OK, fine. Maybe there is, but we can show you how to build your staff and department by creating a team that works together and wants to stay together for the long haul. We’ll provide specific take-home ideas that your staff can implement right away. Jesse Sutherland and Brian Wilson, Advisers, Waterford Kettering HS

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[*well, OK. There’s one. But that’s it.]
Presented by:
Jesse Sutherland
Brian Wilson
Waterford (MI) Kettering High School

2. Staff
[or team, or program, or whatever you call it.]

3. Celebrate birthdays: how many
different ways can you sing the
same song?
{We came up with Spanish, French, whispered,
shouted, yodeled, Irish, cello’ed, scream-o, opera}

4. Have a Secret Santa gift exchange
[I knitted you a lovely sweater.]

5. Elect staffers of the week
{But then hold them to every single campaign promise they made.}

6. Make paper plate awards for a
year-end banquet
[Just avoid using the toxic markers if you plan to eat
off of those plates later in the day. I’ll only make THAT
mistake once.]

7. Develop a line of Jones Soda
personalized bottles
{Copyright infringement? Never heard of it.}

8. Play Icebreakers
[If you start chipping ice before Labor Day, by June you
have a lovely sculpture. Then it melts. See how well
that analogy fits?]

9. Listen to music, but make it a shared
experience.
{Hey! Get those things out of your ears!}

10. Help them realize how much they
care about each other
[Huh. Was not aware of your softer side.]

11. Be willing to do stuff that most
people would consider really dumb.
{They never really thought you were that cool anyway.}

12. Allow nicknames to happen
[Mine is M-C-Lean. I DJ on the weekends]

13. Eat food. Lots and lots of food.
{I know we’ve had brownies three times this week. Deal.}

14. Don’t be afraid to show some
emotion
[you big crybaby]

15. Share with one another
{You have a LIFE? Get OUT…}

16. Make everyone feel welcome
right from the start
[If you have a mat, that helps. But it’s not required..]

17. Be accessible
{But if you post about font choices at three in the morning,
don’t expect more than 26 responses.}

18. Share your love for the program
[Go ahead. Hug it out.]

19. Celebrate successes
{Woo hoo!}

20. Department
[because it just sounds cool]

21. Get married.
{think we’re joking? We’re not…}

22. Hold an overnight lock-in
extravaganza
[don’t make any plans for the rest of
the weekend, either]

23. Get to know people at a
get-to-know-you Picnic
{your bean salad contains HOW many
different beans? Wow.}

24. Create common goals
[Not ‘common’ like ‘boring’. Common
like ‘together and stuff’.]

25. Get to know each other
{Have we met? Uhh…yes. Yes we have..}

26. Give out department swag
[Look how cool we are! Seriously! Come back!]

27. Promote each other
{Congratulations! You got the job.}

28. Cover live events together
[“Aw, but I liked it a lot better when we
found out about stuff four weeks after it
happened,” said no one ever..]

29. Raise money together
{And have fun at the same time! Two birds! One stone!.}

30. Represent together
[Oh…you don’t know how to ‘represent’?!]

31. Go to conferences and conventions
together
{Hey! Kinda like this one!}

32. Proof is in the pudding:
[Not really sure if this fits at all here, but it felt right]
www.waterforddrift.com
@WaterfordDrift
facebook.com/WaterfordDrift

33. Jesse Sutherland
jmclean3@gmail.com
@jmclean3
Brian Wilson
bwilson3560@gmail.com
@wilsob01