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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 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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Marketing: Magic Club Newsletter Compendium
Here are 200+ pages of magic club newsletters from The Omaha Magical Society with articles, graphics, and at least one magic trick included in each issue. If you believe your club’s members would enjoy anything you find in skimming through… Read More ›
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Meeting Activity: Script, Switch, and Solve
This activity generates its energy from problem solving as a component of a monthly meeting. Each table team writes on a piece of paper a legible paragraph of three or four sentences describing a real-world problematic scenario that a magician… Read More ›
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Marketing: Showmanship Email Essays
About two years ago we realized as a magic club we spent only a fraction of our time on improving the performing skills of our members. Much more of our time was spent learning new magic tricks and showing each… Read More ›
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Meeting Activity: Agree/Disagree Statements
Consciously choosing to eliminate a litany of announcements to begin the meeting, you instead walk to the front of the room and begin unexpectedly by saying something like “I need everyone to please stand up. I’m going to read a… Read More ›
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Governance: Intentional Feedback Loops
Any club such as ours which decides to go with a more representative form of governance in which once a year the membership elects a board which is then entrusted with most of the decision making (within the boundaries of… Read More ›
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Marketing: A Meeting Promotional Schedule
Our monthly club events occur on the third Monday evening of every month. Here is the monthly schedule to which we currently adhere in promoting/marketing that event – hoping we accommodate our members who plan ahead as well as those… Read More ›
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Marketing: Long-Term Care Facilities
As a leadership team, we were amazed at the enthusiastic response to this initiative. We had nearly 15% of our membership volunteer to participate. Why was that (besides the desire to give back with their love of magic)? Our theories… Read More ›
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