Youth Programs: Promoting Quality Service

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Leisure Programming: A Service-Centered and Benefits Approach

This comprehensive text addresses all three levels of leisure programming: direct service delivery, program planning, and program management. It focuses on issues related to customer service and benefits-such as providing leisure experiences, assessing customer needs, evaluating program impact, promoting positive customer and leader interactions, analyzing and implementing policies, and supervising staff. -- Provided by publisherhttps://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/1222/thumbnail.jp

Leisure programing : concepts, trends, and professional practice

xiii, 479 p. : il.; 23 cm

Leisure and Life Satisfaction: Foundational Perspectives

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Leisure and Life Satisfaction: Foundational Perspectives

What is life satisfaction? What is the connection between leisure and life satisfaction? Discover the answers to these questions and much more in Leisure and Life Satisfaction: Foundational Perspectives. See how leisure professionals craft environments that help individuals, groups, and communities achieve a better quality of life and greater happiness and satisfaction. Gain an understanding of the phenomenon of leisure by examining it from its sociological and psychological perspectives. -- Provided by publisherhttps://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/1220/thumbnail.jp

Managing Recreation, Parks, and Leisure Services : An Introduction

It has been over twenty years since the first edition of Productive Management of Leisure Service Organizations was conceptualized, written, and published. Now in its second edition, Managing Recreation, Park, and Leisure Services considers three critical changes in the leisure service field: technology and information resolution; nature of the workforce; and the basic revision of our economy. These changes have made a great impact on the management of human resources, which is the main focus of this book. - Provided by publisherhttps://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/1164/thumbnail.jp

Leadership for Recreation, Parks, and Leisure Service

This book presents new perspectives on the importance of leadership in the profession. Integrating theory with practice, the book provides foundational perspectives in the study of leadership at all levels -- direct service, supervisory, managerial and community/civic -- in recreation, parks and leisure service settings. Organised into three sections, the first portion of the book presents theoretical and foundational information on the work of the leader. This is followed by a presentation of the work of leaders within groups. The last section addresses leadership in a number of recreation, parks and leisure service settings. New chapters in this addition include Caring and Ethical Leadership; Leading Change: Innovation, Decision Making and Problem Solving; Leadership and Diversity and Leadership and the Programming Process. The book includes a variety of pedagogical elements including marginal quotes, case studies, vignettes of significant, historical and current leaders, experiential learning experiences and leadership perspectives from current recreation, parks and leisure service professionals. -- Provided by publisherhttps://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/1053/thumbnail.jp

Leadership in Recreation and Leisure Service Organizations

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Leadership for Recreation, Parks, and Leisure Services

This book presents new perspectives on the importance of leadership in the profession. Integrating theory with practice, the book provides foundational perspectives in the study of leadership at all levels -- direct service, supervisory, managerial and community/civic -- in recreation, parks and leisure service settings. Organised into three sections, the first portion of the book presents theoretical and foundational information on the work of the leader. This is followed by a presentation of the work of leaders within groups. The last section addresses leadership in a number of recreation, parks and leisure service settings. New chapters in this addition include Caring and Ethical Leadership; Leading Change: Innovation, Decision Making and Problem Solving; Leadership and Diversity and Leadership and the Programming Process. The book includes a variety of pedagogical elements including marginal quotes, case studies, vignettes of significant, historical and current leaders, experiential learning experiences and leadership perspectives from current recreation, parks and leisure service professionals. A North American perspective is offered including examples from Canada and the United States. -- Provided by publisherhttps://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/1161/thumbnail.jp