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EOT Faculty at ACA Nationals

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At Expert Online Training, we are very proud of our faculty who consistently give back to the camping community and to our EOT community. We are thrilled to announce that many of our faculty are presenting at the American Camping Association National Conference in Nashville this week. Below we have posted their times and topics, be sure to catch a few! (Come swing by our booth at the Exhibitors Expo as well!)


Tuesday Sessions

4:00 pm to 5:15 pm
Chris Thurber – Homesickness Fails: Five Things People Do That Sabotage Adjustment 
Dr. Deborah Gilboa – Intergenerational Communication that Makes Camp Stronger
Michelle Cummings – Interactive Staff Training Activities

Wednesday Sessions

8:30 am to 9:45 am
Chris Thurber –   Intelligent FailureDr. Deborah Gilboa – The Why of Camp: Explaining Why You Do What You Do to Get More Campers, More Staff Support and More Money
Michelle Cummings –  Effective Debriefing Tools and Techniques  
Catherine Scheder – Believe it or Not: Bob, the Gang, the Sister Cousin and the Prison Pastor — Lessons Learned from Crisis in Camp

1:15 pm to 2:30 pm
Dr. Deborah Gilboa – Leadership Development at Camp: Putting People in Charge Who Aren’t Quite Ready

2:45 pm to 4:00 pm
Chris Thurber – The Phone Call

4:15 pm to 5:30 pm
Dr. Deborah Gilboa – Challenge Staff to Do Hard Things, and to Stop Damaging Behaviors
Kurt Podeszwa – Leadership Essentials: Communication Strategies  

8:00 pm to 9:00 pm Night Cap Session – 
Niambi Jaha-Echols – Teambuilding Activities to Promote Cross-Cultural Agility

Thursday Session

8:30 am to 9:45 am 
Chris Thurber and Dr.  Edward (Skip) Walton – Ben Appelbaum Medical Issues Forum — XVIII

10:30 am to 11:45 am
Scott Arizala – New Ways To Think About Old Ideas: Staff Training Strategies

1:00pm to 1:45 pm – Commerce Session
Evan Heltay and Josh Gadad – Initiating Staff Training Prior To Arrival

2:00 pm to 3:15 pm
Scott Arizala –  Can I Talk to You for a Minute? Difficult Management Conversations Update

Friday Sessions

8:00 am to 9:15 am
Catherine Scheder – Creating a Cushion of Safety for your Camp Waterfront
Scott Arizala – When The Learning Curve Is Almost Vertical: New Bosses, Camps, and Jobs

With that many of our superstar faculties’ sessions to choose from, you can’t go wrong. We hope all of our EOT subscribers and camp community have a great conference. Don’t forget to stop by our EOT both and say hello. We also are hosting the 11th Annual Night Off Party – click here for the facebook event. Join us for a night of live music in downtown Nashville on Wednesday. Happy Conferencing to all attendees! 

Tish Bolger

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“EOT is simply an outstanding resource. I recommend this learning program without hesitation to any organization wishing to pursue excellence. The materials are practical and straightforward, with excellent presenters and support. Relevant and responsive – in short, this is an excellent resource.”

Tish Bolger
CEO, Girl Scout Council River Valleys
www.Girlscoutsrv.org

Pete Stahlbrand

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“I highly recommend EOT’s video series on bullying and relational aggression! My staff took to heart the situations in Dr. Joel Haber’s Preventing Gossip and Relational Aggression and Scott Arizala’s We Squashed It: Relational Aggression. Using the techniques in those videos, my staff were able to spot and intervene in so many nearly-invisible situations last summer, before they became destructive for our campers. Thanks to EOT, our ability to proactively solve bullying and relational aggression gave us immense credibility in our parents’ eyes and made my camp a safer and more positive place.”

