
How do you create a strong camp organizational culture?
1. Identify and articulate what your organizations believes. Have a clear, written mission and core values.
2. Hire staff who buy into your mission and embrace your core values. Make values are important component of your selection process. If one of your values is putting the needs of campers first, hire staff members who value serving others and are willing to put the needs of others before their own.
3. Integrate teaching your mission and values into every aspect of staff training. Every topic in staff training should be linked to your mission and values. Teach not only what to do, but why it's done a particular way at your camp.
4. Lead by modeling your mission and values. If you want it to be part of your organizational culture, it must be part of how you and your leadership team lead your staff.