Courses
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Asset Management Webcast
Asset management can be a complicated subject, particularly for smaller agencies with limited budgets. This presentation will provide an overview of asset management for parks and recreation agencies of all sizes. Learn MoreFree -
Balanced Scorecard Basics
Promote organizational success by balancing intangible assets.
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Capital Improvement Certificate
The Capital Improvement Certificate provides the learner with a foundational understanding of capital improvement projects, financing of capital improvements, site plans for capital projects, and project management.
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Data and Decision Making
This previously recorded one-hour webinar will introduce participants to best practices in identifying data sources, creating data, and using data for management decision-making.
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Facility Management 1: Introduction to Facility Management Practices
Assets are the building blocks for the Facility Management industry. This course will introduce you to the concept and underlying theory of the Asset Management Process. Learn More$72.00 -
Facility Management 2: Metrics and Data Driven Decision Making
A specific step in the Asset Management Process is creating an inventory of all your assets in order to determine the importance of those assets and their condition using a balanced scorecard approach. Learn More$72.00 -
Facility Management 3: Conducting Condition Assessments
Learn how to conduct condition assessments, the first step in addressing maintenance backlogs and more efficiently managing your facility. Learn More$72.00 -
Facility Management 4: Creating a Scope of Work
This course focuses on the concept of a “scope of work” and explains how a good scope of work sets the rules for a project and makes an accurate cost estimate possible. Learn More$72.00 -
Facility Management 5 - Basics of Cost Estimating
Learn about cost estimating, a tool to help key personnel make informed decisions during preliminary budgetary planning. Learn More$72.00 -
Foundations of Accessibility Certificate Program
Establish a strong foundation in the physical and programmatic components of accessibility compliance. This certificate program explores disability and accessibility as a social construct and provides knowledge in disability awareness concepts, program access, universal design, and guidelines and standards for accessible design.
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Human Resources Training: HR for the Non-HR Manager
Gain an understanding of general human resource concepts that may arise in non-HR roles.
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Introduction to Capital Improvement Programs
This course provides an introduction to capital improvement. Capital improvement is defined and its connections to an agency’s mission are discussed.
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Introduction to PMT
Learn about the PMT training program.
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Inventory and Monitoring of Cultural Resources in Wilderness
This course is the second in a series of three courses on Cultural Resources Management in Wilderness. It provides an in-depth look at the special requirements of inventorying and monitoring cultural resources in wilderness.
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Managing Park Assets: Asset Prioritization – API
What is the Asset Priority Index (API), and how does it relate to the effective management of park assets? In this course, you will answer these questions and learn techniques for completing the API worksheet as a management team. Learn MoreFree -
Navigating the Standards for Accessible Design
This course is designed for facility managers and park and recreation providers who are interested in gaining a foundational knowledge of the requirements for accessible facilities within federal, state, and local agencies.
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Park Planning 1: System Master Planning Fundamentals
The course will present a simple model of planning that can be modified to meet a variety of community and agency needs. Learn More$72.00 -
Park Planning 2: Public Engagement for System Master Planning
This course focuses on the importance of and methods for getting input from the general public. It will also help you identify which of those methods would be the best fit for your agency and when to use them in the planning process. Learn More$72.00 -
Park Planning 3: Assessing Community Needs
This course focuses on using research methods to define the existing conditions of a parks and recreation system. Learn More$72.00 -
Park Planning 4: Making Your System Master Plan a Success
This course identifies the difference between analyzing and synthesizing information and the purpose each serves in developing strategic action plans. Learn More$72.00 -
Perfecting the Procurement Process
New to the procurement process? This course will help you to gain an understanding of how to obtain products and services from organizations outside your own.
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Process Improvement and Gap Analysis
Promote understanding of gap analysis and its use in improving processes in an organization, and developing the skills that you need to perform effective gap analyses.
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Professional Development: A Look at WPA Certification and Process
This previously recorded one-hour webcast is designed for park and public agency employees who are interested in obtaining the Certified Park Professional (CPP) or Certified International Park Professional (CIPP) credential.
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Project Management for Capital Projects
This course introduces you to industry-standard project management practices, including the phases of project management and useful strategies that keep a project on track.
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Quality Matters: Internal Evaluation for Improvement and Reporting
Effective evaluation goes further than participant feedback, and the Quality Matters approach offers a manageable template for getting usable information about programming. Participants will examine eight features of an online education program offered by their agency. Criterion-based measures will then provide participants with the tools they need to focus program improvement.For pricing, select "Workshop" on the contact form.
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