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Nuclear family consists of a child or children and their biological parents.
Single parent is a man or a woman living alone with his/her child or children. Divorce is common in Iceland, as are births to parents who are not married or living together.
This means that families with just one parent and a child, or children, living together, are common in Iceland.
Parents looking after their children alone are entitled to child support from the other parent, receive higher levels of child benefit and pay lower daycare fees than couples and spouses.
Step-families consist of a child or children, one biological parent and one step-parent/cohabiting parent assuming a parental role. The biological parent and the step-parent often both have each their own children elsewhere, meaning that the children will have step-siblings. When the parents have children together, the family can take on a very diverse form.
In foster families, the parents take in children who are not their own for a certain period of time.
Adoptive families are families with a child or children who have been adopted.
Homosexuals who are married or in registered cohabitation may adopt children or have children using artificial insemination, subject to the usual conditions governing the adoption of children, and have the same rights as other parents if they have children previously.
Violence
Violence within the family is prohibited by law. It is prohibited to inflict violence, whether mental or physical, on one’s spouse or children.
Domestic violence can be reported to the police. If violence is directed at children, this should be reported to the Government Agency for Child Protection or contact the police via 112. | https://www.mcc.is/family/family-types/ |
The term ‘family’ changed over the course of social growth according to the overwhelming needs and values of society, and its concepts and meanings. No single description for “family” is yet available. For instance, it is defined as “a group comprising of two parents and their children as one unit” and, at the same time, the dictionary defines a group of people who live under a single roof, typically under one head, as the family. Oxford’s Living Dictionary
The forms or shapes of the family differ in equal measure with the description. Now, there is no practical or meaningful type of family. Stephanie Coontz’s (2005) research on the history of marriage reveals that the family forms we see today in the United States are actually the result of an evolution of the family that began with an important shift in the culture of marriage in the mid-18th Century. Those changes took place due to “the notion of free choice and marriage as a cultural idea” and the way of becoming an optional institution.
Classical form of family was considered to look like this: 3 generations living under the same roof 1st generation – the elderly, 2nd – young and 3rd – children. While living with the elderly (grandparents) young parents transferred the main part of educating and caring for the children to the elderly. In the meantime, the young were to take care of all the household duties.
This type of family changed dramatically with the industrialization, as new workplaces were produced, the husbandry took the second place and the young, who used to live with their own parents took chances and the opportunities to move around and settle closer to working places than to their parental homes.
Such demographic and social activities lead to the decrease in the value of blood ties and the core principal of family changed. Educational role was delegated to universities and schools more than to the elderly. Basic principals of life changed from “watch me and learn” to “this is the right thing to do” principles.
Different views on family
Comparison of most spread views
Functionalists regard society as a system made up of different parts which depend on each other. In functionalist thought, the family is a particularly important institution as this it the ‘basic building block’ of society which performs the crucial functions of socialising the young and meeting the emotional needs of its members. Stable families underpin social order and economic stability/
According to Talcott Parson, one of the functionalists greatest thinkers, the family performs reduced functions, if to compare with the agricultural times, but it still is the only institution that can perform two core functions in society. Primary Socialisation(family is still responsible for teaching children the norms and values of society known as Primary Socialisation) and the Stabilisation of Adult Personalities (The stabilisation of adult personalities refers to the emotional security which is achieved within a marital relationship between two adults. According to Parsons working life in Industrial society is stressful and the family is a place where the working man can return and be ‘de-stressed’ by his wife, which reduces conflict in society. This is also known as the ‘warm bath theory’)
Marxists argue that the nuclear family performs ideological functions for Capitalism – the family acts as a unit of consumption and teaches passive acceptance of hierarchy. It is also the institution through which the wealthy pass down their private property to their children, thus reproducing class inequality.
In short, Feminists advocate for the abolition of the traditional, patriarchal (as they see it) nuclear family and the establishment of alternative family structures and sexual relations. The various alternatives suggested by Radical Feminists include separatism – women only communes, and Matrifocal households. Some also practice political Lesbianism and political celibacy as they view heterosexual relationships as “sleeping with the enemy.”
Changes in family roles
In the literature addressing reconciliation of work and family life, “blurring boundaries” is a frequently applied concept (Gottschall & Voß, 2003). It is closely linked to de-traditionalizing gender relations, that is, the changing meaning of paid work and its spilling over to private life. This in turn challenges traditional distributions of power and money in Family relationships
Feminist views results
Feminists were struggling for equality in marriage and got it, in most cases. Both husband and wife have the same amount of opportunities to study, develop and make decisions. They consider it inappropriate for a woman to depend on her husband. And by winning the right to vote they got the opportunity to work and earn money by themselves. The increased number of employed and working women created the gender division in childcare as even the most vicious feminist is a mother.
Marxists views results
Marxist vies resulted in the division among the household income and work duties. The higher the post he or she has, the higher his/her part of the family budget the higher and the more powerful his/her place in family is. The genera idea of “consuming” unit remains unchanged. The more you earn the more you spend, the more your family can afford. Society still puts high standards for the children’s education and fulfillment of needs demands. Gender or role does not play as much as the amount of money you bring into family.
Functionalists views results
Functionalists views on family are too ideal. They do not pay attention to what also happens behind closed doors. Family still breads children, still gives them education. Siblings help each other as the spouses do. But the conflicts due to “you are to do” or “it is your duty” still remain if a person does not want to recognize the structural changes in family due to his/her basic knowledge and view on family.
Changes in family patterns
Marriage
While it was a clear thing to marry when you wanted to in previous times, now it is inappropriate if you are not wealthy and protected enough to support your family. This statement shows us both men’s and women’s thoughts and views. The age pattern which shows people getting married for the first time is increasing. Most people now get 1st marriage at 25 at least. The idea of marriage being synonymous to family has faded
Divorce
Divorce is no longer the question of church or religious beliefs in most of its cases. People easily get married or divorced. Only 40% of couples married at the age of 25-27 live more than 3 years before the get their divorce. The only thing that can stop from cancelling marriage is a child, but it also does not work very well as a leverage.
Separation
Separation is a well spread practice of solving family problems. They say, “while away from each other you get to know how much you miss your spouse”. Separation is also used by the couples, who did not get or did not want to get divorced and they have a child. They remain family in front of the government, but they do not exist as a socially meant family.
Child rearing
Child rearing is the only core function remained unchanged in the family structure and goals. The ways of educating and teaching changed. Parents are on work 24/7 to get their child everything it needs, but for their presence and love. Agricultural times type of family covered this problem by using other bloodline family members, living together with a child to teach them on a close example of a social personality. | https://writinguniverse.com/family-structure-changes/ |
FactCheck: is having a mum and a dad the very best thing for a child?Simon Crouch, University of Melbourne
“If you ask the Australian people whether you think a child has a right to have a mother and a father, 75% or more will say that is right. If you ask individuals whether a mother is the most important nurturing relationship a child can have, over 90% of mothers say the same. So who are we to deny a child the right of having a mother or a father?… We also know that in the development of a child, the very best thing that can happen is for them to have a mum and a dad who play a complementary role in the raising of that child.” – Liberal senator Cory Bernardi, interview with Fran Kelly on RN Breakfast, July 2, 2015.
A cross-party bill aimed at legalising same-sex marriage and scheduled for parliamentary debate in August has come under a new round of criticism from some politicians, including Liberal senator Cory Bernardi.
Many have argued that children need not be brought into debates about marriage equality, but nonetheless it is worth examining how well Bernardi’s assertions hold up against the research.
The evidence
When asked for a source to substantiate his statement, Bernardi’s spokesperson referred to a 2015 poll commissioned by the Australian Marriage Forum (self-described as “an organisation that has been set up to encourage Australians to discuss the issue of same-sex marriage with some discernment and caution”). The online survey of 1242 people found that 76% of Australians agree that:
… where possible, as a society, we should try to ensure that children are raised by their own mother and father.
Bernardi’s spokesman also pointed to a 2005 study, published on the Institute of American Values website that involved a survey of more than 2000 US mothers (complemented by interviews and focus groups), that found that:
… nearly 93% agreed that a mother’s contribution to the care of her children is so unique that no one else can replace it.
While both these sources give an indication of attitudes towards parenting, neither used questionnaires that had been scientifically developed and tested in a range of settings. For example, when measuring child health the Child Behaviour Checklist might be used. In addition, neither of the sources underwent peer review to ensure academic robustness.
Further, it is important to consider that these sources describe the attitudes of heterosexuals to parenting, and in one case only heterosexual mothers.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child goes only so far as to state that a child has “the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents”. There is no mention of whether these parents must include both male and female biological parents or that these parents must be married. Furthermore, neither of Bernardi’s sources give a quantifiable measure of how children actually fare in different family contexts.
This goes to Bernardi’s last and most important point:
We also know that in the development of a child, the very best thing that can happen is for them to have a mum and a dad who play a complementary role in the raising of that child.
To support this point, Bernardi’s spokesperson directed The Conversation to a 2011 report commissioned by the Australian Christian Lobby and researched by University of Sydney law professor Patrick Parkinson, specifically a section that said:
… children do best of all growing up with two happily married biological parents.
This particular quote is actually a citation from a paper by US researcher Paul Amato. His paper does not discuss same-sex parents at all. He instead highlights the importance of happily married parents. The focus of Parkinson’s argument is not that biological opposite-sex parents are essential – rather, it is that stable, conflict-free families that are important.
Like Amato, Parkinson goes on to state that children should be raised in the context of marriage. More than 6000 children in Australia are currently being raised in same-sex couple households. Same-sex marriage would provide access to marriage for the parents of these families.
Reviewing the literature
There is rigorous research on the question of how children of same-sex parented families develop. The Australian Institute of Family Studies has taken a thorough and locally relevant approach.
In their 2013 report on same-sex parent families in Australia they examined and synthesised Australian and international literature on same-sex parented families. The report found that:
… overall, research to date considerably challenges the point of view that same-sex parented families are harmful to children. Children in such families do as well emotionally, socially and educationally as their peers from heterosexual couple families.
This has recently been supported by the largest study in the world to look at child health in same-sex families. This Australian research considered the health and well-being of 500 children from 315 families. It found that, on average, children with same-sex-attracted parents scored pretty much the same as the average Australian child. However, it also showed that in some areas, including how child health is affected by how families get along, children with same-sex attracted parents are doing better.
Research suggests that same-sex parent families function more equitably by sharing parenting tasks. Far from needing a “mum and a dad who play a complementary role in the raising of that child”, as Bernardi suggests, it is same-sex families where complementarity is really proving beneficial.
Verdict
Bernardi, some of his Liberal colleagues, and others, suggest that children need both a mother and father. In terms of actual health and well-being outcomes, the overwhelming body of scientific research suggests that children develop well when growing up with same-sex attracted parents.
More work is required from the academic community to bring this scientific reality to the minds of the community.
Review
This is a fair and academically robust analysis of Bernardi’s statements.
With regard to children’s well-being, there is now a substantial body of international peer-reviewed research in the social sciences on how children are faring when raised in families that do not conform to the married, two biological parent norm.
A comprehensive review I authored for the Australian Institute of Family Studies in 2013 revealed that children raised in same-sex parented families do at least as well as their peers raised in heterosexual couple families when compared on a comprehensive range of social, psychological, health and educational characteristics.
We know that family processes such as levels of conflict between the parents and the relative equity of their divisions of paid and household labour are more influential than the gender, sexuality or number of parents when it comes to children’s well-being. Same-sex couples are known to share parental care and paid work more equitably than heterosexual couples, and this tendency towards greater equity is beneficial for children.
It should also be noted that what people think children need is not necessarily commensurate with “children’s rights”.
When children raised in same-sex parented families are not faring so well, this is often because of their fears or experiences of bullying and discrimination in schools due to the continuing stigma attached to same-sex relationships in some community settings. In the Netherlands, which was the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage, children raised in same-sex parented families have higher well-being scores than their peers in the United States, where same-sex marriage has only recently been obtained. – Deborah Dempsey
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This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. | https://www.goodpsychology.net/blog/two-dads-two-mums-or-a-mum-and-dad-which-is-best-for-children |
Is The Modern Family Breaking Down Or Is It Simply Changing?
The modern family also is commonly known as the nuclear family has had radical alterations to its structure, these have been caused by the various changes in society such as cultural diversity, more divorce and re-marriage, there is more cohabitation between couples and more births outside marriages. Also, there are same-sex marriages, and in the cases of female marriages, children are often involved. The family unit is based within a household. In the contemporary U.K diversity can be seen in the household composition, i.e.: in two-parent families, both the parents work, one of the parents work, neither of the parent’s works or it is a reconstituted, family. Approximately 23% of households consist of a nuclear family, e.g.: a married or cohabiting couple with dependant children. 28% of households are single, with half over and half under the pensionable age, 28% were a couple without children, 7% were single parents with children (out of which 90% of the families were female-headed).
3% of the households had non-dependant children, 3% had two or more unrelated adults and only 1% were multi-family households. On the other hand, this data isn’t too reliable as the cyclical nature of family life means that many children may still have children, i.e.: all non-dependants children now were once dependents. Also, some single individuals shown in the data were once in nuclear families with children, which ended through either divorce or death, and the children had become dependant, therefore, moving away from home. The diversity of family and household types is contributed by the diversity in ethnic minority cultures. Roger Ballard published a book in 1982 titled ‘South Asian Families’, in which he studied Punjabi, Gujrati and Bangali families in England. His study found that the families were extended and highly patriarchal where all the family contributed to the domestic and wage-earning tasks although it was clear that men and women’s duties were greatly differentiated.
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However, improvement was being made as the families were becoming less patriarchal i.e.: more women were going out to work and the extended families were being split into smaller family units. Also, he observed that some British Born Asians were rejecting their traditional authority structures. Asian children existed in two cultures: at home into traditional culture via primary socialisation and at school and work into the wider social culture via secondary socialisation. Ballard thinks that the balance of these influences may depend on one major factor i.e.: the Asian density in a particular area.
Ghazal Bhatti supported this study of Ballard’s in her book ‘Asian children at home and at school’ (1999). She studied a sample of 50 Asian children from Southern England, 44 were Muslim with Pakistani or Bangladeshi family backgrounds, four were Hindus and two were Sikhs with Indian origins. Like Ballard, she found retained links with their country of origin to maintain and emphasise family loyalty and traditional marriage practices. “Izzat” was also taken very seriously especially with the behaviour of daughters. Bhatti claimed that “motherhood bestowed status upon these women and they saw child raring as their most important role and duty in life.” Whereas fathers saw themselves as heads of their households and the breadwinners.
On the other hand, just like Ballard’s study Bhatti established that some evidence suggested that the younger generation was moving away from some traditional structures. In four of the families, the older brother had married white women causing clashes between the parents and the children. Although, she emphasised that these mixed families weren’t the norm and that other generational tensions were minor in comparison with most children happily following the traditional structure of their families. Joan Barrow also conducted a study on ethnic minority, he studied West Indian families in his book ‘West Indian families: An insider’s perspective’ (1982). He claimed that Caribbean families have three main types of structures: conventional nuclear families, which are mostly to be found amongst religious or economically prosperous, groups and is seen as a sign of respectability.
The second was common-law families where less off married couples cohabited, and may even be a reconstituted family. Finally: matriarchal families, which are dominated by the mother or grandmother, with the daily support being provided by the wider female kinship group, and the fathers were transient although they did provide financial support especially for the children. These family types are reproduced in England, with the matriarchal families being the most popular. The mothers in these reproduced families have a high tendency to paid work while the grandmothers have a key role in supporting their daughters and caring for the grandchildren. Barrow suggested that slavery distorted West Indian family relationships as the slave owners often prevented nuclear families and settled relationships from forming amongst slaves, which lead to the traditional matriarchal family life.
Berthoud and Beishon published a book in 1997 called ‘Policy studies Institute’ in which they studied Caribbean families and found that “the most striking characteristic is a low emphasis on long term partnerships especially on formal marriage”. British Caribbean families had high divorce rates and had more children outside the wedlock than any other group. Although there being a high number of single mothers, they were more likely than other groups to have paid employment. Despite this over half the Caribbean families with children were either married or cohabited in long-term relationships.
They also studied South Asian families in the same book. Berthoud and Beishon said that South Asians were “most likely to marry and marry younger than their white equivalents. Few of them lived as married and separation and divorce were relatively rare.” Almost all Asian women were married, and many with children lived in the same house as their husband’s parents. Like Bhatti and Ballard, Berthoud and Beishon also saw some evidence of changes within the South Asian families i.e.: divorces, single parents and a fall in the number of children born to each family. They also found that young people today expect more say in their choice of partners than their parents did. Berthoud and Beishon concluded that although immigrants and their descendants have adapted their family life to fit British circumstances, they have not fundamentally altered their traditional family relationships and are also maintaining distinct features of their cultures.
Mary Chamberlain studied the importance of kinship in the U.K and the Caribbean in her book ‘ Brothers, Sisters, Uncles and Aunts’ (2002). She found that older siblings had a great responsibility in bringing up their younger siblings and cousins. Like Barrow, she found that geographical distances made it difficult for the relatives to play the same role in childcare as they would in the Caribbean. Nevertheless, many families in the U.K chose to live close by their kin to provide support to a greater extent than is typical of white British families. Essex University conducted a study in 2000 in which they found that 39% of the British born Caribbean adults were married compared to 60% of Whites. Caribbean’s were more likely than other groups to intermarry.
The study also found that Pakistani and Bangladeshi’s are more likely to live in nuclear families. 30%of Asians including Sikhs and East African Asians lived in extended families. It showed that marriage is highly valued with less divorce although there may be more empty shell marriages. There is little intermarriage with other religions and cultures in Asians. Also, they have more children at a younger age and have a strong sense of duty and obligation to extended family. These ethnic cultures add to the diversity of family types found in modern Britain. Over the past few decades’ marriages has been becoming less popular. The marriage trend began as being unpopular, in 1951 15%of women never married but by 1985 this number had decreased to only 5% of women not marrying.
Since then the number of marriages per year has fallen to less than 300,000 P.A. Remarriages had also increased, as by 1990 over 30% of the marriages were remarriages for at least one partner. In support of that, the average age at marriage has also increased significantly in four years: from 25.6 in 1961 for men to 30.8 in 2001. And for women, it rose from 23.1 in 1961 to 28.9 in 2003. Re-marriages becoming more popular led to an increase in divorce and cohabitation. Of children born in 1946 6% experienced their parent’s divorce under the age of 16, this increased to 28% for the children being born in 1999. There have been many changes in the law regarding divorce, before 1857 a private act of parliament was required but since then the grounds of divorce have been extended and the process has been made easier and cheaper.
The Family Law Act 1996-1999 was passed to try to make divorce more considered and less confrontational. 1993 was the peak year for divorce with 165,600 divorces occurring that year after which the divorce rate started to decrease again and 2006 had a similar divorce rate to those in 1977. Sociologist Michael Anderson suggested that the breakdown of marriage in the first 20years is similar now to what it was a hundred years ago, as the death rate was high a hundred years ago which meant that unhappy marriages ended ‘naturally’ (via death) whereas in the contemporary society the death rate is low but the divorce rate is high therefore unhappy marriages are ended via divorce. O. R. MacGregor agreed with Anderson’s theory by saying that divorce courts today have replaced undertakers in the past in ending unhappy marriages.
Even in divorce rates, there has been a change in the position of women. Kurtz published a study called ‘For richer for poorer: mothers confront divorce’ (1995) in which Kurtz claimed that women have often been trapped in unhappy marriages as they are unable to support themselves financially, but economic independence changes this situation. 75% of women petitioned for divorce in 2000 compared to 37% in 1946. This was because women had fewer children, therefore, having more freedom and independence, and due to feminist rights women in paid labour lead to financial independence. As well as that women have also got higher expectations of their marriages today than they did in the past.
The increase in the rate of divorce can also be debated by the loss of functions i.e.: fewer functions mean that fewer things within marriage are holding people together. As the workload isn’t shared in an isolated nuclear family the marriage then becomes based on love, and once the love has gone there may be little else holding the couple together. This suggests that extended families transforming into isolated nuclear families caused the loss of functions, which portrays that divorce is a consequence of industrialisation. Industrialisation also aided secularisation, today only 2/3 of marriages are civil marriages. Gidden (1992) wrote a book ‘The transformation of intimacy’ in which he suggested that conjugal relationships go through a number of stages: in the past economic circumstances dictated marriage. By the 18th-century romantic love ideology had developed which was based on mutual attraction and the fact that a woman saves herself for marriage to her perfect man, but in reality, led to oppression of women in the household.
Lastly: plastic sexuality, i.e.: women behaving like men in sexual encounters, due to effective contraception. This leads to virginity no longer being prized in women and a new lifestyle, e.g.: confluent love. He concludes that people in contemporary society are no longer stuck with traditional roles but have the freedom to choose and shape how they live, hence explaining divorce and diversity. On the other hand, it is arguable that Gidden underestimates the effects of class, gender and ethnicity as not all individuals have a similar range of options and choices. Childbirth outside wedlock has also been a major factor in the family changing; in 1961 6% of all live births were to unmarried women, this figure had increased to 40% by 2004.
Although, in 2004 4/5 of those unmarried women living with their partner in stable cohabitation. In 1990 15% of single parents established a new relationship and married or entered stable cohabitation. By 2002 the average length of time spent as a single parent was five years. With the rise of unmarried mothers came a rise in the abortions taking place. In 1967 the abortion act was passed which ruled it ok to have an abortion within 28weeks of conceiving. During the 1980s about 170,000 abortions were taking place P.A, this had increased to 199,000 P.A by 2006. However, teenage conceptions had fallen by 10% between 1998- 2004. Cohabitation between 1979-2001 of 18-49-year-old couples increased from 11% to 32%, and in 2002 12% of men and 13% of women aged between 16-65 were cohabiting. A study in 2000 showed that the percentage of the population who believed pre-marital sex was not worth at all rose from 42% in 1984 to 62% in 2000. 67% thought it ok for a couple to live together, 56% thought it a good idea for a couple intending to marry to cohabit first.
Nonetheless, 59% thought that marriage was still the best option whereas 9% thought there was no point in marriage. All these factors suggest that the contemporary family is neither breaking down nor is it changing, it is merely adjusting and adapting itself to accommodate the contemporary and diverse society and culture. Hence also becoming diverse and flexible. The basic structure of the ideal family is still maintained, i.e.: parent or parents and children with the majority of the time the relation of the parent and child being blood-related cohabiting. On the other hand, family isn’t only based on blood relation any more but on affinity and co-residence. | https://essayscollector.com/essays/is-the-modern-family-breaking-down-or-is-it-simply-changing/ |
2 Can we, and should we, define what we mean by ‘family’ ?
2.1 Attempting definitions
A common foundation for any academic discussion – as you may be well aware – is to start by defining the key terms. Not only may this help towards clear thinking and communication, it can also itself constitute a very significant theoretical task, since concepts make up the basic framework for developing knowledge about any subject.
Activity 1
Without any further reading, you may like to spend a couple of minutes writing down how you might define ‘family’ if you were embarking on an academic essay about family lives. What key elements do you think should be included in any definition?
Discussion
Comment
You may have found this to be quite a straightforward task, or you may have found it really difficult. Either way, as you read on, you can compare your own definition with the following discussion of the academic debates. Social scientists have also varied as to how far they regard the task of defining ‘family’ as relatively straightforward or fraught with difficulties. Indeed, students sometimes joke about how much social scientists seem to love endlessly discussing key terms and their meanings, and defining ‘family’ could certainly serve as an example!
Some writers thus offer definitions of ‘family’ with apparent confidence, as if the term is unproblematic:
A group of people, related by kinship or similar close ties, in which the adults assume responsibility for the care and upbringing of their natural or adopted children.
(Jary and Jary, 1995)
Others pay more attention to diversity and variation, but even so, may presume some shared underlying features, so that the definition of ‘family’ becomes variations on a theme. Common elements include:
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co-residency and domesticity
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blood, legal or (hetero)sexual ties
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the care of children.
You may have observed, however, that these themes – taken together – evoke strong resonances with the notion of the nuclear family: i.e. the model of ‘the family’ that encompasses two married parents living together with their shared biological children. Nevertheless, some sociological definitions also take care to point out that this is indeed a model which is taken to represent an (idealised) institution. In this sense, then, it is something that needs to be understood separately from people's lived experiences of family, which may or may not correspond to this model. It is also a model with limited historical and cultural relevance.
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As these debates have developed, then, efforts have been made to:
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identify the institutionalised model of ‘family’ separately from the lived experience of family
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incorporate diversity and variations
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acknowledge the gap between ideals and (sometimes harsh) realities.
Some writers have gone further still, putting the uncertainty about the meaning of family at the centre of any attempt at definition:
family Most commonly, a social group defined in some combination by parentage, kinship (including marriage), and co-residence. Historically, the family has been taken to be the basic unit of social organization, but the latter half of the twentieth century has seen a widespread breakdown of consensus about the meaning of the term. Once presumed to be a universal feature of human societies (subject to certain variations), both structural definitions of the family based on the kin relations that compose it and … definitions based on the functions that it performs (e.g., reproduction) have failed to meet the challenge of the observed variety of forms of collective, small-group life in human societies.
(Calhoun, 2002)
These are very important insights which go beyond the days when the family was seen as a solid, natural and unremarkable object of study or policy-making, as in the UK Beveridge Report (1942), for example. This report, which formed the foundation of the Welfare State after 1945 and the Second World War, was based on the assumption of the nuclear white heterosexual family. More recent policy debates, and guidelines used by professionals such as social workers, struggle between wanting to deploy the rhetoric of ‘the family’ as if this is unproblematic, whilst also recognising diversity of family forms and cultures in order to be able to ‘speak’ to the population at large. So what is seen as new about diversity and change in contemporary family lives in European and New World countries may in fact be a recognition of the variable and diverse meanings that we give to this term. By acknowledging diversity, it is easier to think about and acknowledge the variations and ambiguities in family meanings and in families themselves. Nevertheless, this recognition of the varied meanings of ‘family’ does not happen consistently. Furthermore, particular meanings may also confer moral judgements and evaluations about what are the ‘best’ or most ‘normal’ families. The meanings attached to family have thus become more open to argument, not only in everyday and policy contexts, but also in academic discussions. | https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/sociology/what-do-we-mean-family/content-section-2.1 |
David and Tiana share their happy, comfortable home with their two children, a little boy and girl. Theirs is the classic ‘nuclear family’, the unit long perceived as the essential building block of a stable society. But might it have become something of an anachronism? Although the USA is often seen as a bastion of traditional family values and social mores, placing the nuclear family on some sort of ‘moral’ pedestal, it is interesting to note that in the twenty-first century, the supposedly superior, traditional nuclear family appears now to constitute a minority of households - roughly 24% now compared with 40% in 1970. Obviously, this would indicate that other family arrangements have become increasingly prevalent. However, this article should not be seen as some kind of veiled attack on the traditional concept of ‘the family’; rather, it aims to advance the notion that a variety of family units seem to work equally well and that forcing human beings into a ‘one size fits all’ mould is never a good idea.
The full story:
The now-familiar term, ‘Nuclear Family’, was first used in English as late as 1941, to describe a family group that consisted only of a heterosexual couple and their dependent children, united by ties of marriage and parenthood, and recognised as a basic social unit. Rarely, in the 1940’s, would the parents in such a family have been unmarried - children born outside wedlock were still stigmatised as ‘bastards’ and illegitimacy attracted universal opprobrium. However, attitudes changed dramatically in the post-War years and these days, around a half of parents are not married. (The proportion of children born to unmarried mothers hit a record 47.5% in 2013, according to the Office for National Statistics, and this figure had risen dramatically from 25% in 1988, and a mere 11% in 1979. If this trend has indeed continued, which seems likely, it is the majority of children who are now being born ‘out of wedlock’.)
Recently, with the advent of same-sex marriage and gay adoption, the idea of a ‘nuclear family’ has been broadened even further and is now understood to include family units that comprise same-sex couples with adopted children as well as offspring who are biologically related to one or both parents. The nuclear family has long been viewed by many sociologists and politicians as the universal, basic component of social organisation, and yet anyone who looks a little deeper into history and anthropology will quickly discover that this narrow definition is largely a Western invention, greatly promoted by the Victorians (with the ‘Royal Family’ as an archetype) by social conservatives, and by most faith groups. More recently, it has been promoted especially aggressively by so-called ‘familialists’, social conservatives who form part of the Christian evangelical pro-family lobby, especially in the USA, but who exert influence around the globe.
David and Tiana Rassam kindly welcomed me into their home to photograph them and their two delightful children, Taymoor, aged five, and little Sienna, who is just over a year old; I wanted to capture their images because they are precisely what we have thought of as a traditional nuclear family. Whilst they might at first glance seem thoroughly conventional, it soon emerged that growing out of their own experience, they have developed views on this kind of family unit (the unit seen by many as the ideal social building block) that are rather more complex and altogether more interesting. A professional couple, they married about nine years ago and decided to have the children they wanted sooner rather than later. David works at a senior level in the petrochemical industry and the family now live in a large, handsome Edwardian mansion flat in West London.
Once the photography is over and while Tiana is keeping the children happily occupied, I interview David, first trying to gauge how he perceives his own family and how he sees the different family arrangements favoured by others. A highly articulate man who has an interesting and unusual background, David chooses his words carefully: “I was born in Baghdad during the Iran-Iraq War, living there for six years before my family relocated to London. I have to confess that, given the circumstances, I have been back but once, and then only for a short visit. Iraq might be my home country but I am less familiar with it than I am with England. Although our family was Roman Catholic, we always felt well-integrated into the Baghdad society of those days. We were a sort of protected community, as were a number of other minorities - at that time, Baghdad was genuinely a lively melting pot of faiths and ethnicities. I don’t think we ever felt like outsiders and you could say that our family was part of the then Baghdad establishment. While my family and Tiana’s were connected in many ways, with much in common, the two of us didn’t actually meet until we were both adult professionals.” David continues: “Although we may have been born outside the UK, we both feel well-integrated into this great city where we have made our home and the culture here in Britain; however, we have our own, unique cultural roots too and these also influence the way we interpret the world around us. I am a Catholic but I wouldn’t consider myself as especially religious; we don’t, as a family, go to Mass every Sunday and in this respect we do differ from my parents' more observant generation.”
Asked about his personal feelings towards the increasing variety of family arrangements now obtaining in Western Europe, David replies: “Well, this might be seen as a controversial answer to what is a complex question, but though I am personally accepting of others, I do feel strongly that the conventional nuclear family structure is most likely to be the best framework for raising children and future citizens.” It might be said that David and Tiana’s own family arrangements are indeed traditional: he is the sole breadwinner while Tiana, whose own career is ‘on hold’, stays at home looking after the children. But David continues, elaborating his answer: “I can well imagine how difficult it must be for couples who both work, and who return home exhausted, to try to give proper attention to the children and to spend some quality time with them; that will be a hard task indeed and one that will inevitably put a strain upon the marriage too. So in that respect, I feel we are very fortunate.” Fortunate and unusual, perhaps, for such family arrangements are increasingly atypical, with a great many professional couples both working and leaving their childcare responsibilities, at least in part, to childminders, nannies, au pairs and nursery schools. The increasing financial pressures on families have perhaps been mostly responsible for this change, but the desire of professional women not to forego their careers entirely for childrearing has also been influential.
Now it was David’s turn to amuse Taymoor and Sienna, and Tiana kindly takes some time to talk to me. “Like David’s, my parents were also Catholics: my father was Iraqi but my mother had Lebanese and Italian parents, though she too grew up in in Baghdad. She went on to study the Arts in Paris and my parents met when my father was working in Germany, indeed I am actually German born. When my father’s job took him to the UK, we lived in Berkshire and I studied Interior Design in Brighton. I then worked for a number of years for a prestigious London architectural firm, specialising in the design of high-end hotels. From my mother, I clearly inherited some kind of creative flair and I still paint whenever time permits. Indeed, the painting of a male ballet dancer, hanging on the wall behind us in the photograph, was one of my commissions. I have always felt very close to my parents and unfortunately, because they now live in Dubai, I sometimes feel the distance between us acutely.”
Tiana continued: “During my first pregnancy, I entertained the idea of running an online business but I soon discovered that raising children is basically a full-time task and nothing can really prepare you for it.” She admitted to feeling quite lonely when raising Taymoor, her first child, missing the company of other adults and the daily contact with colleagues, an experience shared with many new mothers. “My mother did come over a number of times and she helped me a great deal but the distance is not inconsiderable and, of course, they have their own lives to lead. And you do learn to manage; the second time round, with Sienna, I had more experience and was perhaps more resilient, having already developed the necessary skills to cope.”
I asked her how she felt about the present evolution of the nuclear family model and she replied unhesitatingly: “I have largely grown up in liberal Western Europe and, despite her own background, my mother herself had a very European outlook on life. You could say that though my parents were conservative with a small ‘c’, they were not illiberal; they trusted my maturity and allowed me to travel and explore Europe unaccompanied, so I don’t have an old-fashioned mentality. However, I must say that I am more than happy within my own family arrangements and I feel that, for us, it provides the best possible environment for raising our children. And yet, at the same time, I have the greatest respect and admiration for mothers who are managing on their own - actually, it sometimes seems to me a little bit as if I were doing it on my own too! My husband works extremely long hours, leaving home before dawn and not coming back until after the children are in bed, asleep. I am also well aware of the many families who are forced to manage on a significantly smaller budget than we have, and I have great respect for how successfully they manage.”
Tiana continued: “In the school my son attends, there is a child from a same-sex family and I do admire their strength. It is a private school where some people are very old-fashioned in their outlook and, behind the polite smiles, there are clearly signs of judgement and disapproval. Now that I have my own children, I see clearly, and I do most genuinely believe, that all children need is love and attention, lots of it, and I don’t think that this can only come from a mother and a father. Children will respond positively to anyone who loves and cares for them, irrespective of whether they are connected to them biologically. I can well imagine that some people might disagree with this, but it is my considered opinion as a mother. To me, what is essential is that children have the chance to develop within a caring and loving environment - after all, what sometimes lies behind the façade of a perfectly normal nuclear family can be seriously dysfunctional, sometimes even horrific, with parents who abuse their children or whose behaviour towards one another is disruptive to any sort of happy family life. Such damage in the early stages of a child’s development is very destructive, and dysfunctional families tend to produce dysfunctional adults.”
