BE PREPARED
Blue Cross Encourages
Don’t be held ransom by key staff
Physical Activity With
Push2Play
SASKATOON, SK – 85 per cent of Saskatchewan
children and youth do not meet the physical
guideline for good health as set out in Public
Health Agency of Canada’s physical activity
guide, and Saskatchewan Blue Cross wants to
change that.
The company provides supplementary health
coverage to more than 200,000 Saskatchewan resi-
dents. Intended for children ages 5-12, Push2Play
encourages kids and parents to rediscover the ben-
efits — and fun — of playing together.
This fall the company is distributing the
Playbook — a booklet with about a dozen simple
games kids and parents can play together— to
90,000 households in the province, or parents
can go online to obtain it.
Blue Cross is also sponsoring a contest to find
new games to add to the online playbook, with a
prize of $500 worth of play equipment.
Visit
www.push2play.ca for more details.
BY JUSTIN TAMSETT
L
et’s face it. We train our key people to do what we need them to do.
And they usually do it very well – until the day they tell you they are
leaving. Then all hell breaks loose in the club.
When SARS hit Asia, there was no emergency plan. When Hurricane
Katrina hit New Orleans, there was no emergency plan. People looked
around and pointed fingers. While losing a key staff member is not
even close to the crisis of a Katrina or SARS, when it happens it can feel
like a life-threatening disaster.
Few people can afford to slow their businesses or close for a few days
until a new staff person is hired. You can’t finger point – you don’t have
time! What do you do? You take out insurance.
Big Green Gym Comes To
For every system in your club, you need to change “I know how do
that” to “We know how to do that.” While this sounds simple, chanc-
Land of Giants
es are that you have some job duties in your club that just one person
knows how to perform. If that person leaves, takes a holiday or gets sick,
FORT MCMURRAY, AB – Fort MacMurray has just your business can be in trouble. The answer? Ensure that more than one
completed the installation of 53 pieces of outdoor person does every task in your club. Then back this up with a manual
gym equipment spread over 1.4 kilometres. Using that explains how to do every task in your business.
the same galvanized steel as modern playground Create simple systems that are easy to learn, and have your team
equipment, the pieces were installed this summer help with the design of the both the systems and manuals to ensure
in 14 clusters along a popular stretch of asphalt accuracy. Be sure to constantly update them to maintain your cutting
walking trails. edge in service.
The pieces consist of the same equipment
found in most gyms, but instead of using weight Justin Tamsett has been in the industry since 1988 as a personal trainer, salesperson,
and cables, body weight provides the extra club manager and club owner. He won Fitness Australia’s Presidential Award for Industry
resistance. Contribution in 2006 and was Australian Fitness Network Presenter of the Year in 2008.
The benefits include 24-hour, year-round As managing director of Active Management, he consults with clubs on sales, customer
access and the opportunity to work out in the service, retention and marketing. Contact him at
jt@activemgmt.com.au or
fresh air. Some pieces have been located close to a
www.activemgmt.com.au.
ski club to encourage stretching and warm-ups for
the winter sport.
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