Brandwein Seminars
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What are the Brandwein Seminars?
Brandwein Seminars feature valuable, dynamic training opportunities for leadership and supervisory staff, those new or experienced, in an accessible, online format with Michael Brandwein’s unique “use-it-immediately” teaching style.
What are the 2024 Brandwein Seminar Opportunities?
Brandwein on Training: The Step-by-Step System for Planning & Presenting Your Best Staff Training Ever
Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 1:00 PM – Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 4:00 PM
Brandwein on Super Staff SuperVision: The Quick Course on Outstanding Skills to Coach, Motivate, & Bring Out the Best in Staff
Friday, May 17, 2024, 10:00 AM - 4:15 PM
Date/Time
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 1:00 PM - Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 4:00 PM
Overview
Plan your most awesome staff training! You know you’re going to spend hours on designing this year’s camp training—let us help you do it faster, with less stress, and turbocharge its quality with the expert guidance of a world-renowned master trainer.
- Give yourself a huge helping “hand” with Michael’s Five Fingers of Fantastic training, including a unique, step-by-step checklist for successfully building the precise essential elements of terrific training
- Use terrific, precise and practical methods to greet staff, begin training to focus on mission and motivation, set expectations, and build a community of positive relationships—all while modeling how staff can use this to do the same with their campers
- Grab attention & motivate full participation—even from returning staff who “have heard it all”
- Maximize learning with Michael’s creative, highly acclaimed teaching techniques that get people involved instead of listening to “lectures”
- Boost professionalism and responsibility, even in young staff for whom this may be a first job—and teach the core skills all staff need for success
- Learn outstanding, original activities you won’t find elsewhere to boost your training effectiveness
What Past Attendees Had to Say About the This Training
This live webinar received rave reviews from coast to coast in 2022—attended by multiple people from 30 different U.S. states and Canada!
- “An absolute must-do.”
- “This training was simply AMAZING! It helps make the planning process of staff training so simple yet ensures staff training will be engaging for new and returning staff!”
- “Exciting, engaging, meaningful, well-planned, exceptional execution: a MUST-DO for anyone involved in training people for anything.”
- “This was a fun and exciting event that provided a ton of easy to use and relevant information for making your staff training both informational and engaging.”
- “An incredibly practical expert approach to planning the most effective staff training for your camp.”
- “Extremely helpful! I can't wait to use these techniques to revamp my training.”
- “Practical, feasible! This approach was exactly what every Director needs to wrap their head around staff training goals and execution.”
- “I don’t even have the words for how helpful, inspirational, and reassuring this event was.”
- “Michael is an incredible presenter.”
- “A practical step-by-step approach to staff training that gives you the blueprint for your best staff training ever.”
Registration Info
Register Early. Space is limited and expected to sell out! Click here to register today!
Pre-registration is required. Walk-Ins will not be accepted. Registration closes March 12, 2024.
Event Registration Fee Levels
Early Bird Rate: $149 when you register between August 2, 2023 - February 15, 2024
Attendee Rate: $199.00 when you register after February 15, 2024
Location/Style of Event
This event is a live, virtual event and will utilize the online Zoom Meeting platform. ACA Illinois will not record this event.
What to Bring/How to Prepare
This is an interactive training course. Each person should be prepared to have their camera on, access to audio, including the ability to speak and hear, and interact within the Zoom room via a computer. Bring a notebook/paper and pen for activities.
There will be a short break for lunch during the event.
The Fine Print
You must pay for this event at time of registration. If you would like to pay by invoice/check, please contact registration@acail.org prior to registering.
By registering and attending an ACA Illinois event or meeting, virtually or in-person you are agreeing to all the event policies listed here. These policies include the photo release, refund, link sharing, Code of Conduct, and other relative policies.
Date/Time
Friday, May 17, 2024, 10:00 AM - 4:15 PMOverview
Get your directors, site directors, team leaders, supervisors, and other members of your Leadership Team—new or experienced—trained in one dynamic online seminar! (And it’s also invaluable for those who train the Team.)
Superb training of your Leadership Team is one of the best investments you ever make in camp success. This is the acclaimed, skill-packed, one-of-a-kind training that receives rave reviews and is presented by the award-winning, internationally famous author of the number one national best-selling book that’s considered the “must have” source on the subject, Super Staff SuperVision.
Leadership Team members learn what to say and do every day to be one of the very best leaders at camp, including:
- 6 Paths: the six essential things Leadership Team members must do every day when “walking around” and how to get them done brilliantly
- Identify the exact behaviors we want to develop in our staff
- Michael’s CDOS technique to coach staff to learn and use those behaviors
- Special techniques to work with a new generation of staff (“Many staff seem different, more stressed, and don’t seem to come to this job knowing what we used to take for granted…”)
- The key secret to motivating staff
- Building professionalism and responsibility in staff (“It’s a real job!”)
- Handling tough staff behavior with calmness and confidence, replacing it with great choices
- More campers, more retention—increasing program creativity to stand out from the rest
Registration Info
Register Early. Space is limited and expected to sell out! Click here to register today!
Pre-registration is required. Walk-Ins will not be accepted. Registration closes on May 3, 2023.
Event Registration Fee Levels
Early Bird Rate: $75 when you register between August 2, 2023 - April 1, 2024
Attendee Rate: $99.00 when you register after April 2, 2024
Location/Style of Event
This event is a live, virtual event and will utilize the online Zoom Meeting platform. ACA Illinois will not record this event.
What to Bring/How to Prepare
This is an interactive training course. Each person should be prepared to have their camera on, access to audio, including the ability to speak and hear, and interact within the Zoom room via a computer. Bring a notebook/paper and pen for activities.
There will be a short break for lunch during the event.
The Fine Print
You must pay for this event at time of registration. If you would like to pay by invoice/check, please contact registration@acail.org prior to registering.
By registering and attending an ACA Illinois event or meeting, virtually or in-person you are agreeing to all the event policies listed here. These policies include the photo release, refund, link sharing, Code of Conduct, and other relative policies.
You must have a Member Profile to register for this event. If this is your first event with us, please click here to create a profile. It's free!
Michael Brandwein is one of the most famous names in camp. He is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning staff and Leadership Team trainer who has presented in all 50 states, on 6 continents, and served on the national board of the American Camp Association. He is the number one bestselling author of staff training and leadership books in the camp field, including Training Terrific Staff (Vols. 1 & 2), Skill of the Day: What Great Leaders of Young People Do & Say, Learning Leadership (CIT/LIT), Super Staff SuperVision, and Growing Great Qualities in Kids: The L.A.S.E.R.B.E.A.M. Technique for Bringing Out the Best in Young People (www.michaelbrandwein.com/store). He does both in-person and online training for camps.
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