In conclusion, Tiana stated quite firmly: “I was raised as a Catholic and, as a family, we observed all the major festivals of the Church and attended all the major religious events; with this sort of background, clearly, David and I both aim to raise our children with good morals and to see them grow up into good people. But no, I never have been, nor do I intend to be, ruled by religion; I certainly shan’t be having another half dozen children,” she concludes with a smile.
Having mentioned that the USA is often seen as a bastion of traditional family values (ie placing the nuclear family on some sort of moral pedestal) it is interesting to note that in the twenty-first century, the supposedly traditional nuclear family appears now to constitute a minority of households (roughly 24%) compared with 40% in 1970. Obviously, this must indicate that other family arrangements have become more prevalent. Nevertheless, social conservatives continue to oppose these continuing trends in society, and the increasing number of alternative kinds of family unit; they see them as undermining patriarchal authority and remain firmly convinced that the traditional nuclear family is the essential primary unit of society.
It is worth reminding ourselves that although attitudes towards conventional marriage started to change in the decades after the Second World War, the law continued to make divorce difficult right up to 1969. Nowadays, the popular press and the TV soaps often present a rather bleak image of modern family life in Britain and they tend to promote the myth that the nuclear family of the 1950’s and before was a world of almost prelapsarian bliss - a man and a woman married for life, raising their children in a happy home. The reality was a good deal harsher than that, of course. While many were indeed happy within their nuclear families, thereby creating good environments for raising children, thousands of couples were trapped in loveless, ill-matched unions that would prove deeply dysfunctional and disruptive for their children. Changes in the UK divorce laws between 1970 and 1990 (up to then, more restrictive here than in many European countries) have led to a divorce rate that is now the highest in the world.
Tiana’s opinions, expressed in an earlier paragraph, are echoed in the 2014 survey by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen); this survey observed that: “Children in single parent families can be just as happy as those with both sets of parents, and that the quality of the relationship with the primary carer matters most, rather than the number of parents.” Work by Cardiff University also showed that grandparents are doing their significant bit in helping with raising children - one in four working families relied on grandparents for childcare. Furthermore, research carried out by the University of Cambridge has, perhaps startlingly, suggested that, “gay fathers have more interaction with their children and their kids tend to have busier social lives when compared to a traditional family.”
As in all the subjects covered in this project, the aim here is to maintain a neutral position but also to draw attention to falsehood and myth. As such, the above should not be seen as some kind of attack on the traditional concept of ‘The Family’; rather, it aims to confirm the notion that a variety of family units work equally well and forcing human beings into a ‘one size fits all’ mould is never a good idea.
I take the liberty of adding to this piece an exceptional contribution to the debate by George Monbiot. In an essay entitled, ‘Kin Hell’, Monbiot writes:
The nuclear family, as idealised today, was an invention of the Victorians, but it bore little relation to the family life we are told to emulate. Its development was driven by economic rather than spiritual needs, as the Industrial Revolution made manufacturing in the household inviable. Much as the Victorians might have extolled their families, “it was simply assumed that men would have their extramarital affairs and women would also find intimacy, even passion, outside marriage” (John R Gillis, ‘A World of Their Own Making’, 1996) and often with other women. Gillis links the twentieth century’s attempt to find intimacy and passion only within marriage - and the impossible expectations this raises - to the rise in the rate of divorce.
Children’s lives were characteristically wretched: farmed out to wet nurses, sometimes put to work in the factories and mines, beaten, neglected, often abandoned as infants. In his book, ‘A History of Childhood’, Colin Heywood reports that, “The scale of abandonment in certain towns was simply staggering”, reaching one-third or a half of all the children born in some European cities. Street gangs of feral youths caused as much moral panic in late nineteenth-century England as they do today.
Conservatives often hark back to the golden age of the 1950s. But in the 1950s, John Gillis shows, people of the same persuasion believed they had suffered a great moral decline since the early twentieth century. In the early twentieth century, people fetishised the family lives of the Victorians. The Victorians invented this nostalgia, looking back with longing to imagined family lives before the Industrial Revolution.
In the Telegraph, Christina Odone maintains that, “Anyone who wants to improve lives in this country knows that the traditional family is the key.” But the tradition she invokes is imaginary. Far from this being, as cultural conservatives assert, a period of unique moral depravity, family life and the raising of children is, for most people, now surely better in the West than at any time in the past 1,000 years.
The conservatives’ supposedly moral concerns turn out to be nothing but an example of the old-age custom of first idealising and then sanctifying one’s own culture. The past they invoke is fabricated from their own anxieties and obsessions. It has nothing to offer us. | https://londonersathome.org/nuclear.html |
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Public benefit - a recap
It is well established that, in order to be considered charitable, a charity must be established for exclusively charitable purposes and the nature of the charity's purposes must be capable of benefiting the community at large. The first part of this test is somewhat less controversial as the recognised descriptions of charitable purpose are set out within the Charities Act 2011.
However, the second part, known as the public benefit test, has caused difficulties over the years as there is no statutory definition of public benefit. Instead, the Charity Commission has produced guidance on the public benefit requirement which charities must follow.
The public benefit test has two aspects:
- The nature of the purpose itself must be of benefit to the community at large - "the benefit aspect".
- Those who may benefit from the carrying out of the purpose must be sufficiently numerous and identified in such a manner as to constitute a section of the public, and the purpose must not give rise to more than incidental personal benefit - the "public aspect".
While most organisations can easily demonstrate how their activities are beneficial and thus meet the first element, questions can be raised on whether a sufficient section of the public actually benefits from the purpose. What is sufficient is decided on a case-by-case basis.
Often the question of public benefit arises in relation to fee-charging charities such as fee-paying schools or those charities which charge for services. In the decision made in the case of Independent Schools Council v Charity Commission for England and Wales and others , the courts confirmed public benefit is to be tested against the charity's stated purposes and not against the activities it carries out.
In this case, the court also determined that the charity must provide the "poor" with the opportunity to benefit from the charity's purposes and activities. This provision must be more than tokenistic but does not need to be reasonable. Therefore, beyond that bottom line, trustees are able to determine the degree of provision in line with their general duties and in accordance with the charity's purposes.
Furthermore, the case confirmed that the definition of "poor" does not mean those who are destitute. Depending on the circumstances, it can cover people of modest means and even those who might be regarded as quite well-off.
In relation to fee-charging charities, a poor person is generally someone who cannot reasonably afford to meet a particular need by purchasing the service which the charity provides at the full cost price. Therefore, fee-charging charities can continue to operate for the benefit of the public if they make some allowances to those who would not otherwise be able to afford their services. Examples of these include discounted memberships, scholarships and bursaries etc.
The Nuffield Health case
The latest decision in Nuffield Health v London Borough of Merton once again considered the question of public benefit. However, the issue was raised in the context of relief from business rates charged by the local authority. Charities are able to claim mandatory rates relief of 80% against business rates for premises which are used wholly or mainly for charitable purposes. Local authorities are also able to grant further discretionary relief up to 100%.
While there was no question that Nuffield Health was indeed a registered charity, Merton Council refused the mandatory rates relief for Nuffield Health at one of its gym sites on the basis that it was not being used wholly or mainly for charitable purposes within the requirements of section 43(6)(a) Local Government Finance Act 1988 (the legislation setting out the rules for granting rates relief).
The local authority argued that the site was, in effect, run as a business with a members-only car park, creche, spa and refreshment area. Nuffield Health charged a membership fee of £80 per month with little provision of services for non-members - and any such provision was usually only on a promotional basis.
Furthermore, there was no scheme for reduced cost membership and other local gyms provided similar services at a lower cost. The local authority therefore argued that the gym did not operate so as to provide a sufficient public benefit.
The decision
Although the Court of Appeal agreed that the use of the premises in question would not deliver sufficient public benefit if viewed in isolation, it ultimately agreed with the initial finding of the High Court that, when assessing public benefit for the purposes of applying the mandatory rates relief, the focus was on the charity's overall activities and purposes, not the activities at any specific site.
Lord Justice Nugee concluded that it had not been Parliament's intention that the question of public benefit "should be assessed separately for each site on which a charity carries out its charitable activity". The relevant question was whether the charity was using the particular site for charitable purposes, not if the activity carried out at that site would qualify as a charitable activity in its own right.
A registered charity's charitable status is "conclusively presumed" (section 31(1) Charities Act 2011) and Lord Justice Nugee said that Nuffield Health needed only to make the following statement:
"I am a registered charity. My purposes, namely the advancement of health, are therefore (conclusively presumed to be) exclusively charitable [including that they are for the public benefit]. I am using Merton Abbey [the site in question] for those purposes. That is sufficient."
In the context of rates relief, local authorities must therefore only enquire whether the charity is using the relevant premises for its specified charitable purposes. They do not need to satisfy themselves that a public benefit is being delivered at those premises.
The local authority's appeal was therefore dismissed. However, interestingly, Lord Justice Peter Jackson did state that, if the position had been different and had the public benefit test applied to the relevant individual site, then the charity had not shown that the test was satisfied.
The future of the public benefit test
While the decision is helpfully definitive on rates relief, what are its consequences in the context of charity law? Although the decision went in the favour of the charity, it clearly raises some questions for fee-charging charities and national charities with local branches.
The Lord Justices remarked in the case that it was "surprising that such a fundamental issue of principle has not arisen before" when looking at the applicability of the public benefit test to individual sites of a charity and the question was "curiously unprecedented".
The decision also raised questions around the affordability of the monthly membership fee of £80 and pointed to the fact that there were other gyms in the area providing similar services for the promotion of health at materially lower membership charges, indicating demand at those more affordable levels.
It was found in the case that the provision of services outside this membership fee would be "so limited as to merit the description of token" and therefore "insufficient to satisfy the requirement for charitable use". Therefore, fee-charging charities must look carefully at what provision they are making to those who cannot afford to access the services and benefits they provide and ensuring that these measures are not just tokenistic.
It remains to be seen if the Charity Commission will once again seek to refine its public benefit guidance in relation to fee-charging charities or, indeed, in the context of the modern world with more and more charities operating nationally with individual local sites carrying out different activities.
The statement by Lord Justice Peter Jackson that trustees must satisfy themselves in good faith that their provision is in the public benefit is one that charity trustees must bear in mind when considering how their activities are fulfilling their charitable purposes.
Originally published 20/09/2021.
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Longmont is losing a gym and pool.
On Dec. 27, Longmont United Hospital is shutting down its exercise and warm water pool facility, the United Health and Wellness Center, and forming a new partnership with the Ed and Ruth Lehman YMCA in Longmont.
Andrew Ritz, the hospital’s vice president of operations and chief operating officer, confirmed the wellness center’s upcoming closure Monday, citing the 30-plus-year-old age of the facility and its repair requirements along with declining membership at the gym as factors.
Occupational and physical therapy, and cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation services will continue to be offered at the hospital after the closure, and exercise classes offered now at the gym will be scheduled at the YMCA.
The less-than-350 current members of the Longmont United gym will not be charged their membership dues for December, and will be given free membership for January and February at the YMCA facility, Ritz said.
“Over the years and decades, we’ve created an incredible community,” Ritz said. “We don’t want to shut that down entirely like many hospitals have across the country. Instead we found another community nonprofit organization that was willing to maintain the commitment to the community of a gym … As opposed to shutting down the gym and letting it go away, we wanted to continue our promise of a health and wellness (center).”
While the YMCA facility does not have a warm water pool facility, which Ritz acknowledged was useful for babies learning how to swim and people “who have a harder time with impact exercise,” the hospital and the YMCA will be exploring whether it’s feasible to add a new warm water asset within the community.
“There are certain reasons our members feel most comfortable this gym at the hospital: the transition from healthcare to wellness,” Ritz said. “The Y has generously agreed to jointly program things to make that transition as smooth as possible.”
Chris Coker, CEO and president of YMCA of Boulder Valley, said the YMCA plans to on-board as many of the personal trainers and class instructors at the Longmont United facility as possible.
“It’s a natural fit and Y’s do that all the time across the country. They have hospital partners,” Coker said. “This isn’t a big stretch for either organization, it’s just putting it together now.”
Coker said the Longmont YMCA facility has seen 24% membership growth over the past two years. | https://www.timescall.com/2019/11/04/longmont-united-hospital-shutting-gym-pool/ |
My membership for 2 people was cancelled in San Juan Capistrano on 9/20/16. We spoke to the gym manager on 3 occasions and were assured we would not be charged beyond Sept.
However, we were billed both the annual fee and continue to be billed for October and November. No one returns calls, and the national billing company says they can not reverse charges unless the local gym authorizes such. We moved 2000 miles away on 9/29, so owe cannot confront the gym manager in person.
I would never recommend this gym to anyone. I am putting a block on my Am Exp to prevent further billing.
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I had used your service to cancel my gym membership with LifeTime. I wanted to verify this had been sent as I have not yet received confirmation from them.
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After checking the mail logs it shows that an email was sent to you to verify the cancelation of your gym membership.
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The Club is creating a 5-year plan for its future growth and development within the Community. This plan will cover all key aspects of Club activity, including:
Coaching and Games Development - Club Structures and Administration - Communications, Public Relations and Club Culture - Club Facilities Development - Finance and Fundraising.
The Club wishes to receive input to this plan from all interested parties, both current members and non-members from the wider community. Your views are most welcome.
To facilitate this process, you are invited to attend our Public Meeting at the Club Pavilion on Jan 29th from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. Please spread the word. All ideas and input will be collected by means of an organised workshop, coordinated by experienced facilitators on the night.
You will also have the opportunity, should you so wish, to join one of our 5 Focus Groups (one for each of the key areas above). These groups will meet 3 times during the month of February to further develop the ideas and input from the workshop.
‘Ní Neart Go Cur Le Chéile’2015
Membership Rates 2015
Adult: Waged , Player (Gym inclusive) €150
Adult: Student, Player (Gym inclusive €100
Adult: Unemployed, Player (Gym inclusive) €100
Adult: Waged, Non Player + Gym €150
Adult: Waged, Non Player (Without Gym ) €80
Adult: OAP > 66yrs. €30
Our membership Officer Terence Mc Carthy is arranging a Membership Registration Day, the date will be confirmed in the coming week.
Last Man Standing
Going into this weekends Premiership games only 11 punters remained and after these games there are 6 left at least with Monday nights game to come. Check out the the Last Man Standing link on the top of our website for more details.
Cork Senior Hurling
Last Saturday Cork defeated CIT in the Waterford Crystal Cup at the CIT grounds. Representing Cork was Paul Haughney at midfield who scored two points before going off injured whilst Luke O’ Farrell was an unused substitute. In Austin Stack Park Tralee UCC defeated Kerry in the same competition, Tommy Wallace, Killian Burke, James Nagle , Brian Hartnett and Cormac Walsh represented UCC.
Lotto
Lotto Jackpot was €9,800 no's were , 8,15,18 & 28, there was no winner, Lucky Dips were Willie Ring, Braden Dunlea, Frank Mc Carthy, Alan Donegan and P Ahern, next week’s Jackpot is €10,000. Tickets are on sale at the Club Bar, O ‘Neills Bar, Linehans Bar, Maple Leaf Bar, O’ Farrells Butchers, Frank Murphy Butchers, Pat Walsh Paints & Chadwicks. The Lotto draw takes place each Friday in the Club.
BINGO for all every Friday night in the GAA Pavilion from 8pm, guaranteed Jackpot of 1,000 euro!!
JUVENILE NOTES
Street League Indoor Hurling
Last Saturday training resumed at the Community Centre, coaching for boys continues and new members are always very welcome. The times are as follows: Junior Infants 12 – 1pm, Senior Infants 11-12 & First Class 10-11am.
Juvenile Training
All training will re commence in the coming weeks, a TEXT will be sent out by Team Managers very soon. | http://www.midletongaa.com/index.cfm?page=viewNews&id=596&cYear=2015&cMonth=1 |
*information correct as of 9/10/2020*
Here we have answered some common reopening questions from our members, including schedules, gym use and memberships.
Energybase are working with the University of London to decide when the safest and most effective time is to reopen. We will ensure our members are informed through our website and social media platforms of our official reopening date.
We do plan to re-open once the extent of the latest spike in nationwide cases is fully understood. We won’t be able to offer refunds for already purchased memberships (please see exception below); however, your current membership has been frozen and we will extend your contract for the closure period. We will be able to refund you if you have left the London based place of study by the time we'll be able to re-open or for medical reasons. If you match this criteria please contact us on [email protected] stating your reason and providing simple evidence of the end of your course or the health reasons.
When the facility re-opens it is likely to be Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm (No swimming pool or changing room access in the initial stages).
We aim to follow the government guidelines on capacities within certain spaces. There will be a booking procedure to protect your place on a first come first served basis. Details of how to book will be made obvious on the website. No walk-ins will be allowed.
Markings will be in place to help signpost queuing systems and walkways to enable social distancing.
We will schedule a pre-booked session for a maximum of an hour to ensure others can enter and to maintain your health and wellbeing.
We will have membership card scanners at reception for members to swipe their own cards and limit person to person contact. Members must wait for the reception staff to grant access as they check membership. We also ask that you scan our QR code to register your visit using the NHS Track & Trace app.
Unfortunately, we cannot always guarantee safety in this area. We will ensure a high standard of cleaning and precautions to limit the risk of spreading the virus. We ask that you also take precaution, regularly washing your hands and using sanitiser and cleaning supplies to reduce the risk.
Our staff will be expected to regularly clean and wipe down machines and equipment within the gym and studios. We will be creating a more extensive schedule including disinfecting our equipment and touch points throughout the facility.
Currently, government guidelines do not state that people wear face coverings while in the gym and therefore we are not expecting to ask our members to do so unless of course guidelines change.
Staff will be present within the gym facility to offer help and to also maintain hygiene of the equipment.
At present we do not have a designated time slot for at risk or vulnerable people.
We will ask that members do not bring personal belongings on to the gym floor as this poses a trip hazard for others. Please do arrive in your gym attire.
Lockers will not be accessible to our members while using the facilities. Reflecting guidelines and most other exercise facilities, to ensure social distancing is maintained, we are keeping our changing rooms out of action.
As we reopen, we are keeping the changing facilities out of service while we work to ensure that social distancing and ventilation measures are of the upmost standards. It is important to us to keep everyone's safety first.
We ask that towels are not brought on to the gym floor to avoid contact with the face and then our equipment to reduce the spread of the virus. We will have towel roll available to members to wipe down or use to clean down their machines after use.
Cleaning supplies and sanitation stations will be provided to members throughout the facilities. We ask that our members make full use of these to help prevent spread and reduce risk.
Unfortunately, no. Social distancing means you must keep to your own space and avoid contact with others. Once government guidelines ease, we are more than happy to follow and allow team workouts.
For your safety, It is possible we will remove some smaller pieces of equipment such as machines attachments if we find they are at risk of holding infection/spreading infection and unable to clean to our satisfaction. Spacing between machines may mean some stations may not be available.
As a gym user, we ask that you follow our guidelines of locking away personal belongings, arriving in your gym wear to limit time in the changing rooms, avoiding contact with others, maintaining social distancing and cleaning any equipment you use before and after.
No. We are still planning a class timetable with a 20 min interval between each class to avoid any crossover or person to person contact.
We will be limiting the class capacities to allow for social distancing. This means there will be a higher emphasis on booking online to ensure a space. Late access will not be possible.
Depending on the class, numbers will be limited to half the usual capacity. If more information is needed, please do contact us via Facebook or email.
No, there is just as much a risk of COVID-19 in all areas indoors. The key is keeping social distancing in place. Just like the typical household, spaces with closer quarters and high activity can increase the risk of person to person spread. | https://www.studentcentral.london/energybase/whoarewe/faqs/ |
GILBERT, AZ — Police say a woman used a fake name when opening a gym membership so she could steal purses belonging to fellow patrons.
Gilbert officers arrested 35-year-old Haydee Ramirez on May 30 for multiple counts of burglary and credit card theft.
Police say on April 21 Ramirez used a fake name to establish membership at Pure Barre Fitness near Val Vista Drive and Williams Field Road.
She allegedly left early from an exercise class, going to the main lobby where members kept their belongings. There, she reportedly stole several items, including a Kate Spade purse and a Bottega Veneta wallet.
Officers investigating the thefts said the pattern matched a previous robbery that had identified Martinez as a suspect. The gym manager was shown a photo of Martinez and confirmed she was the woman who started the false membership.
Shortly after the thefts, Ramirez made several credit card purchases in Gilbert, Mesa, and Phoenix, totaling over $2,000. In total, police say the value of the property taken and charged was nearly $4,500.
Ramirez is currently on probation on a shoplifting conviction from 2018 and is being held without bond on her current charges. | https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/police-woman-uses-fake-name-to-open-gym-membership-steal-purses |
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Return on Investment and Gym Membership?
Return on Investment and Gym Membership? Have you ever been to the gym? Did you get fit? Did you feel healthier? I bet you did? However, I am sure you will have heard the story about the person who joins the gym after Christmas to get them fit and to keep them to their New […]
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As a guest on hotel Spelabäcken you have the privilege to exercise and book classes on our local gym Formtoppen.
It’s a top-modern gym in the center of Skanör, which offer both weight training as well as classes lika body pump, Indoor Walking etc.
Non-smoking and no fur animals are allowed
The entire hotel and all our rooms are non-smoking areas. In case of violation, the guest will be charged a debt of 3000 SEK.
No fur animals are allowed in the hotel’s premises except for in two room, where we allow pets for a fee of 150 SEK / night.
Wi-Fi
We have free wifi in all of our conferense rooms as well as in our hotelrooms. | https://www.spelabacken.se/en/general-information/ |
New zone added!
1/14/2021
A 6th zone has been added in the former kid-zone. This area can be used for suspension training, core, stretch, & free weights.
The reservation system is still in place. Please be sure you are reserving your times!
1/08/2021 Updates
1/9/2021
As anticipated, current regulations have been extended until February 6 at midnight. This means that our current reservation and group policies will remain in place.
If I had the ability to space out equipment, I would do this. But we all know that is not an option. I am doing the best I can with the situation we are in.
I am extending a zone-sharing option, however. Currently, members of the same household can share zones. I will extend this to all members who currently spend time together outside of the gym. Please limit it to 4 people in a zone, given the close proximity of zones. This is out of respect for members trying to protect their health. Those wishing to share zones - please complete the "group waiver" on our class page.
I will continue to evaluate ways to create more usable space.
BREAKING GUIDELINES:
I have discovered members using the gym without reservations, changing zones, and crossing zones. This is NOT allowed without approval of the person who has the zone reserved. While in the gym, it is VERY easy to pull up the reservation system and see if the space is available. (And reserve it.)
Believe it or not, I hate setting rules. But I do love keeping my doors open for our community. Rules created means rules enforced. I cannot think about a handful of members. I have to think about 200+ people. I hear you all and do my best to make the best decisions for the masses AND for the survival of BOM.
Respect the rules and the BOM community or memberships will be suspended.
Again, my most sincere thanks to all of you for your patience as we navigate this unusual time and do our best to get through.
LIMITED GROUP CLASSES
12/27/2020
Tami will be offering limited group classes starting Monday, December 28.
The current regulations are in effect until January 8th. Group classes and general gym access will be evaluated at that time.
News & UPDATES 12/09/2020
12/9/2020
Given the governor's updates today, we will continue to keep our reservation system in place through December 16th. We will look at reopening for normal operations December 17th (4:00am).
I want to thank all of you for your patience through these complicated times. Especially those who have maintained a membership throughout the entire year. Over the last several months, we have all had to adapt and sacrifice to make it work. My priority has been to keep the facility open, knowing that "some is better than none".
A reminder that freezing your membership IS an option if you need to. I am reinstating pre-COVID rules regarding freezing. Members are allowed to freeze up to 3 months in a year with no consequences. Any freeze extended beyond that period will result in new member fees.
* Please continue to follow the cleaning & sanitation guidelines.
* With my limited time in the facility, I may not see everything. If there are any issues with equipment or supplies in the gym, please contact me. My cell number is posted on the dropbox in the gym.
* A reminder that guests are not currently allowed in the facility. I have seen a few in. Please be sure that all persons on your membership are aware.
* I am seeing a lot of muddy footprints lately. Clean shoes are required for use of the facility. Offenders caught will be charged a Cleaning & Maintenance fee.
VIRTUAL GYM?
I am exploring the option of a virtual platform for BOM. We would be able to offer live online and pre-recorded workouts. There would also be fitness and nutrition education and tools. I am requesting feedback from members and non-members alike. Would you use an online tool if it was offered to you? Would you pay for access to these classes and resources?
PRICE INCREASE
Finally, a reminder that our prices are increasing for existing members effective January 1, 2020. The price list is attached and is already updated on our website. All previous discounts other than military are null and void. (I have extended several courtesies over the years.) HOWEVER - please remember that my mission is community health. Contact me directly for concerns and assistance with memberships.
Stay healthy, my friends!
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BOM NEwS
Our monthly newsletter & important announcements will now be shared here as well as in our email list. | http://www.bomfitness.com/announcements--news/category/all |
Check out the calendar below to see when programs, events or activities are happening at the Centres. Are you looking for classes? Check out our Activity Guide for information and register today!
Northview Branch
150 Beatrice St E
Oshawa, Ontario
L1G 7T6
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Recreation (Drop In) Programs
Sports and Athletics
Badminton
Northview Branch
Played on 2 - 3 gym courts. Racquet provided, or bring your own. $1.00 to participate. Must have a current OSCC membership to participate. | https://calendar.oscc.ca/Default/Detail/2019-01-14-Badminton |
h.Always accepting fullest responsibility for any damage done to equipment due to his misuse of the equipment.
3. Without limiting the Gym's ability to terminate this membership for cause, the Gym may terminate this membership for any reason at the end of any given month.If the Gym elects to so terminate, the Gym will refund a pro rata portion of any dues applicable to future month(s).
4. It is expressly understood and agreed that this contract is not assignable or transferrable by Member and no rights or privileges granted by this membership can betransferred or assigned by Member.
5. It is further agreed that all exercises including the use of weights, number of repetitions, and use of any and all machinery, equipment, and apparatus designed forexercising and the use of the Gym's premises and facilities shall be at the Member's sole risk. Notwithstanding any consultation on exercise programs which may be providedby Gym employees or agents, it is hereby understood that the selection of exercise programs, methods and types of equipment shall be Member's entire responsibility, and theGym shall not be liable to Member or Member's family for any claims, demands, injuries, damages, or actions arising due to injury to Member's person or property arising outof or in connection with the use by Member of the services and facilities of the Gym or the premises where the same is located. If Member brings any personal property ontothe premises of the Gym or onto the Gym's parking area, Member takes such action at Member's sole risk. It is hereby understood that the Gym is not responsible in any wayfor damage to or loss of any personal property which Member brings onto the premises of the Gym or onto the Gym's parking area, including but not limited to, losses due totheft, damage, or car accident. Member hereby holds the Gym, its successors, assigns, owners, officers, directors, employees, and agents harmless from all claims which maybe brought against them by Member, on Member's behalf, by Member's family, and Member's executors, administrators, and personal representatives for any such injuries orclaims aforesaid and Member for himself and on behalf or his family, executors, administrators, and personal representatives does hereby forever release and discharge the Gym, its successors, assigns, owners, officers, directors, employees, and agents from all claims, demands, injuries, damages, actions, losses and expenses. This section willsurvive any cancellation of this Agreement.
(1) NOTICE TO PURCHASER: DO NOT SIGN THIS CONTRACT UNTIL YOU READ IT OR IF IT CONTAINS BLANK SPACES.
By submitting this agreement, you have authorized The Garage Gym at Rock Sports arena to bill your bank account or credit card for yourmonthly dues. Your account will be billed on or shortly after the 1st of the month. There will be a delinquent/uncollectible charge appliedto your account dues if your account is returned delinquent/uncollectible/non-sufficient funds.
15th of the month. Account must be current and in good standing before we will process any such request. | https://form.jotform.com/90735381663159 |
We are reopening Monday, May 18!
On Friday, May 15 Governor DeSantis announced that gyms may reopen beginning this coming Monday, and we are excited to get back in the gym!
We understand that some of you may not be quite ready to work out at the gym, and therefore we will continue to provide at-home workouts for you for the time being. If you would like to continue working out at home, please return any equipment you may have borrowed besides your dumbbell. We will no longer have Zoom CrossFit classes.
Our class schedule beginning Monday looks like this:
Monday - Friday
6am
9am (with childcare)
12pm
4:30pm
6pm
Saturday
9:30am (in the parking lot unless otherwise specified)
Sunday Yoga
10 am (first and third Sunday of each month)
Here's what you need to know before you come to class:
- We will be limiting the classes to 9 people and will be maintaining social distancing as much as possible. Masks are optional. If you are sick, stay at home.
- You will need to sign up for the class you want to attend in advance. This can be done on the MINDBODY app. Create a profile using the email we have on file for you. Once you are on our page, scroll down to the upcoming classes and click "Book" to reserve your spot. You do not have to reserve a spot for Saturdays.
- You will have until 3 hours before the class to cancel if you cannot make it. You will be charged a $10 cancellation fee if you do not show up to your reserved class time.
- When you arrive at the gym, please wash your hands prior to the start of class. We have plenty of cleaning products to sanitize the equipment at the end of each class.
- We will no longer have shared chalk buckets, but will be selling individual blocks of chalk for $1. Please bring a bag or container for your chalk.
Other things to keep in mind:
- Your borrowed equipment must be brought back to the gym by Wednesday, May 20 (unless you are keeping your dumbbell for at-home workouts).
- If you lost your job or income because of this crisis, please let us know. We want to continue to provide you with a gym membership for the next few months until you are able to find paid employment.
- We will be providing childcare Monday - Saturday at 9am/9:30am. There are minimal toys in the childcare room, and we ask that you do not bring any toys/food from home. Everything will be wiped down at the end of each class. If your kid is sick, keep them home.
- If you have a friend that would like to try CrossFit, please ask them to contact [email protected] before coming into the gym.
- We will be continuing with some virtual gym social activities, so please keep an eye on our website, instagram, and facebook for announcements.
- We won't be having our Kids Class at this time, but plan to resume in the near future.
The healthy and safety of our members and coaches is our top priority! Thank you for your continued support while we have been closed, we couldn't do this without you!
"The goal is to get fit, make it the best hour of your day, stay safe, turn up the music, (air) high five someone, and blow off some steam. So remember that. Relax. Have fun. Work out." - Pat Sherwood
Monday's Training:
"Christina's 33"
3 Rounds:
40 Single Dumbbell Reverse Lunges (50/35)
30 Single Dumbbell Alternating Power Snatches (50/35)
20 Burpees
On the Minute: 20 Double Unders
At-home WOD: | https://www.crossfitthumbsup.com/workout-of-the-day/christinas-33 |
We look forward to you becoming a member!
We look forward to your membership! Complete the following form to join the Lafayette Chamber.
PLEASE NOTE - this form is for the Lafayette, CALIFORNIA Chamber of Commerce located at 251 Lafayette Circle, Ste 150, Lafayette, CA.
Questions? Please give us a call at (925) 284-7404.
I would like to receive the Chamber email blast.
I would like to include a Map Link on my website directory listing.
I would like to subscribe to automatic billing of my membership dues. I understand my credit card will be automatically charged annually on the first of my anniversary month. My membership will automatically renew for one year.
Applicant agrees to pay annual membership dues of $0 to the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce. Annual dues are based on number of full time employees (see rates above). Membership will be continuous until cancelled by the member or terminated by the Chamber. Membership renewal is billed annually in the month the membership began. To terminate your membership, a 30 day notice is required! | https://cca.lafayettechamber.org/memapp.aspx |
By Doyice Cotten
In a 2016 Pennsylvania health club case (Hinkal v. Gavin Pardoe & Gold’s Gym, Inc., 2016 Pa. Super. LEXIS 32), the Superior Court upheld a lower court ruling that the waiver in the gym membership agreement was valid and enforceable.
The issues considered in the appeal were:
- Whether the six day trial period had expired prior to the injury.
- Whether the waiver on the back page of the Membership Agreement is valid and enforceable.
- Whether the Waiver encompasses Reckless Conduct.
Claims one and three were rejected by the appellate court because they were not raised prior to the appeal.
The second issue was addressed by the court. The language on the back page of the agreement reads in pertinent part as follows:
WAIVER OF LIABILITY; ASSUMPTION OF RISK: Member acknowledges that the use of Gold’s Gym’s facilities, equipment, services and programs involves an inherent risk of personal injury to Member . . . . Member voluntarily agrees to assume all risks of personal injury to Member . . . and waives any and all claims or actions that Member may have against Gold’s Gym, any of its subsidiaries or other affiliates and any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, successors and assigns for any such personal injury (and no such person shall be liable to Member . . . for any such injury), including, without limitation (i) injuries arising from use of any exercise equipment, machines and tanning booths, (ii) injuries arising from participation in supervised or unsupervised activities and programs in exercise rooms . . . or other areas of Gold’s Gym, (iii) injuries or medical disorders resulting from exercising at any Gold’s Gym, including heart attacks, strokes, heat stress, sprains, broken bones and torn or damaged muscles, ligaments, or tendons and (iv) accidental injuries within any Gold’s Gym facilities . . . .
The court then pointed out that the Membership Agreement signed by Appellant further instructs:
Do not sign this Agreement until you have read both sides. The terms on each side of this form are a part of this Agreement. Member is entitled to a completely filled in copy of this Agreement. By signing this Agreement, Member acknowledges that (A) This Agreement is a contract that will become legally binding upon its acceptance by Gold’s Gym, (B) Member has examined the gym facilities and accepts them in the present condition, (C) Gold’s Gym makes no representations or warranties to Member, either expressed or implied, except to the extent expressly set forth in this Agreement and (D) The effective date of membership hereunder shall be within six months after the date of Member’s signature below. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes any and all prior agreements, whether written or oral, with respect to such matter.
The appellate court then stated that the trial court, in a thorough and well-reasoned opinion, recognized that an exculpatory clause is valid where three conditions are met:
- The clause must not contravene public policy.
