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Parks & Recreation Management Solutions
Strategic Planning
Planning for tomorrow is a must in today’s parks and recreation profession. With the ever-present change in the industry and the focus to do more with less; with the push to look to other resources to get the job done; and the desire to create economic impacts that increase overall revenues… a strategic plan is imperative. Joe Abel & Associates will work with your team of professionals to create a Strategic Plan that fits your community’s needs through careful evaluation and realistic planning.
- Strategic & Business Planning
- SWOT/SWOC Analysis
- Mission & Vision Creation
- Achievable Work Plans
Facility Management
You have a beautiful new facility planned and delivered. Now, how are you going to manage this great new facility with a small personnel and management budget that barely meets the needs of your existing facility demands? Joe Abel & Associates can undertake an evaluation and create a business plan that will address cost savings, maximizing programming, and revenue opportunities while establishing best practice management.
Staff Training
Today’s workforce is ever-changing. The only way to keep ahead is to look ahead. Staff training keeps your staff on the leading edge of the industry and Joe Abel & Associates can bring that training to you without the costly employee travel expenses and conference costs for individualized training. Joe Abel brings his many years of parks and recreation business and program knowledge to you with a team learning approach that builds off what you already know and expands on newly attainable skills and knowledge. For a complete list of training offered, contact Joe Abel & Associates.
- Customer Service
- Team Building
- Staff Coaching, Training & Development
- Leadership Management Training
Event & Program Management Evaluation
Events and Programs are at best hit or miss if not properly planned and executed. Joe Abel & Associates can provide evaluation services for events and program delivery and management that will create the WOW factor for already good events and programs. Additionally, Joe and his Associates can evaluate and improve event and program opportunities yet realized. Services can include surveying event participants and evaluation of existing events and programs to complete evaluation services to create new event and program opportunities.
Management – Personnel & Resources
Did you ever wish you had just one more professional on staff? How about the ability to complete one more project in this fiscal year? Joe Abel & Associates offers resources that can assist whether it is a one-time program or an ongoing project. With the knowledge and relationships Joe Abel has gained in his professional career, he now provides that same outstanding leadership on a management level through the ability to assist you in program personnel or project management. Joe Abel and his Associates can work with you side by side to create one more professional on your team or one more project that was not going to get completed this year.
Facility Inventory & Assessment
When was the last time you truly took inventory on all of your parks and recreation facilities and amenities? How do they stand up to industry design and safety standards? Let Joe Abel & Associates assist you by analyzing your complete parks and recreation facilities and amenities from inventory to assessment. Joe Abel & Associates can evaluate your park system leaving you with a complete final inventory and assessment of present and future needs.
- Program Assessment
- Facility Assessment
- Complete Parks & Recreation System Assessment
National Accreditation Management & Evaluation
Association, through the Commission for Accreditation of Park & Recreation Agencies (CAPRA) offers accreditation for parks and recreation agencies. The process, while lengthy and technical, illustrates a community’s dedication to the professional efforts of parks and recreation management. Because of the time and effort commitment, many agencies have not reached this prestigious pinnacle. Joe Abel & Associates will work with agency staff from assessment through final accreditation by supplying the technical expertise necessary in achieving community excellence.
- Process Overview &
- Introduction
- Complete Assessment
Full Accreditation Process
The Consultant’s Consultant
Joe Abel & Associates offers services as consultant to the consultants. Providing planning, programming, and project perspectives from the professional practitioner’s point of view with over 35 years of professional experience. Joe can assist any consulting firm from a hands-on perspective.
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Joe Abel & Associates offers services as consultant to the consultants. Providing planning, programming, and project perspectives from the professional practitioner’s point of view with over 35 years of professional experience. Joe can assist any consulting firm from a hands-on perspective.