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Internal Leadership and Development Consultant at Tenaska and Executive Director Of The Omaha Magical Society.
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Governance: Leadership Book
Here’s the book from which the leadership components of this blog have been gleaned. You can purchase it on Amazon. In addition Amazon offers both the Kindle and Audible version at no charge on the same site.
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Marketing: Copy and Paste Newsletter Magic Tricks
Here are three ebooks combined into one volume with 500+ pages of simple magic tricks (with graphics) and puzzles that you can copy, paste, and edit to fit in your own newsletter – providing it with more fun and value… Read More ›
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Meeting Activity: Zingo Bingo!
At the end of one of your next meetings, you bring out some Bingo cards – setting up a game of Bingo with your members “for some fine prizes” you say. The cards are distributed and the calling of the… Read More ›
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Meeting Theme/Activity: Artificial Intelligence and Magic
In a previous post, we looked at the use of artificial intelligence to create graphics for our clubs’ newsletters. Here’s actually the prequel to that post where we challenged our members to use the ChatGPT app to explore ways to… Read More ›
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Governance/Meeting Ideas: A Mentoring Curriculum
At least since the inception of YouTube, I have sensed magic clubs struggle with their place in the magic landscape. I know we are. It no longer is enough to have a group come together to learn new tricks. Ultimately… Read More ›
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Marketing: Newsletter Graphics and Artificial Intelligence
If you work on your club’s newsletter, I encourage you to download the Copilot app from Microsoft and begin playing with the Designer component of the app. It will generate a graphic for you based on your typing a text… Read More ›
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Meeting Activity Idea: Magic Discussion Deck
In an effort to help magic club members meaningfully connect with each other (and even the youngest budding magicians), here’s The Magic Club Discussion Deck. I wanted a deck of question cards where the newest (or youngest) member of the… Read More ›
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Governance: Leadership Self Assessment
Click HERE to complete a magic club leadership self assessment. If you insert your own email into the assessment, results will be sent to you. You can then go to the links in the area(s) needing improvement and find additional… Read More ›
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Marketing: Brainteaser Graphics For Your Club Newsletter
Consider this a companion post to a previous one this week entitled the Magic Club Newsletter Compendium. In an attempt to make it more efficient for your club to create an interesting newsletter, this collection of 24 brainteaser graphics might… Read More ›
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Meeting Activity: Managing Audience Energy
The bell shaped curve remains a classic visual depiction of data. However, truly great performers know it also accurately depicts an audience’s laughter or applause energy too. Both start quietly, build to a crescendo, and then taper off. Savvy comedians… Read More ›
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