You don’t have to be the clown to interject humor into a workplace environment or to use humor in teaching students. Without humor of the right kind, work can be pretty bland. And when things get bland or routine, people get bored with their jobs and performance suffers. A recent
With October’s arrival comes one of our favorite holidays: Halloween. And while you may think Halloween’s popularity is due to the over-abundance of candy, or the opportunity for children and adults to act with ridiculousness like walking around their neighborhoods in homemade to designer costumes, ring doorbells and shout nonsense,
Haven’t started using our Class Skills Worksheet yet? There is no better time than now! With the latest enhancements, we have made this worksheet even more powerful thanks to great feedback from you. The Class Skills Worksheet can be found by going to Classes > Class Skills/Levels. In the Display
The shoulder is so mobile because it’s efficient, smooth-working mechanism of muscles, tendons, ligaments, bone, and cartilage. On the flip side, that’s a lot of moving parts to injure while swimming competitively. How your swimmers train, both in the pool and on dry land, will go a long way to
There is always in an increase in numbers at the beginning of the season and that means classes must accommodate more students. These increases change the dynamics of classes and make your job a little more challenging. Especially since you’re trying to ensure that everyone is receiving equal attention and
Did you know that each year, 350+ drowning deaths among children in the U.S. occur in swimming pools? And did you realize that most of these deaths are preventable? There are two types of drowning prevention devices that could help to prevent drownings: those that are intended to keep a
How much do you really know about concussions? Find out by taking this quiz: True or False: You should not allow someone to go to sleep if you think he has a concussion. True or False: If you didn’t black out, you don’t have a concussion. True or False: Only
There are plenty of advantages of working remotely for workers and their companies. Research has revealed that companies offering remote options enjoy more creative and less robotic employees, lower attrition and a terrific hiring benefit. For the remote employees there is better work/life balance, greater control over the working environment,
Working remotely is part of the flexible job phenomenon that has come under some scrutiny from academics, news organizations businesses, and government agencies. They’re all looking for statistics that show how job flexibility impacts the marketplace. So now we have more information than we know what to do with about
It’s a fact that a Red Cross survey produced results showing that somewhere around 61% of the children in the US cannot swim. It’s also been revealed by a national research study by the USA Swimming Foundation and the University of Memphis that a non-swimming parent only sees that his