Lessons Learned

• How I Shaped 70 Teenagers into Lifeguards

  2 MIN READ

  

• How Music Almost Cost Me My Aquatics Staff

  2 MIN READ

  

• Be Open to New Ideas — and Changes

  2 MIN READ

  

• Break the Rules — or Stand Firm No Matter What?

  3 MIN READ

  

• Overcoming Interference

  2 MIN READ

  

• Why You Should Never Allow Balls in Your Pool

  3 MIN READ

  

• Don’t Be Afraid to Change Your Pool’s Programming Schedule

  3 MIN READ

  

• The Power of Words

  2 MIN READ

  

• Three Ideas to Boost Staff Retention

  3 MIN READ

  

• A Perfect Storm

  3 MIN READ

  

• There’s More to Lifeguarding Than Just Swimming

  3 MIN READ

  

• When A Pool Opening Doesn’t Go as Planned

  3 MIN READ

  

• From Pool Schlub to Protected Pro

  2 MIN READ

  

• Customer Complaints Aren’t Always What They Seem

  3 MIN READ

  

• The Power of Backup

  2 MIN READ

  

• 3 Valuable Lessons of a First-Year Aquatics Pro

  3 MIN READ

  

• Do Your Lifeguards Think They Can Break the Rules “Safely?”

  3 MIN READ

  

• No More Shift Nightmares: How to Create the Perfect Schedule for Lifeguards

  3 MIN READ

  

• How to End the Telephone Game at Your Waterpark

  3 MIN READ

  

• Watching the Watchers

  4 MIN READ

  

• How to Implement Change Efficiently

  2 MIN READ

  

• Turning Frowns Upside Down

  3 MIN READ

  

• Change Is Good

  3 MIN READ

  

• Judgment Call

  3 MIN READ

  

• Welcome Home

  3 MIN READ

  

• To Close a Pool … or Not

  3 MIN READ

  

• Get Personal

  3 MIN READ

  

• Beyond Words

  2 MIN READ

  

• Expect the Unexpected

  4 MIN READ

  

• The Importance of Being Andy

  3 MIN READ

  

• Go with the Flow

  2 MIN READ

  

• Creating Pool Schedules

  3 MIN READ

  

• What’s the Worst Thing That Could Happen?

  4 MIN READ

  

• Here Comes the Rain Again

  3 MIN READ

  

• Full of Regret

  3 MIN READ

  

• Helicopter Crash

  3 MIN READ

  

• New Direction

  4 MIN READ

  

• You’re So Vain

  3 MIN READ

  

• Priceless

  3 MIN READ

  

• Watching for Trouble

  2 MIN READ

  

• Drowning in Red Tape

  2 MIN READ

  

• Called Out

  2 MIN READ

  

• Power Scrubbing 

  2 MIN READ

  

• Planting an Idea

  3 MIN READ

  

• Planting an Idea

  3 MIN READ

  

• To the Rescue

  3 MIN READ

  

• Where There’s Smoke

  3 MIN READ

  

• Spectators Gone Wild! 

  3 MIN READ

  

• Collision Course

  3 MIN READ

  

• Candid Camera 

  3 MIN READ

  

• Emergency Action

  3 MIN READ

  

• Time Crunch

  3 MIN READ

  

• Don’t Sweat It

  3 MIN READ

  

• Phone a Friend

  3 MIN READ

  

• Floating a Solution

  3 MIN READ

  

• Parting the Clouds

  3 MIN READ

  

• Hire From Hell

  3 MIN READ

  

• Going in Depth 

  4 MIN READ

  

• Power to the People 

  4 MIN READ

  

• Dangerous Mix

  3 MIN READ

  

• Beating Traffic

  3 MIN READ

  

• Hometown Heroes

  3 MIN READ

  

• Blaming the Victim

  3 MIN READ

  

• Power Points

  3 MIN READ

  

• Flooded Fiasco

  3 MIN READ

  

• Attack of the Zombies 

  3 MIN READ

  

• False Alarm

  3 MIN READ

  

• Home Made

  3 MIN READ

  

• Angels and Demons

  3 MIN READ

  

• Water Gate

  3 MIN READ

  

• Locked Out

  3 MIN READ

  

• No Way Out

  3 MIN READ

  

• Explosive Consequences

  3 MIN READ

  

• Rain, Rain Go Away

  4 MIN READ

  

• Taken for a Ride

  3 MIN READ

  

• Coming to a Head

  3 MIN READ

  

• Clearing the Air

  3 MIN READ

  

• Hair Raising Experience

  3 MIN READ