- Thecontract must be between persons relating entirely to their own private affairs.
- Each party must be a free bargaining agent to the agreement so that the contract is not one of adhesion.
The appellate court went on to quote the trial court saying that once a waiver is determined to be valid, it will not be enforceable “unless the language of the parties is clear that a person is being relieved of liability for his own acts of negligence.” It listed as guiding standards that: 1) the contract language must be strictly construed; 2) the contract must state “the intention of the parties with the greatest particularity, beyond doubt, by express stipulation, and no inference from words of general import can establish the intent of the parties”; 3) when language is ambiguous, it must be construed against the party seeking immunity from liability; and 4) the party seeking protection has the burden of establishing the immunity.
The trial court ruled that the waiver in the membership agreement was valid and enforceable.
The Plaintiff’s Contention
In her appeal, the plaintiff did not claim the waiver was legally deficient; instead, she claimed that
the waiver is invalid because the waiver language appeared on the back of the agreement, she never read or was told to read the back of the agreement, and the clause was not “brought home” to her in a way that could suggest she was aware of the clause and its contents.
Appellant admitted she did not read the agreement prior to signing it. The appellate court stated that her failure to read the waiver did not make it invalid or unenforceable. In addition, the appellate court, more than once, made two statements that seemed to have a significant effect on their ruling. These statements were:
- First, the document included an unambiguous directive not to sign before reading both sides of the agreement.
- Then, the court pointed out that the waiver included a “straightforward statement that the agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties.”
Subsequently, the appellate court affirmed the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant health club.
Risk Management Takeaway
While the court may have given the same ruling without the two preceding statements, the inclusion of these in a waiver might constitute good policy. Check your waiver and see if they are there.
Photo Credit: Thanks to Richard Foster on Flickr. | https://www.sportwaiver.com/two-waiver-tips-from-a-pennsylvania-court/ |
My wonderful wife gave me a membership and personal training sessions to Hearthstone for my 71st birthday in February of 2013. Shortly after, I had a physical and my physician said that I would not be around in five years if I did not lose some major weight and start exercising correctly. I had had both knees replaced three years prior and I weighed 296 lbs and wore a size 48 (XXL). I knew I needed to a new lifestyle that included exercise and proper eating, but still I found I was not ready… The staff at Hearthstone would call to ask if they could answer any for me questions and arrange for a tour of the facility and my initial appointment so, I finally “bit the bullet" and made my first appointment with Faith Brundige on May 2, 2013 ... “The First Day of The Rest of My Life”!
Once I got into Hearthstone and began seeing results, I took my new life style plan on with a vengeance. I worked out 5 times a week for two hours each visit. In the first few months I lost over 30 pounds. I was on my way! But, on July 28th, I got out of bed in the middle of the night and tripped, resulting in a spiral fracture of my right femur. At Baltimore's Shock Trauma unit, I was operated on and a titanium plate was placed in my right leg. After six weeks of rehab, my surgeon discovered that the bone was not fusing and the plate had bent, which required a second surgery in September. I now have 28 screws along with a larger steel plate in my right leg. I was not allowed to put any weight on my right side for the first several months following my second surgery. I had to learn to walk again and was not allowed to return to Hearthstone until May 9, 2014. During my recovery, Faith and other members of the Hearthstone staff, kept up with my progress and provided me with encouragement via telephone or emails. When I was able to return to the gym, everyone warmly welcomed me back.
Faith showed both professionalism and perseverance in knowing that I not only needed to improve my walking by working on my balance, my leg and core strength, but that I also needed to regain my self-confidence. She immediately began working on my core strength and has not stopped since. She has also helped me with the fear of falling. I can do so much more than I have ever done before, and all of this was because of her dedication to me as a person, not just as a client. Upon my return during the month of May 2014, Faith got married (and is now Faith Brundige). While she was away, after her wedding, her colleagues stepped up and took over my training regimen. She has developed workout plans for me to take on vacations and for when I work out at the gym, on my own. She and her colleagues are always available to assist me when needed.
Hearthstone is not just a gym; it is a joyful environment, one of encouragement, and strong support — not only from the trainers and membership staff, but also from other members. Therefore, I would like to take this opportunity to say “thank you” to Faith, her colleagues, the rest of the staff, and the other members at Hearthstone! You all have become “family”, and you’ve helped me become a better person for myself, my family and my friends! | http://www.hearthstonehealthandfitness.com/why-hearthstone/results/174-art-roberts |
The Singapore Association for Continuing Education (SACE), founder and parent body of U3A Singapore (U3A SG), was established in Jun-1979 (UEN S79SS0040B) and registered as a charity under the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) from Mar-1987. In its early years, SACE membership comprised mostly of trainers, consultants and other professionals. Back in 1989 it had, jointly with UK University of Hull, launched a MA degree course in Tertiary, Adult and Continuing Education. SACE evolved a two-prong strategy to achieve rejuvenation and growth. SACE will continue to serve adults of all ages and provide structured courses ranging from 1-2 day duration to a few weeks or months. It is now part of the National Silver Academy (NSA) in Singapore and offers more than 30 short courses to third agers ranging from Brain Gym for Mental Fitness, Mindfulness for Well-Being to Applied Psychology for Third Agers and Starting A Small Business. U3A SG, established in Aug-2012 (UEN 53221008E) will focus on proving learning activities for third agers (age 50 and above) that form into learning communities in specific areas meeting monthly for continuing learning and fellowship. All SACE members age 50 and above automatically become members of U3A SG. SACE and U3A SG have shown unprecedented growth in both membership and revenue from 2012 to 2017. Membership has grown from 150 members in 2012 to over 900 in 2017.
Membership is opened to Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents.
Others may join as Associate Members. | http://www.sace.org.sg/about-us/ |
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Digital Communications Specialist (HIRED)
Overview:
Northwood Office seeks a highly motivated individual and passionate storyteller to join its marketing and communications team and manage the Ballantyne digital experience. This position is responsible for producing and distributing content to share news, connect with various internal and external audiences, build relationships and grow online presence. Candidate will manage a tenant community app, website, digital signage, social media and e-newsletters. Candidate must possess strong writing skills and website management, social media and email marketing experience. Candidate must be forward-thinking and detail-oriented, focused and energetic, possess a strong work ethic and excellent customer service skills, and be a team player and self-starter with strong organizational skills.
Responsibilities:
• Produces, manages and executes high-quality, engaging content for goBallantyne website and app, internal and external e-newsletters and digital signage
• Creates, monitors, manages and grows company’s social media content that encourages audiences to interact for Northwood Office and Ballantyne
• Collaborates with internal team to develop strategic marketing communications plans for Ballantyne
• Develops and implements content planning with editorial calendars
• Proactively provides ideas for content and digital marketing efforts and shares best practices
• Provides photography, videography and editing services for social media
• Monitors website analytics and social media engagement to develop content strategy to connect better with users and grow audiences
• Proactively communicates and works with all entities within company to develop content for various audiences to ensure key messages resonate across multiple platforms
• Ensures proper, consistent and effective implementation of brand and content standards across communications channels
• Responds to technical issues of website, app and digital signage administration and infrastructure issues
• Promotes Northwood Office and Ballantyne through participating in community/corporate events and capturing news to share through communication channels
• Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Experience in Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience in print and digital design
• Experience with digital signage software is a plus
• Project management ability is required
• Working knowledge and experience in website management (such as WordPress), email campaign management (e.g., MailChimp) and search engine optimization
• Understanding of web analytics with Google Analytics experience
• Experience leveraging social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where demands are constantly changing
• Must be detail-oriented and well organized
• Expertise in web design, photography and video editing skills are a plus
• Minimum of one to three years of professional experience in digital communications
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing or communications or related field is preferred
• Must have portfolio available for review
This position has been filled. To search all open positions, visit our Job Board. | https://www.charlotteagenda.com/192658/digital-communications-specialist-northwood-office/ |
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Every marketer knows social media is one of the most effective ways to expand your reach, connect with your target audience, and grow your business.
7 Social Media Marketing Trends That Will Dominate 2018
The world of marketing has changed substantially over the past several years. These changes are mostly driven by trends in consumer behavior and preferences, particularly among young people. Getting exposure to members of Gen Z means that companies and marketing agencies alike have had to switch communication channels and refocus on what’s important to young consumers.
10 Ways to Step Up Your Social Media Game in 2018
Social media has the power to make a major impact on your business in 2018. But you need to know all the latest trends and most effective methods if you want to really grow your business. To learn more about stepping up your social media game, check out some insights from knowledgeable members of the online small business community here.
Social Media Marketing Trends: Planning for 2018 [#SMTLive Recap]
During our final #SMTLive Twitter chat of the year, we took time to reflect on digital marketing trends in 2017 and discuss new opportunities we marketers should look out for in 2018. We covered a few major topics we believe will be the next big thing for digital marketers in 2018.
7 Social Media Trends That Dominated 2017
Are you a part of the 96 percent of businesses using social media for your business? These days, it seems like a silly question to ask. Social media marketing has been a mainstay for businesses for more than a decade now, and it has become fully ingrained as a legitimate, if not necessary component to a successful online marketing strategy.
Year In Review: 6 Platform Changes That Shook Up Social Media Marketing in 2017
With 2018 on the horizon, we’re all in a state of reflection, looking back on all the good, the bad and the ugly 2017 brought us. When it comes to social media, it’s hard not to think about the latter two. With all the political turmoil and uptick in trolling, even Facebook recently admitted that its digging deep to turn the tide and bring well-being principles into the social experience.
The ROI of Social Media Marketing #semrushchat
It is clear that businesses need to actively create a community with social media engagement in order to build solid relationships with customers and expand their reach. That much we know without a doubt, but how exactly do you measure the ROI of your social media marketing? | https://foundationdigital.com/seo-news-update-week-dec-26-2017/ |
The most common imaging mode collects low-energy (<50 eV) secondary electrons that are ejected from the k-shell of the specimen atoms by inelastic scattering interactions with beam electrons. Due to their low energy, these electrons originate within a few nanometers from the sample surface. The electrons are detected by an Everhart-Thornley detector, which is a type of scintillator-photomultiplier system. The secondary electrons are first collected by attracting them towards an electrically biased grid at about +400 V, and then further accelerated towards a phosphor or scintillator positively biased to about +2,000 V. The accelerated secondary electrons are now sufficiently energetic to cause the scintillator to emit flashes of light (cathodoluminescence), which are conducted to a photomultiplier outside the SEM column via a light pipe and a window in the wall of the specimen chamber. The amplified electrical signal output by the photomultiplier is displayed as a two-dimensional intensity distribution that can be viewed and photographed on an analogue video display, or subjected to analog-to-digital conversion and displayed and saved as a digital image. This process relies on a raster-scanned primary beam. The brightness of the signal depends on the number of secondary electrons reaching the detector. If the beam enters the sample perpendicular to the surface, then the activated region is uniform about the axis of the beam and a certain number of electrons "escape" from within the sample. As the angle of incidence increases, the interaction volume increases and the "escape" distance of one side of the beam decreases, resulting in more secondary electrons being emitted from the sample. Thus steep surfaces and edges tend to be brighter than flat surfaces, which results in images with a well-defined, three-dimensional appearance. Using the signal of secondary electrons image resolution less than 0.5 nm is possible.
A content specialist needs to be a Jack or Jill of all trades, utilizing excellent written and verbal communication skills, above-average computer literacy, and a natural interest in trends. This job is ultimately about translating the key aspects of the product into content the target demographic finds appealing. This is part art, part critical thinking, and 100% attention to detail.
By building enormous amounts of value, Facebook and Google both became tremendously successful. They didn't focus on revenues at the outset. They focused on value. And every single blog and business must do the same. While this might run contrary to someone who's short on cash and hoping that internet marketing is going to bring them a windfall overnight, it doesn't quite work that way.
Off-page SEO builds a website’s reputation and authority by connecting it to other high-quality websites. Off-page SEO techniques include: link building (acquiring high-quality backlinks) from other websites and managing local listings and directory profiles. When many websites link to a brand’s website, it shows search engines that the brand’s website is trustworthy, reliable, and reputable, which increases its search rankings.
Okay. Okay. There is a lot to learn. However, everyone has to start somewhere. If you're just being introduced to internet marketing, and you've become bedazzled by the glitz and the glamor of the top online income earners, know that it's not going to be easy to replicate their success. Be sure that you set your expectations the proper way. As long as you stay persistent, you can achieve your goals of generating healthy amounts of money online without becoming the victim of a scam.
There are a number of ways brands can use digital marketing to benefit their marketing efforts. The use of digital marketing in the digital era not only allows for brands to market their products and services, but also allows for online customer support through 24/7 services to make customers feel supported and valued. The use of social media interaction allows brands to receive both positive and negative feedback from their customers as well as determining what media platforms work well for them. As such, digital marketing has become an increased advantage for brands and businesses. It is now common for consumers to post feedback online through social media sources, blogs and websites on their experience with a product or brand. It has become increasingly popular for businesses to use and encourage these conversations through their social media channels to have direct contact with the customers and manage the feedback they receive appropriately. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e29F5n3ea0I&feature=youtube_gdata
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) are often confused with one another. While SEM strategy and SEO tactics often go hand in hand, sometimes it’s tough knowing which is which. It’s not that you need one or the other – no, you need both. If you’re having trouble getting your website to bring in sales leads, then keep reading. https://youtube.com/watch?v=7bNPg8UbhaE
When writing this guide, we reached out to the marketer community to collect case studies and learnings about creative marketing strategies. Most of these examples are included throughout the guide, but some didn’t quite fit. So we included those loose ends here, from the perspective of four awesome marketers. What better way to wrap up this guide than with you, our community?
Make it as easy as possible for users to go from general content to the more specific content they want on your site. Add navigation pages when it makes sense and effectively work these into your internal link structure. Make sure all of the pages on your site are reachable through links, and that they don't require an internal "search" functionality to be found. Link to related pages, where appropriate, to allow users to discover similar content.
Search engine marketing, or SEM, is one of the most effective ways to grow your business in an increasingly competitive marketplace. With millions of businesses out there all vying for the same eyeballs, it’s never been more important to advertise online, and search engine marketing is the most effective way to promote your products and grow your business.
The development of digital marketing is inseparable from technology development. One of the key points in the start of was in 1971, where Ray Tomlinson sent the very first email and his technology set the platform to allow people to send and receive files through different machines. However, the more recognisable period as being the start of Digital Marketing is 1990 as this was where the Archie search engine was created as an index for FTP sites. In the 1980s, the storage capacity of computer was already big enough to store huge volumes of customer information. Companies started choosing online techniques, such as database marketing, rather than limited list broker. This kind of databases allowed companies to track customers' information more effectively, thus transforming the relationship between buyer and seller. However, the manual process was not so efficient.
There are several ways to increase your social media video subscribers. Use video SEO to make it easier for target audiences to find your videos. Include attractive custom thumbnails to make your videos more enticing. Use end cards and annotations to include calls to action asking viewers to subscribe. You can also promote your videos on your website, landing pages or blog posts. And you can use influencer marketing to spread the word about your video content and gain new subscribers that way.
One of the most enduring misconceptions about search engine marketing is that whomever has the largest advertising budget wins. Although a larger advertising budget can certainly be advantageous, especially when targeting highly competitive keywords, but it’s far from a requirement for success with search engine marketing. This is because all ads go through a process known as the ad auction before appearing alongside search results. For the purposes of this explanation, we’ll be focusing on the ad auction in Google AdWords.
Organic search (SEO): When you enter a keyword or phrase into a search engine like Google or Yahoo!, the organic results are displayed in the main body of the page.When your prospects search for information about your products and services, you want to rank highly in search engine results. By “optimizing” your site, you can improve your ranking for important search terms and phrases (“keywords”). You can also improve your rank by getting other important sites to link to yours.
This broad overview of each piece of the Internet marketing world gives students a firm foundation in the field to help them decide where their interests and talents fit the best. All designers should have an understanding of content creation, while all content specialists should have respect for the design process (See also Content Marketing Specialist). At the more advanced levels of a marketing program, students will hone the skills that are most important to their areas of emerging expertise to create sharp minds and strong portfolios on their way to the workplace.
Organic search is extremely important for online retailers, as many studies suggest it drives around 50% of website traffic. When it comes to search engine optimization for eCommerce, marketers get obsessive about testing all methods available to them to try and achieve higher rankings. The logic is very simple: higher positions on SERPs automatically result in higher impressions and a significantly better click-through rate. More people visiting your store should ultimately translate into better conversions and higher revenues.
Often the line between pay per click advertising and paid inclusion is debatable. Some have lobbied for any paid listings to be labeled as an advertisement, while defenders insist they are not actually ads since the webmasters do not control the content of the listing, its ranking, or even whether it is shown to any users. Another advantage of paid inclusion is that it allows site owners to specify particular schedules for crawling pages. In the general case, one has no control as to when their page will be crawled or added to a search engine index. Paid inclusion proves to be particularly useful for cases where pages are dynamically generated and frequently modified. https://youtube.com/embed/e29F5n3ea0I
"Convert" videos may include a webinar filled with tactical advice, product demos sent via email, landing page promotional videos, case studies, or more in-depth explainer and how-to videos. For example, while an "attract" video might provide a quick tip for nailing a sales pitch, a "convert" video could be an animated explainer video that breaks down the inbound sales methodology.
One of the best ways to improve the look of your video is to include b-roll. B-roll is the supplementary footage included as a cutaway. This might include shots of a customer service rep talking on a phone, a designer editing your website, visuals of your office, or even screenshots of your product. The key with b-roll is to make sure each and every piece enhances the story.
SEM is great for brand recognition as it means that you’ll be at the top of the list every time someone searches. It’s also a great way to bring in targeted traffic to your website. And because it has to do with paid ads, it’s easy to understand your ROI in a direct way – you are using paid ads and will be able to monitor the traffic on those and then create campaigns based on this information.
When referring to the homepage, a trailing slash after the hostname is optional since it leads to the same content ("https://example.com/" is the same as "https://example.com"). For the path and filename, a trailing slash would be seen as a different URL (signaling either a file or a directory), for example, "https://example.com/fish" is not the same as "https://example.com/fish/". https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=e29F5n3ea0I&u=watch?v=XXXXXX&feature=share
Having a ‘keyword rich’ domain name may lead to closer scrutiny from Google. According to Moz, Google has “de-prioritized sites with keyword-rich domains that aren’t otherwise high-quality. Having a keyword in your domain can still be beneficial, but it can also lead to closer scrutiny and a possible negative ranking effect from search engines—so tread carefully.”
Our SEO professionals are all well-respected thought leaders in the space and have decades of combined experience and include the following credentials: Search Engine Workshop Certification, Google Analytics and Yahoo Certifications, PMP Certification, UNIX Certification, Computer Engineering degrees and MBA’s. Our SEO team members are acclaimed SEO speakers and bloggers. IMI’s SEO team members have been keynote presenters at Pubcon, SMX, SEMCon, Etail, and many more influential conferences.
Gaining Google's trust doesn't happen overnight. It takes time. Think about building up your relationship with anyone. The longer you know that person, the more likely that trust will solidify. So, the reasoning is, that if Google just met you, it's going to have a hard time trusting you. If you want Google to trust you, you have to get other people that Google already trusts, to vouch for you. This is also known as link-building. http://youtube.com/e/e29F5n3ea0I
But, just like blogging, this trend has also encouraged plenty of low-quality, rapidly produced content. Although this content may not actually work very well, it does compete for attention with any content you create. It makes it even more challenging for a B2B or B2C buyer to discover the video that will actually answer their question or solve their problem.
A purchase may have been made, but there’s still a lot video can do to leverage the post-conversion stage of your flywheel. During the "delight stage" of the inbound methodology, your goal is to continue providing remarkable content to users that makes their interaction with your product or service as incredible as possible. It's also in hopes that they’ll tell their connections about their experience or up-sell themselves. Therefore, the goal of this type of video is encourage your customers to embrace your brand and become brand evangelists.
Social Media Marketing - The term 'Digital Marketing' has a number of marketing facets as it supports different channels used in and among these, comes the Social Media. When we use social media channels ( Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Google+, etc.) to market a product or service, the strategy is called Social Media Marketing. It is a procedure wherein strategies are made and executed to draw in traffic for a website or to gain attention of buyers over the web using different social media platforms. | https://rpjm.info/seo-on-wordpress-denver-80210.html |
However, with all of these so-called modern conveniences to life, where technology's ever-pervading presence has improved even the most basic tasks for us such as hailing a ride or ordering food or conducting any sort of commerce instantly and efficiently, many are left in the dark. While all of us have become self-professed experts at consuming content and utilizing a variety of tools freely available to search and seek out information, we're effectively drowning in a sea of digital overload.
Shifting the focus to the time span, we may need to measure some "Interim Metrics", which give us some insight during the journey itself, as well as we need to measure some "Final Metrics" at the end of the journey to inform use if the overall initiative was successful or not. As an example, most of social media metrics and indicators such as likes, shares and engagement comments may be classified as interim metrics while the final increase/decrease in sales volume is clearly from the final category.
Just think about any relationship for a moment. How long you've known a person is incredibly important. It's not the be-all-end-all, but it is fundamental to trust. If you've known someone for years and years and other people that you know who you already trust can vouch for that person, then you're far more likely to trust them, right? But if you've just met someone, and haven't really vetted them so to speak, how can you possibly trust them?
Also, backlinks are important for the end user. With an end user, backlinks connect searchers with information that is similar to what is being written on other resources. An example of this happens when an end user is reading a page that discusses “how child care expenses are driving women out of the workforce.” As they scroll down, they might see another link with a study on “how the rise in child care costs over the last 25 years affected women’s employment.” In this case, a backlink establishes connection points for information that a searcher may be interested in clicking. This external link creates a solid experience because it transfers the user directly to additionally desirable information if needed.
What are "backlinks"? Backlinks are links that are directed towards your website. Also knows as Inbound links (IBL's). The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website. Backlinks are important for SEO because some search engines, especially Google, will give more credit to websites that have a good number of quality backlinks, and consider those websites more relevant than others in their results pages for a search query.
Whether it’s growing your email marketing list or selling more products through your eCommerce website, our team brings the dedication and experience for all your digital marketing needs. Our headquarters is located in Arlington, Texas, but our clients can be found nationwide. Our capabilities encompass everything in the web design and digital marketing space, including web design and hosting, SEO, social media, PPC, content writing, email marketing and more.
Cross-platform measurement: The number of marketing channels continues to expand, as measurement practices are growing in complexity. A cross-platform view must be used to unify audience measurement and media planning. Market researchers need to understand how the Omni-channel affects consumer's behaviour, although when advertisements are on a consumer's device this does not get measured. Significant aspects to cross-platform measurement involves de-duplication and understanding that you have reached an incremental level with another platform, rather than delivering more impressions against people that have previously been reached (Whiteside, 2016). An example is ‘ESPN and comScore partnered on Project Blueprint discovering the sports broadcaster achieved a 21% increase in unduplicated daily reach thanks to digital advertising’ (Whiteside, 2016). Television and radio industries are the electronic media, which competes with digital and other technological advertising. Yet television advertising is not directly competing with online digital advertising due to being able to cross platform with digital technology. Radio also gains power through cross platforms, in online streaming content. Television and radio continue to persuade and affect the audience, across multiple platforms (Fill, Hughes, & De Franceso, 2013).
In the page, the text “Post Modern Marketing” is a link that points to the homepage of our website, www.postmm.com. That link is an outgoing link for Forbes, but for our website it is an incoming link, or backlink. Usually, the links are styled differently than the rest of the page text, for easy identification. Often they'll be a different color, underlined, or accompany an icon - all these indicate that if you click, you can visit the page the text is referencing.
Marketing managers need to be conversant in every element of a marketing campaign, and considering the importance of an Internet presence in any marketing plan today, this means having a clear understanding of Internet marketing from start to finish. A marketing manager should have confidence in his or her team and know how to facilitate work efficiency and communication between coworkers. This keeps each project on schedule and helps create a relaxed work environment.
These 3 step milestone shows how your reach out to your market, turn them into loyal customers and use them to promote your business and get new customers. This is a long process because you need to build a brand and reputation. You also need good risk management plan to avoid any issues that could destroy your company and eventually push customers away. Despite the difficult, this is the cheapest and most reliable marketing strategy any business could apply. After all, an authentic feedback from customers is a more powerful tool to grow your business than sales pitch even from your best salesperson.
The world is mobile today. Most people are searching on Google using a mobile device. The desktop version of a site might be difficult to view and use on a mobile device. As a result, having a mobile ready site is critical to your online presence. In fact, starting in late 2016, Google has begun experiments to primarily use the mobile version of a site's content41 for ranking, parsing structured data, and generating snippets.
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We help clients increase their organic search traffic by using the latest best practices and most ethical and fully-integrated search engine optimization (SEO) techniques. Since 1999, we've partnered with many brands and executed campaigns for over 1,000 websites, helping them dominate in even highly competitive industries, via capturing placements that maximize impressions and traffic.
Another way to get sites to link back to something valuable on your site is by offering a free tool. A free tool could be a basic tool (like an auto loan calculator) or a scaled down version of a paid tool (like Alexa’s Site Overview and Audience Overlap tools). If the tools are valuable enough, others will link to them in their content. Plus, on free versions of paid tools, you can add call-to-actions to sign up for the full product/service which drives acquisition in addition to awareness.
With Integrated Campaign Management, Kentico allows you to execute cross-channel digital marketing campaigns and gain intelligence on individual channels. Unlike various dedicated marketing automation tools, there is no need to integrate any third-party modules. With full out-of-the-box functionality, you can develop campaign assets, launch campaigns, and analyze the results with minimal effort, all from one location.
The development of digital marketing is inseparable from technology development. One of the key points in the start of was in 1971, where Ray Tomlinson sent the very first email and his technology set the platform to allow people to send and receive files through different machines. However, the more recognisable period as being the start of Digital Marketing is 1990 as this was where the Archie search engine was created as an index for FTP sites. In the 1980s, the storage capacity of computer was already big enough to store huge volumes of customer information. Companies started choosing online techniques, such as database marketing, rather than limited list broker. This kind of databases allowed companies to track customers' information more effectively, thus transforming the relationship between buyer and seller. However, the manual process was not so efficient.
The total number of backlinks can often include many links from the same referring domain or multiple referring domains. It’s common for referring domains to link back to your content if it is relevant, authoritative or useful in some way to their own domain. In an ideal world, that’s how backlinks are accumulated; unique content that other websites want to be associated with.
You may not want certain pages of your site crawled because they might not be useful to users if found in a search engine's search results. If you do want to prevent search engines from crawling your pages, Google Search Console has a friendly robots.txt generator to help you create this file. Note that if your site uses subdomains and you wish to have certain pages not crawled on a particular subdomain, you'll have to create a separate robots.txt file for that subdomain. For more information on robots.txt, we suggest this Webmaster Help Center guide on using robots.txt files13.
You’ve launched an amazing product or service. Now what? Now, you need to get the word out. When done well, good PR can be much more effective and less expensive than advertising. Regardless of whether you want to hire a fancy agency or awesome consultant, make sure that you know what you’re doing and what types of ROI to expect. Relationships are the heart and soul of PR. This chapter will teach you how to ignore the noise and focus on substantive, measurable results.
I don’t know how you do it without having a strong team of employees building backlinks for you. I love your blog and all the guidance you provide. I have found trying to build backlinks on your own is one of the most time consuming activities there is. Obviously if you have a specific product or service you are wishing to share getting more customers and visitors to your business is essential. You make it look easy. Thanks again for all your guidance.
A great number of public networks call themselves “private”. That’s not true. If the network is advertised, it cannot be private. We witnessed cases when Google destroyed such public networks and all the websites which had used them. They are easy to be revealed due to a huge number of outbound homepage links which are irrelevant to each other. Their posts are short, and they cannot really block SEO crawlers.
If you're not using internet marketing to market your business you should be. An online presence is crucial to helping potential clients and customer find your business - even if your business is small and local. (In 2017, one third of all mobile searches were local and local search was growing 50% faster than mobile searches overall.) Online is where the eyeballs are so that's where your business needs to be.
NOTE: The BeyondVerbal team mentioned they were quite moved and “wowed” by this analysis. The Emotions Analytics engine picked up some very interesting results. In this video, Steve Jobs is tired, lonely, and self-reflecting (nostalgia). The continuous "fatigue" result is something they find very rarely in analyses. Click on the image above to see the real time analysis.
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You should fix all errors which can impair users’ expectations. By hurting user experience, you endanger the organic growth of your traffic because Google will surely limit it. Do this task thoroughly and don’t be in a hurry, otherwise, you might learn that your backlinks don’t work. Be responsible for each decision and action. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) works better when the technical optimization of your site meets the standards.
Infographics are one of the most popular methods for bringing traffic to your website and gaining valuable backlinks. They're also great because they're easy to understand and share. Everyone loves visual data, right? That's why the demand for infographics has increased considerably. Consider that influential online publications like Mashable publish numerous infographics from all over the Internet.
Business address listings on Google, Yelp, LinkedIn, Facebook, Yellow Pages, and elsewhere count as backlinks. Perhaps more importantly, they also go a long ways towards helping customers find your business! There are many, many such sites. A good way to approach this once you've gotten the biggies out of the way - Google should be your first priority - is to make a point of setting up a couple new citation profiles every week or so. Search around for updated lists of reputable business listing sites, and use it as a checklist.
As Emineo Marketing Solutions hit the ground running in the second quarter of the year, Eddie reflects on the growth thus far and outlines the focus for the company moving forward. "We were fortunate enough to have such a strong core of individuals in Las Vegas, when back to back markets became available we were able to capitalize. We knew going into these expansions that we could not sacrifice production in our headquarters office, so we put the pedal to the metal and continued to run a top ranking office here, while making huge strides nationally," Eddie explained.
I always like hearing a new idea for beefing up the number of backlinks to a website. The fact is, creating backlinks is hard work. There’s always that urge to look for a better way to do things. Just keep in mind that Google is always on the lookout for anyone who might be trying to “game” the system. Google’s algorithm, especially, looks closely at how relative the content on both sites appears to be. If there’s a close match, it’s a good link. If not, the backlink may appear to be a little suspect!
To cease opportunity, the firm should summarize their current customers' personas and purchase journey from this they are able to deduce their digital marketing capability. This means they need to form a clear picture of where they are currently and how many resources they can allocate for their digital marketing strategy i.e. labour, time etc. By summarizing the purchase journey, they can also recognise gaps and growth for future marketing opportunities that will either meet objectives or propose new objectives and increase profit.
As an avid reader of [insert their site name], I love reading anything you write about, such as [insert article on their website], and anything you link out to. Sadly, I couldn’t find the article you were trying to link to, but I did happen to find another good webpage on the same topic: [insert url to webpage that you are building links to]. You should check it out, and if you like it, you probably want to switch the links.
I’d have to say Marsel has been one of the most motivating people I've had the opportunity to work with. Growing up he was faced with allot of adversity and didn't allow that to distract him from the positive future that was ahead of him. He made it to management out of one of our more challenging retailers in Houston and has been running a top office in Jackson for the last year.
In 1998, two graduate students at Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, developed "Backrub", a search engine that relied on a mathematical algorithm to rate the prominence of web pages. The number calculated by the algorithm, PageRank, is a function of the quantity and strength of inbound links. PageRank estimates the likelihood that a given page will be reached by a web user who randomly surfs the web, and follows links from one page to another. In effect, this means that some links are stronger than others, as a higher PageRank page is more likely to be reached by the random web surfer.
Targeting, viewability, brand safety and invalid traffic: Targeting, viewability, brand safety and invalid traffic all are aspects used by marketers to help advocate digital advertising. Cookies are a form of digital advertising, which are tracking tools within desktop devices; causing difficulty, with shortcomings including deletion by web browsers, the inability to sort between multiple users of a device, inaccurate estimates for unique visitors, overstating reach, understanding frequency, problems with ad servers, which cannot distinguish between when cookies have been deleted and when consumers have not previously been exposed to an ad. Due to the inaccuracies influenced by cookies, demographics in the target market are low and vary (Whiteside, 2016). Another element, which is affected within digital marketing, is ‘viewabilty’ or whether the ad was actually seen by the consumer. Many ads are not seen by a consumer and may never reach the right demographic segment. Brand safety is another issue of whether or not the ad was produced in the context of being unethical or having offensive content. Recognizing fraud when an ad is exposed is another challenge marketers face. This relates to invalid traffic as premium sites are more effective at detecting fraudulent traffic, although non-premium sites are more so the problem (Whiteside, 2016).
It is very rare for an individual to enter a management role early in his or her career. Most marketing managers have spent several years working somewhere else on a marketing team. This assumes the existence of at least a bachelor's degree, but an advanced degree such as a master’s in marketing or business administration can give an aspiring manager a deciding edge.
Content is king. Your content needs to be written so that it provides value to your audience. It should be a mix of long and short posts on your blog or website. You should not try to “keyphrase stuff” (mentioning a keyphrase over and over again to try and attract search engines) as this gets penalized by search engines now. However, your text should contain the most important keyphrases at least once and ideally two to three times—ideally, it should appear in your title. However, readability and value are much more important than keyword positioning today.
But bear in mind that you can't guest post just anywhere and expect that it'll help. In fact, for years black hatters have perverted the value of guest posts by 'creating private blog networks,' which put out mass quantities of low-quality content for the sole purpose of exchanging backlinks. Google has caught on to this, and penalizes websites accordingly. So, you want to ensure that you only provide guest posts to reputable, respected websites that are relevant to your industry.
Online marketing is the practice of leveraging web-based channels to spread a message about a company’s brand, products, or services to its potential customers. The methods and techniques used for online marketing include email, social media, display advertising, search engine optimization, and more. The objective of marketing is to reach potential customers through the channels where they spend time reading, searching, shopping, or socializing online.
The total number of backlinks can often include many links from the same referring domain or multiple referring domains. It’s common for referring domains to link back to your content if it is relevant, authoritative or useful in some way to their own domain. In an ideal world, that’s how backlinks are accumulated; unique content that other websites want to be associated with.
