These tracks are created for educational focus and are based on the Creating Community VIP Action Plan and issues Leadership Development & Team Building:
 Leadership development is a planned effort that enhances the capacity to lead people; setting direction and guiding others to follow that direction; ability to manage own learning; successful professional development programs; tools and resources to reinforce your professional development programs required for ongoing success
CPRS is pleased to have a second year partnership in our Leadership Initiative with GameTime, Inc., California Sports & Recreation and Great Western Park & Playground.
Emerging Trends & the New Generation of Workers:
Understanding the changes in demographics, understanding the expectations of the next generation of workers, leading and motivating different generations of workers
Best Practices in Recreation Programming/Park & Facility Design/Park Operations:
Innovative, dynamic, management tools available to practitioners to ensure parks, facility and outdoor recreation areas are managed efficiently and effectively; practical guidelines; current state of what is working well for an organization and worth sharing; professionals are challenged to improve upon best practices; document and share improvements with colleagues
Lifelong Learning/Developing the Learning Community/Core Competencies/ Teaching & Learning/Workplace Competencies:
Sessions seek to equip attendees with adequate skills to meet the ever changing work environment and allows learning to be accomplished through active learning, rather than passive viewing
Our Role in Human & Youth Development:
Trends affecting service delivery, best practices, marketing; the Youth Development movement & philosophy, youth empowerment, resiliency, management practices, Search Institutes Asset Model, successful programming, youth leadership training
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Building Collaboratives, Alliances & Community Organizing to Cultivate Our Future:
Bringing together credible constituencies that have an interest in same issues, steps to creating an alliance & why, alliances for policy change; articulating the vision and value of parks and recreation to allied professionals, citizens, the media and policymakers to develop partners and allies; how to serve new constituents, trends, society/societal change
Public, Open Space & Natural Resources:
Focus on natural resource related issues, conservancies, land trusts, role of non-profits, stewardship, facility development, grass roots efforts, community activism
Practical Solutions/Operations Problems & Opportunities:
Daily business of providing recreation & park services, skills development for staff, recreation programming & park maintenance innovations, strengthening family & community, personal enrichment
Passion to Practice
Building Vision, Values, & Missions with Strategic Thinking:
Establishing & implementing strategic frameworks for significant success; basics of developing vision, values & mission; commitments that guide our decisions and our behaviors |
