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Internal Leadership and Development Consultant at Tenaska and Executive Director Of The Omaha Magical Society.
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Governance: The Drama Triangle White Paper
Now in a form that you can download and print to aid in discussing with others, here’s a short article focused on how to stay far away from “The Drama Triangle” when working with your club members. You may download… Read More ›
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Governance: A Decision Making Model White Paper
Making better decisions is certainly at the core of growing a healthy magic club. In order to possibly print for discussion with your club leadership team, click HERE to download a five-page white paper – presenting a proven decision making… Read More ›
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Governance: People Before Programs
Our club works hard to make sure we have no sacred programs. As long as we have members passionate enough to be involved in leading a program or providing a service, that program or service remains active. When those who… Read More ›
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Magic Club Leadership Library
This library will eventually contain 50+ ebooks and articles that you can download and print for use in creating dynamic magic club newsletters, new programming ideas, and/or leadership articles for discussing with others in your club. Just click on a… Read More ›
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Governance: Personality Differences White Paper
Now in a form you can download and print for possible discussion with your club leadership, here’s a short article on the four basic personalities of your club’s membership and how to more successfully relate to each one. You may… Read More ›
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Meeting Activity: The Gallery Walk
HERE’S a full meeting where we used The Gallery Walk activity to its full potential. My suggestion would be to go there and envision this immersive activity in the context of one of your upcoming meetings. Other ways to use… Read More ›
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Meeting Activity: Window Paning
As a sister activity to the previous post on the subject of Mind Mapping, this post on Window Paning again creates a visual depiction of what is normally a process with six steps or less. No text is normally allowed… Read More ›
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Meeting Activity: Mind Mapping
As you can see or might already be aware, Mind Mapping is a visual way to depict the components comprising a general content area. In the context of a magic club, you might have blank 3M flip chart pages hung… Read More ›
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Governance: Magic Convention Text Groups
This weekend we have twenty-one of our club members attend the AbraCORNdabra magic convention in Des Moines, Iowa. As mentioned in a previous post, conventions are one of our attempts to create small groups throughout the club’s programming. About two… Read More ›
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Marketing: Super Saturdays
Any club that has a Junior Magician program will identify with the fact that as participants age out keeping that class filled with newcomers is an on-going challenge. We have begun offering Super Saturday three-hour magic workshops to parochial schools… Read More ›
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