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What New Ways of Communicating with Customers Have UK SMBs Introduced as a Result of the Coronavirus Pandemic? (% of respondents, Sep 2020)
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NOV 10, 2020
Digital Communication Channels Used by Their Companies According to Small Business Entrepreneurs in Mexico, Sep 2020 (% of respondents)
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JUL 20, 2021
Pegasus is the trojan horse that proves no phone is safe from hacking
How it works: Pegasus infects iPhones by sending a “zero click”
text
via iMessage that breaches a user’s device and iCloud account without user interaction. Apple’s iMessage service is one of the iPhone’s most popular features which helps keep users in Apple’s ecosystem.
Report
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JUL 21, 2021
Marketing with Stories 2021:
They’re Evolving on Instagram (but Disappearing From Twitter). Here’s How Marketers Can Use Them Effectively.
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OCT 28, 2020
Which Authentication Method Would Adults in Germany Prefer to Use for Digital Payments? (% of respondents, Aug 2020)
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OCT 27, 2020
Google Mobile Text Ad Performance Metrics in North America:
"Get Location Details" Click Share, Q4 2017-Q3 2020 (% of total)
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JAN 25, 2021
To Meme or Not to Meme?:
A Marketer’s Guide to Memetic Media in 2021 and Beyond
Internet memes are not a new phenomenon, but the events of 2020 have spurred their consumption. Despite their popularity among social media users,
marketing
with memes can still be a risky business for brands.
Report
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FEB 24, 2020
Customer Experience 2020:
Advancing Core Marketing Practices and Case Studies of Success
Report
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OCT 10, 2019
Email Marketing 2019:
Still a Leading Touchpoint for Marketers and Consumers Alike
Going forward, Applebee’s is planning for an omnichannel approach bringing together email,
SMS,
push notifications, social media and all of
digital marketing,
as well as exploring AI and automating the customer experience.
Article
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AUG 17, 2021
Meme-stock craze fuels Reddit user growth and a $10 billion valuation
These comments suggest that the platform is looking to move beyond its origins as a
text
and link-sharing hub. In the past week, the company began experimenting with a video feed reminiscent of TikTok, which consists of content pulled from subreddits a user follows, as well as some that the user does not.
Report
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NOV 5, 2020
Getting Accessible Marketing Right:
Inclusive Design and New Tech Remove Barriers and Increase Reach
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OCT 20, 2020
Technology Adoption by Companies in Select Countries in Europe, Sep 2020 (% of respondents)
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OCT 20, 2020
Technology Adoption by Companies in China, Sep 2020 (% of respondents)
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OCT 20, 2020
Technology Adoption by Companies in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, Sep 2020 (% of respondents)
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OCT 20, 2020
Technology Adoption by Companies in Japan, Sep 2020 (% of respondents)
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OCT 20, 2020
Technology Adoption by Companies in North America, Sep 2020 (% of respondents)
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JUN 21, 2019
eMarketer’s Analysts Explain Mary Meeker’s '2019 Internet Trends Report'
We believe that time spent in
mobile messaging,
at least in the US, will remain well under time spent in social networks. And while it’s true that mobile messaging app usage is rising, it’s not necessarily because of the presence of encryption. This year, there will be 2.3 billion mobile messaging app users worldwide, up 9.2% over 2018, according to our forecast.
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SEP 8, 2019
Q&A:
Why Dagne Dover Opened a Pop-Up Shop in NYC
If you prefer getting a
text,
we'll give you a
text.
If you prefer getting emails for your promotional material or
marketing
material, we'll just send you emails. We try to figure out that cadence, but we know it's not just emails, social, etc. There's so much more to it. And that's what we're mostly looking at right now.
Report
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APR 1, 2021
Clubhouse and Social Audio 2021:
Straight Talk About When and How Marketers Should Get Involved
Clubhouse has buzz, but social audio isn’t as simple as it looks. The most promising
marketing
use cases are for thought leadership, virtual events, and influencer marketing.
Report
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NOV 5, 2020
Best Practices for Inclusive Marketing:
Reflecting and Embracing Real-World Diversity
Article
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JUN 19, 2019
Apple’s Sign In Feature May Hurt Facebook and Google More Than It Helps Apple’s Business
In May, it released a 1-minute spot highlighting the company’s
text message
encryption that keeps conversations between its users private. “It’s unclear how much this particular feature will drive additional sales of iPhones, but I do think the feature is an important and impressive addition to Apple’s current pro-privacy push that will generally benefit their business,” Perrin said.
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NOV 20, 2020
US YouTube Advertising 2020:
How YouTube Viewing Is Shifting to CTV—and What It Means for TV Advertisers
By Q3, media replaced tech as the largest-share ad buyer on YouTube in the US, accounting for 20% of YouTube ad spending, as media companies increased
marketing
around streaming video services at higher rates amid increased market competition.
Report
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JUL 29, 2021
US B2B Advertising Forecast 2021:
The Pivot to Digital Is Permanent with Growth, Transformation, and Inflection Ahead for the Market
The eMarketer definition for B2B search includes specified keywords or search terms in response to a user’s query; includes paid listings, paid inclusion, and contextual
text
links. Examples include
text
ads in Google search results, Product Listing Ads in Google search results, and Amazon Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands. In 2021, US B2Bs will spend $5.36 billion on search ads.
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MAR 23, 2021
Customer Experience 2021:
The Importance of Delivering Best-in-Class Experiences
That includes things like email,
SMS,
messaging apps, social media, live chat, branded apps, customer portals, push notifications, the point-of-sale (POS) checkout experience, interactive voice response (IVR) systems, phone support, returns, on-site experience, appointment schedulers, loyalty programs, and more.
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MAR 18, 2021
How 5G Will Change Media, Entertainment, and Marketing:
5 Key Opportunities for Growth
5G technology is poised to transform how media, entertainment, and
marketing
are produced, distributed, and consumed. This report discusses five ways that next-generation wireless networks could propel industry growth.
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PART-TIME ROLE IN BERKSHIRE
My client in the FinTech industry is looking for a Global Internal Communications Specialist to join on a part-time basis. This newly created role, reporting into the Chief People Officer, will be responsible for defining and executing an internal communications strategy and approach that delivers to the needs of key stakeholders.
Working closely with senior business leaders based in the UK and internationally, the role-holder will build an internal communication proposition which helps drives employee engagement which is aligned to the organisation’s vision and strategic priorities.
Key responsibilities for this role will be:
- Define and execute an internal communications strategy and approach that delivers to the needs of key stakeholders.
- Supporting the planning and delivery of engaging and inspiring communication campaigns, events and content across the organisation globally.
- Delivering news channels to reflect a broad view of news, activities and updates related to the organisation’s vision and strategic priorities.
- Providing internal communications support for major projects and strategic initiatives globally.
- Acting as a centre of excellence, editing and supporting with copy writing and ensuring messages are aligned with our brand guidelines.
- Ensure internal communications are aligned to tone of voice which reflects our core values.
- Drafting and supporting monthly messages from the CEO.
- Developing and managing a digital newsletter for an internal worldwide audience.
- Creating core support materials for managers and leaders to cascade key information.
- Improving the quality and range of audience-specific group mailing lists and developing a robust approach for list management and access rights.
- Developing and maintaining intranet sites/portals for the company.
- In conjunction with Marketing, managing the digital content including social media posts (including our corporate LinkedIn careers page) and supporting the adoption of new social media channels across the organisation.
- Developing plans and implement specific activity to support and deliver change initiatives with the right mix of channels and use imagination to deliver creative solutions.
- Plan, produce and deliver face-to-face and on-line events related to employee communications and/or business transformation/change.
Essential experience and qualifications:
- Experience of working in internal communications, journalism, PR or marketing.
- Strong business writing and content development skills.
- Experience of developing relationships with business leaders and managers.
- Motivated by working collaboratively with a variety of teams to achieve success for the group overall.
- Experienced in designing and implementing internal communications plans.
- Passionate about creating and delivering effective communications that drive behaviour change and/or educate the audience.
- Shows initiative in terms of designing new projects, new thinking or new ways of maximising existing programmes.
- Writes in plain English, removing jargon and management speak.
- Demonstrates good project management skills to help others deliver their communications plans.
- Has a thorough understanding of latest thinking with regards to best practise internal communications.
- Previous experience in an international role covering both strategic and operational communications responsibilities.
Desirable experience:
- Experience of working within consumer, professional services, financial services or
- IT/technology sectors.
- Proven track record in delivering effective communications programmes that produce tangible results or change.
- Experience of delivering on-line and face-to-face employee events.
- Experienced in filming to produce quality videos for internal communication.
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Digital marketing encompasses all marketing efforts that use an electronic device or the internet. Businesses leverage digital channels such as search engines, social media, email, and their websites to connect with current and prospective customers.
This is a certificate course that has been designed to give practical solutions and hands on experience of real life problems of digital marketing. The course will consist of the following main topics: | http://comproindia.com/digital.php |
Customer Care, Customer Experience
Earlier this month, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) re-released Regulatory Guide 271 for Internal Dispute Resolution (RG 271), which stipulated organisations must address complaints arising from social and messaging channels where a customer has expressed dissatisfaction with the organisation or its products. Additionally, ASIC has slashed the response time for complaint processing to just 45 days.
As organisations navigate the final stages of complaints management modernisation before RG 271 goes into effect on 5 October 2021, it’s the right time to review your systems and processes to ensure your organisation is ready to scale.
Anticipating the rise in digital complaints handling
You might be surprised to learn that for every one complaint that is made to a financial service provider in Australia, there is one more that goes unspoken — meaning half of your customers aren’t even giving you the chance to help them.
ASIC is justifying these changes based on analysis that shows approximately 3.2 million Australian adults considered making a complaint to a financial service provider in the preceding 12 months, and 1.5 million adults actually made a complaint.
What’s more, Australian consumers are increasingly surfacing their complaints on social media, particularly in the target growth demographics, such as 18–34-year-olds, which are far more likely to use electronic means to communicate with your organisation.
ASIC also outlined the major reasons for complaints:
Organisations will find it increasingly advantageous — if not business-critical — to connect the front-end digital experience with their internal dispute resolution systems, along with data and analytics systems, to automate the handling and reporting of socially driven complaints. Rugged processes and practices should be implemented to ensure an accurate level of categorisation for complaints, so that common and systemic problems can be identified. This will help drive positive customer outcomes for internal teams and customers alike.
What technology enables successful complaints management?
Here are some of the most common challenges for customer service teams, which are often legacy hangovers from disconnected point solutions:
Considering the latest technology when designing and improving the Internal Dispute Resolution (IDR) process will help achieve a frictionless experience for your customers. Using automation and machine learning, it is now possible to take industry-specific language and intent models to discern real complaints from background noise. Instead of laborious copy and paste from social and digital channels to internal systems — or worse still from yesterday’s email — there are now solutions available that capture genuine, actionable complaints and deliver them to the right resource, whether that’s a human or an integrated system like your existing CRM tool.
Bring complaints management into your unified customer experience
As you consider your technology options, it’s important to look for a complaints management and escalation management solution that has been purpose built, not only to help you comply with the latest regulation, but also to connect (or ideally replace) the myriad point solutions that most organisations use to manage their customer experience. Here are some critical capabilities to look out for when evaluating and selecting such a platform:
Using the right technology across the entire organisation, customer service teams can keep their customers at the center of their processes. With the ability to route, resolve, and measure customer issues in an integrated, cross-channel solution, customer service can avoid customer churn by providing positive course corrections in real time, and control cost with AI-powered automation that sifts through all messages and appropriately actions the right engagements with the right organisational resources.
Check out what today’s complaints and escalation management systems look like when reimagined from the digital perspective as part of a unified customer experience (Unified-CXM) platform. You’ll find that it’s fundamentally different from typical Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) or Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions on the market today. That’s because advances in technology have given today’s humans more choices than ever before about when and where they engage with your organisation.
Learn how Sprinklr Complaints Management can drive your digital-first strategy for RG 271.
Chris currently leads the Global Solution Marketing team at Sprinklr. He has worked in CX technology for 20 years specialising in digital, voice, and AI products. Notably, Chris has been awarded eight patents for customer experience related innovations.
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# Advertising network
An online advertising network or ad network is a company that connects advertisers to websites that want to host advertisements. The key function of an ad network is an aggregation of ad supply from publishers and matching it with advertiser's demand. The phrase "ad network" by itself is media-neutral in the sense that there can be a "Television Ad Network" or a "Print Ad Network", but is increasingly used to mean "online ad network" as the effect of aggregation of publisher ad space and sale to advertisers is most commonly seen in the online space. The fundamental difference between traditional media ad networks and online ad networks is that online ad networks use a central ad server to deliver advertisements to consumers, which enables targeting, tracking and reporting of impressions in ways not possible with analog media alternatives.
## Overview
The advertising network market is a large and growing market, with Internet advertising revenues expected to grow from $135.42 bn in 2014 to $239.87 bn in 2019. Digital advertising revenues in the United States alone are set to reach $107.30 bn in 2018 which is an 18.7% increase from 2017 ad spend. This growth will result in many new players in the market and encourage acquisitions of ad networks by larger companies that either enter the market or expand their market presence. Currently, there are hundreds of ad networks worldwide and the landscape changes daily.
The inventory of online advertising space comes in many different forms, including space on the desktop and mobile websites, in RSS feeds, on blogs, in instant messaging applications, mobile apps, adware, e-mails, and on other media. The dominant forms of inventory include third-party content websites, who work with advertising networks for either a share of the ad revenues or a fee, as well as search engines, mobile, and online video resources.
An advertiser can buy a run of network package, or a run of category package within the network. The advertising network serves advertisements from its central ad server, which responds to a site once a page is called. A snippet of code is called from the ad server, that represents the advertising banner.
Large publishers often sell only their remnant inventory through ad networks. Typical numbers range from 10% to 60% of total inventory being remnant and sold through advertising networks.
Smaller publishers often sell all of their inventory through ad networks. One type of ad network, known as a blind network, is such that advertisers place ads, but do not know the exact places where their ads are being placed.
## Types
There are several criteria for categorizing advertising networks. In particular, the company's business strategy, as well as the quality of the networks' traffic and volume of inventory can serve as bases for categorization.
### Based on business strategy
Online advertising networks can be divided into three groups based on how they work with advertisers and publishers:
Vertical networks: They represent the publications in their portfolio, with full transparency for the advertiser about where their ads will run. They typically promote high-quality traffic at market prices and are heavily used by brand marketers. The economic model is generally revenue share. Vertical Networks offer ROS (Run-Of-Site) advertising across specific Channels (example: Auto or Travel) or they offer site-wide advertising options, in which case they operate in a similar fashion to Publisher Representation firms. Blind networks: These companies offer good pricing to direct marketers in exchange for those marketers relinquishing control over where their ads will run, though some networks offer a "site opt out" method. The network usually runs campaigns as RON or Run-Of-Network. Blind networks achieve their low pricing through large bulk buys of typically remnant inventory combined with conversion optimization and ad targeting technology. Targeted networks: Sometimes called "next generation" or "2.0" ad networks, these focus on specific targeting technologies such as behavioral or contextual, that have been built into an ad server. Targeted networks specialize in using consumer clickstream data to enhance the value of the inventory they purchase. Further specialized targeted networks include social graph technologies which attempt to enhance the value of inventory using connections in social networks.
### Based on number of clients and traffic quality
Ad networks can also be divided into first-tier and second-tier networks. First-tier advertising networks have a large number of their own advertisers and publishers, they have high quality traffic, and they serve ads and traffic to second-tier networks. Examples of first-tier networks include the major search engines. Second-tier advertising networks may have some of their own advertisers and publishers, but their main source of revenue comes from syndicating ads from other advertising networks.
While it is common for websites to be categorized into tiers, these can be misleading because tier 1 and tier 2 networks might perform differently based on different metrics, such as reach versus impressions.
## Mobile and video ad networks
Ad networks often support a wide spectrum of ad formats (e.g. banners, native ads) and platforms (e.g. display, mobile, video). This is true for most ad networks. However, there also are ad networks that focus on particular kinds of inventory and ads:
Mobile ad networks, focus on the traffic generated via mobile web and mobile apps, and work with the corresponding ad formats. Video ad networks serve ads via inventory, associated with online video content.
Video and mobile ad networks can be acquired by larger advertising companies, or operate as standalone entities.
## Issues
Positioning: Most ad networks don't disclose impressions per site. This means that advertisers or media agencies aren't sure where their ads will run. This can be a dangerous proposition if your ad turns up in website that you don't want to be associated with. Malware: Some ad networks have been implicated in aiding the distribution of malware due to allowing malicious advertisers to buy inventory across their partner sites without enough scrutiny. Price transparency: Let's examine a scenario. An ad network packages display inventory to an agency at say $10 CPM (cost per mille – or cost per thousand impressions). The ad network would then buy a very small portion of the inventory on premium publications at $50 CPM and a large portion of the long tail inventory at $2 CPM. The real eCPM (effective CPM) of the campaign for the ad network is around $2.50, and is far from the agency's claim of premium inventory. The marketer is however appeased with screen grabs of his ads appearing in premium positions, oblivious of the masquerade while the ad network walks away with a big margin. Ad relevance: More often than not, the ads were out of relevance with the website content as a fall out of point 1, and also because there weren't intelligent contextual engines built into the ad servers (the server system that churns out the ads) of these ad networks.
## Online ad networks and advertising publishers
Most online ad-network platforms offer website owners and marketers to signup as advertising publishers. Publishers can then display ads shared by the advertising network and the revenue is shared between both the advertising network and publisher. When the beginners could not pass through the minimum criteria for publishing advertisements, ad placement services could ban the publisher for not fulfilling the requirements. Some networks demand strict terms and conditions while there are other ad publishing alternatives some times commissions vary on what sells otherwise user still to earn a good commission when one matches the criteria, the publisher is allowed to display and share ads provided by the platform to earn a good revenue. Getting approved as a publisher to the best advertising platform is a thorough process. Websites with a clean interface, more traffic and engagements are preferred to be selected as ad network publisher by the advertising platforms. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_network |
How to figure out Deadpool’s action figure from a hooded figure
There are some big figures to figure with Deadpool action figures.
While the action figures for Batman, Spider-Man, and Captain America all have the same hooded figures, it’s usually not that simple.
This is especially true of the Hooded figure.
The hooded mask that covers the face is usually removable, and sometimes you can use the included mask to remove the mask from the figure.
However, this doesn’t work for every action figure, and even if you remove the hood, it won’t necessarily remove the face from the hooded statue.
The easiest way to figure this out is to get an accurate face, such as an image of a real person.
Here’s how to figure it out: Use a mask that you can actually see.
The mask is the most obvious part of the figure, so we’ll use a mask of an actor’s face that’s attached to a mask.
If you can see the actor’s facial structure, you can figure out how tall the figure is without a mask, even if it’s a mask-less figure.
Here is a good example of how to use a face: Figure out how much of the actor you want to see.
We can use a scale of one to two to determine how tall a face would be.
For example, imagine that the actor has a face like this: Figure the size of the head.
This might look a bit more complicated, but we can quickly figure it.
The larger the head, the taller the figure will have to be.
To find out the head size, use the figure’s size indicator.
This indicator can be a small, medium, or large head.
Figure out the circumference of the body.
We have two ways to calculate the circumference.
The first method is to subtract the torso length from the height of the character.
For the example below, the figure has a torso of 10.4 inches, so the torso is 10.44 inches.
The second method is the circumference method.
The torso is measured from the front of the torso.
This method is also simple.
The figure has the same torso length as the actor, so you can simply subtract 10.43 inches from the torso to get the circumference, and then multiply that number by 2 to get your circumference.
For this example, the torso would be 6.4.
If the figure had a smaller head, or if it was missing a facial feature, the height would be lower.
So, we’re going to subtract 10 from 10.3 to get a measurement of 3.7 feet.
Figure the circumference using the figure as a ruler.
The circumference of a head is the length of the hair on the head above the eyebrows, which is the measurement of the circumference in inches.
We need the circumference for a figure to be 1.8 feet in circumference.
If we have a figure with a torso that’s 10.5 inches tall, the head would be 1 1/2 inches in circumference, or about 3 1/4 feet.
So that’s how we calculate the bust measurement.
We subtract 10 inches from 10 to get 1.2 inches, or just over an inch less than our figure’s circumference.
Now we can figure the bust size, which takes into account the figure itself, the length at which the head is above the ears, and the length between the ears.
For our example, we’ve got a figure that’s 1.3 feet tall, so its bust is 1 1.6 inches.
Using this figure, we can calculate the actual bust size of our figure.
This number will be less than the bust circumference, but the bust is still 1.7 inches.
Here are the measurements of our busts from our figures.
Figure 7.1: Bust measurement from Deadpool figure source You can see how Deadpool’s bust is smaller than the rest of the figures, but it’s still 1 inch smaller than Spider-Woman’s.
This means that it’s not the biggest bust figure in the Marvel Universe.
The reason for this is that the Spider-Mans Spider-Sense, which allows the Spider Man to see Spider-Women webbing, is not in this figure.
That makes the SpiderMan Spider-sense for Deadpool a much better source of Spider-Men webbing.
But there are still some important details to know about how to calculate bust sizes for figures.
For starters, Deadpool’s figure has only a head, so his bust will be closer to the average bust size for action figures than to the most popular bust size.
And that is why we need the bust to be less and less than 1 inch above the bustline.
Figure 8.1 shows a bust size chart from the Deadpool figure.
Figure 9.1, left, and 9.2, right, show a bust chart from Deadpool action figure.
So how do you know which figure is Deadpool’s? | https://manotokala.com/2021/10/how-to-figure-out-deadpools-action-figure-from-a-hooded-figure/ |
Provides venue for action figure enthusiasts to share their knowledge and information with message boards, file sharing, photo gallery, and list of links.
Talks about action figures and memorabilia. Also provides buying, selling, and trading of collectibles.
Shows discussion forums used for trading and selling of action figures with price guides. | https://botw.org/top/Recreation/Collecting/Toys_and_Games/Action_Figures/Chats_and_Forums/ |
Profit margin ratios are invaluable when determining a company's overall financial health. These calculations are extremely prevalent in corporate finance but they can also be useful for measuring your company's profitability.
In this article, we explain what a profit margin ratio is, explore how to calculate and interpret the results, list the different types of profit margin ratios and provide an example of this concept being put to use.
What is the profit margin?
Profit margin is the ratio of profit remaining from sales after all expenses have been paid. You can calculate profit margin ratio by subtracting total expenses from total revenue, and then dividing this number by total expenses. The formula is:
(Total Revenue - Total Expenses) / Total Revenue
Profit margin ratio is shown as a percentage. Other names for profit margin are profit margin ratio, gross profit ratio and sales ratio. A company’s profit margin ratio can show how well the company is managing its overall finances.
A profit margin ratio is often used by investors and creditors to determine a company's ability to convert the profit made from sales into net income. Creditors are interested in these figures so that they can ensure a company makes enough money to repay its loans, while investors are looking for assurance that there is enough profits to be able to distribute dividends.
In other words, these external sources are looking for proof that the organization is being run efficiently. In cases where the profit margin is particularly low, it serves as an indication that the company needs to cut back on its expenses by instituting a stricter budget.
Related: Learn About Being an Accountant
How to calculate the profit margin ratio
Though there are three different ways to calculate a company's profit margin ratio, here are the steps for calculation in the simplest form:
1. Calculate the net sales
First, you need to determine the company's net sales by following this formula:
Net sales = revenue - returns, refunds and discounts
2. Determine the net income
Next, you calculate the net income by using this formula:
Net income = revenue - total expenses
3. Find the profit margin ratio
Finally, after calculating the net income and net sales you can find the profit margin ratio by employing this calculation:
Profit margin = (net income / net sales) x 100
Related: 6 Essential Accounting Skills
How to interpret the results
The profit margin ratio determines what percentage of a company's sales consists of net income. Put simply, it provides a measurement of how much profits are generated from a company's sales. This number is useful for determining how well an organization's finances are being managed.
Companies strive for higher profit margin ratios which means that their profits will exceed their expenses. They accomplish these higher ratios by either lowering expenses or increasing revenues. Though generating more revenue would be a preferred solution, it is often more difficult than reducing spending budgets. Therefore, most companies cut expenses to improve their profitability.
Additionally, this figure can be used to compare a company's current and past performance as well as to compare similarly-sized companies in the same industry.
Related: How Analyzing Data Can Improve Decision-Making
Types of profit margins
There are three major levels for calculating a company's profit on its income statement:
Gross profit margins
Operating profit margins
Net profit margins
Gross profit is the most basic level of profit margin, while net profit is the most comprehensive. These financial ratios are both simple and extremely common in corporate finance.
Though all three levels differ in their exact method, they all share corresponding profit margins that are found by dividing the profit figure by the company's revenue and then multiplying the result by 100. Here is a deeper look at all three types of profit margins:
1. Gross profit margins
The gross profit margin is the simplest and most basic way to calculate profitability because it defines profit as any income that is left over after factoring in the cost of goods sold, often referred to as COGS or variable costs.
The cost of goods sold refers to any expense that directly relates to the manufacturing or production of a product, such as the wages paid and raw materials used throughout the process. However, this figure excludes taxes, debt, fixed costs, overhead costs and one-time expenses. Similarly, variable costs are costs that are incurred throughout a process and that can fluctuate with production rates or output. Companies that don't participate in production or manufacturing use the cost of revenue, or the cost necessary to make a sale, instead of variable costs or cost of goods sold.
To calculate the gross profit margin you would need to follow three steps:
1. Calculate the gross profit
You do this by following this equation:
Gross profit = revenue - (direct materials + direct labor + factory overhead)
2. Determining the net sales
You calculate the net sales by following this formula:
Net sales = revenue - cost of sales allowances, returns and discounts
3. Calculate the gross profit margin
You would then find the gross profit margin by following this calculation:
Gross profit margin = (gross profits / net sales) x 100
Operating profit margins
Calculating operating profit margins is slightly more complex than gross profit margins because it accounts for day-to-day business expenses such as sales, administrative, operating and overhead costs.
It also includes the depreciation of a company's assets but still excludes non-operational expenses like debts and taxes. This profitability metric divides a company's operating profit by its revenue, giving a clear picture of the percentage of each dollar that is left over after the business's operating expenses are paid for. There are two steps for calculating operating profit margins:
1. Calculate the cost of goods sold
The formula for this is the same regardless of industry. However, the elements involved can vary.
Cost of goods sold = beginning inventory + purchases - final inventory
2. Determine the operating profit margin
You can then calculate the operating profit margin by following this formula:
Operating profit margin = ((revenue + COGS - administrative and selling expenses) / revenue) x 100
Net profit margins
The most complex and comprehensive profitability ratio is the net profit margin. It shows the total revenue left after all income streams and expenses have been accounted for, including COGS and operational expenses. However, unlike the previous two ratios, the net profit margin ratio also takes into account income from investments, one-time payments, taxes and debt. Therefore, this calculation gives an accurate account of a company's overall ability to convert its income into a profit.
There are two steps to determining a company's net profit margin:
1. Calculate the net profit
You find this by following this formula:
Net profit = revenue - (COGS + depreciation + amortization + interest expenses + taxes + other expenses)
2. Determine the net profit margin
To calculate the net profit margin, complete this calculation:
Net profit margin = (net profit / revenue) x 100
Profit margin ratio example
Here is an example of a profit margin ratio being put to use:
Kayla's Cleaning Supplies sells industrial-grade cleaning products to restaurants and bars. Kayla started her business 10 years ago and last year she experienced her best sales yet. Her net sales were $1,000,000 with a net income of $100,000.
Using these figures, here is her profit margin ratio for last year:
10% = ($100,000 / $1,000,000) x 100
As the ratio indicates, Kayla was able to convert 10% of her sales into profits. This year, however, Kayla's net sales were $800,000 with a net income of $200,000. Here is her profit margin ratio for this year:
25% = ($200,000 / $800,000) x 100
Though Kayla made fewer sales, she was able to cut back on her expenses, allowing her to convert more of the sales that she did make into profits.
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Retail employees are among workers across the UK to have been paid a collective total of £15 million for not receiving the full minimum wage in the past year.
According to new figures from HM Revenue and Customs, a record 200,000 of the UK’s lowest paid employees received money they were owed.
This figure was twice as many as in the previous year and comes after HMRC last year launched an online service, which led to a 132 per cent rise in the number of complaints.
“Employers abusing the system and paying under the legal minimum are breaking the law,” business minister Andrew Griffiths said.
HMRC customer compliance director Penny Ciniewicz said: “HMRC is committed to getting money back into the pockets of underpaid workers, and these figures demonstrate that we won’t hesitate to take action against employers who ignore the law.
The figures were unveiled as the government launched its annual campaign aimed to encourage workers to take action if they’re not receiving the national living or minimum wage.
I work at home bargains and have done for 8 years. | https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2018/05/retail-workers-among-those-paid-15m-by-hmrc/ |
When doing ratios do you take TTM figures [for the Action Score] or do you average for longer periods?
TTM is used because the goal of the Action Score and other ratings and grade is to determine where the company stands now.
When you pick stocks, you want to use data to figure out where the company is going to be 2, 5, 10 years from now.
In the valuation models, we average data over 3 years and more to normalize the data.
The Action Score does things differently by ignoring historical data which could create false impressions. The goal of the Action Score is to find companies that will grow, compound and profit today and tomorrow. | https://oldschoolvalue.userecho.com/en/knowledge-bases/2/articles/205-when-doing-ratios-do-you-take-ttm-figures-for-the-action-score-or-do-you-average-for-longer-periods |
Action figure enthusiast and RC car enthusiast. I like to paint, 3d print stuff on my Afinia H800, and create new and exciting things. I have been customizing action figures for 10 years and I also have been molding and casting resin heads and parts for 7 years now. | https://makerware.thingiverse.com/jtucker72/about |
Morgan Lofting will be a guest at the 2015 Canadian Action Figure Expo this year. Best known for playing the Baroness across both the Sunbow- and DiC-produced seasons of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Lofting has also played such characters as Firestar and Moonracer in Transformers Generation 1, Princess Invidia on Star Blazers, Black Cat in the 1981 Spider-Man series and Fistina on Ben 10: Omniverse. She will be available all day for autographs and photos.
The 12th Annual Canadian Action Figure Expo is September 27th at the Hilton Mississauga/Meadowvale – 6750 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, Ontario.
The show features a huge selection of vintage 80s toys and all the latest releases from today such as GIJoe (vintage and modern), Transformers (vintage and Japanese imports), Star Wars (new and vintage), Masters of the Universe (vintage and modern), Super Heroes (Marvel Universe/Legends, DC Universe etc), Wrestling, and tons of other Action Figures and collectibles. | https://news.hisstank.com/2015/08/25/voice-actor-morgan-lofting-to-attend-toronto-action-figure-expo-2015-56388 |
Here is collection of SEE Model Questions 2076 2077. We are giving all subject model questions for SEE students.
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SEE Optional Mathematics Questions
The question grid has been changed for the optional mathematics. The curriculum was changed earlier however the question grid is changed by the SEE 2076. The new grid of questions is as follow.
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Compulsory Mathematics Questions for SEE Students
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Group: ‘A’
- a. Write the formula to calculate the VAT percent when selling price with VAT and selling price without VAT are given.
b. If three sides of a triangle are a, b and c respectively, what is the
semi-perimeter of the triangle? Write it.
2. a. If , then express y in terms of a and c.
b. Write the formula to calculate value of first quartile from continuous series.
3. a. In the given figure, what is the relation between the area of the parallelogram PQRS and DTQR. Write it.
b. In the adjoining figure, O is the centre of the circle. If , find the value of .
Group: ‘B’
4. a. It is given that $1 =NRS. 205. If Nepali currency is devaluated by 20% at this rate, how many US$ can be exchanged with NRS.5,73,250? Find it.
b. The population of Dhampus village was 10,000 few years ago. The present population of the village is 13,310. If the population grows at 10%, in how many years ago it was 10,000?
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5. a. The perimeter and the length of two sides of a triangle are 54 cm, 12 cm and 28 cm respectively. Calculate the area of the triangle.
b. If the total surface area of a solid sphere is 616 cm2, what will be its radius?
c. Calculate the lateral surface area of the given prism.
b. If the sum of a number and 25 times of its reciprocal is Ten, find the number.
8. a. Calculate the area of the given quadrilateral ABCD.
b. In the given diagram, O is the centre of the circle. If BCD is a tangent with C is the point of contact and ÐCAF=300, find x0 and y0.
c. In the given diagram, O is the centre of the circle. If ÐQRS=1050, what is the value of ÐPQS? Find it.
9. a. In the given figure, CD=12 cm, CF=14 cm, CE=18 cm, ÐECF= ½ ÐDCE and the area of DCDE is 54 cm2. Find the area of quadrilateral CDEF.
b. Find the median class and frequency of median class from the given cumulative frequency curve.
10. a. From a deck of number cards numbered from 3 to 32, a card drawn at randomly. Find the probability of getting this card divisible by 5 and 7.
b. There are 8 white and 12 yellow identical balls in a bag. A ball is drawn from the bag without replacement. Then another ball is drawn. Draw a tree diagram to show all the probability and then find the probability of getting the different colour balls.
Group: ‘C’
11. Out of 100 students, 80 passed in Science, 71 passed in Mathematics, 10 failed in both subjects and 7 did not appear in an examination. Find the number of students who passed in both subjects by representing the above information in a Venn-diagram.
12. A shopkeeper gained Rs.3000 by selling a mobile phone allowing 10% discount. He would have gained Rs.5000 if discount was not allowed. What was the marked price of the mobile phone? Find it.
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13. The adjoining figure is a square base pyramid. If its slant height is 23 cm and its total surface area 360 square cm. find the volume of the pyramid.
Long Questions
15. Three years ago, the sum of the ages of father and son was 48 years. After three years the ratio of the ages of the father and son will be 3:1. Find their present ages.
16. Prove that the area of DABE is half of the area of parallelogram ABCD standing on the same base AB and between the same parallel lines AB and DE.
17. Construct DABC in which a=5 cm, b=4.8 cm and c=6.8 cm. Then, construct the parallelogram equal in area to DABC having a side of the parallelogram is 6 cm.
18. Verify experimentally that the sum of opposite angles is a cyclic quadrilateral PQRS are supplementary. (Two figures are necessary.)
