This session looks at the perception of aquatic personnel by management and non-aquatic staff, and explores the difficulties aquatic professionals have in transferring into non-aquatic positions, know...
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This session provides tips for writing clearly and concisely, and discusses why the rules for letters don't work for emails and what words bless and which ones burn. It also looks at a tone chart to h...
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This Lifesaving Society presentation examines the statistics behind communicating with multicultural communities and discusses what signage standards should be used when dealing with multicultural com...
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This session discusses different approaches to developing new clienteles and attracting back those that have stopped attending.Presentation from the Parks and Recreation Ontario 2010 Aquatics Conferen...
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This presentation focuses on design for your Aquatics Centre and how to involve user groups; technical design, what this process involves, new ideas and concepts on how it gets integrated into communi...
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This session provides an understanding of the legal difference between an employee and a contractor and the drafting of applicable agreements/contracts. It also looks at the legal tests used to deter...
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This Canadian Red Cross session provides tools and resources to build relationships and engage First Nations communities in your programming. It also looks at how to prepare and train instructors to u...
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This session explores the ingredients for a successful facility design and renovation through three case studies in the City of Kingston, including a complete demolition and rebuild, a renovation of a...
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This Lifesaving Society presentation provides supervisory staff with an excellent training resource that will impress on lifeguards and instructors the importance of vigilance while on deck. Reallife ...
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This Lifesaving Society presentation reviews recent major incidents in aquatic settings. Discussion centres on the implications for owners/operators regarding aquatic facility operation and staff tra...
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This session looks at how to use CLASS more efficiently and effectively within Program Registration and Program Maintenance. Topics include: advanced program/course searches; multiple registrations; m...
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This session looks at the business case and community impact for 8-lane training pools. What are the benefits of an 8-lane pool and is their need to build or redevelop pools to have 8-lanes. A critiqu...
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This session looks at some of PRO's current policy initiatives and research, how to use those tools to be in a better position to advocate for local support, and how you can use policy and platforms t...
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This session references the Standards from the Project Management Institute (PMI), as well as the nine knowledge areas prescribed in the internationally recognized Project Management Body of Knowledge...
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This session reviews the physiology behind how the eye works for a life guard, the concepts of “inattentive blindness”, and the factors that inhibit a lifeguard’s ability to properly recognize a victi...
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This Lifesaving Society presentation teaches participants how to encourage awareness among senior decision-makers through various strategies such as safety audits and inspections, and discusses budget...
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This session discusses swim participants, (the Gen Xers), who rely on the power of social media to increase their social networks, and how part-time staff, (the Gen Ys), feel the need to be attached t...
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Participants explore the most efficient training strategies to enhance stroke development drills for the very basic to the most advanced swimmers in their programs, and take resources back to share wi...
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This Lifesaving Society presentation featured a panel discussion on the use of surveillance cameras in aquatic facilities. Panellists presented their views, discussed options and addressed audience qu...
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This session shares the actions taken in response to a 2008 shooting incident at a Toronto community centre, which resulted in three Ministry of Labour orders. Tools to assess violent risk potential i...
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