INTRODUCING
ORGANIZATIONAL
ASSESMENT
COMING IN SUMMER 2019 | ARE YOU READY??
GETTING STARTED
Hello fellow Camp Chi staff! The
purpose of this newsletter is to
Introduce you to organizational
assesment, a new addition to our
supervisory training. Prior to your
arival this summer will be sending
out the book “Good to Great: Why
Some Companies Make the Leap…
and Others Don’t” by Jim Collins.
We ask that you read through the
book and come to training full of
WHAT IS
ORGANIZATIONAL
ASSESMENT?
Find out what
organizational
assesment is and how
it can help us improve
the camp experience.
GOOD TO GREAT
This is the method of
assesment that we
have chosen to use as
it best alligns with the
goals of JCC Camp
Chi.
Insight on how we can impliment the DIGGING DEEPER
concepts that the book discussed.
This new initiative will help us identify This summer we will be
both how we are doing as an kicking off suporvisory
organization and what improvements training week by
we can make to go from good to analyzing our
great. This incredible book will operations throught
provide a framework for us to the lense of Jim
examine our leadership and our Collins’ Good to Great
process, to bring out the best in all of diagnostic tool.
us.
WHAT IS ORGANIZATIONAL
ASSESMENT?
An organisational assessment is a
systematic process for gathering
information about the performance of
an organisation and the factors that
affect performance. One of the
difficulties that organizations face is the
inability to match existing membership
with the activities the organization
knows it should be carrying out
(Lusthaus, 2002). The success of an
organization is ultimately decided by
how its members interact with one
another. Organizational assessment
strives to improve the ability of an
organization to use all the resources it
has available to perform at its best
(Lusthaus, 2002). Understanding what
successful organizations should have is
what will help you asses the capacity of
your own organization. The supervisory
staff of Camp Chi are the leaders of our
community. Leadership sets the
standards for how information is
exchanged and how the organization
achieves its goals. Having strong leaders
that can identify these goals and
implement the strategies they need to
get there will help set the stage for long
term sucess.
“Great vision without
great people is
irrelevant.”
― Jim Collins, Good to
Great
GOOD TO GREAT!
The Good to Great assessment reviews the quality of leadership and
commitment to the organizations core values, and the ability to engage
others with honesty and flexibility (Perkins, 2010). At Camp Chi we have three
core values that we wish to instill in our staff and campers. These values are
respect, kindness an community. We belive that these three things are an
important part of our organization’s identity. The good to great model is the
ideal tool for us because it places a large amount of emphasis on core values
and the quality of leadership that we have. Putting the right people in the
right position is something that we spend a lot of time with. Having the right
counselor pairings ensures a balanced leadership in each cabin. Having the
right people in each area allows us to provide the highest quality of activities.
Our most valueble resourse is our staff and our success is due to our ability to
communicate and work together well. This book is a tool that we will use to
understand our strengths and to elelevate them from being good to being
great.
In Collin’s book he breaks down the observations and best practices of
successful organizations in 9 chapters. One of the chapters introduces the
consept of level 5 leadership. These are leaders have humility, and seek
success not for themselves, but so that the team and organization can thrive.
They share credit for success, and they're the first to accept blame for
mistakes (Collins, 2001). We belive that you are all capible of becoming a
level 5 leader and that you can inspire and instill these qualities in your staff
this summer. In chapter six Collins introduces the concept of “Three Circles.”
This theory means that the leaders of the good to great organizations
understand what their organization is and can be best at, knowing what
drives growth in the business, and knowing what you’re passionate about and
listening to it (Collins, 2001). We know that we have passionate staff at Camp
Chi and we want to use that passion to make sure we are reaching our true
potentiol. We know you will find this book to be a invigorating read and we
hope you arrive to camp with lots of ideas and insight on how you can apply
the concepts from Good to Great at Camp Chi. Summer 2019 will be one for
the books!