19. The circumference of a circular pond is 176 m and a pillar is fixed at the centre of the pond. If a person finds the angle of elevation 600 on the top of the pillar from any point on the bank of the pond, find the height of the pillar above the water level.
20. If of P from the given data:
Group: ‘D’
21. According to the system of yearly compound interest, a sum of money amounts to Rs.14520 in 2 years and in 3 years it amounts to Rs.15972. Find the sum and the rate of interest.
22. A tent is cylindrical in shape up to the height of 10 m and it is surrounded by a cone, the total height of the tent is 34 m with diameter of the base is 14 m. find the cost of preparing the tent at the rate of Rs.70 per square meter.
24. In the adjoining figure, the chords AB and CD are intersect perpendicularly with each other at point M. Then prove that ÐAOD+ÐBOC=1800. | https://gbsnote.com/see-model-questions-2076-2077/ |
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As we get wired, we might send material birthday greetings to Waldo Lonsbury Semon; he was born on this date in 1898. A chemist who had worked on improving rubber, he finally created a replacement: he discovered how to convert polyvinyl chloride (PVC) from a hard, unworkable substance to a pliable one– creating vinyl, the second most widely used plastic in the world.
Everyday heroes…
Over the years (R)D has considered action figures of all types, from the political (e.g., Barak Obama) to the cultural (e.g., Shakespeare and Jane Austin). But heroism isn’t always an epic proposition; and it doesn’t always accrue to recognition, much less fame. In the end, these smaller and more anonymous acts of leadership, courage, and sacrifice are the lifts that elevate life-at-large.
Jesse Weiss, an assistant professor of sociology and environmental studies at the University of the Ozarks, has pioneered a way to redress the bobble-head balance:
A pop culture enthusiast and inveterate collector of kitsch, Weiss saw that the head had come off one of his collectible action figures: the professional wrestler, Rhino. “I guess it was kind of serendipitous,” said Weiss. “One of the heads popped off and I realized you could take them apart and put them back together”…
He has created more than 100 action figures modeled on fellow professors, administrators, students, community members and even the college’s president… Sean Coleman, an associate professor of biology who teaches interdisciplinary courses with Weiss, said he keeps his action figure next to the nameplate on his desk…
… [Coleman] praised the evident attention to detail, down to the mole on his figure’s lip and the color of his belt. “We’re academics, but we’re quirky a little bit,” he said. “Everyone I know would like one of those things. It’s definitely part of the campus culture.”
Find the full story– and more pix– at Inside Higher Ed. | https://roughlydaily.com/tag/wire/ |
This enforcement action is a reminder to firms that outsourced services should be treated as though they were being undertaken by the firm. The FCA highlight the need for several underlying principles to appropriately monitor third party outsourcing risks to ensure that the activity is effectively managed with adequate controls in place. It also emphasises that complaints remains at the top of the regulatory agenda. This is further accentuated by the following publications:
- Dear CEO" letters to High Cost Short Term Credit firms (15/10/18) emphasised the importance of complaints handling
- Dear CEO letter to all firms with consumer credit permissions regarding their complaints handling (13/09/17)
- Expansion of access to FOS to a greater number small and medium enterprises
- Proposal to increase the maximum award the FOS can award to £160,000 for acts and omission before the 1/4/19 and £350,000 for acts and omission after 1/4/19
- FCA have recently published complaints statistics within financial services firms which showed that over 4m complaints were submitted to firms in the first half of 2018, the highest figure to date, and a 10% increase on H2 of 2017. The FCA said " Firms need to be doing all that they can to reduce complaints. It is clear that firms need to look at the cause of the rise in complaints and address these issues to prevent further increases. 'It should be a priority for firms to ensure good consumer outcomes are achieved and they should be making sure that they are taking the right steps to treat customers fairly".
FCA Complaints figures for H1
The complaints figures have continue to increase for the fourth consecutive half year, reaching a new record level of 4.13m. This is a 10% increase when compared with the previous 6 month period.
PPI continues to be at the top of the complaints categories, accounting for 42% of all complaints, followed by:
- Current Accounts (15%)
- Credit Cards (8%)
- Motor and Transport Insurance (6%)
Regardless of the exclusion of PPI from the figures, complaints rose by 9% on the previous 6 month period. The high-profile disruption cases within the retail banking sector have resulted in certain firms having an increase in the number of complaints that they have recorded.
However, despite the record levels of complaints being recorded there has also been an increase in the number of complaints being resolved, with 58% being resolved within H1.
The FCA does still highlight the need for more to be done to reduce the number of complaints within the industry. Along with better root cause analysis to enable the firm to identify the underlying issues that generate complaints and take preventative action to address these and take mitigating action to address. | https://www.addleshawgoddard.com/en/insights/insights-briefings/2018/financial-regulation/retail-regulatory-risk-and-compliance-update-october-2018/ |
The action on this day did not restrict itself to outside the walls of Abbeville, for Edward following with the mass of the army, and learning of the defeat by messenger, turned the army westward towards Oisemont. That town’s inhabitants, reinforced by the entire population of Vimeu, left their homes led by the Sire de Boubers, and in “an orderly manner” advanced on the English.
However the feudal militia was no match for the longbow armed English yeomanry supported by Welsh pike.
After a brave struggle in which vast numbers of French were killed or injured, they retreated. The English captain, John Chandos, capturing de Boubers and many others.
Details of the deployment for each side are non-existent in chronicles, therefore the suggested positions in the map below are hypothetical. Click map to see a larger view.
Edward’s forces in this action were restricted in having the bulk of the cavalry at Abbeville. This left him with approximately 8,000 foot longbow and 1,800 Welsh pike, and possibly the 200 horse from his personal retinue.
His opponent appears to have had few regular soldiers and even fewer knights, suffering greater feudal conscription to Philippe’s army, than de Ver in the freetown of Abbeville. As both Vimeu and Oisemont were much smaller than Abbeville, it would seem probable that fewer than 3,000 men could be fielded – and many of these would be youths and old men.
It is suggested that 50 men per figure be used unless you are wargaming the battle in 6mm scale. At 20 men per figure, the 11,000-strong combined armies would otherwise require 550 figures on table.
Edward III + 4, B class heavy infantry with 2 handed cutting weapon.
Spencer + 8 units of 10 figure light infantry longbow ‘C’ class.
Cobham + 8 units of 10 figure med infantry longbow ‘C’ class.
Chandos + 2 units of 18 figure med-heavy pike ‘C’ class.
Northampton + 4, ‘A’ class knights (including Edward Prince of Wales).
N.B. realistically, Chandos’ forces should be 6 units of 6 figures.
de Boubers + 3, ‘A’ class knights.
Mayor of Vimeu + 12, ‘B’ class heavy infantry, 2 hand cutting weapon.
3 units of 10 figures ‘C’ med infantry, feudal levy mixed crossbow & peasant pole arms. | http://www.longrangelogistics.com/2009/01/19/road-to-crecy-1346-battle-of-oisemont/ |
Last month, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) published its net additional dwellings figures for 2018/19. The statistics showed that a record 240,000 new homes were created in England, the highest figure in almost 30 years. The figures are also notable because they form a key part of the MHCLG's dataset for its housing delivery test.
Please click here to view our table predicting which authorities will face which sanctions.
The test aims to measure how effectively each local authority is delivering housing, as well as planning for it. It works by comparing each councils' level of housing delivery - using the the net additional dwelling figures - over a three-year period to the total number of homes required. The first test results for the 2015-18 period were published in February - three months late - and the second, covering 2016-19, were due last month. However, they have been postponed, the housing ministry told Planning last month, until after the general election.
For the 2019 test, authorities delivering under 45 per cent of their requirement will be subject to the National Planning Policy Framework's (NPPF’s) presumption in favour of sustainable development, which would mean their local planning policies on housing are rendered out of date. Authorities who deliver less than 95 per cent of their requirement must devise an action plan to address the problem. Those who deliver less than 85 per cent must also identify a "buffer" of 20 per cent more housing sites to add to their land supply position. The penalties take effect from the moment the results are published, according to the 2018 NPPF.
Ahead of the government's release of the official 2019 test figures, Planning carried out its own research to estimate what the results might be. We used the MHCLG's February figures for the housing requirement and delivery figures for 2016/17 and 2017/18. To calculate the data for 2018/19 in line with the MHCLG's methodology, we used the latest 2018/19 net additional dwelling figures to produce a delivery figure. For the 2018/19 requirement, we used the lower of either a council's up-to-date local plan annual housing target or its local housing need figure. If a local plan became out of date during the financial year, we used a combination of the plan target and the standard method, in line with the MHCLG criteria.
This year's test is notable because 2018/19 is the first year in which the MHCLG's standard method of assessing housing need is being used to calculate the local housing need figure for councils without an adopted plan that is less than five years old. Compared to the Office for National Statistics' household projections figures, which has been used to calculate housing need for the 2016/17 and 2017/18 years, the standard method, which takes into account local affordability, in many cases produces higher housing need figures, especially in areas of high demand. Planning used standard method figures for 2018/19 produced by consultancy Turley.
In its calculations for homes delivery, the MHCLG takes account of a local authority's level of student or communal housing delivery. And, if the local plan target is not being used, the housing requirement figure is adjusted to take account of unmet need from neighbouring areas. Our calculations did not take account of either of these factors, so the MHCLG final delivery test figures are likely to be different in some cases. In addition, for the 2018 test results, the MHCLG spent months checking its figures with individual authorities, which led to further adjustments and is a process likely to be repeated for the 2019 test.
Nonetheless, our study found that this year, 112 authorities - or 34 per cent - scored under 95 per cent and seem set to face a penalty under the test, which means they will have to produce an action plan showing how they will improve their performance over the next year. Of these, eight authorities fall under the 45 per cent threshold and we predict will face the presumption (although most of them already face the presumption for other reasons). Meanwhile, we predict that 83 - a quarter - will have to find an additional 20 per cent buffer for their housing land supply. Some 66 per cent escape a penalty.
Despite the introduction of the standard method, our findings on how many councils are placed in each of the performance bands are remarkably similar to the official 2018 results. The latter put nine councils under 45 per cent, 27 per cent of councils under 85 per cent and therefore required to provide a 20 per cent buffer, 33 per cent under 95 per cent and 67 per cent facing no penalty on the grounds of having delivered more than 95 per cent of the requirement.
Our figures are also very similar to research by consultancy Savills, which found that nine authorities would face the presumption under the 2019 test, 85 a 20 per cent buffer and 115 the action plan requirement.
Jonathan Dixon, a planning director at Savills, said he isn’t surprised by the year-on-year continuity. "The higher number of dwellings delivered is balanced by an overall increase in the delivery test requirement," he said. Richard Crawley, programme manager at the Local Government Association's Planning Advisory Service, believes that as the standard methodology replaces household projections over the next two years, more authorities may find themselves penalised. "This transition is one of the reasons that many councils go into the ‘red’ as you project into the future," he said.
The eight councils our figures show to be placed under 45 per cent are all in the Greater South East, while seven of them - the City of London is the exception - lack up-to-date local plans. Talking about the geographical pattern, Dixon said: "This is almost certainly a product of higher household projections, plus high affordability ratios, greater constraints on supply, such as green belt and limited brownfield sites, and out-of-date local plans."
At the bottom of our delivery rate table is the City of London, which delivered just 32 per cent of the housing required. Of the eight, three - Thanet, Three Rivers and New Forest - also scored under 45 per cent last year.
Planning presented our figures to the eight councils and asked if they disputed our figures. None challenged our findings, and Three Rivers and Basildon said our calculations tallied with their expectations. Three Rivers and North Hertfordshire said they are already subject to the presumption penalty due to their lack of a sufficient land supply. According to Savills, the five other councils lacking a local plan also have a housing land supply deficit and so are subject to the presumption.
We also asked the authorities if they could explain their performance. Several pointed to the fact they have out-of-date local plans and were in the process of producing new strategies that would introduce more achievable housing targets and allow them to allocate fresh sites for development. Some also highlighted that they have been subject to sharp increases in housing need in 2018/19 created by the standard method. Eastbourne and Basildon councils said they were already addressing the causes of under-delivery in their action plans, required because of penalties under the 2018 test.
A City of London spokeswoman simply said the corporation is on course to "deliver housing targets in the city in accordance with our local plan aims for the period to 2026". But she added that it is also consulting on a new draft City Plan "which sets out how we will meet higher targets up to 2036".
A spokesman for Eastbourne Council, which scored 39 per cent, making it the fourth worst performer in our table, highlighted the fact that the council’s out-of-date plan included an annual target of 240 homes a year. However, the local housing need figure using the standard method produced a requirement figure of 668 homes for 2018/19, something the spokesman described as "totally unrealistic". Likewise, a New Forest Council spokeswoman said the requirements produced using household projections and the standard methodology resulted in a 500 per cent increase on the "very low" annual targets in its out-of-date core strategy.
Similarly, a spokesman for Three Rivers Council said its requirements of 316 homes for 2016/17 and 437 for 2017/18 were produced using the ONS household projections figures. But under the standard method, the figure for 2018/19 leapt to 620. The spokesman said Three Rivers Council is working on producing a new local plan, a point echoed by Eastbourne, New Forest, North Hertfordshire and Basildon councils.
Ian Fullstone, regulatory director at North Hertfordshire Council, said the authority's main towns are all surrounded by "tightly drawn green belt boundaries" while the authority has been operating under the NPPF's presumption "for a number of years" because it lacks a five year housing land supply. Therefore, the test results anticipated by Planning would "not make a significant difference to our decision-making procedures", he added.
In Basildon, which we found to have a test result of 44 per cent, council leader Gavin Callaghan said the council is "stepping up action" to boost housing delivery, including the creation of a council-owned housebuilding company. Similarly, Eastbourne said it is anticipating the direct provision of new homes through council-owned vehicles. | https://www.planningresource.co.uk/article/1667888/112-councils-line-face-next-set-housing-delivery-test-sanctions |
Q Which celebrity has been made into an action figure the most times?–Brian Nelson, Portland, Ore.
Photos: Celebrity Action Figures
A Our best guess would have to be Elvis Presley, whose image has been toyed with enough times to make a mathematician’s head spin. Action figures of The King include the Elvis Jailhouse Rock Funko Force Figure, the Aloha Elvis Action Figure, and the Gospel Elvis Action Figure, among many, many others. | https://parade.com/34489/parade/elvis/ |
Duke Nukem Action Figures Update
Back in April we reported on the enemies in the Duke Nukem Action Figure Line. The Resaurus Web Site has larger versions of the enemy action figures online now, along with the second of "Duke Nukem" figures (called Nightstrike Duke).
Visit the Resaurus Alien Index Page on their site for more photos of the alien action figures.
We also have some of our own photos of the Nightstrike Duke Nukem Figure on our web site. In June, we received the final prototype of the figure, and took some pictures of it. Make sure to check those out. | http://legacy.3drealms.com/news/1998/07/duke_nukem_acti.html |
Whether your goal is to lose weight, build muscle, or hone your fighting skills, it’s always important to make sure you are performing each movement in a workout correctly and that you have a well-balanced workout regimen. Improper form leads to injuries, fatigue, and lessens your overall results. Before you increase the intensity or frequency of any exercise, make sure you’re performing it with the correct technique. Here are some of the most common mistakes we see on a regular basis, and a few ways for how you can prevent them.
Artem Sharoshkin– “Even though the bag is stationary for the most part, try your best to move in and out to extend the jab space. This makes it more realistic for when you do spar other people and you’ll also get in a better workout.”
Dan Favela– “When people do pushups, a lot of the time they’ll dip their hips and knees down before bringing their chest to the floor. In order to do it properly, you need to engage your core so your entire body lowers to the floor together.”
Josh Vongsvirates– “Most people don’t stretch or foam roll enough. They both keep you limber and prevent injuries from happening. Make sure you stretch as part of your warm up and cool down routines.”
Jessica Lopez–“Overtraining can be very detrimental. If you notice signs of water retention, lack of sleep, or injuries, it may be due to overtraining. When you’re working out, you’re tearing your body down, so you need to give it enough time to heal. Listen to your body and take rest days as needed.”
Erica Hulse–“When people do planks, a lot of times they don’t put their hips down. They use their upper body to hold themselves up. Make sure you tuck your toes under and that your abs are tight because that’s the area you want to target.”
Shannon Gugerty– “When people are punching on the bags, instead of focusing on hitting face level or on the body, they’ll often hit in between, which isn’t realistic of actually sparring or defending yourself.”
Calvin Jones– “People tend to drop their hands when they’re thinking of the next combo they’re going to do (in boxing). Make sure you always keeps your hands up even when you’re not moving because, when you’re in a fight, that leaves you open to being hit.”
Glenn Salud– “Often times, people get injured during strength training or classes and don’t know why. The most common mistakes I see occur when people are doing lunges or squats. They often don’t bend their knees enough and won’t place the weight in their heel. This leads to knee and back injuries. Another common one is not hitting the bag properly. You want to make sure you’re using the force from your whole body, not just your arm. Turn into the punch with your whole body and don’t hyperextend your elbows.”
Caine Gayle– “People make the mistake of kicking with their foot rather than kicking with their shin. You’re more susceptible to injury if you use your foot. Your shin is much stronger. A lot of this mistake has to do with misjudging your distance.”
If you ever have any questions regarding form , technique, or injury prevention, feel free to ask one of our many qualified trainers the next time you come in!
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The construction industry has one of the highest rates of work-related accidents and injuries and accounts for about 20 percent of workplace fatalities. To help lower this number, we’re sharing how to prevent and treat the most common causes of accidents at construction sites. With basic CPR training and AED training you can help protect your job site from emergency situations.
Preventing and Treating Falls at Construction Sites
Construction jobs often involve working on top of scaffolding, roofs, or using ladders, and because of this, falls from high places is the leading cause of injury and death at a construction site. However, many of these falls can be prevented with the right safety equipment and training. OSHA regulations require that any worker is six feet or more above lower levels (or the ground) needs to have fall protection gear and the right ladder, scaffold, or other safety gear to minimize risk.
Preventing falls:
- Make sure any harnesses or fall arrest systems fit correctly and are inspected for safe use.
- Never use a ladder on uneven ground.
- Guardrails need to be properly installed on all scaffolds and areas on jobsites with unprotected sides.
- Clearly mark open areas on high spaces, like skylights, holes, or gaps with caution tape.
First Aid falls from high distances:
- Call 911 immediately.
- Do not move them, as this may cause additional injury.
- Check for consciousness, signs of breathing and a pulse. If there isn’t a heartbeat, begin CPR.
- Stop any bleeding by applying gentle pressure using a sterile bandage or clean cloth.
- Don’t try to set a broken bone.
- Treat for shock by providing a blanket or cover if the person is cold, making sure they are laying down and elevating the legs if possible.
- Keep the person calm and assure them that help is on the way.
Falling Objects at a Construction Site
Not only are people at risk of falling, but equipment being used on scaffolding, ladders, and rooftops can fall and strike someone on the jobsite. “Struck by” accidents are the second leading cause of injury at a jobsite. For example, a hammer resting on a ladder can fall if the ladder is bumped, or roofing materials may slide down a slope, and those items can cause serious injury if they hit someone on a lower level, causing serious head trauma.
Prevent injury from falling objects:
- Always wear proper safety equipment, including hardhats.
- Communicate to those on the lower levels when objects are being transported overhead, such as by a crane.
- Use debris nets to catch objects that may fall.
- Set up barricades around openings to prevent objects from falling through holes.
- Use tethered tools for lightweight objects that have built-in connection points to a lanyard or toolbelt.
- Keep tools and supplies in an appropriate receptacle when not in use, rather than just setting them on a ledge or resting on the scaffolding where they may fall or be kicked.
Treating injury from falling objects
- Call 911 immediately when these signs are present:
- bleeding from ears or nose
- severe head bleeding
- loss of consciousness
- confusion, slurred speech
- unequal pupil size
- Watch for changes in breathing and alertness
- Help the victim lie down with their head and shoulders slightly elevated if possible, avoid moving the person’s neck to prevent further injury.
- Stop any bleeding with a sterile gauze or clean cloth but avoid direct pressure if you suspect the skull may be fractured.
Preventing and Treating Lacerations at the Construction Site
Construction workers often use sharp tools to cut through various objects, including concrete, wood, and metal. While cuts and lacerations don’t cause the serious injuries or fatalities that falls or falling objects cause, they are prevalent at construction sites, and a leading cause of hospital trips and workman’s compensation claims.
Prevent cuts and lacerations:
- Wear gloves when working with power tools and sharp objects.
- Cover sharp edges, such as rebar.
- Retract or cover blades when not being used
- Use equipment that is in good condition, avoid using dull blades.
First aid for cuts and lacerations:
- Call 911 for severe injury and treat for shock if necessary.
- Do not attempt to apply a tourniquet unless the injury is life-threatening. If a tourniquet is needed due to severe blood loss, place it two inches above the wound and never on a joint.
- Use sterile gauze or a clean cloth and apply gentle pressure to stop the bleeding. If bleeding is heavy, muscle or fat tissue is visible, or the wound is gaping, seek medical attention immediately.
- Clean the wound with water and remove any dirt or debris from the area.
- Apply an antibiotic cream to the area and cover with a clean bandage or sterile gauze.
Overexertion and Heat Stroke on Construction Sites
Construction workers are often working outside in harsh conditions, leading to weather-related health emergencies, including heat exhaustion and hypothermia. Signs of heat stress include headache, dizziness, nausea, weakness, and confusion, and in more serious cases of heat stroke, the signs include high body temperature, profuse sweating, or hot, dry skin. With hypothermia, where the body’s core temperature has dropped, signs include poor coordination, blue lips and fingertips, disorientation, irritability, and slow breathing.
Preventing Heat Stroke:
- Wear light, loose clothing.
- Drink plenty of water, at least one pint per hour.
- Take frequent breaks in shady or air-conditioned areas.
- Be mindful of wearing waterproof clothing that doesn’t breathe.
- Notice the signs of heat fatigue and treat them before symptoms worsen.
Treating Heat Stroke
- Call 911 immediately if a worker is showing signs of heat stroke.
- Move the worker to a cool, shady area.
- Loosen the person’s clothing.
- Try to have a fan on the worker.
- Apply cool water or ice packs to his or her skin.
Preventing Hypothermia
- Dress in layers, choosing an inner layer that wicks moisture away from the skin and an outer layer that repels wind, snow, and rain.
- Protect your hands, feet, and head with gloves, wool socks and waterproof shoes, and a hat.
- Drink plenty of fluids and eat to fuel your body to stay warm.
- Take breaks in warm areas and seek shelter from wind and moisture.
- Move your body to warm your core.
Treating Hypothermia
- Call 911 or take the victim to a hospital.
- Provide warm, dry shelter.
- Keep them awake and monitor their breathing and pulse
- Remove wet clothing and provide warm covers or blankets, taking care to warm the core.
- Give warm, sweet drinks, but only if the person is conscious.
Sign Up for a First Aid Course in Raleigh
Construction accidents and injuries are all too common, but many can be prevented. However, if someone does get injured on the job, having the skills to step in and provide first aid can save their life while you’re waiting on help to arrive. To get certified in both CPR and first aid, sign up for a CPR class at our Raleigh location, or if you’d like to provide on-site first aid training for your team, reach out to us today at 919-639-4848 or fill out our contact form today! | https://cpreducatorsinc.com/how-to-prevent-and-treat-construction-site-accidents/ |
Avoid Exercise Injuries
There are steps you can follow in order to prevent injuries when you are exercising. Warming up helps circulate the blood and oxygen to your muscle and joints to prepare the body for exercise. If you do not warm up properly, you can suffer some serious injuries. This is a very common and at the same time this is how you get injured. Damaged muscles can take days to repair themselves. Here are some steps you can take to avoid exercise injuries.
Warm up
Sometimes a warm up can seem redundant – won’t your body warm up anyway after you’ve been working out for a few minutes? Yes, but warming up first can help loosen your muscles and joints before you get into the higher intensity workouts, which is when most injuries happen. Though it may seem like a waste of time, but make warming up a priority in your workout routine.
You can warm up by doing some light cardio (e.g. walking) before a cardio or weight training session. Five minutes is usually good enough to get your body ready for exercise; if you have any medical conditions, such as asthma, a 10 minute warm up may be right for you.
Cool down
Cooling down and stretching your muscles after a workout is just as important as a proper warm up. A
few minutes of stepping down your intensity gradually and then gently stretching out the muscle groups you just worked can go a long way in preventing soreness and strain. This applies no matter what kind of workout you do, everything from running to aerobics to cycling to weight training. | https://www.fitfullforce.com/post/avoid-exercise-injuries |
Before you step out the door and go for a run, there are certain preparations that need to be made.
Set your goals
You need to consider the goals you have for each run you do and how they will contribute to your longer term goals.
• For steady running, you should aim to run comfortably and avoid any overexertion.
• Key sessions such as speed work have more measurable goals of covering certain distances in a specified time. These should be set at a realistic level that will be challenging but not unobtainable.
• As your training programme progresses, you should notice a marked improvement in your running as you move nearer to attaining your long-term goals.
Route preparation
You should plan in advance where you are going to run.
• Establish some familiar routes in your area. This will help you know what conditions you will face once out on the run and how long it will take.
• Check the weather and likely underfoot conditions and make sure you have the appropriate kit for what will lie ahead. Choosing the right amount of clothing and correct running shoes for the surface you will be running on will be the difference between a comfortable and an uncomfortable run.
Body preparation
Prepare your body for exercise properly.
• Eating has to be done at least two hours before running to allow the digestive system to work properly. Meals should be light so as to avoid stitches and stomach cramps when exercising.
• Fluid intake is very important. It is best to drink small amounts regularly throughout the day in order to keep your body hydrated. Running will make you sweat and if you are not properly hydrated, your performance will be affected.
• If possible, avoid rushing around in the hours preceding a training session. To run at your best, you need to conserve energy.
Warming up
It is crucial that you warm up properly before a training session so that the risk of injury is kept to a minimum.
• For steady running, you should always stretch the major muscle groups for at least 15 minutes beforehand and then take it easy over the first two miles so that your body can warm up and prepare itself for a faster pace over the rest of the run.
• For the key sessions in your training program where you will be running harder and at a faster pace, it is essential that you carry out a thorough warm-up. Begin with a 15-minute jog to warm the muscles and increase the blood flow. After this, stretch the warmed muscles to give yourself greater mobility (try to spend at least 10-15 minutes stretching the major muscle groups). To conclude the warm-up, perform four ‘strides’ – fast but relaxed runs – of 100m, concentrating on stride length and arm motion. This will raise your heart rate to the required intensity for the session ahead.
Cooling down
After the main part of the session it is important to include a cool down of relaxed loose running. Aim to do this for five minutes less than your warm up jog, so if it lasted 15 minutes, warm down for 10. You should also do a post session stretch, following the same guidelines as for the pre-session one. This will avoid any stiffness or soreness the next day.
After training
After you session it is important that you replenish the body’s depleted energy stores on completion of a run. The best time to do this is within the first hour of exercise.
• Choose snacks that are high in carbohydrates, such as bananas or energy bars. Drink plenty of fluids to replace those that have been lost through perspiration.
• If possible, use the first hour after exercise to relax and give your body a chance to recover.
Conclusion
To maximise the effectiveness of your training session it is important to prepare yourself both before and after each run. | https://beurbest.com/sports-coaching-events/tips/running-guide/ |
When you run every day for 30 days you are bound to learn a few lessons about yourself and what you are capable of.
If you do decide to take on this challenge then here are my recommended tips, or lessons I learned from my RED experience.
.1. Plan
I worked out in advance, when, where, and how long I was going to run for. I uploaded all my runs, into my watch, so no matter what I knew exactly what I needed to do. All I had to do was press start, and go.
Going on holidays also meant that I checked out google maps for possible routes, and scouting running locations helped me to be better prepared.
Setting out all my gear the night before also took out all the guesswork and would mean that I could just roll out of bed in the morning and set out. This meant looking at the weather app to decide what I would need.
.2. Slow Down
When I set this challenge I set some ground rules.
Rule #4 was to stick to my training plan. That was a given, this meant on my ‘rest’ day’s I took my run super easy.
This meant keeping my heart rate low (zone 2). It also meant really listening to my body, my breathing, and my mind.
There were days where my easy runs felt really easy yet, I was still running a pace of 6:00 p/k.
Then there were days where my legs felt like was running in wet cement.
Having read Matt Fitzergald’s 80/20 running, effort became key over time.
.3. Warm up
It’s easy as a runner, to just strap on your shoes and head out the door.
Taking the time to warm up your body prior to your run, will not only help you perform better while running but will also help prevent injury.
Depending on what type of run I would do would determine what type of warm-up I would do.
If I were running intervals or a tempo session, then my warm-up would be a slow easy pace run for 10 minutes up to 3km. I’d also include some strides to get those fast twitching muscles fibers activated.
On recovery days or easy run days, I would do a dynamic warm up.
Nike Training Club has a fantastic dynamic warm-up that is only 7 minutes, yet it’s a full body routine and has quick to become one of my favourite ways to warm-up as all the guesswork has been taken out for you.
.4. Cool down / Mobility
I could count the number of times I’ve finished a run and just jump in the shower and not done any type of post-workout recovery.
Stretching is one of those things that is all to easily forgotten.
Your body will thank you if you take the time to do a 10-15 minute cool-down.
Not only will it help to prevent injury, but it will also aid in recovery, and increase your mobility.
Again, Nike Training Club has other workouts designed specifically for runners.
If I didn’t choose one of these routines, my cool down would feature a few of my favourite post-run stretches like lizard pose, pigeon pose and everyone’s favourite, downward facing dog.
.5. Have Fun
Setting this goal over my holidays didn’t make it feel like a chore.
If anything I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Make the effort to enjoy your surrounds. Take the road less travel, turn left instead of right. Get lost, I know I did, and it poured down with rain when it happened.
I got to witness some wicked sunrises.
Run with friends, run on your own.
Sure there were days where I felt like ‘omg why am I even doing this’. Yes, those moments came, but to shift my mindset I would put on my favourite tunes, look up and have my own little dance party, not caring what anyone else thought.
Have you ran every day for a month?
If so what did you learn from it? | https://matildaiglesias.com/2018/10/12/5-lessons-learnt-from-running-every-day/ |
Most runners have experienced sprains, strains and other minor injuries. But marathon running is a step on from regular running – not many people run 26.2 miles in one go. It sounds tough and obviously intensely tiring- but can running marathons be dangerous? Read on to find out just how dangerous running a marathon is – and how to protect yourself during training and in the big race.
The biggest problem for marathon runners is dehydration. This is especially true if the weather is hot and humid. You can lose 4 litres of fluid through sweat and exhalation, so it is crucial that marathon runners keep hydrated.
Well before race day, it’s important for runners to start preparing. Many injuries can be avoided by properly preparing, ensuring high levels of fitness, warming up before the race and doing the right preparation stretches.
A huge 4,923 runners and members of the public needed medical help during the 2012 London Marathon. These were mostly only for minor issues but in 2011, around people 6,000 needed assistance for heat exhaustion.
Deaths in Marathons Runners
Fatalities in marathons are rare. Only 11 people have died in the London Marathon since its beginnings in 1981 (ten men and one woman – all over 40 years old). Seven of these deaths were linked to existing hidden heart conditions, such as blocked blood vessels and congenital structural problems.
One death was due to drinking too much water (hyponatremia) and two people died from a brain haemorrhage.
US researchers analysed 11 million marathon runners who took part in races between 2000 and 2010. Over the decade, 59 of the runners had a cardiac arrest and 42 of these people died. This works out to be one death in every 259,000 runners with most suffering from heart conditions.
How to Avoid Problems When Running a Marathon
Once you begin marathon training, you should only increase your training mileage gradually by around 10% each week and no more. This is to avoid exhaustion and to help your body become accustomed to the exercise intensity.
Separate your days of high distances with a couple of days of lighter training and have regular rest days to give your body time to recover. Make sure you get enough sleep during training too, as this is vital for recovery.
Unless the marathon route is very hilly, don’t worry about lots of hill training as, although hill running builds leg strength, you should concentrate on building up your mileage over flatter ground.
By following a slow and steady marathon training plan, you should build stamina in a healthy way. If you get an injury or become ill during your training period, always take a break don’t start running again until you are fully recovered.
Trying to get back into training too soon could make you ill again and set you back further in the long term. This is where runners need to be disciplined and recognise that rest is hugely important when preparing for such a challenging race as a marathon.
How Fit Do You Need to Be to Run a Marathon?
Experts suggest that when preparing to run a marathon, you should be able to comfortably run 15 miles in one continuous session with a month to go before the big race.
This ensures you can handle this type of distance. When they say ‘comfortably’ be able to run 15 miles, it means you should still feel there is some gas left in the tank after this distance.
Running a marathon is a big physical challenge and it’s important that you prepare well in advance, ensuring that you build up your stamina and strength steadily and safely, so that you can deal with the longer distance.
On the Day of the Race
On the day of the big race, make sure you eat a balanced and carb-rich meal a few hours before running. You should also be eating energy-rich foods for a few days before in preparation.
You should wear comfortable clothing for the weather, a baseball cap or visor if it’s sunny and choose trainers you’ve run in many times before and know are comfortable. The last thing you need in a marathon is a blister.
Make sure you warm up properly, don’t set off too fast as you’ll need to pace yourself for the distance. During the race, if you feel any pain or discomfort, you should stop and walk for a while. If pain persists, withdraw from the race. There is no point risking your health and there’s always next year!
Do the Benefits Outweigh the Risks?
Experiencing a serious medical issue during a marathon is very rare and if this happens it is usually in connect with a pre-existing health condition.
For the vast majority of people, the health benefits of running far outweigh the risks.
If you have any concerns about your fitness levels and marathon training, it’s always a good idea to talk to your GP who can discuss your health and safe fitness training with you.
Share your thoughts on marathons, risks of marathon running and health benefits
Have you ever run a marathon? How did you find it?
What was the biggest challenge in preparation and on race day?
What are your tips for preparing for a marathon?
Do you have any tips on warm ups, stretching, cool downs and recovery sessions?
What are the best foods to eat before the race? And for recovery?
