Leadership Issues in Leadership - Term Paper

A parks recreational leader can encourage visitors through a brochure or other handout to talk with their doctors about their health and wellness. On the other hand, park recreational leaders can also talk with healthcare providers and team up. By doing this, recreational parks may provide some tests for visitors, like blood pressure checks or physical fitness and body mass index checks that offer visitors or those staying at the recreational facility an opportunity to find out whether they are in shape, and if not, what they can do about it.

Park leaders can also organize events like marathon races or shorter races like a 3k race for children and adults with various small prizes or tokens like a ribbon for the leader. They can encourage visitors to fill out forms or surveys where they would have an opportunity to write down what types of physical fitness activities they would have an interest in. Then recreational leaders can compile this information and decide whether the facility can handle the requests or whether they can at the very least provide information to participants interested in improving their physical activity on other buildings, gyms or nearby recreational centers or gyms where aerobics and similar classes are often held. They can also coordinate a discount payment plan for individuals that want to hike but also ant access to local recreational facilities offering programs including soccer, volleyball or baseball.

Most people visiting parks for recreation do not realize how powerfully they can influence visitors. Once someone starts on the path toward health and wellness, they are more likely to stay on track when supported by a recreational organization. All of the above mentioned activities could easily be incorporated into any recreational system by a leader interested in improving the health and wellness of people visiting the park each year.

References

Allen, L. (2005 Mar) Becoming good sports: professionals need to exercise their power by helping community youth develop through parks and recreation. Parks & Recreation Online, Available: BNet Research Center, March: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1145/is_3_40/ai_n13787656

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