If your magic club desires a cost-effective curriculum for children ages 7-12, you might get some ideas here. Includes an Appendix with a white paper on suggestions for encouraging a child in magic and a research paper showing the positive… Read More ›
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Magic Club Resource Catalog 4
Second only to a consistently involving monthly meeting, I consider the monthly newsletter to be one of only a few essential pillars of The Omaha Magical Society. I consider the newsletter a monthly marketing brochure for the club – reminding those… Read More ›
Meeting Theme: The Mark Wilson Treasure Hunt
From our club’s Magic In The Library initiative we have enough copies of Mark Wilson’s Course In Magic so that every two people will share a copy for our May event. Your club might have enough copies owned by your… Read More ›
Meeting Activity: Interviews
When you want a member to share their knowledge on a given subject – knowing that member’s tendency to ramble; don’t hand them the microphone while you go sit down. Interview them instead. You will maintain control of the direction… Read More ›
Governance: Generational Differences
Click HERE to download what I found to be a significant chart comparing and contrasting the various generations in our magic clubs. The chart provides many conversation starters for your club’s board or leadership team regarding how your club might… Read More ›
Marketing: Library Donation and Brand Alignment
Here’s where five years ago we first tested the theory that aligning our club’s brand with larger more established brands in our area would strengthen our own brand through association. The club had a library of 1200 magic books that… Read More ›
Governance: Magic Club Leadership Podcast
Now you can grow your own magic club leadership skills on-the-go. Search on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or the Podcast Guru app (a favorite) for “Transforming Leaders Podcast” and/or include the name “Dave Arch” to find the podcast with 50… Read More ›
Governance/Meeting Activity: Start, Stop, Continue
Here’s a proven process for a group debriefing regarding the effectiveness of a club project or event as a group. As a club, we also use this structure in our every other year club-wide online survey too. When this processing… Read More ›
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.
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 ›