Share your thoughts on marathons in the comments. | http://www.mystrengthtraining.com/2673/marathon-running-dangerous/ |
It is sometimes difficult to tell whether an ache or pain is something that will pass or something more serious. So how do you know if you should stop running or walking? If you experience any of the following symptoms, you should stop and seek medical assistance:
- Your pain increases during your run/walk
- You experience a sharp pain during your training session
- Your pain causes a change in your running form such as favoring one leg
- You have swelling
- You have pain at the site of an old injury
- You "hear" the sound of your pain, i.e., a grinding, crunching, or clicking
If you are experiencing any of these symptoms, stop running or walking and talk to your coach or FIT Specialist about the pain you are experiencing. You might also need or want to seek advice from a healthcare provider to make sure you aren't doing serious damage before you continue running/walking on the injury.
Here are several things you can do to prevent an injury in the future.
- Warm up and Cool down. Cold and tight muscles are much more likely to be injured. Cooling down is just as important as warming up.
- Stretch (stretch warm muscles only). We recommend stretching after a workout, because your muscles are warmed up and less likely to be damaged by the stretching.
- Alternate your running days. Try not to do hard workouts two days in a row. This negates proper recovery by stressing the muscles that the body is trying to repair.
- Do not increase your mileage more than 10% per week. Too much, too soon, too fast leads to overuse injuries.
- Add cross training or resistance training to your weekly training. Proper resistance /cross training helps strengthen muscles and connective tissues. | https://www.fleetfeet.com/s/buffalo/training/no-boundaries/resource-page/training-tips/injury-and-injury-prevention |
Injuries are common in American football due to the combination of high speeds and collision contact. They can occur almost anywhere in the body, but data from college athletes shows that ligament sprains of the knee and ankle are the most commonly reported injuries. However, certain player positions may be more prone to injury overall and the type of injury sustained may vary among the positions. While ankle sprains and knee injuries to the anterior or posterior cruciate ligament (ACL/PCL) or to the menisci (cartilage of the knee) are common due to the cutting motion of running players, shoulder injuries to the acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) or labrum (cartilage surrounding shoulder socket) are especially common in running backs and linemen.
In addition, football players are susceptible to concussions, a subject that has garnered a lot of recent media attention. A concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury caused by a blow to the head or body, a fall, or other high velocity impact that shakes the brain inside the head causing chemical changes and sometime brain cell damage. Coaches and players should familiarize themselves with the signs and symptoms of concussions, which may include headaches, dizziness, vision changes, nausea, loss of balance, drowsiness, numbness/tingling, and difficulty concentrating. Not all those who suffer a concussion will lose consciousness, and an athlete suspected of sustaining a concussion should return to play only after evaluation and clearance by a medical professional.
While traumatic injuries such as concussions and lower extremity injuries are the most common, overuse injuries caused by a player training beyond the body’s ability to recover do not receive enough attention. Lower back pain and patellar tendinitis (knee pain) are injuries commonly associated with overtraining syndrome.
Steps to Prevent Common Football Injuries
Sport participation physical
Athletes should have a pre-season health and wellness evaluation by a doctor before participating in any sport.
Warm up, stretch, and cool down
A long and flexible muscle is less prone to injury. Always take time to properly warm up and stretch before any activity and don’t neglect stretching after practice as well.
Hydrate
If you have not had enough fluids, your body will not be able to effectively cool itself through sweating and evaporation. The musculoskeletal system is sensitive to changes in our body’s water and electrolyte levels, which can also be quickly depleted with excessive sweating. Even mild dehydration can impair athletic performance and may cause cramping, muscle strains or tears.
Proper technique
Learn to tackle with the head up and do not lead with the helmet. Use the front of the should as the main point of contact. Head-first tackling, commonly called spear tackling, not only increases the risk of injury to you and the player being tackled, but it may result in a penalty on the field.
Proper equipment
Make sure your protective gear is the proper size and fit. Always wear a helmet, but you should also wear shoulder pads, hip pads, knee pads, a tail pad, mouthguard, as well as cleated shoes and non-shattering eyewear or contact lenses.
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Anyone can experience a fall but the elderly faces a higher risk particularly those who have long-term health issues. Falls are common but often an overlooked cause of injuries. Adults over the age of 65 will have at least one fall in a year.
Most cases of falls do not result to serious injury. Nevertheless, there is always the risk for a fall to lead to fractured bones and causes the individual to become withdrawn, lose his/her confidence and has a feeling as if they lost their independence.
What should I do?
If an individual experiences a fall, it is vital to stay calm. In case the individual is not injured and feel stout enough to move up, it should be done in slow manner. Roll the individual onto your hands and knees and look for a firm furniture such as a bed or chair.
The individual should hold on to the furniture using both hands for support and if ready, he/she slowly gets up. The individual should sit down and rest for a while before resuming daily activities.
If injured or unable to get up, the individual should call for help.
Look for something warm such as a blanket to cover the individual especially his/her legs and feet. Make sure that he/she is comfortable and change position at least every half an hour or so.
What are the possible causes?
The natural aging process puts the elderly at higher risk for a fall. It is important to note that falls are the usual cause of injury-related deaths among individuals over 75 years old.
Older individuals are prone to a fall since they might have the following:
- Poor vision
- Balance problems and muscular weakness
- Long-term health issues such as dementia, heart disease or low blood pressure that can result to dizziness and momentary loss of consciousness
Fall prevention
There are various measures that can prevent a fall. Daily measures around the house include:
- Use non-slip mats in the bathroom
- Get help with lifting or moving objects that are heavy or hard to lift
- Mop up spills to prevent slippery, wet floors
Getting rid of clutter and making sure that all areas in the house are properly lit can prevent falls.
Disclaimer / More Information
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Hello to you all, hope you are all completing successful activities whatever it is. Hopefully no injuries!! If so how do you cope?? – We all develop numerous ways of helping & supporting ourselves through these times.
Last year I was having a very successful start to my running year, I was Recci running the South West Coast path with a friend as I am planning a Charity event this year. Out in windy January and rainy February on a slippery & Muddy coast path. It was great.
While on Holiday in June I sustained a left calf injury that hampered the rest of the year. Nightmare!!!!!! – What will I do? Will I ever Recover Properly? How will I get over this? How long will it take? How much will it cost for expert advice?
All the same questions you ask yourself, well since October of last year, I have been on the road to recovery. The new aim is to prevent injuries like that again.
I am lucky enough to be able to visit Angela Parsons Massage Therapy who practices nearby. I had a good body MOT with her and she managed to help & support me through the Great North Run in Sept. It was my 15th time I have completed it and I just needed to get through to the finish.
I had another session with Angela, 2 weeks after the GNR and she gave me some bespoke exercises and body training that would help me recover. She found I had tight Hip Flexors.
This is where you must be dedicated, it’s easy to just forget or only do 5 minutes when you really know it should be 20mins. Through these times you have mind talk – Will I ever get back to “Normal”?
It worked for me – Keep the faith.
As we get older its times where you must adjust to the new position you are in, I was very determined to ensure I followed the plan as closely as possible.
The start of 2019 was a “New Start” I started back jogging for 20mins at a time, when I took the dog for a walk, but I ensured I warmed up correctly (As per the Plan) and only ran off road so it was a little softer. Followed the plan to stretch and cool down afterwards. I would encourage my 12 year old son to accompany me for support as well. Although he would go off and leave me behind…..
I started to look at the finer points. What else could aid my plan to prevent further injuries, what supplements could I use, we all take what we think is good for us, but could I find anything that would help me with that extra 10-20%. I am now also taking Organic Turmeric Curcumin & Organic Black Pepper tablets. They were recommended to me to prevent sore joints and aid flexibility. They seem to have helped & supported. Or are they? It might be my new stretching regime.
Now that I am back up to 8 miles off road running, with my son alongside me, on his Mountain bike. I am finding that all those days of stretching, massage therapy, just walking, sitting correctly while driving are starting to pay off.
I have also found a new liking to the Fuel10k products. Porridge pots and Protein cookies are my favourite. Looking for that extra 10-20% that could help me boast my aid to achieving my goals.
My running plan now involves more cross training, I am also doing Hatha Flow Yoga, might only be 3 sessions a month but at 1.5hrs at a time it has really helped. I practice at home with the same stretches every other night. My 12 yo son & 16 yo daughter have a good laugh but join in as well. We can make it a good family session for 20 mins. I have also ensured that as I drive a lot for work, I make planned stops to get out and stretch and walk around.
This has again really helped. Plan it and Do it, we are always trying to get everywhere too fast.
Think long term, it will help enormously in the future.
This weekend is another challenge to see how my recovery plan is working. I am taking part in the Lulworth Cove Coastal half on Saturday, in Dorset.
I will proudly be wearing my “Running Dads” shirt…
I will have an update and more on my new plan, next month. | https://www.runningdads.org/single-post/2019/03/24/Running-Dads-Case-Study-- |
August 8th, 2019 / 0 Comments
According the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 200,000 children ages 14 and younger are involved with playground-related injuries. Many common injuries consist of bumps, bruises and sprains, but regulating your exposure to hot weather is also a big factor. Xian Zhao, M.D., in the division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Children’s National Health System, offers his top tips for parents to ensure their children can stay safe and have fun in the sun.
Stay hydrated
Many of the injuries that doctors in the Children’s National emergency department see are due to prolonged exposure to hot weather. According to Dr. Zhao, sweating is your body’s normal method of regulating your temperature when you get too hot. However, heat-related illnesses can occur if these cooling mechanisms are overcome.
“Heat related injuries can lead to heat cramps, heat exhaustion and most dangerously, heat stroke,” Dr. Zhao says. He recommends that the best way to prevent this problem is by staying hydrated. If your child develops a cramp, it’s important he or she take a break and cool off in a shaded area.
Condition your body
Often times, children and teens attend sports camps during the summer in preparation for fall sports. However, if they haven’t been involved in spring sports, their body may have become deconditioned for certain physical activities. Going from no physical activity to several hours of physical activity in one day can lead to overuse injuries, such as stress fractures in the foot and legs. It’s important to ramp up activity slowly over the course of a few weeks before kicking it into full gear.
Warm up and cool down
Properly warming up prepares your body for physical activity. By slowly increasing your body temperature and increasing blood flow to your muscles, children can significantly reduce their risk of injury. Conversely, during the cool-down period after a strenuous workout, stretching your muscles after they’re already warmed up can improve a child’s range of motion and flexibility, which can ultimately help prevent soreness and further injury.
Proper safety equipment
One of the easiest ways that children can protect themselves this summer is by wearing the proper protective gear when engaging in physical activities. Depending on the type of activities your child may be participating in, it may require them to wear a helmet, pads or guards for their eyes and mouths.
“Wearing protective gear is especially critical for sports that occur at a high velocity,” Dr. Zhao says. “It’s vital that parents understand how the equipment is supposed to fit in order to take advantage of its full protective effects.”
Consult your doctor
Before your child decides to try out for a sports team, it’s important that they have a checkup with their pediatrician for a physical examination. It’s essential to make sure that your child’s physical ability matches up with their mental drive. This provides the doctor with the opportunity to ensure your child’s heart and lungs are working properly and that they don’t have any lingering injuries that could put them at risk. However, if they do find issues, you can make sure you child is treated before making an existing problem worst.
This blog post originally appeared in Northern Virginia Magazine online. | https://riseandshine.childrensnational.org/5-tips-for-preventing-childrens-injuries-this-summer/ |
There are basically two types of injuries: acute injuries and overuse injuries. Acute injuries are usually the result of a single, traumatic event. Common examples include wrist fractures, ankle sprains, shoulder dislocations, and hamstring muscle strain. While overuse injuries are more common in sports than acute injuries, they are subtle and usually occur over time, making them challenging to diagnose and treat. They are the result of repetitive micro-trauma to the tendons, bones, and joints. Common examples include tennis elbow, swimmer's shoulder, youth pitching elbow, runner's knee, jumper's knee, Achilles tendinitis, and shin splints.
WHY DO OVERUSE INJURIES OCCUR?
The human body has a tremendous capacity to adapt to physical stress. We tend to think of "stress" in the context of its negative effect on our emotional wellbeing, but physical stress, which is simply exercise and activity, is beneficial for our bones, muscles, tendons, and ligaments, making them stronger and more functional. This happens because of an internal process called remodeling. The remodeling process involves both the breakdown and buildup of tissue. There is a fine balance between the two, and if breakdown occurs more rapidly than buildup, an overuse injury occurs.
Training errors are the most common cause of overuse injuries. These errors involve rapid acceleration of the intensity, duration, or frequency of activity. Overuse injuries also happen in people who are returning to a sport or activity after injury and try to make up for lost time by pushing themselves to achieve the level of participation they were at before injury. Proper technique is critical in avoiding overuse injuries, as slight changes in form may be the culprit. For this reason, coaches, athletic trainers, and teachers can play a role in preventing recurrent overuse injuries.
Some people are more prone than others to overuse injuries. Imbalances between strength and flexibility around certain joints predispose individuals to injury. Body alignment, such as knock-knees, bowlegs, unequal leg lengths, and flat or high arched feet, also impact overuse injuries. Many people also have weak links due to old injuries, incompletely rehabilitated injuries, or other anatomic factors.
Other factors include equipment, such as the type of running shoe or ballet shoe, and terrain — hard versus soft surface in aerobic dance or running.
The diagnosis can usually be made after a thorough history and physical examination. This is best done by a sports medicine specialist with specific interest and knowledge of your sport or activity. In some cases, X-rays are needed and occasionally additional tests like a bone scan or MRI are required as well.
If symptoms persist, a sports medicine specialist will be able to create a more detailed treatment plan for your specific condition. This may include a thorough review of your training program and an evaluation for any predisposing factors. Physical therapy and athletic training services may also be helpful.
Most overuse injuries can be prevented with proper training and common sense. Learn to listen to your body. Remember that "no pain, no gain" does not apply here. The 10 percent rule is very helpful in determining how to take things to the "next level." In general, you should not increase your training program or activity more than 10 percent per week. This allows your body adequate time for recovery and response. This rule also applies to increasing pace or mileage for walkers and runners, as well as to the amount of weight added in strength training programs.
Always remember to warm up and cool down properly before and after activity. Incorporating strength training, increasing flexibility, and improving core stability will also help minimize overuse injuries.
Seek the advice of a sports medicine specialist or athletic trainer when beginning an exercise program or sport to prevent chronic or recurrent problems. Your program can also be modified to maintain overall fitness levels in a safe manner while you recover from your injury. You should return to play only when clearance is granted by a health care professional. | https://www.stopsportsinjuries.org/STOP/Prevent_Injuries/Overuse_Injury.aspx |
Players who pitch more than 100 innings in a calendar year are three times more likely to require elbow or shoulder surgery or to retire due to injury.
When a player throws more than 600 pitches per season, the risk of elbow pain was three times greater.
Playing catcher can double or triple a pitcher’s risk of serious injury.
26% of youth players and 58% of high school pitchers experience elbow pain.
30% of 9- to 19-year-old boys playing baseball experience shoulder pain.
Nearly half (46%) of youth players (average age 15 years) said that at least once they had actually been encouraged to keep playing despite having arm pain.
It is not surprising that the number of shoulder and Tommy John elbow (ulnar) ligament-transplant operations among high school and youth pitchers has risen dramatically. There are three main risk factors for this: overuse, poor pitching mechanics, and poor physical conditioning.
A player may start by complaining of shoulder pain that is present only when throwing and for a short time afterward; however, the shoulder pain may progress to where it is present before, during, and after activity. The athlete may eventually become unable to throw at all due to the pain in the shoulder. Trouble can also start when an athlete mentions shoulder or elbow stiffness and trouble “getting loose” or arm fatigue.
Chronic shoulder conditions such as tendinitis, bursitis, impingement and subluxation are closely related. All of these conditions may cause pain in the same area: in the tendon or in a pinched bursa (the small cushion that allows tendons to move over the bone as they contract and relax) next to the tendon. Rotator cuff tendinitis occurs when the tendon becomes irritated and inflamed as it rubs on the undersurface of the shoulder. Bursitis results from the repeated pinching of the bursae between the shoulder structures which puts additional pressure on the already-inflamed shoulder area. The combination of tendinitis and bursitis may result in an impingement in the shoulder. Symptoms include pain and weakness with overhead arm movements. Subluxation is where the shoulder slips partially out of joint and then returns to its original position. This causes instability of the shoulder joint and is often related to fatigued shoulder muscles.
The StretchRite can be a great tool in treating these types of injuries because it provides both stretching and strengthening benefits.
Develop proper body mechanics. It is important to make sure a young pitcher learns how to properly position his throwing arm during all phases of the pitching motion.
Perform a daily regimen of warm up and stretching exercises to decrease muscle tendon imbalances, increase range of motion, promote circulation and improve performance. The StretchRite is an effective tool to use for stretching and strengthening an athlete’s entire arm and shoulder.
Age appropriate training and recovery time is necessary. It is recommended that a youth athlete’s overall training increase by no more than 10 percent per week in amount and frequency.
Follow recommended pitch count guidelines and get adequate rest in between games to prevent overuse.
Limit the amount of throwing that the athlete does at the start of the season and build up arm strength and endurance gradually.
It is important to never allow players to play through pain and to make sure your athletes understand that persistent pain is a sign of a chronic (i.e. overuse) or acute injury that should sideline the athlete from playing until it subsides. | https://www.sportspurchasing.com/post.php?id=3406&q=52LP8Zk/MlsB2 |
Summer is a great time for children. After being dormant for most of winter, most of them are raring to come out and play in order to make the most out of the warm weather.
Unfortunately, some of these summer sports activities could inevitably lead to injuries, if the child and the parents are not being careful. Children are more at risk for sports injuries because they are less coordinated and have a slower reflex than adults.
It’s all fun and games until somebody gets hurt. Don’t let it be your child. To reduce your child’s risk of getting injured, make sure they do the following:
Be prepared. An improper technique and poor form can take its toll on the body. Before giving them your permission, make sure they know how to play the sport and understand the rules of the game.
Warm up and cool down. Remind them to warm up before practice sessions and actual games, and to cool down after they have finished playing.
Stay hydrated. Don’t wait until your child gets thirsty before asking them to drink. Make sure the kid stays replenished by having them drink water before, during, and after an activity to prevent heat-related injuries.
Wear protective gear. Always check if your child wears protective gear all throughout the game.
Have qualified adult supervision. You won’t be able to watch every game, but having a qualified coach around who knows how to respond to emergencies can be a huge relief.
Have fun, but know your limits. If your kid is trying out a new sport, advise them to be patient and learn to work their way through it.
Take time off. Make sure the kid is taking a day (or two) off every week. Taking regular breaks prevents overuse injuries and allows the body to recover and heal naturally.
Consult with a professional. If your child suffers from a knee, ankle, or shoulder injury, consult with a San Diego pediatric orthopedic doctor for treatment options. | http://sandiegoorthopedicsurgeon.com/8-ways-to-prevent-summer-sports-injuries/ |
Iliotibial band friction syndrome is an overuse injury of the iliotibial band, the broad tough band of fibers that runs down the outside of the thigh passing the knee. This injury is caused by the fibres of the band rubbing on the femur bone, just above the knee joint where there is a bony prominence (figure 1).
The iliotibial band is an extension of the tensor fascia lata muscle which is located at the side of the hip. Risk factors are bow legs, over pronation, worn out shoes and running on cambered surfaces. These factors all cause extra tension on the iliotibial band which leads to more friction.
A weakness of the hip and buttock muscles can also contribute because the opposite side of the pelvis will dip down more also pulling on the iliotibial band (figure 1). A tight iliotibial band and sharp increase in the amount of training can also contribute to this injury.
Symptoms
The symptoms are pain and swelling located at the side of the knee (the outside) and the pain can sometimes radiate up the outside of the thigh. Players tend to have more pain while jogging than while playing tennis. The pain usually starts after a fixed distance (2 to 3km) and will force the player to reduce the speed or walk.
First Aid
It is advisable to modify activities (reduce playing and training but you do not have to stop altogether), use ice to cool the area, stretch the thigh and hip muscles and make sure that the shoes are not worn and offer good support.
Cooling can also be done by performing ice massage. To do this use an ice cube or a paper cup with ice. Rub the ice on the painful area for ten to fifteen minutes. If using a cool pack be sure to place a towel between the cool pack and the skin to prevent freezing injury.
Immediate and effective first aid is essential for a speedy recovery. Have a (sports) physician examine the injury if it looks serious or if there is any doubt. In some cases the player will be referred to a (sports) physiotherapist.
How to Ensure the Best Recovery
Pain is an important signal. If pain occurs do not play or train through the pain, because this will delay recovery.
Rehabilitation progresses in three steps, from light to demanding. Here is a list with descriptions and tips for doing these exercises.
Stage 1. Improvement of Normal Function
Stretching the muscle (tensor fascia lata) at the side of the hip together with the iliotibial band will reduce the tension or decrease the amount of friction (figure 2). Stand with the left leg crossed behind the right. Bend your body as far as possible to the right. Reach up with your left arm past your left ear and then over your head to the right to give an extra stretch. Hold the stretch for fifteen to twenty seconds and then rest for fifteen to twenty seconds. Repeat this three times on both sides.
Strengthen the buttock muscles (gluteus medius, figure 3). Use a step (20 to 30cm) or stand on the stairs. Stand with one foot on the step and keep the other foot on the ground. The thigh of the leg up on the step should now be horizontal with the floor. Lift the front foot up off the step and concentrate on keeping your balance. Stop your pelvis from dipping to the side or wobbling. Hold the foot up for three seconds and then lower it slowly. Perform ten to fifteen repetitions on each leg. You can make it more difficult by using ankle weights.
Strengthening the hip muscles (abductors, figure 4). Lie on your right side with your legs straight. Contract the muscles in the thigh and pull your toes up. Lift the left leg, keeping the knee straight, until the foot is 20 to 30cm off the ground. Hold the leg in this position for three seconds and then lower it slowly. Perform this exercise slowly and build up to three sets of fifteen repetitions. Perform this exercise for the other leg too. To make it harder support yourself, using your elbows and ankles, so that your body does not touch the ground (figure 5) or use an ankle weight.
Stage 2. Returning to Training
When you can perform all the exercises in stage 1 easily and without problems it is time to think about playing again. Here are some exercises to help during this stage.
Strengthening the thigh muscles: Half squats. Stand with the feet shoulder-width apart. Bend the knees while keeping your back straight. Hold your arms out in front of you. Do not bend the knees further than 90 degrees or allow the knees to go further forward than the toes. Build up to three sets of fifteen repetitions.
Strengthening the thigh muscles: Single leg step. Stand on the involved leg facing sideways on a step leaving the other leg hanging over the edge. Bend the involved leg and point the toes of the other foot towards the ceiling. Touch the step below you with the heel of the other leg and then straighten the involved leg. Start with one to two sets of ten to fifteen repetitions and build up to three sets of fifteen repetitions.
Make small quick steps on the spot, shifting support between the left and right leg.
Strengthening the thigh muscles: Lunges. Place the feet shoulder-width apart. Bent the leg until the knee is bent at a 90-degree angle. Do not let the knee protrude in front of the foot. Keep your back straight. Bend further into the knee and then step backwards. You can make the exercise more difficult by holding a weight or by performing the exercise more quickly. Build up to two to three series of ten to fifteen repetitions.
Stage 3. Return to Play
In the event of a mild injury, there is no need to stop playing tennis altogether, as long as you adapts your game to the restrictions imposed by the injury. In general continuous jogging is worse for iliotibial band friction syndrome than playing tennis.
Adapt your training program, allowing you to start off hitting the ball from an area measuring two square meters (approx. two square yards). In this way you can continue practicing your footwork (taking small steps, positioning yourself correctly to hit the ball) without putting excess strain on the knee.
Initially, you should limit activities that will put excess strain on the knee, such as sprints, jumping exercises, low volleys, intensive left-right exercises and serve and volley training.
If the adapted training goes well you can gradually start doing more exercises, and increasing the distance you have to run to reach the ball (tennis drills from corner to corner).
After this, low volleys and smash hits can be added to the training program.
If this goes well then you can start running again. Start slowly with a warming-up after which you can do several interval accelerations. Do some turning and twisting movements while running. If this goes well you can progress to several short sprints.
After this jump training should be included such as: hopping, bounding and sideways jumps.
Do not increase your running time or distance by more than 10% each week.
Preventing Re-injury
Unfortunately it is not always possible to prevent recurrence of iliotibial band friction syndrome. The risk can be reduced following this advice:
Be sure to perform a thorough warming-up and cooling down which should last at least ten minutes. Pay attention to stretches, especially the stretch for the tensor fascia lata muscle and the iliotibial band (figure 2).
If you ride a bike make sure that the saddle is not too high or too far back.
Increase the intensity and the extent of the exercise gradually in order to avoid straining. This is especially important if you are planning to run hilly routes.
Wear properly fitting tennis shoes when playing tennis, and properly fitting trainers when working out. It is essential for the shoes to be adapted to your weight and to the surface you will be playing on.
If you have knock knees, bow legs, flat feet or high arches consult a shoe expert or podiatrist to see whether shoe orthotics are needed.
If you run on a cambered surface the downside leg is put under extra strain – be sure to change direction regularly to even out the load.
Follow the links below to see information on the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of common tennis injuries: | http://www.itftennis.com/scienceandmedicine/injury-clinic/tennis-injuries/ibf-syndrome.aspx |
There are so many ways to keep fit and millions of us take part in a sport we love on a daily or weekly basis, either professionally or as a hobby. When you are training or taking part in an event, how you prepare and what you do to recover, will play a big role in the performance level you can reach and maintain. Below, we take a look at three ways to prepare and recover from a training session.
3 tips to preparing for a workout:
1. Warm up and stretch:
Before you get stuck into any sustained workout or training session, it is important that you do a short warm up and stretch. Don’t just go straight into a static stretch as this can often do you more harm than good. It’s important to get your body and muscles warmed up and the best way to do this is by warming up on the move. A quick walk, short run or even some quick, on the spot exercises that get your limbs moving. Once you have done a short warm up and your heart rate is going, do some stretching, and focus on the areas you will be using the most during your workout. The last thing you want to do is get injured or pull a muscle 5 minutes into your workout. This is often done due to a poor warm up routine.
If you play a sport like football or rugby, you may want to kick and throw the ball about lightly in your warm up to increase your heart rate and get the blood flowing to your muscles. If you are preparing for a match or an event, it is advised to have a more sustained, intense workout to prepare your body for a more competitive workout in your match environment.
2. Eat the right food at the right time:
When you’re getting ready for a workout, it’s important to ensure you are fuelling your body with the right food and eating at an appropriate time to provide the energy that is needed during your workout. Your body needs energy during a workout and the best way to get this is by eating foods that contain quality carbohydrates and are full of protein power. Fresh fruit and yoghurts or some nuts, make a great snack if you’re working out. If you are preparing for a match or long run, you may want to provide your body with an adequate supply of carbohydrates so they can slowly release the energy your body needs during the workout. Pasta, cereal and rice are all great options here. Add some vegetables or a lean meat to add some proteins which will help your muscles during your workout.
If you are eating a large meal before a workout, you need to give it time to properly digest, so try to eat 2 – 3 hours before your workout. Likewise, if you are taking a small snack before a session, try to eat this about 45 minutes – 1 hour before you work out as you don’t want to feel full when training. It’s also important to avoid fatty, greasy foods before your workout and don’t consume too many energy foods or foods high in sugar, as they will give you a quick spike of energy followed by a sustained lull. Energy drinks and sweets like jelly babies are a great choice midway through your workout for a quick burst of sugar and energy for the remainder of your workout.
3. What you drink:
The third tip on our list of preparing for your workout is what you drink. It is important that your body is hydrated before and during a workout. Your muscles need to be hydrated to perform at their optimum level and dehydration can really impact on your performance, leaving you feeling fatigued and sometimes leading to injuries and cramps. If you are training, it’s important to ensure you drink plenty of water during the day and also during your workout. Try to get water onboard every 15 – 20 minutes during a training session. Smoothies are continuing to grow in popularity and they are a great way to provide your body with protein and carbohydrates needed for a workout.
3 tips to recovering from a workout:
1. Don’t forget to cool down:
While a pre training warm up is important, it’s also vital not to forget your cool down. It can often be too easy after you finish a training session, match or run to simply hit the shower and get changed. This is one of the worst things you can do to your body, and your muscles. A cool down is important as it helps your heart rate return to normal and allows you to start to maintain a healthy level of breathing. A cool down reduces the build up of lactic acid in your muscles, reducing the risk of sore muscles and cramp, later in the day. This is particularly important if you work out later in the day as you won’t want to be going to bed with sore limbs. A cool down is not an intense workout and can just be a light jog or cycle, depending on what your workout was. It can even be a short walk to help your body recover from your training session. The cool down portion of a workout allows blood to circulate through your body, providing nutrients and oxygen to your muscles and cells.
2. Eating after a workout:
It is important to eat within an hour of any workout (preferably within 30 minutes). This is because your body needs the food to fuel the repair of muscle tissues that were damaged during your workout. It also needs to replenish your sugar and energy levels, particularly your glycogen stores which become depleted during a workout. Protein and carbohydrates are two important things for your body after a workout and foods like eggs, bananas, salmon and sweet potatoes, all a good choice of food after a workout. A handful of nuts and seeds mixed into natural yoghurt is also a great way to fuel your body with what it needs after a workout. Once again, avoid greasy, high fat foods after your workout.
3. Hydrate your body after a workout:
Our final tip for recovering from a workout is to rehydrate your body as quickly as you can. While water is something we should all try to take on a regular basis during the day, when it comes to recovering from a workout, one of the best drinks you can take to hydrate your body is low-fat milk. Another drink to consider taking after a workout is a glass of orange juice. Orange juice is packed full of vitamin C and potassium and these can help your body restore its fuel levels. It’s important to replace the fluid lost (through sweat) during a workout, and it’s recommended for every pound lost during a workout that you drink 16 – 20 ounces of water (2 – 3 glasses). Maintaining hydration levels is crucial before, during and after your workout, so be sure that you are getting the right amount of fluid into your body before and after your workout. Protein shakes are a popular drink for after a workout and they can also be a filling snack to take in the 10 – 15 minutes after a workout, helping you get the muscle repair process started immediately. | https://linwoodshealthfoods.com/3-tips-to-preparing-and-recovering-from-a-training-session/ |
Based on my experience as an athlete and a coach, one of the most overlooked components of a runner’s training plan is ‘recovery.’ Naturally, athletes are more focused on the work they must put in to reach their goals, not the time or habits necessary to recover from this work. Running is unlike any other sport in that the body needs more time to recover and bounce back than usual. If you don’t recover properly then chances are you’re going to get sick, under-perform or get injured. My first priority when working with runners is to keep them healthy, even if that means under-training them. The longer you stay healthy the more consistent you are and only after lengthy periods of consistent training is when real results come.
While training at ZAP Fitness I had the privilege of rooming with Elly Rono, 2:10 marathoner and fourth place finisher in The New York Marathon in 2004. What was interesting about my time living with Elly while he trained for New York was not the 140 mile weeks but rather how smart he was about recovering and making sure his body was well rested. Obviously, running that much kind of forces you to rest when you’re not running, but it was impressive to see such a high level athlete focused on recovery. As a full-time athlete, Elly was able to train more than the average person who needs to work 40+ hours a week on top of their training to earn a living. The key point here is not that he had more time to train but he had more time to rest and recover and focus on eating well, getting enough sleep each day, getting massage therapy, etc. When your coach has you running 140 miles a week you can’t really afford to miss two runs in one day, let alone a full day of running. But if Elly got up and felt too tired to run he would sacrifice his mileage goal for the week without hesitation to make sure he recovered and take the day off. He was amazing at listening to his body versus letting his schedule dictate his routine no matter what.
Most runners who are trying to reach a personal goal in the 5k, 10k, half marathon or marathon work full-time – some have families, some travel a lot and some have to sacrifice sleep to squeeze their run in before work. When you add in this outside stress it’s very difficult to recover properly, even if you’re only running 30, 40, 50 miles a week. Sometimes these athletes need to do more to recover than a professional. And recovering properly is not just about making sure your body is getting consistent sleep. There are many pieces to the puzzle and it’s crucial you’re putting them all together in order to recover properly. Here are my most important pieces:
Adequate and Consistent Sleep
It’s all about accumulated and consistent sleeping patterns. Getting a good night’s rest a day or two before a race after being inconsistent the week before is not going to cut it.
Fueling properly during and after workouts
Your rate of recovery is like night and day if you’re fueling properly during and immediately after harder efforts. Plan out your fueling during longer runs. If you’re taking gel make sure to get them into your system early (before you feel like you need them) and take with lots of water. It’s like night and day when you wash one down with lots of water versus very little. Also, make sure you’re planning and refueling properly in that 30-minute window right after your workouts (electrolytes, quick carbs, some protein, etc.) to replenish your muscle fuel stores. Again, you’ll have a completely different training experience if you’re making this a habit.
Running easy on easy days
If a workout doesn’t go as planned don’t try to make up for it on a scheduled easy day. And easy days should feel easy. You’ll get more out of your quality sessions if you’re being smart about your easy days and that’s when you’ll move your fitness forward, not on a short run that’s supposed to be nice and easy.
Active stretching
Active stretching is the best way to stretch. It promotes faster recovery through increased blood circulation which helps eliminate waste and improves growth and repair of the muscles.
Body work – massage, active release treatment, restorative yoga
Maintenance massage is important to prevent injury. Don’t just get body work done when you’re injured. Schedule it into your routine every few weeks. Massage can increase your rate of recovery by helping to eliminate lactic acid, increasing blood flow in your legs and by helping to break up any scar tissue that may have built up in your muscles. The overall benefit brings about more quality training sessions and longer periods of uninterrupted training. As I said earlier, that’s truly when real results come.
Active release is an amazingly effective technique to treat different injuries but it can also be an effective prevention tool. An ART certified professional can be screened for areas of tightness or weakness that can lead to injury. It’s important to remove any adhesions in the muscles before you suffer a serious setback in your training. | https://runsmartproject.com/2010/10/13/learning-how-to-recover-properly/ |
Injuries happen from time to time, but in most cases they’re simple to cure. Soft tissue injuries can include spraining your ankle and straining your neck or back. So, what’s the correct way to treat these injuries?
Firstly, what are soft tissue injuries?
