Mexico
or Canada in
the last year
Been bungee
jumping
Been a foreign
exchange
student or
hosted one.
Can complete,
this line from
the RFKC
theme song:
Gramma,
Grampa, ------ and
devotions.
Visited
someone in
prison or jail
in 06
Done
missionary
work in a
country
starting with
the letter C, R,
or B
Can Quote
Phil. 4:13
Have 4 or
more pets
Never heard
of RFKC
before a year
ago
FREE
Camper Application Idea
Please check all boxes that describe this child.
Please check all boxes that describe this child.
Encourager
Planner
Shows
Leadership
Traits
Peacemaker
High-energy
Dependable
Resourceful
Kind
Charming
Thoughtful
Determined
Gentle
Forgetful
Moody
Bossy
Non-coping
Messy
Critical
Aggressive
Shy
Inventive
Orderly
Achiever
Fair
Bores easily
Practical
Winning is
important
Keeps
emotions
hidden
Needs praise
Needs to be
appreciated
Needs to be
right
Needs not to
be rushed
©Vicki L. Barnes – People Skills Series
Copying without permission is prohibited.
Other descriptors about this camper that would help
RFKC understand him or her better.
A Note from Vicki. . .
Please use all People Skills Series
materials for Royal Family Kids’ Camps
only. Certification for rights to copy is
available for anyone wanting to use this
material outside of RFKC.
Contact Vicki Barnes,
vb@peopleskills4u.com
800-965-8008, www.Peopleskills4u.com