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Internal Leadership and Development Consultant at Tenaska and Executive Director Of The Omaha Magical Society.
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Magic Club Resource Catalog 5
As opposed to a company where leadership has both a stick and a carrot to motivate employees, the leadership of an all-volunteer magic club must master the ability to create motivation using a more limited set of tools. Here is… Read More ›
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Governance: Maintaining Motivation White Paper
In contrast to a company, leading an all-volunteer magic club requires a unique skill set in not only maintaining your own motivation but also the motivation of your members. Here’s a motivational model we use in our club as we… Read More ›
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Marketing: Giveaway 10
We’ve had fun with this giveaway/marketing tool. We printed small round Avery stickers that our members could choose to affix to the outside of a card box. “Obviously you can see that this is a gimmicked deck of playing cards… Read More ›
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Meeting Activity: Ball Toss
What if you told your club meeting audience that at the end of the guest lecture you were going to ask each person what their best idea from the lecture might have been? Then after the lecture and before the… Read More ›
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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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