- muscle strains,
- ligament sprains,
- tendon injuries, such as tendinopathy,
- other soft tissue injuries, such as connective tissue, joint capsule and myofascial tissue damage.
What to do when you first get an injury
When you experience an injury, firstly make sure to seek professional help from a GP or physiotherapist in order to help diagnose and treat it properly.
It’s important to begin treatment straight away by applying the RICE method in the first 24–48 hours following an injury. RICE stands for rest, ice, compress and elevate.
To protect the injured area and prevent further damage, you need to rest. Next, apply ice (note – for some injuries heat is better) and compress the injury with a bandage. This will stop further inflammation and reduce pain. Finally, elevate above heart-level the injury to prevent blood from pooling in the affected area and assist swelling reduction.
Note: If your injury is related to long-term strain, such as waking up with a stiff neck or experiencing back pain due to sitting in the wrong position, the initial treatment is a little different. For these injuries, it’s best to apply heat, not ice, to the area to relax the muscles and encourage an increase in blood flow, which will aid faster healing.
The recovery process
Try to start using the injured area as soon as you feel able. Typically, two or three days following the sprain or strain should be enough time to get back on your feet. This stage is important for recovery, as getting back into action soon after an injury helps to prevent associated stiffness and scar tissue from forming.
Start moving – Begin with gentle movements; try flexing the area and putting some weight on it but don’t overload yourself right away.
Build strength – Ease back into some form of exercise as the pain and injury allows. Be sure to warm up first. You should aim to rebuild strength in the injured area to help prevent weakness and future damage.
Treat the whole area – To avoid injuring the same area again in the future, be sure to focus on building strength in the areas around the injured site too. Treat your recovery as a holistic process, taking time to build up flexibility and strength in the surrounding muscles and joints.
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The very nature of Taekwondo training exposes its participants to injury in a variety of different situations. No matter how young or old, experienced or inexperienced, anyone can be at risk for the myriad of common injuries without taking proper care and precaution.
You might be wondering: who’s most at risk? What are the most common Tae Kwon Do injuries and when do these types of injuries occur? Are they serious? How do I reduce or even prevent the chance of it happening to me?
I’ll start off by taking a look at the two leading causes for injuries in the sport, followed by more specific tournament risks, injuries that are more prevalent for the young and old, and how to take preventative measures to reduce one’s risk.
Although it may never be possible to completely eliminate the chance of injury, following some basic precautions can go a long way in mitigating it.
Injuries in Taekwondo – Who’s at Risk and How to Prevent Them
General Injuries
When a participant in taekwondo becomes hurt, it usually falls into one of two categories: acute injuries and cumulative injuries.
The easiest way to distinguish the two is that acute injuries are a result of impact related events: such as striking your opponent, receiving a kick, or breaking a board. Acute injuries are usually a direct result of contact.
This encompasses injuries like a broken nose from a kick to the head, bruising, contusions, other broken bones, and so forth. These are also called traumatic injuries, aptly named as they arise from a traumatic event taking place.
These types of injuries include:
- Concussions from a kick to the head
- General bruising
- Broken noses
- Broken limbs
- Fractured bones
- Lacerations
- Internal organ damage, like damage kidneys resulting from strikes
Contrary to acute injuries, cumulative injuries can occur at any time, even when there isn’t contact. They could be as varied as muscle strains, torn ligaments, sprained knees, tendonitis, and more. Commonly, they are the result of chronic stress on bones and ligaments, improper care regarding warming up and cooling down, or too little stretching (or too much)
Cumulative injuries include, but not limited to:
- Hamstring or groin tears and strains (from high kicking)
- Sprained knees and ligament damage (from rotational kicking)
- Tendonitis (from repeated motions)
Essentially, while acute injuries are more likely to happen during events or practice, cumulative injuries usually result from basic wear-and-tear or incomplete training regimens; by taking proper care and precaution, these are the ones that are easier to prevent.
It’s important to note that the person receiving the kick is not the only one who is at risk for injury: the person executing the technique is also at risk. Feet, ankles, knees, and hip flexors are all particularly prone when performing one of taekwondo’s many kicks.
It’s important to execute proper technique, maintain balance, and only perform them in a matted environment where you can safely land if it goes wrong.
These types of injuries can occur during sparring, practicing, or in competition. Competitions make up a large part of taekwondo at the higher ranks – so next, we’ll dive in a little bit deeper to see what kind of risks are prevalent. After that, we’ll cover adult and youth injury risk as well as how to prevent them.
Common Tournament Injuries
When it comes time to take part in tournaments, taekwondo participants have to be extra wary as to not incur injury. Often times, there will be opponents of varying skill levels going up one another, coupled in with different methods of training, increasing the risk for traumatic injury.
There’s two facts to consider when it comes to tournaments: almost half of all injuries take place in the lower extremities, while head injuries make up for the next largest portion of injuries.
The most common type of injury impacting participants are contusions – deep bruising that occurs as a result of striking or being stricken. While contusions are generally considered less worrisome than other potential injuries, they can still create their own problems – making it hard to spar or compete at full throttle due to the pain of the injury.
Almost half of all injuries in competition are contusions. Where contusions become more serious is when they involve the head – like concussions, they create additional complications for those competing.
Besides contusions, sprains and strains are the next most common type of injury that athletes endure. These are most likely to occur to the foot and ankle. The leading cause of this type of injury is the turning kick.
Injuries More Prevalent for Older Individuals
Taekwondo is an excellent way for older individuals to become more active. In one study, it was shown to improve effective balance and overall walking capabilities for participants who were over 70 years old.
Other such health benefits include the normal effects of regular exercise and fitness, such as improved strength, flexibility, and aerobic capacity.
There is also a number of psychological benefits like improved cognition and self-esteem. Despite the overwhelming number of ways that taekwondo can positively influence older adults who participate, there comes a risk.
With how tournaments and sparring is scored in taekwondo, points are usually given for kicks to the head. This naturally leads to a higher chance of concussion, and it’s been noted in a study that taekwondo athletes have a 4 times higher chance to receive a concussion than those playing American football. This is especially true for adults, as protective equipment may not always be readily used like it is for children.
Besides the risk of contact injuries, adults may be more prone to cumulative injuries than children as well. The risk of injury for adults practicing taekwondo is largely impacted by lifestyle choices.
Healthy habits like eating well, focusing on recovering after practice, and getting enough sleep can be important to help prevent injury.
Occupations can have a large impact on adults who practice the sport. Adults who take part in more stationary jobs like at a computer will need to take proper care to warm up and cool down before participating.
A proper warm up may consist of light activity for 5 to 10 minutes followed by a short period of stretching. Without warming up, one is more prone to pull a muscle and incur other injuries.
On the flip side, someone working a very active job will need to pay special attention to rest, recovery, and eating right. One such example is that working 8 hours at a construction job only to hop immediately into taekwondo for the evening can lead to tendonitis, bursitis, and other injuries resulting from overuse.
We’ll take a deeper look into injury prevention in our final section of the article, but for now we’ll be shifting into common injuries that children may face.
Children’s Risk and Common Injuries
With children, it’s interesting to note that the more training they undergo, the less of a chance that they will be injured or injure others. Besides being better at basic techniques like kicking or blocking, studies have shown that there is an inverse relationship between a child’s taekwondo belt achievements and their aggression.
In other words, the higher your child’s rank, the less likely they will be overly aggressive while the reverse is true for children who are just starting out.
However, it’s also been shown that as children progress through taekwondo and become more comfortable, they will generate greater force with their kicks. Competitions are where children are most likely to become injured, with a much higher risk of doing so than adults.
Whereas adults may be prone due to the stresses that regular practice can create on the body, children are particularly at risk during competition. These can be range from factors like facing against other competitors for the first time (different styles), to increased levels of aggression, and the point system.
In tournaments, the United States Olympic Committee recently decided to award points for kicks to the head. Previously, children in the 12 to 13 year old age bracket would be penalized for using such kicks – but instead are now awarded points.
Overall, children are more likely to experience acute injury during taekwondo due to mismatches of experience, age, levels of aggression, and so forth. One cannot completely write-off the chance of cumulative injury though: for example, a child playing in multiple sports in a single season will need to place an increased emphasis on proper rest and recovery so that they are ready for taekwondo – whether its their nightly practice session or a big upcoming tournament.
Preventing a Tae Kwon Do Injury
The first step to preventing injury in taekwondo is to live a healthy lifestyle as to prevent cumulative injury from happening. As noted above, those that are already very active will need the proper nutrition, rest, and recovery in order to get ready for each session.
On the flip side, those that live a more sedentary lifestyle will be looking to focus more on warming up and cooling down. Overall though, the goal is to maintain good physical fitness. It will help reduce the difficulty of practicing or competing so that you can focus on technique.
If you have the intangibles taken care of, then you’ve taken the first large step to longevity in the sport. This is the hard part – doing the right routine, every time. It’s easy to skip a warm up or to practice too hard on too light of a night’s sleep, but if you can stay disciplined in this area, then taking care of the tangible risks will be much easier.
The first step is to wear proper equipment. The most important is headgear and mouth guards. Given taekwondo’s focus on striking the head, especially with powerful kicks, it’s important to be protected. Soft or other protective headgear can help reduce the overall risk of concussion and other head injury. Mouth guards are important in reducing the overall chance of dental trauma from occurring.
After headgear and mouth guards, full body padding is important to help reduce the risk of injury – both for yourself and for your opponent. Padding can be worn on the arms, chest, abdominal, and legs.
Even though it can protect you from contusions and bruising, perhaps the greatest benefit is for your opponent to be wearing it – as it helps soften the blow on your feet and ankles, the most prone areas to injury.
Pelvic and groin protectors are available for men and women as well, which can help reduce the risk of injury should a kick from your opponent go astray.
Another major factor is to maintain proper hydration during each session, whether you are practicing or at a tournament. Staying well-hydrated helps to reduce heat related stress which is produced during exercise as well as maintain normal muscular function.
Overall, it will help you maintain peak performance – and peak performance will ultimately lead to being able to better react to your opponent as well as perform your own moves correctly.
Ultimately, preventing injury comes down to doing the little things right. It is attempting to mitigate the risks in all manners, from lifestyle and technique, to practicing with those that are a similar skill level as you. No sport, taekwondo included, will ever be risk free – but with the right precautions, you can come pretty close.
Injuries in Tae Kwon Do – Are They Something You Should Be Concerned About?
No matter what sport you participate in, the risk of injury will always be prevalent. While tournaments pose a unique risk for athletes (one that is still very low when looking at the total number of participants to injuries), many people will never get to the tournament level or desire to compete in one if they do.
Proper training and precaution, along with being knowledgeable of the types of injuries that occur, can go a long way in preventing one from ever happening. | https://www.taekwondonation.com/what-are-the-most-common-tae-kwon-do-injuries/ |
This session will focus on your acceleration technique, specifically we are looking at the work your legs do during acceleration. If you can find a friend to yell "go", you’ll also be working on your reaction skills too.
Target energy system
You will be training your lactic energy system.
Session warm up
Complete your own warm up to get ready for the session. Include some exercises to slowly raise your heart rate appropriate for your level of fitness and the session you're about to follow. Include some dynamic movement to gently increase the range of body movement. Use this time to think about the session, to prepare your mind for exercise and set your intention.
The main body of this session is a little shorter so you can go for an extended warm up if you want. As you’ll be accelerating quickly, make sure you are properly warmed up.
Main session
We don’t need very far for this session, so mark yourself a 1 minute distance, but you probably won’t need it all. Read the full session before picking your spot and marking any distances. This session probably isn’t best on a wet day, so if the weather is poor perhaps have a go at the acceleration within a continuous effort session, switching the focus to legs instead of arms.
- Rep one is from a standing start - accelerate in a controlled manner over a distance of about 20 to 30 meters. Hold the speed for a few seconds then decelerate in a controlled manner. If you can have someone else to say "go", you’ll be working your reaction technique;
- Rep two is the same again just to get the feel for it;
- Rep three this time start from a kneeling position;
- Rep four, start from a sitting position;
- Rep five, start lying face down;
- Rep six, same as five (just for fun);
- Rep seven, a final rep starting from a standing position again.
Give yourself lots of rest between each rep, you should feel fully recovered before you go again.
Use your strongest leg to push up from the ground and to get started. Focus on keeping your legs working underneath your body. Think about trying to push the ground behind you as you accelerate. Land on the front half (ball) of your foot underneath your body and drive down and back.
Session cool down
Gently bring your heart rate back down. If you wish, include some gentle stretching.
Reflection
During the cool down take a few moments to think about how the session went.
- Did you enjoy it?
- Did you learn anything interesting about your running?
- How do your legs feel now?
- If you did this in public, did you get any strange looks?
Information for sessions taking place at the track
There will be two sessions, both at the time of 6.15pm. In keeping with Government, England Athletics and Longford Park guidelines, these sessions can hold a maximum of 6 people. To join a session, it is imperative you sign up beforehand as we will need to manage attendance as well as supply the track with a list of attendees prior to the session. Therefore, please sign up for sessions by Monday morning at the latest so we can pass these details on. Sign ups will be a first-come, first-served basis.
Please note that although the sessions will go ahead at the same time, they must remain separate so as to comply with current guidelines, and members are expected to follow social distancing measures.
Entry is £3 cash only on the door. If you sign up and are unable to attend please let us know. We do not want the place to go to waste, and we do not want Longford Park track to lose out on takings, especially in the current climate.
Information for non-track speedwork sessions
For the alternative non-track speedwork sessions, you will need some sort of timing device and some landmarks to run between, such as trees, park benches, etc. The sessions have times for which you should aim to run between these two markers. As part of your warm up, make a mental note of your starting landmark then time yourself doing an easyish run/jog for the stated time: whichever landmark you get when the time has elapsed is your end marker. Use these two markers for the rest of the session.
As always, please remember to stay mindful of your health and safety and that of those around you. | https://manyharrier.co.uk/events/2020-07-28-19-00-acceleration-from-a-stationary-start/ |
How does location impact musicians and composers? Do ‘music cities’ – loosely defined as places where there is a higher concentration of commercial record labels, studios, publishers, or other important commercial industry players – such as Los Angeles, Nashville, or New York offer greater opportunities for artists?
While the over 5,300 respondents of the Money from Music survey lived in all 50 states and also outside the USA, approximately 11% of respondents reported living in the metro areas of Nashville, New York City, or Los Angeles – all cities that have a higher concentration of creative workers [Note 1] compared to the national average.
What is so special about these cities? Do opportunities attributed to location favor artists who play certain roles or are at a certain point in their careers? With the internet making it easy to communicate directly with … Read More »
Does organizational membership matter?
At first look, musicians and composers seem like a disorganized bunch. On an individual level, there are no qualifying exams or prerequisites that certify a musician’s level of “professionalism”. On a group level, there is no one organization that represents their collective interests. But scratch below the surface, and different structures become immediately apparent. In addition to record labels, booking agents, managers and other teammates on which musicians rely, musicians and songwriters can align with a vast array of music-related organizations that serve a number of purposes.
As musicians ourselves, we have a sense that membership in these organizations matters, but in what ways? Do musicians that belong to certain organizations participate in more revenue streams? Do they make more money because of these allegiances? Or is the inverse true; do particular types of work make it possible and/or necessary for musicians to join certain organizations? This data memo outlines the general benefits of membership in music-related organizations, then examines the qualitative and quantitative data related to organizational membership and revenue.
Survey Methods
Below is an excerpt of a paper[Note 1] by Peter DiCola that describes the methodology and data of the Artist Revenue Streams project’s Money from Music Survey.
Survey Methods
The Money from Music Survey is part of the larger Artist Revenue Streams Project. The project includes three main parts: (1) qualitative interviews with dozens of musicians about the ways they generate revenue from music; (2) even more detailed case studies in which several musicians allowed a member of our team to have access to their financial and accounting records from recent years; and (3) this Internet-based survey.[Note 2] Future of Music Coalition (“FMC”), which is a nonprofit education, research, and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C., coordinated the Artist Revenue Streams Project.
More than 6,700 eligible musicians took at least part of the survey in September and October of 2011. A … Read More »
Mythbusting: Data Driven Answers to Four Common Assumptions About How Musicians Make Money
There are a number of assumptions made about musicians and money. Some are repeated ad nausea, giving them a special status in the public debate about musicians and income as widely believed to be true, but disconnected from any verifiable data besides random anecdotes, isolated data points and personal opinion. Unfortunately, some of these assumptions are are then used to justify certain behaviors, or to inform policy decisions.
Here are four commonly-repeated assumptions:
1. “Musicians are rich”
2. “In a post-Napster world, musicians make all their money from shows/live performance”
3. “In a post-Napster world, musicians don’t make money selling music”
4. “In a post-Napster world, musicians make all of their money from selling t-shirts/merch”
One of the core goals of the Artist Revenue Streams project was to bring some data into this conversation, to give musicians, policymakers, and the general public a better sense of the complex reality of musicians and composers. In four posts, we will examine the “truthiness” of these assumptions, using qualitative and quantitative data collected through the Artist Revenue Streams project.
ARS Presentation: Leverage
On Tuesday, November 13, 2012, Artist Revenue Streams co-director Jean Cook addressed Future of Music Coalition’s 11th DC Policy Summit. Beginning with a review of the 42 Revenue Streams for musicians, Jean outlined the scope of the ARS study, and then went on to discuss the structures that determine the rates that artists get paid for three specific digital revenue streams: iTunes, Pandora and Spotify. This illustration of these specific three revenue streams set the stage for a discussion about the various middlemen upon whom artists rely to represent their interests at the bargaining table, where middlemen interests align and conflict with artists, and what options exists for artists who want to be more involved in how rates for the more complex streams are calculated.
1. Who Decides How Much Artists Get Paid?
We decided to do this presentation because … Read More »
Are Musicians Making More or Less Money?
A recent series of blog posts about musicians, music, and income have found various writers claiming – each with a level of certainty – that musicians are making more money/less money today than in years past.
In the “musicians are making less money” camp are writers who focus on the disruptions in the sound recordings sales market. They not only point to the problems with piracy, but also the shift away from album sales to singles sales, both of which have diverted consumer dollars away from physical CD sales. Simple math suggests that musicians are making less on recorded music sales because an increasing amount of royalty payments are based on sales of 99 cent singles, not $15 albums. Or, even worse, consumers aren’t paying anything at all. We have written … Read More »
How Many Musicians Are There?
How many musicians are there in the United States? There is no reliable answer. This blog post describes the difficulty in counting the number of musicians in the US, and the challenges this presents for researchers who seek to measure the creative class now and over time. We discuss the difficulty in defining who a “musician” is, the lack of reliable, centralized data sources, and the methodological choices we made when defining the population of study for the Artist Revenue Streams project.
Jazz Musicians and Money from Music
This data memo presents a snapshot of nearly 900 jazz musicians who participated in the Money from Music Survey in 2011, the first comprehensive assessment of jazz musicians in the US since “Changing the Beat.” After presenting basic demographic information, this memo provides data about jazz musician’s experience, income, and feelings about technology, and also compares the jazz population to survey takers from other genres. This memo also takes a closer look at the differences between jazz musicians who are members of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) and those who are not, and the relationship that AFM membership has with income.
Off the Charts: Examining Musicians’ Income from Sound Recordings
On Tuesday, May 9, 2012, Artist Revenue Streams co-director Kristin Thomson took part in the NARM’s Music Biz 2012 Conference in Los Angeles, CA. Drawing upon Money from Music survey findings and artist interviews, she presented some findings about musicians’ income from the sale, license or performance of sound recordings.
She started the presentation by describing the project’s methodology. The research involves three data collection methods: in person interviews with about 80 different US-based musicians and composers, financial case studies based on verifiable bookkeeping data, and a widely distributed online survey.
She also underscored that this study is not about label market share, or consumer spending, or measuring an artists’ social graph. It’s about individual musicians’ earning capacity. It’s about what they end up putting in their pocket, and how it’s changing over time.
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Whether on vinyl, cassette, CD … Read More »
Does Radio Airplay Matter?
For many decades, commercial radio airplay has been highly coveted by songwriters, musicians and record labels alike because of its enormous promotional power and reach. It has been well understood that consistent commercial airplay accompanies significant record sales, generates public performance royalties, and burnishes a recording artist’s profile.
But there have been major shifts in the radio landscape in the past ten years. We’ve seen the development of both satellite radio and webcasting as alternatives to traditional AM and FM broadcast radio, models that have a lot more flexibility about what types of music they play, and how much control they give the listener over what they hear. We’ve also witnessed the development of a stronger noncommercial radio sector, led by NPR Music and certain powerhouse noncommercial AAA stations like KEXP, KCRW, WXPN, and The Current. | http://money.futureofmusic.org/category/analysis/ |
Overview of Web3 Music Projects
Web3 (sometimes referred to as web 3.0) has become the go-to space for musicians looking to forge new paths, build communities, and push the boundaries of high-tech creativity. But how does music relate to Web3? First, beginning this inspection of the music projects in web3 wouldn’t make a lot of sense without a good grasp of what web3 actually means.
What is Web3?
A lot of attention is gradually drawn to Web3 especially in an era where cryptocurrency, NFTs and metaverse are becoming a global discussion in the digital space.
Web3 represents the next iteration or phase of the evolution of the web/internet that is built upon the core concepts of decentralization, openness, and greater user utility. Both Web2 and Web3 are iterations of the web that came after the original Web1 in the 1990s and the early 2000s. Web2 is the current version of the internet that we are all familiar with, while Web3 is its next phase.
Web2 has grown at a breakneck pace, thanks to phenomenal innovations like internet access and social networks, as well as powerful mobile devices like iPhones and Android. These advancements have increased the presence of apps such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, WhatsApp, and YouTube, among others, which has aided in improving interactivity and utility in the twenty-first century.
Web 3 and Defining Features
There is no standard known way of defining Web3. However, it has some characteristics that define it. Which are:
- Decentralization: because information would be found based on its content in Web3, it could be stored in multiple locations at the same time, making it decentralized.
- Connectivity and ubiquity: information and content with Web3 are more connected and ubiquitous, accessible through multiple applications and an increasing number of everyday devices connected to the web, such as the Internet of Things.
- Trustless and permissionless: The network will enable participants to interact without the need for a trusted intermediary and also anyone can participate without the need to have government's approval.
- Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning: computers in Web3 will be able to understand information in the same way that humans do. Machine learning will also be used in Web3. This will help in improving accuracy.
How web3 is putting control in the hands of artists
For musicians, the modern era has brought mixed blessings. On the one hand, streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music have allowed artists to reach a global audience. At the same time, those same streaming platforms are notoriously stingy; according to The Wall Street Journal, Apple Music pays artists about $0.01 per stream, while Spotify reportedly pays even less.
Such low rates may be considered "okay" for the small number of superstars with billions of streams, but for the vast majority of artists, it is meagre. While our music consumption habits have changed dramatically, the income streams available to artists have remained largely unchanged. Most musicians, then and now, resort to touring to ek a living for themselves.
Part of Web3’s attraction is financial. Who can blame artists for jumping on the non-fungible bandwagon? In comparison to the ever-shrinking income from streaming royalties that most artists receive, NFTs may perhaps be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to profit from the craft of songwriting and music production.
A few popular web3 music projects
Public pressure
Public Pressure, a web3 music marketplace based in London, cofounded by bigwigs in the fashion and designers industry Giulia Maresca and Francesca Versace, Sergio Mottola a reputable expert in blockchain and cryptocurrency investment, and a respected recording artist and label owner Alfredo Violante.
The main objective of Public Pressure is to use cutting-edge technology to build a sustainable economic model that will transform the music industry at all levels. The project is built on the Polkadot/Kusama blockchain protocol and connects artists, labels, and fans, enabling them to create and share content via NFTs.
Publicpressure.org, a sister website to the NFT marketplace, serves as a decentralized channel for the purpose of NFT Hip Hop, Punk, and Electronic Music, as well as LGBTQ, social, and mental health issues.
Atlanticus Music
Atlanticus aims to create a web3 version of streaming that musicians can profit from. It combines music and technology to create an all round marketplace for artists to list their music as NFTs while also giving artists the liberty to share music video experiences, DJ sets and other creations related to music.
Catalog
Catalog entered the NFT space in March of 2021 with the mission to revolutionize the music industry by empowering independent artists and giving them direct contact with their fans.
Catalog allows creators or artists to decide on how revenue and royalties will be shared. Artists, who also determine the rate, get to have 100% of sales and have a share in every resale. And as a result of verification done by every artist on the platform, fans can be confident that they are purchasing items from the actual artists rather than people who have stolen the tracks.
Mint Songs
Mint Songs is a Web3 music platform built on polygon network that allows artists turn their works into NFTs. Minting your songs on Mint Songs is free. Musicians keep 95 percent of primary sales while 10 percent is royalty cost anytime that music NFT is resold by a fan.
There is also an in-built analytic tool provided for musicians to analyze their sales. Additionally, through SmartLink musicians can curate and display their NFT music collections.
Pianity
In a bid to restore value to music and closing the gap between artists and their audience, Pianity was launched as the first French platform dedicated to music NFTs that allow music creators and community to create, sell and collect digital artworks that are blockchain technology driven.
One thing sets pianity apart from other web3 music projects and NFT marketplace. It is a dedicated dashboard specially for record labels. On this dashboard, a lot can be done such as publishing NFTs, setting price and distribution strategy. Artists managers and labels can even determine the rarity level of the NFT and the mode of purchase.
Audius
Audius is another Web3 music project worth looking into. It is the first decentralized music streaming and sharing platform to partner with Tiktok. Audius was launched in 2019 and allows music creators to add their own tracks. Meanwhile, listeners on the other hand can move and discover new tunes.
Audius is quite unique in its music streaming services. It integrates a combination of the Ethereum and Solana blockchains, with an NFT feature that gives creators the liberty to display their NFT collections. Artists can keep track of who is streaming their tracks and also have better control over the music distribution.
Artists are paid in $AUDIO as a reward for placing in the Audius chart. Examples of clients who have used this feature include Diplo, Weezer, and Odesza.
Conclusion
The Web3 space is still evolving, and so far, there has been rapid growth and adoption. The rate at which this new Web3 music scene has grown is probably the most remarkable aspect of it. There is a lot of experimentation going on, and there is still a lot to learn about what works and what doesn't.
Right now, the identity of tomorrow's thought leaders in the space is being defined. Artists who are willing to take a risk and do the hard work of engaging their fans with the new mechanisms available in the NFT space will get ahead of their peers and establish an enviable position in the coming years.
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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the American music industry organization, has decided to start factoring in streaming of music into whether an album is certified gold or platinum.
Traditionally, it’s been 500,000 album sales to go gold, and a million to go platinum. Now, said sales will include streaming figures. The RIAA’s decided that 1,500 on-demand streams of an audio or video song will equal 10 audio track single sales, or one album. 150 on-demand streams will equal one single sale.
Engadget notes that this makes a few album sales figures changed. These include making Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” a 32-time platinum album. Engadget and The Verge also note that the RIAA’s now caught up with Billboard. The latter’s been counting streaming in its music chart rankings since 2014.
Yep, streaming’s here to stay. At least until something even better comes along, or unless there’s a shift back to actually owning music. | https://www.diversetechgeek.com/music-streaming-now-counts-gold-platinum-records/ |
2 July 2017
I remember having a conversation with a manager a few years back. It wasn’t an easy meeting. Throughout he was leaning forward in his seat, rocking slightly back and forth, his dissatisfaction with the situation physically manifesting with every sentence.
We’d already talked about the problem at length, tried several different ways to try and change it, but still it remained and here we were. By this point he was not the only person in the room on edge.
“So explain this again,” his voice was raised, but not yet shouting “how we can be getting so many plays on SoundCloud, but we can only sell a handful of records?”
It was a fair question.
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One of the internet’s core strengths is its ability to create communities on a scale that were never possible before. People from around the world can loosely group together around a topic remarkably easily. What used to be a niche interest can suddenly be shared with millions of other people.
This has obviously had something of an impact on the music industry.
You could make a strong argument that Napster was the first music social network. Disparate music fans around the world connected together and shared what they loved. And what that was didn’t necessarily have any relation to what was traditionally deemed as popular. You could have millions upon millions of downloads of tracks and albums that hadn’t previously sold a fraction of that. Of course, you can’t compare free consumption to sales in that way, but we’ll get to that later.
The rise of MySpace is the next stop on this brief history lesson. It legitimised a lot of this behaviour, with the currency being fans rather then downloads, but the underlying concept being the same – global audiences of music fans coming together and engaging with an artist, forming a community, and accelerating the growth of that collective like a virus. Each artist suddenly is their own niche, with their own little corner of the internet full of their own fans. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of them.
Unlike what has gone before though, this global-hyper-engagement – these huge numbers – are a fundamentally different type of interaction then anything that existed before. Before, we had sales or nothing. Either you bought a record, a gig ticket, a t-shirt, or not. If you were an artist, there was no other way of someone communicating with you that they were a fan of your music, short of accosting you on the street and saying “I love your music, man! Didn’t buy your record, though.” Which, lets face it, is a shitty thing to do.
Mass level passive engagement on MySpace confused the hell out of a lot of people used to the way things once worked. “We’ve got millions of fans, we’ve made it!” They’d say, without being able to get a fraction of them to do anything other then comment on a blog post.
Fast forward to our SoundCloud problem at the start and you see this problem magnified and evolved. Not only does the ambient interaction of thousands of drive-by fans still continue, as it’s a dedicated music platform it does that whilst replacing previous ways that people used to listen to music. And not only that, it does that whilst creating a community of like-minded music fans that love certain types of music – mostly electronic and dance – meaning that the discovery and consumption happen in the same place, and that there’s no next step in the fans’ musical path.
You could have a hit on SoundCloud, have millions of plays, expose yourself to an audience bigger than any radio station or TV show, and it have precisely zero impact on the rest of your career and business. And, in the heyday of SoundCloud, you’d earn absolutely nothing from it.
Now this pattern of behaviour is going mainstream.
The burgeoning streaming services all are cultivating this kind of blended mix of engaged and passive audience. It would be unfair at this point, I think, to call them niches because they’ve grown past that. We talk about being in an echo chamber when it comes to modern news and politics, but the same is now true of music. Each service is their own bubble of curated tracks, successful artists and massive hits. Your perception of what is popular is warped by the service that you engage with.
These “fake hits” are fascinating because they are hits. They have millions upon millions of streams, coming from a huge global audience. And those streams equal a very significant revenue stream. For example, if you get on “Today’s Top Hits”, the biggest playlist on Spotify, you can expect to get at least a couple of hundred thousand streams a day – more if you’re near the top of the playlist – and that adds up to a decent amount of money if you do the math. From one playlist, on one platform.
But they’re still fake. Outside of the bubble, there seems to be very little resonance or connection. You can’t sell out shows based on big streaming numbers alone. These numbers represent attention and revenue, which is great, but the engagement is transitory, at least to the scale that the numbers would suggest. They’re the start of a fan’s journey with an artist rather then the end. The fans listening to tracks on Today’s Top Hits are listening to exactly that – they’re listening to the playlist, not the tracks. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this – in fact, quite the opposite, it’s an amazingly powerful new mode of music discovery. Where things come unstuck is where this new pattern of engagement – curation bubbles and echo chambers – slams into the traditional record industry.
After a slow start streaming has become fundamental to how tracks and artists are benchmarked. I’ve written before about how the industry loves to rank and order artists, albums and tracks, in an often-desperate attempt to try and understand what it is people actually like and are listening to. This used to be straightforward when everything was based on sales, but as the world shifted streams were – quite rightly – added to the mix.
If we look though at the way streaming services work, with their multitude of passive, lean-back playlists, and we compare that to the most engaged one-off action a fan could ever make – purchasing a track or album – we end up tying ourselves in knots.
You can see that in the way that the Official Charts Company in the UK has changed their metric for calculating how streams count towards the singles chart twice so far this year. That’s because the charts have ended up not really representing anything in their efforts to represent everything. They don’t represent music fans engaging with music, because they include a whole bunch of streams from playlists where people didn’t really engage that much.
Rather then tweaking the streams to sales formula, or come up with complicated rules about reducing that formula if a track has been on the chart a certain amount of time and isn’t growing, it would seem like it would make a lot more sense instead to just look at the engaged plays coming from streaming services. Take out the playlist and radio streams, and focus on the ones where the fan actually chose to listen to that track themselves.
If you got on a big playlist and that lead to lots of fans adding it their library and listening to it – great! That seems like a much more comparable behaviour to the traditional “sale” and also something of a lot more value to measure and compare.
That streaming services have created a genuine economy around the passive engagement of music that has been around since the dawn of the MP3 is something to be celebrated. But we still have a lot of learning to do about what it all actually means in the real world.
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We’d already talked about the problem at length, tried several different...
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Gothic alternative metal outfit Evanescence have hit a major milestone with their 2003 debut album, “Fallen“. That effort has newly been certified diamond (10x multi-platinum) by the RIAA for sales and streaming performance in the United States. That record had last been certified as 7x multi-platinum in June of 2008. This latest certification was officially announced by the RIAA on November 30th of this year.
A major breakthrough for the band, “Fallen” went on lay the foundation for the band’s career, spawning several hit singles, including the 3x multi-platinum “Bring Me To Life” and the platinum-certified “My Immortal“.
A platinum album/single in the United States represents 1,000,000 units, while gold signifies 500,000 units. Outside of traditional physical/digital sales, the certifications factor in digital streams/downloads with 10 permanent track downloads counting as 1 unit and 1500 on-demand audio/video streams from a particular album also counting as as a unit. | https://www.theprp.com/2022/12/05/news/evanescences-debut-album-fallen-officially-certified-diamond-in-the-united-states/ |
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a non-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland and founded in Italy in 1933 by Francesco Braga . It operates a secretariat based in London, with regional offices in Brussels, Hong Kong, Miami, Abu Dhabi, Singapore and Nairobi.
IFPI's mission is to promote the value of recorded music, campaign for record producer rights, and expand the commercial uses of recorded music. Its services to members include a legal policy programme, litigation, content protection, sales reporting for the recorded music market, insight and analysis and work in the areas of performance rights, technology and trade.