Pete Stahlbrand
Director, YMCA Camp Wiyaka
www.campwiyaka.org

莎拉 D 霍夫曼

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“在线专家培训每年都在员工培训期间将这个领域最好的专带给我们。即使没有与EOT的成员亲自见面，我们所有的工作人员仍然能够学习到那些帮助他们成为细致周到的核心技能，为参加露营的人提供有效的指导。在夏季，当我们的咨询人员回顾他们在视频中所学习到的内容时，他们已经了解并且信任他们在屏幕上认识的人。如果没有EOT的帮助，我们的员工培训不可能如此有效并且实现“在GRP中做最好的自己”。

莎拉.D.霍夫曼

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Sarah Kurtz McKinnon

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莎拉•库尔茨•麦金农于2008年以优等成绩从西北大学梅迪尔新闻学院毕业，获得了政治学和新闻工作的学位。尽管她热爱写作，但是她有另外一项热爱的事业，那就是通过夏令营的力量改变人生。在2009年，23岁的她获得了成为美国最年轻的YMCA的露营执行官的机会，执掌安娜堡YMCA的阿尔冈琴露营。莎拉作为主管为AGQ露营服务了将近六年的时间，露营的年度收入增长了40%并且有将近100万美元投入了基本建设的提升。她朝气蓬勃并且别出心裁的领导方法讲一个原本已经非常优秀的露营提升到一个卓越的层次，获得了国家层面对露营成功的认可。
莎拉在2015年离开了AGQ露营并且成立了库尔茨•麦金农创新机构，旨在帮助其他露营和露营业内人员充分挖掘他们的潜力。她最近和露营专家史蒂夫•麦圭尔合写了《不是你一贯的做法》一书，和杰克•斯考特创建了夏令营社团，一个为新兴的露营从业人员准备的以社群为基础的合作教育项目。莎拉正在密歇根大学罗斯商学院攻读她的工商管理硕士学位，在那里她是积极的组织机构中心的实验室中的一员。
莎拉和她的丈夫罗伯特（一个持证的建筑者和木匠）居住在密歇根州的安娜堡，还有他们的布列塔尼犬，瑞格和马利。罗伯特在莎拉到来之前在AGQ露营工作了数年，他们通过一个共同的露营朋友相识。在她的休闲时间，莎拉喜欢打羽毛球，阅读和艺术。莎拉也是沃士登露营安置联盟的志愿董事会成员，这是一个当地的非营利组织，将那些没有机会去参加露营的孩子送到不同的露营中，同时她也担任大树露营的兄弟姐妹项目的主管。

www.kurtzmckinnoncreative.com

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Sarah Kurtz McKinnon

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Sarah Kurtz McKinnon graduated cum laude from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2008, earning her degree in political science and journalism. Although she had a passion for writing, she had another passion, and that was changing lives through the power of summer camp. In 2009, she earned the opportunity to become one of the youngest YMCA camp executives in the country, taking the helm of Ann Arbor YMCA Camp Al-Gon-Quian at the age of 23. Sarah served as the director of Camp AGQ for nearly six years. During that time the camp saw incredible growth with a 40 percent increase in positive annual net for the program and nearly $1 million in capital construction improvements. Her dynamic and creative leadership approach took an already great camp to another level of excellence, receiving recognition at the national level for the camp’s success.
Sarah left Camp AGQ in 2015 to start Kurtz McKinnon Creative with the goal of helping other camps and camp professionals reach their full potential. She recently co-authored a book for camp professionals with Steve Maguire, entitled Not the Way You Have Always Done It and, with Jack Schott, founded The Summer Camp Society, a collaborative, community-based education program for emerging camp professionals. Sarah is pursuing her Master’s in Business Administration at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where she is a fellow in the +LAB at the Center for Positive Organizations.
Sarah lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with her husband, Robert (a licensed builder and carpenter), and their Brittany Spaniels, Ranger and Marley. Robert worked at Camp AGQ in the years before Sarah arrived, and they met via mutual camp friends. In her spare time, Sarah enjoys tennis, reading and art. Sarah is also a volunteer board member for the Washtenaw Camp Placement Association, a local non-profit that sends kids to camp who otherwise would never have the opportunity, and serves as the director of the Siblings Program at Camp Tall Tree.

www.kurtzmckinnoncreative.com

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Sara D. Huffman

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“Expert Online Training delivers some of the best industry professionals into our dining hall each year during staff training. Even without meeting the EOT team in person, our staff members learn vital skills that help them become thoughtful and intentional guides for our campers. As they recall what they learned from the videos throughout the summer, our counselors feel as if they know and trust the people they met on the screen. Our staff training just wouldn’t be the same without EOT as together we help each staff members become their ‘best me at GRP!'”

Sara D. Huffman
Director, Green River Preserve

Annabel Steele

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“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

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“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

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“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