Annabel Steele

“Dear Dr. Thurber: I have spent the past nine summers at Camp Friendship; the last five as a counselor. Before our on-site training, everyone on the staff watches a different collection of Expert Online Training videos. We all agree they are an amazing resource! Thank you so much for being a great help to camp counselors and students alike! You and the EOT faculty have been a tremendous help to me, both as a counselor and as a student, especially as I prepare for my upcoming coursework in youth development. Thanks to EOT, I got an A+ on my speech for my Public Speaking class, called, “All Children Should Experience Camp.”

Annabel Steele
Boston College Student, Staff Member
Camp Friendship

Patty Harris

“EOT has allowed us to deliver consistent and current content across multiple locations, and to demonstrate that our staff have understood the content. We believe EOT is providing more efficient and higher quality training than we could produce on our own.”

Patty Harris
CEO, Camp Quality USA, Inc.

Whitney Chapman

“Thank you for our fifth great season using ExpertOnlineTraining.com. We love EOT because it prepares our staff prior to their arrival for the challenges of working with young people. They come to camp confident and prepared after viewing skillful solutions to all kinds of counselor-based and camper-based problems. We continue to make the training modules available during the summer so our staff can get instant help with any leadership issue.”

Whitney Chapman
Assistant Director, Camp Laney for Boys
www.camplaney.com

Weston Outlaw

“Leadership Essentials became a well known entity at Culver Summer Schools & Camps this summer. We asked all 380 staff members to login to LE prior to arriving at camp and most completed the entire program. We loved being able to print the certificate of completion for staff to add to their personnel portfolio.

The staff told us that the videos were informative, a good reminder of issues, and related to real camp situations that college-age men and women may not know how to handle yet. One staff member commented: ‘Have to admit, I thought the training videos were going to be awful. I was TOTALLY wrong–they rock!‘”

Weston Outlaw
Former Marketing Coordinator, Culver Summer Schools & Camps
www.culver.org/summer

Steve Ehrhardt

“Chris, your short, topical videos—combined with matching handouts and online quizzes—allow us to monitor, evaluate, and help our staff prepare for the summer and gain confidence working with kids. With your innovative product, our staff will come to camp more prepared than ever and I thank you for this. By monitoring the quiz results, we will also be able to gauge which subjects need additional emphasis during our inservice training.”

Steve Ehrhardt
Owner/Director, Douglas Ranch Camps
www.douglascamp.com

Shelley and David Tager

“We were very pleased with our decision to purchase Leadership Essentials. 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’re renewing our subscription!”

Shelley and David Tager
Directors, Indian Head Camp
www.indianhead.com

Shana Funk

“DECA and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) are collaborating on this very exciting project [to subscribe to Leadership Essentials] and I believe it will be such an asset to all participating diabetes camps. Thanks for the amazing things you do for all camps and the kids we serve. I look forward to having our American Diabetes Assocation staff use your online counselor training program.”

Shana Funk
Youth Initiatives / American Diabetes Assocation
www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/parents-and-kids/ada-camps/

Sarah Oplinger

“We implemented the Leadership Essentials Online Training Program for our staff as a precursor to our pre-camp training. As a result of the dynamic monitoring options Leadership Essentials offers, we had a clear picture of what skills our staff had and which ones required emphasis during our customized on-site training.

Our counselors told us that they felt an elevated sense of professionalism and high expectations from the camp management. This was just what we wanted. We are constantly looking for ways to improve our staff training by using today’s exciting new staff development tools. It was a wonderful experience and we look forward to the additional material that has been added.

Thanks a bundle; we really do enjoy the benefits of this service.”

Sarah Oplinger
Assistant Director Douglas Ranch Camps
www.douglascamp.com

Sarah Horner Fish

“Just watched your new modules and we really like them! We’re excited to sharethem with our staff this spring and we’re fully confident that our new and returning staff will be that much better equipped when they get to camp, thanks to all the training you provide on EOT. It’s wonderful to think about the ripple effect of your training on our staff and then on all the children they work and play with!”

Sarah Horner Fish
Executive Director, Tom Sawyer Camps
www.tomsawyercamps.com

Rob Hammond

“Chris has been providing in-person staff training workshops at Camp Laney for 10 years. This year, I was excited to jump-start his in-person training with Leadership Essentials. I know that the strategic addition of Chris’s online video training modules will allow our leadership team (and Chris himself) to teach my staff more advanced skills during staff training week. So far, the video training modules are also getting all my staff–especially my first-year counselors–psyched for camp.”

Rob Hammond
Owner & Director, Camp Laney for Boys
www.camplaney.com