Summer Workshop
Every year we have a summer workshop to bring together each individual staffer and mold them into a strong and cohesive staff. I believe it's difficult to be led by someone who is your age our workshop gives us the time to bond with our staff and let them get to know us. The workshop gives the staff the chance to break the ice. It is also a time to start foundation building for yearbook, that being story and caption writing, design, and photography. Workshop is also the time where we brainstorm and vote on the theme for the yearbook. Instead of the editors simply deciding, we like to make the theme be a staff effort. The staff breaks off into groups and brainstorm ideas, then pitch their ideas, with an explanation and graphic ideas, to the staff and at the end everyone votes. This way the entire staff feels included in the decision of the theme of the yearbook.
Every year we have a summer workshop to bring together each individual staffer and mold them into a strong and cohesive staff. I believe it's difficult to be led by someone who is your age our workshop gives us the time to bond with our staff and let them get to know us. The workshop gives the staff the chance to break the ice. It is also a time to start foundation building for yearbook, that being story and caption writing, design, and photography. Workshop is also the time where we brainstorm and vote on the theme for the yearbook. Instead of the editors simply deciding, we like to make the theme be a staff effort. The staff breaks off into groups and brainstorm ideas, then pitch their ideas, with an explanation and graphic ideas, to the staff and at the end everyone votes. This way the entire staff feels included in the decision of the theme of the yearbook.
Marriage Counseling
After every deadline the editors like to sit down with each of our partnered groups and discuss what went well and what could be improved. We find that if we let the staffers just do their own things then the environment and the partnership isn't as productive, so we all sit down as a group and have marriage counseling. We've talked groups through numerous disputes from missed mini-deadlines, to skipping a deadline. Marriage counseling, though humorously named, is critical to the dynamic of our staff. The editors even have their own marriage counseling with our adviser. I'm a strong believer in talking through our issues and and marriage counseling is the perfect outlet to build stronger relationships between the staffers and for the editors to teach ways of fixing an issue.
After every deadline the editors like to sit down with each of our partnered groups and discuss what went well and what could be improved. We find that if we let the staffers just do their own things then the environment and the partnership isn't as productive, so we all sit down as a group and have marriage counseling. We've talked groups through numerous disputes from missed mini-deadlines, to skipping a deadline. Marriage counseling, though humorously named, is critical to the dynamic of our staff. The editors even have their own marriage counseling with our adviser. I'm a strong believer in talking through our issues and and marriage counseling is the perfect outlet to build stronger relationships between the staffers and for the editors to teach ways of fixing an issue.
Banquet
At the end of the school year, to celebrate all of the staffs' hard work, we, the editors, host a banquet. The banquet is the perfect way for us to close the work of the years book and take the step into the following years work for the next book. We recognize the awards we've won and the accomplishments we've made. The current editors also crown the new coming editors in preparation for the next year. The banquet is completely put on by the editors: we design the tickets and invitations, we find and book the caterers and location, we determine decoration and theme all while managing funds to guarantee we break even. Every decision for the event is made by the editors. The banquet is the editors last chance to come together as a group and make decisions that affect the staff.
At the end of the school year, to celebrate all of the staffs' hard work, we, the editors, host a banquet. The banquet is the perfect way for us to close the work of the years book and take the step into the following years work for the next book. We recognize the awards we've won and the accomplishments we've made. The current editors also crown the new coming editors in preparation for the next year. The banquet is completely put on by the editors: we design the tickets and invitations, we find and book the caterers and location, we determine decoration and theme all while managing funds to guarantee we break even. Every decision for the event is made by the editors. The banquet is the editors last chance to come together as a group and make decisions that affect the staff.
Elite Weekend
To help refine the work my co-editors and I had created at the start of the year, we attended the Walsworth Elite weekend. With the help of the consultants, we edited and polished all the elements we had created to help convey our theme throughout the book. Elite weekend helped my editors and I figure out the specific components of our book we wanted to enhance and how we wanted our audience to receive them. Elite weekend also gave my editors and I time to strengthen our relationship as leaders and as co-workers.
To help refine the work my co-editors and I had created at the start of the year, we attended the Walsworth Elite weekend. With the help of the consultants, we edited and polished all the elements we had created to help convey our theme throughout the book. Elite weekend helped my editors and I figure out the specific components of our book we wanted to enhance and how we wanted our audience to receive them. Elite weekend also gave my editors and I time to strengthen our relationship as leaders and as co-workers.
Communicating with my Co-Editors and Staffers
I think that one of the key elements within a functioning staff is the ability to communicate. How can the editors improve their communication with each other and how can the editors improve their communication with staffers? One of the most important tools we use with my staff is the Group Me app. This app allows for clear and concise communication between all parties of the staff, including the editors and adviser. My editors and I also keep a group-chat which we regularly use to discuss information about our work, our difficulties, and our ideas. My editors ability to communicate with each other and my staffers allow for productivity and efficiency within our work place.
I think that one of the key elements within a functioning staff is the ability to communicate. How can the editors improve their communication with each other and how can the editors improve their communication with staffers? One of the most important tools we use with my staff is the Group Me app. This app allows for clear and concise communication between all parties of the staff, including the editors and adviser. My editors and I also keep a group-chat which we regularly use to discuss information about our work, our difficulties, and our ideas. My editors ability to communicate with each other and my staffers allow for productivity and efficiency within our work place.