IFPI is governed by its Main Board, a group including representatives from across the organisation's members (including major and independent record labels), representatives from certain IFPI National Groups and the organisation's CEO. There are also two regional boards (the IFPI Asia/Pacific Regional Board and IFPI Latin America Regional Board) which oversee regional matters.
Frances Moore is the current CEO. She was appointed the chief executive with a term effective from 1 July 2010. She replaced John Kennedy, who had headed the organisation since 2005 and was also one of the co-producers of Live Aid and Live8. She was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2021 for her services to the music industry.
IFPI represents the recording industry worldwide; there are some 8,000 members across IFPI and its National Group network, operating in over 70 countries and over 70 national groups, affiliated music licensing companies and IFPI offices. According to its criteria, IFPI membership is open to "a legal entity or person which is either a producer of phonograms or music videos, copies of which are made available to the public in reasonable quantities", though the organisation does not define "reasonable quantities".
National groups and affiliate bodies include SNEP in France; BVMI in Germany; RIAJ in Japan; BPI in the UK; RIAA in the US; ARIA in Australia; Music Canada; AMPROFON in Mexico; Recorded Music New Zealand; Promusicae in Spain; FIMI in Italy and others. Record labels can be members of both their local industry body and IFPI.
Members of the international phonographic industry formed IFPI at the industry's first international congress in Rome, Italy, held from 10 to 14 November 1933. IFPI described its mission as representing "the interests of the recording industry worldwide in all fora" by promoting legislation and copyrights and "to protect the largely British-based recording industry" by promoting a global performance right in gramophone sound recordings.
The IFPI lobbied at the Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations of 1961, which established an international standard for the protection of sound recordings, live performances and broadcasts. This convention was opposed by trade groups representing authors and composers, who were concerned that establishing such "neighbouring rights" would undermine their own control over how their works were used and would result in prohibitively expensive licensing. Pressure from United States-based broadcasters who didn't want to license the records they broadcast, among other factors, kept the United States from signing the convention; the United States would not recognise a separate sound recording copyright until 1971.
In an effort to combat copyright violation, in 1971, the IFPI advocated for the Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms (the Geneva Phonograms Convention), which 72 countries signed.
In 1986, the ISO established the International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) standard, ISO 3901. In 1989, the IFPI was designated the registration authority for ISRC codes. ISRC codes "enable the use of copyright protected recordings and works to be controlled; facilitate the distribution and collection of royalties (performances, private copying); and assist in the fight against piracy".
To further combat infringement of recorded works, the IFPI and the compact disc manufacturing industry introduced Source Identification (SID) codes in 1994. The SID codes are markings on optical discs such as compact discs (CD) and digital versatile discs (DVD) that identify the manufacturer, equipment, and master discs used to create each disc. There are two codes: the SID mastering code and the SID mould code. The SID mastering code identifies the manufacturing facility used to produce a master from which moulds are produced. The SID mould code identifies the plant where the disc was moulded (replicated). Since not all optical disc manufacturing facilities have the ability to both produce master discs and replicate discs, the SID mastering code and SID mould code on a given optical disc may or may not represent the same manufacturing facility. : 3, 4
SID codes follow a standard format consisting of the letters "IFPI" followed by four or five hexadecimal digits. A number prefaced with "L" is a "mastering code", a serial number taken from a pool assigned by Philips to the manufacturer. The mastering code identifies the Laser Beam Recorder (LBR) signal processor or mould that produced a particular stamper or a glass master disc from which moulds are produced. Non-"L" numbers are "mould codes", which identify the manufacturer that replicated the disc. Phillips assigns the first 2 or 3 digits of the mould code and the remaining digits are a serial number assigned by that plant to its moulds. : 4, 7
In mid-October 2007, after IFPI let the ifpi.com domain registration lapse, ownership of the ifpi.com domain was transferred to The Pirate Bay, a group which claimed it received the domain from an anonymous donor. The group set up a Website under the domain titled "International Federation of Pirates Interests", a replacement backronym for IFPI. Ownership of the domain was returned to IFPI in late November, when a WIPO arbitration panel concluded that "the Disputed Domain Name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark in which the [IFPI] has rights" and that the Pirate Bay's representative "registered and [was] using the Disputed Domain Name in bad faith" and failed to adequately rebut IFPI's contention that he "has no rights or a legitimate interest in the Disputed Domain Name". The organisation's website www.ifpi.org was unaffected during the dispute.
IFPI publishes five annual top-ten charts: the IPFI Global Artist Chart, IFPI Global Digital Single Chart, IFPI Global Album All Format Chart, IFPI Global Album Sales Chart and the IFPI Global Vinyl Album Chart.
Launched in January 2014, the IFPI Global Artist Chart was the first global chart to accurately capture the popularity of artists across streaming channels, alongside digital and physical album and singles sales. The independently verified chart includes sales of albums across digital, CD and vinyl formats; singles, both downloaded and physical; and streams across the calendar year. The chart includes all the music of each artist featured, not just one track or album. It uses album equivalent units to combine measurements of downloads, physical sales and streams.
The Top 10 Global Artist Chart is published each year, with the number-one artist being presented with a physical award, as the Global Recording Artist of the Year. The winners have been: One Direction in 2013, Taylor Swift in 2014, Adele in 2015, Drake in 2016, Ed Sheeran in 2017, Drake in 2018, Swift in 2019, and BTS in 2020 and 2021.
The IFPI also publishes a list of the top 10 best-performing global singles and albums each year. The most recent winners, for 2021, were The Weeknd's "Save Your Tears" and Adele's 30 respectively. In March 2021, the organisation introduced its newly launched Global Album All Format Chart, which ranks the best-selling albums of the year across all consumption formats, spanning physical sales, digital downloads, and streaming platforms. The winner of the inaugural chart for 2020 was BTS's Map of the Soul: 7. In March 2022 IFPI launched the first ever Global Vinyl Album Chart, topped by Adele's 30.
Formerly, IFPI ran certifications called the IFPI Platinum Europe Awards and the IFPI Middle East Awards. The IFPI Platinum Europe Awards were founded in 1996. They are awarded for actual retail sales (as opposed to shipments) of one million albums, in one of the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom. The IFPI Middle East Awards were established in October 2009. They were awarded for sales in either Lebanon or the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, namely Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. In the GCC, gold certification was awarded for sales of 3,000 units and platinum for sales of 6,000 units. In Lebanon, gold certification was awarded for sales of 1,000 units and platinum for sales of 2,000 units.
The International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) is an international standard code for uniquely identifying sound recordings and music video recordings. The code was developed by the recording industry in conjunction with the ISO technical committee 46, subcommittee 9, which codified the standard as ISO 3901 in 1986, and updated it in 2001.
A remix album is an album consisting of remixes or rerecorded versions of an artist's earlier released material. The first act who employed the format was American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson. As of 2007, the best-selling remix album of all time is Michael Jackson's Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix (1997).
The Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and Videograms Producers is an Argentine organization member of the IFPI, which represents the music industry in the country. It is a nonprofit organization integrated by multinational and independent record labels.
The Confessions Tour is the second live album by American singer and songwriter Madonna. It was released on January 26, 2007, by Warner Bros. Records. Directed by Jonas Åkerlund, the album chronicles Madonna's 2006 Confessions Tour and includes the full version of the television broadcast special The Confessions Tour: Live from London. It was recorded at Wembley Arena during the London dates of the tour, and was released in both CD and DVD format. The DVD contains the entire concert and the CD includes thirteen live songs only. The album became the first release from Semtex Films, a production company founded by Madonna in 2006.
Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) is a non-profit organization integrated by multinational and national record companies in Mexico. Established on April 3, 1963, it is a trade association of phonographic companies that represent more than 70 percent of the market in Mexico. AMPROFON is an associated member of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry Greece, or simply IFPI Greece, is the Greek branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and is the official charts provider and recording sales certification body for Greece. The association publishes a Top-75 combined repertoire albums sales chart is compiled. The charts is published by IFPI Greece and sponsored by Cyta Hellas.
Pro-Música Brasil (PMB), previously Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos (ABPD), is an official representative body of the record labels in the Brazilian phonographic market.
Recording Industry of South Africa (RISA) is a trade association representing the interests of major and independent record labels of South Africa. Located in Randburg, RISA is responsible for running the annual South African Music Awards (SAMAs) and for music recording certification in South Africa. It also runs The Official South African Charts (TOSAC).
Persatuan Industri Rakaman Malaysia (RIM) is a Malaysian non-profit music organisation, founded on 12 December 1978, as the Malaysian Association of Phonograph Producers (MAPP). In the end of the 1980s, it changed its name to Malaysian Association of Phonogram and Videogram Producers and Distributors (MAPV). It adopted its current name in 1996.
The Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry is the trade organization that represents the interests of the music industry in Poland, and the Polish chapter of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Founded in 1991, it is authorized by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage to act as a copyright collective in the field of phonogram and videogram producers' rights. ZPAV publishes the Polish Music Charts and awards music recording sales certifications. It also issues the Fryderyk annual award for Polish music.
Asociación Colombiana de Productores de Fonogramas (ASINCOL) was a trade group representing the Colombian recording industry.
Recording Industry Foundation in Taiwan, also known as IFPI Taiwan, formerly IFPI Members Foundation in Taiwan, is the organization that represents the interests of the music industry in Taiwan, and a member of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
The Latvian Performers' and Producers' Association is a National ISRC Agency of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry with the task of representing the Latvian music industry for both national and international recording artists of all genres. Goals of the organisation are supporting Latvian artists and producers and promote development of Latvian music industry and export of music produced in Latvia, to promote and support creation of competitive music records and increase utilization of Latvian music by educating Latvian performers and producers, to officially represent Latvian music industry in Europe and international showcases, fairs and exhibitions, and to educate members of Latvian music industry about the issues of music export and global trends. The company also certifies albums and music videos based on unit sales and compiles the country's music chart.
The Global Recording Artist of the Year is an award presented by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) to honor the best-performing recording artist based on a total of album-equivalent units, which include music downloads, streaming and physical format sales. It has been awarded every year since January 2014, with British boy band One Direction becoming the first act to receive the accolade for 2013. This success was attributed to the band's third studio album, Midnight Memories, which became the best-selling album of the year. Taylor Swift was awarded the Global Recording Artist of 2014 following her fifth studio album, 1989. It spawned two international number-one singles, "Shake It Off" and "Blank Space".
The Sociedad de Gestión de Productores Fonográficos del Paraguay (SGP) is a Paraguayan non-profit organization that represents phonographic producers and performers throughout the country. SGP provides monthly top 100 and 50 music charts for Paraguay.
The Unión Peruana de Productores Fonográficos (UNIMPRO) is a non-profit organization and industry trade group integrated by multinational and national record companies in Peru composed of various Peruvian corporations involved in the music industry. It was founded in 2001 and it serves as the affiliate member of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) in the country since 2012 and also serves as the national ISRC agency. It is one of the three collective societies in Perú along with Asociación Peruana de Autores y Compositores (APDAYC) and Sociedad Nacional de Intérpretes y Ejecutantes de la Música (SONIEM).
The key actor in coordinating the industry's piracy strategy became its international trade association, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Formed in 1933, its mission was to represent 'the interests of the recording industry worldwide in all fora'.
IFPI founded in 1933 to deal with [r]ecord industry at inter-governmental level; promoting legislation; copyrights for industry worldwide.
IFPI was founded in 1933, in its own words, 'to protect the largely British-based recording industry', but, as Gavin McFarlane points out, its brief was more specifically 'to promote on a world-wide basis the performing right in gramophone records'... | https://wikimili.com/en/International_Federation_of_the_Phonographic_Industry |
Today marks a week since the release of Ed Sheeran’s third studio album, Divide.
Sheeran’s album has achieved over 273 million streams in 7 days on Spotify, breaking the previous record set by The Weeknd with his release of Starboy in November 2016. Divide has also achieved over 1 billion views on YouTube and the physical albums sales are expected to surpass 500,000.
At one point this week, all 16 songs from the album were in the Top 16 streamed tracks on Spotify, a spokesperson from the streaming site explained; “It’s fair to say Ed Sheeran nearly broke Spotify this week.”
The only artist thought to have sold more albums than Sheeran in the last 10 years is Adele. Adele’s last album, 25, is still holding the record of most albums sales, standing at 800,000 worldwide. | http://britasia.tv/2017/03/10/ed-sheeran-nearly-broke-spotify-new-album-divide/ |
The development of streaming services such as Spotify and Tidal, alongside a society that actively shares content across social media, has changed the landscape for those working in the music industry.
In 2017, streaming is projected to overtake physical sales as the biggest income generator for UK record labels, and while these developments have created new opportunities, some musicians have objected to the “pay-per-play” revenue structures. Artists and record companies have also continued to litigate copyright issues before the courts, a trend which is unlikely to end anytime soon. This article explores some of the key legal and commercial challenges faced by the music industry, and the ways to combat them.
Full article published in IP Magazine, June 2017 (log-in required). | https://www.stevens-bolton.com/site/insights/articles/out-of-tune |
A new report from Forward Analytics, Rethinking Revenues: A National Perspective on Funding Counties, highlights some of the fiscal challenges faced by Wisconsin’s 72 counties due to a long-term shift in state spending priorities, state budget cuts, strict property tax limits, and few local revenue options — challenges that remain despite an influx of federal assistance. In 2008-2019, state aid to counties declined 20 percent and inflation-adjusted county spending fell 7 percent.
The state aid decline was part of a longer-term priority shift at the state level.
“Beginning in the early 1990s, we saw a shift in state spending to corrections and K-12 education, followed by soaring Medicaid costs after 2004. This resulted in fewer dollars for other programs, including aids to counties.” said Forward Analytics Director Dale Knapp and author of the report.
State spending cuts due to budget deficits from 2009 to 2013 further reduced county aid. State funding of county services fell from 46 percent of total revenues in 1987 to 26 percent in 2019, putting pressure on county property taxes. Property taxes funded 41 percent of county services in 2019, up from 34 percent in 1987.
The move away from state funding was part of a national trend, with the share of state services funded by state government dropping in 38 states from 1987 to2017. Wisconsin’s funding decline was third largest and the subsequent increased use of the property tax was fourth largest among those states.
Two other factors limited counties’ ability to replace lost state aid:
- Since 2006, state law has limited county property tax growth to the rate of new construction. While many other states have property tax limits, Wisconsin’s is one of the strictest in the nation.
- The lack of significant revenue sources other than property taxes and fees also hindered county finances. While Wisconsin counties can impose a 0.5 percent sales tax – 68 counties currently avail themselves of this option – the allowable rate is second lowest among 31 states that allow this tax.
The report also found:
- The ability to use other revenues, particularly sales taxes, also impacted property taxes. Contrasting approaches are used in Ohio and Minnesota, where state funding of counties was nearly the same as in Wisconsin. Ohio counties are allowed to impose a sales tax up to 2.25 percent, which helped drive county property taxes 42 percent below Wisconsin’s. Minnesota counties used the sales tax less than Wisconsin counties, pushing property taxes 13 percent above Wisconsin’s.
- New York is a state where high sales tax use allows for less state funding, but also less reliance on the property tax. With an allowable sales tax of up to 4.75 percent, county property taxes were 31 percent less than in Wisconsin, despite significantly less aid from the state.
While the impact of the funding shift on property taxes was considerable, that should not be the sole focus. Ideally, county revenue streams would be sufficient to fund the rising cost of county services and would be reliable, balanced, and minimize the financial burden on those least able to pay. Wisconsin’s current system does not meet all those criteria. | https://www.forward-analytics.net/research/rethinking-revenues-a-national-perspective-on-funding-counties/ |
Drake held on to the Number One spot on the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart, though the Top 10 featured a handful of notable shake ups for the week of May 8th through May 14th.
Drake pulled in 160.9 million song streams thanks to the continued success of his new surprise mixtape, Dark Lane Demo Tapes. But despite those characteristically healthy overall streaming totals, Dark Lane dropped from Number Two on the Top 200 Albums chart — where it debuted last week, just missing out on Number One thanks to country star Kenny Chesney — to Number Three, picking up 91.2 million streams and moving 77,400 album-equivalent units.
While Chesney fell out of the upper echelons of the Top 200 after his big debut week, Drake was unable to take the Number One spot there thanks to new records from Nav and Kehlani. Nav’s latest LP, Good Intentions, landed at Number One as it moved 151,200 album units thanks to 75.3 million song streams and 75,100 album sales — though on the Artists 500, Nav only managed to land at Number Seven as he pulled in 76.2 million streams. One spot ahead of him, at Number Six, was Kehlani, who pulled in 76.8 million song streams thanks to the release of her new LP, It Was Good Until It Wasn’t, which debuted at Number Two on the RS200, right below Nav, moving 81,100 album units.
The Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart ranks the most-streamed artists of the week in the United States, taking into account audio streams across an artist’s entire catalog during the tracking period. The chart does not include passive listening such as terrestrial radio or digital radio. The Artists 500 is updated daily, and each week Rolling Stone finalizes and publishes an official version of the chart, covering the seven-day period ending the previous Thursday.
There was one other major shake-up in the Top 10 of the artists 500: Rapper Lil Durk secured the Number 10 spot with 72.1 million song streams as his latest project, Just Cause Y’all Waited 2, bowed at Number Five on the Top 200, moving 54,800 album units. And, just outside the Top 10, recent Rolling Stone cover star Bad Bunny saw a solid surge as he jumped from Number 25 to Number 11 with 69.6 million streams thanks to the release of his new LP, Las Que No Iban A Salir, which premiered at Number Seven on the RS200.
Otherwise, the Top 10 featured many familiar faces: Da Baby landed at Number Two with 85.2 million streams, Lil Uzi Vert at Three with 82.5 million streams, Youngboy Never Broke Again at Four with 81.7 million streams, Lil Baby at Five with 79.1 million streams, Post Malone at Eight with 74.1 million streams and the Weeknd at Nine with 72.6 million streams. | https://theskinwhiteningcream.com/lifestyle/drake-stays-number-one-as-nav-kehlani-rise-on-artists-500/ |
HMV boss Ian Topping has stepped down after five years in the role and is to be succeeded by retail director Neil Taylor.
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The Entertainer rules out swoop on ailing Toys R Us
The Entertainer has denied claims that it is eyeing a purchase of Toys R Us UK, which is urgently seeking a buyer.
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Retail power couple recognised in New Year Honours list
White Company founder Chrissie Rucker and her husband Nick Wheeler of Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts are among retailers to have made the Queen’s New Year Honours list.
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2017 set to be biggest year for vinyl since late 1980s
This year is predicted to be the biggest for vinyl sales since the late 1980s, as the format’s popularity grows among young listeners.
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Blower’s retail cartoon: Ed Sheeran boosts CD sales
Patrick Blower’s take on the slowdown in the decline of physical music sales, attributed to Sheeran’s Divide album accounting for one in 10 CD sales.
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Physical music sales decline slows, helped by Ed Sheeran
The rate of physical music sales’ decline has slowed to 0.5%, the latest industry data showed.
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Five ways retailers can profit from excess space
John Lewis is considering how it can make the best use of unused space in its stores, and ideas include introducing co-working or serviced office areas. Here we highlight other potential solutions to the challenge of excess space.
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Argos ups market share amid sinking entertainment sales
Argos has grown its share of the physical entertainment market as sales in the overall sector declined in a “tough” run-up to Christmas.
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Physical book and music sales robust amid digital surge
The print book and physical music sectors showed resilience this Christmas despite the prevalence of digital rivals, according to new data.
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Staples stores to disappear from UK high streets
Staples stores in the UK will be shuttered following the acquisition of the UK arm by HMV-owner Hilco for a “nominal” sum.
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Today in retail: HMV makes a chart hit of its own
There’s life in the old dog yet – Nipper that is, the HMV pooch.
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HMV steals entertainment market share from Amazon
HMV has overtaken Tesco to reclaim second place in the physical entertainment market, while Amazon’s share of the CD, DVD and games market shrunk.
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Retail diary: HMV’s rendezvous and Dixons Carphone’s hat-trick
Schuh’s retired finance boss marches on, Dixons Carphone goes for a charitable hat-trick and HMV is slicker than your average.
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All eyes are on BHS to see if new owner Al Mana Group can succeed in breathing fresh life into the brand with its ecommerce site.
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HMV posts pre-tax loss as physical music and film sales slump
HMV has posted a full-year pre-tax loss of £8.8m after sales of physical CDs, films and games continued their decline.
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Retail news round-up: Andy Street to quit John Lewis to fight mayoral contest, consumer morale rises in September and HMV's sales down
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HMV head of digital James Coughlan has stepped down from his role at the music and DVD retailer to pursue a “new challenge”.
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Market monitor: Amazon maintains strong lead in entertainment market
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Amazon records biggest-ever share of entertainment market
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Analysis: The loyalty lessons retailers can learn from other sectors
Beyond retail, loyalty schemes offer much more than discounts, something the high street must adopt if it wants shoppers to feel truly valued. | https://www.retail-week.com/hmv/2611.subject?page=3 |
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Current & Projected Online Holiday Shopping Sales Trends For 2022
- By Phil Davies
What Are We Seeing Now?
There are some notable online sales trends surfacing for bookstores in the lead up to the holiday season. The graphs below are based on reports generated from over 580 bookstores with websites hosted on the IndieCommerce and IndieLite platforms.
To get a better idea of what we are seeing in the data from these reports, it can be helpful to compare it to what we saw during the same period in 2021.
As online sales were projected to rapidly trend upwards over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a much more reserved increase in online sales this year. In the chart above, November 2022 sales between November 1–18 (blue graph) were down 38.50% compared to the same period in 2021 (orange graph). That shift in online sales this year is likely the result of increased in-store sales.
Even though we are currently seeing a drop in online sales compared to last year, when you compare 2022 sales between October 1 and November 18 (blue graph below) to pre-COVID 2019 sales for the same period (orange graph below), online sales revenue is up 147.21%.
Note: The graphs in the chart above have been adjusted so that the days of the week align for 2019 & 2022
This increase represents a huge shift in the behavior of independent bookstore customers. These additional online sales may be coming from customers who previously purchased from online retailers such as B&N or Amazon, but during the pandemic they shifted their online purchasing to support local independent booksellers.
What Are We Expecting?
The moderated sales over the past few weeks are an interesting twist on what the IndieCommerce team was projecting. We estimate two possible scenarios for online sales during the rest of the 2022 holiday shopping season:
- Online sales continue at the current lower rate (-38%) compared to 2021
- We may be observing a late start to the holiday shopping season online. If that is the case, online sales revenue numbers may get closer to what we saw in 2021, but that probably won’t occur until after Thanksgiving (if it does happen).
What Are The Big Online Shopping Days?
In the chart below, the orange graph represents daily sales revenue between October 2 and December 31, 2021. The blue graph shows sales revenue from October 1 through November 19, 2022.
Note: The graphs in the chart above have been adjusted so that the days of the week align for 2019 & 2022
Based on what we experienced last year, online sales revenue will decline this coming Thursday (Thanksgiving Day) followed by a very significant increase in revenue that will continue through Wednesday December 14, 2022. A slow decline in sales will follow due to shipping deadlines for online order delivery before Christmas.
Keep in mind that the above graphs represent total sales at 580 websites. Your store’s online sales may not be as dramatic when it comes to those peaks and valleys, but those specific peak shopping days indicated are probably going to be similar good days for your website and opportunities to market to your customers.
Consider using more frequent email marketing during this holiday season that corresponds to those key sales days. Note that customers are going to be price-sensitive this year, but are willing to pay for good values, such as books and gifts that personally resonate with your customers as well as the people who are receiving gifts from your customers.
Here are some thoughts on popular incentives consumers engage with when shopping online:
- Free shipping. Many stores set a minimum purchase amount (around $75+) per order, to get free shipping.
- Sales and clearance items — not necessarily books.
- Discount coupons. Go through your customer list and offer discount coupons to your best customers as a thank you for supporting your store this year.
- Free gift with purchase — maybe gift wrapping as a free option?
- Promote in-store pick-up of online orders. Do this on your website and in your email marketing. This will also help extend the holiday shopping season for your store.
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Gift Cards and Digital Gift Cards. These are hugely popular with online bookstore customers. You should promote them at checkout in your physical store, in all of your marketing emails, website home page, social media, paid ads, and any other place you can think of. The beauty of online gift codes is they make great last-second and Christmas Day gifts for all of those who put off their holiday shopping until it’s too late.
Along with the seasonal increase in online orders, your website may also see an increase in fraudulent credit card transactions. We’ve prepared an article on credit card fraud that may be helpful.
From the entire IndieCommerce Team, we hope you have a wonderful, successful holiday season. | https://www.bookweb.org/news/current-projected-online-holiday-shopping-sales-trends-2022-1628964 |
This course will introduce students to the fundamental principles of effective project management in the overall context of the enterprise. We will define how projects differ from and relate to operations and programs; introduce project portfolio management concepts, organizational structures, frameworks and techniques to explain portfolio planning as well as project alignment, definition, selection, and oversight; discuss frameworks to select appropriate project execution methodologies; and review the similarities and differences among those methodologies (primarily waterfall and agile) as well as effective techniques to manage each. Throughout the course we will touch on topics related to effective project management such as structured thinking, business and technology architecture, organizational change management, estimation, risk management, and communications.
- Project Organization: project- related organizational structures, processes, and support organizations
- Project Portfolio Management: alignment, selection, coordination, multi-year enterprise level planning
- Project Scope Management: definition, effective project change control
- Project Scheduling: Critical Path Management and Gantt charts. Crashing of activities and optimization techniques for crashing. Risk model for estimating project uncertainty.
- Resource and Budget Management: resource loading, resource leveling and constrained resource scheduling; cost/benefit estimation and budgeting
- Project Execution: management of ongoing project work and scope-schedule-budget
- Project Control: project monitoring and the role of information systems; project controls and feedback processes; project audit life cycle and project termination
- Human Factors: team building, stakeholder identification and management, communications, effective project leadership, and organizational change management. | https://kelley.iu.edu/faculty-research/courses/course.html?ID=BUS-P552 |
Project management,
Definition of Project management:
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Project management involves the planning and organization of a company's resources to move a specific task, event, or duty towards completion. It can involve a one-time project or an ongoing activity, and resources managed include personnel, finances, technology, and intellectual property.
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The body of knowledge concerned with principles, techniques, and tools used in planning, control, monitoring, and review of projects.
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Project management is often associated with fields in engineering and construction and, more lately, health care and information technology (IT), which typically have a complex set of components that have to be completed and assembled in a set fashion to create a functioning product.
How to use Project management in a sentence?
- On a very basic level, project management includes the planning, initiation, execution, monitoring, and closing of a project.
- I enjoyed being in charge of the construction project at our church because I am very proficient in project management .
- Many different types of project management methodologies and techniques exist, including traditional, waterfall, agile, and lean.
- If someone wants to control all aspects of a build they need to be very highly involved in the project management .
- I went back to school to get a certificate degree in project management , hoping that this would lead to a promotion and/or a raise at work.
- Project management is used across industries and is an important part of the success of construction, engineering, and IT companies. | https://howtodiscuss.com/t/project-management/14280 |
Most project managers are familiar with the five phases of a project life cycle. However, buried somewhere between the execution and the close-out is a critical period when a project transitions to production or is integrated into an organization’s functional activities. The challenge for a project manager is to identify the transition needs early in the project life cycle so that effective planning can take place in an orderly fashion and not in a last-minute crisis mode.
Some project management reference sources include transition planning and execution with little emphasis on specific concerns that need to be addressed. These efforts are generally specified as some of the last activities in the project schedule. Because of that chronological placement, project managers are often challenged to convince customers, clients, sponsors and/or users that transition planning cannot be deferred until the day before “go live”. Because transition activities require resources, there are budget as well as schedule impacts that need to be addressed early in the project life cycle. It is often in the transition stage that performance/quality may also be compromised in an effort to insert critical activities that were not previously identified. In extreme situations project managers and teams may be forced to work 36 hours or more without sleep to ensure that at least some of the transition needs are met.
What are major transition components that must be considered? A primary concern is how the project outcome will actually be implemented and who needs to be involved. What are the operational and organizational impacts that will occur not only within the organization but also throughout the entire supply chain? Who are the people who need to be involved and when do they need to be involved? A sure recipe for disaster is to “dump” a project outcome on people who have not been involved throughout the project. It’s bad enough when this type of “surprise” is internal. However, when customers, vendors and other external entities are not involved in the transition process, the results can be devastating to an organization’s continued existence. Even if the project outcome is a “win-win” situation, no one likes surprises. A customer who has not been appropriately informed that he/she will now be transacting business via a website rather than with a live person is a lost customer.
Another key factor that is often overlooked in transition planning is the use of tangible milestones and deliverables. No plan is perfect. What types of indicators need to be in place to indicate the degree of success or potential failure that is occurring? For example, if a new piece of equipment is to be installed, what tests are necessary to ensure effective operation on the day of implementation? It’s not only a matter of identifying the necessary tests but also documenting the test plan/script, specifying the required outcomes of each test and assigning human resources. Finally, what criteria will be used to determine which problems identified by the test activities need to be addressed prior to implementation?
Orderly, effective transition can “make or break” the best managed project. Early planning, involving the appropriate people and specifying relevant feedback measures go a long way toward ensuring a successful transition. No project manager can afford to “forget” transition.
Susan Peterson, M.B.A., PMP, is a consultant who manages diverse programs and projects in both the private and public sectors for individual organizations and consortia. She also conducts enterprise assessments of project portfolio management practices. Prior to establishing her consulting practice Susan led major efforts for Fortune 100 organizations throughout the United States. She teaches the Project Management Simulation capstone course as well as the Project Portfolio Management course in the University of California, San Diego, Project Management certificate program and is a member of the curriculum committee. She can be contacted at [email protected]. | http://blog.theprojectnotebook.com/2011/05/transition-the-forgotten-project-management-phase/ |
Position Summary:
The Events Coordinator is a take charge professional with the ability to manage administration, logistics and relationships associated with events in support of the entire organization in a busy environment of events and stakeholder activities. They must be able to anticipate project needs, discern work priorities, and meet deadlines with minimal supervision, and be willing to work occasional evenings and weekends. The Events Coordinator should have a love for event management and execution, proficiency in project management to see projects through from conception to execution, provide outstanding customer service, be an enthusiastic and mission-driven professional, and be able to build relationships with internal and external customers. As the primary liaison between volunteers and the organization, this position demands exceptional knowledge of managing and supporting volunteers, sound judgment, and the ability to problem solve and mitigate/respond to logistical, socio-political concerns related to volunteers. This position has responsibility for project budgets and holds relationships with event-related product and service donors/vendors to ensure event costs are as low as possible.
Events include but are not limited to Ballet Ball (largest annual fundraising event with $350,000 net budget goal), all membership events/programs, including the Ambassadors’ Society, Benefactors’ Society and Friends of Nashville Ballet, plus board meetings, promotional events, marketing events, announcement events, appreciation events, and more.
Event Planning and Production:
- Serve as the single point of contact for the planning of all Nashville Ballet events, both on and off site, working with internal departments to determine and deliver the objectives for the event from conception to event evaluation
- Coordinate and execute all communication strategies regarding events such as postal and email invitations, in-kind donation requests, fundraising and underwriting requests, RSVP management, sales communication, etc.
- Assist with negotiations for space contracts and book event space, arrange food and beverage, order supplies and audiovisual equipment, make travel arrangements, order event signs, and ensure appropriate décor (florals, linens, color schemes, etc.) to meet quality expectations
- Actively gather information on each project to achieve quality event experiences
- Effectively communicate with volunteers, staff, and vendors, delegating appropriate planning and execution responsibilities
- Create and revise room layouts for each event
- Propose new ideas to improve the event planning and implementation process
- Be the lead relationship manager with all our fundraising volunteer co-chairs (where applicable)
- Serve as liaison with vendors on event-related matters
- Assist with managing on-site production and clean up for events as necessary
- Prepare nametags, materials, notebooks, packages, gift bags, registration lists, seating cards, etc.
- Close out all events as required
Event Administration:
- Drive the event planning and execution process by creating and utilizing timelines, planning templates, underwriting lists and projections, and meeting agendas
- Assist with preparing budgets and provide periodic progress reports to volunteers and directors
- Track event finances including check requests, invoicing, and reporting
- Coordinate scheduling of events on the company calendar
- Prepare and modify event contracts as requested
- Ensure event data is being imputed and tracked appropriately within Nashville Ballet’s database (Tessitura); invitation lists, reservations, attendees, donations, etc.
- Collaborate with staff from all applicable departments, to create and implement event timeline, guest list and speaking points
- Represent Nashville Ballet at performances, School events, community events, and local business organizations as needed
- All other duties deemed necessary by management
Volunteer Management:
- Serve as the primary point of contact for Ballet Ball Co-Chairs to manage logistic/fundraising progress, support administrative needs, and otherwise keep their event planning efforts on track for a timely and successful event
- In collaboration with Ballet Ball Co-Chairs, organize and manage the Ballet Ball Committee members (as needed, varies from ball to ball)
- In collaboration with the Ballet Ball Manpower Committee, organize and manage all day-of volunteers for Ballet Ball set-up
Work Requirements and Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with donors, volunteers, staff, and vendors
- Exceptional attention to detail and ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously
- Excellent writing and editing skills
- Effective project management skills, including setting and meeting deadlines
- Ability to make decisions and creatively solve problems
- Experience and aptitude with Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and database management, preferably Tessitura
- Demonstrated commitment to the mission of the organization
- Experience: 1-3 years of special event planning experience (preferred but not required)
- Requirements: Ability to work some evenings and weekends for events and performances
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are a non-exhaustive list of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to handle, feel, talk, and hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms above the shoulders. The employee is frequently required to sit and occasionally stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative to those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.
Disclaimer Statement:
This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts or working conditions associated with the job. While this document is intended to be an accurate description of the current job, circumstances may require that other, or different tasks be performed (e.g., emergencies, changes in personnel, workload, rush jobs, or technological developments).
To Apply:
To be considered for this position, please email the items below in one PDF file with your name as the filename to [email protected]. Include “Events Coordinator” as the email’s subject line. No phone calls, please. | https://members.nashvillelgbtchamber.org/jobs/Details/events-coordinator-106966 |
Over the time, the definition, practice, and principles of project management have changed in the face of increasing globalization and technological advancements. In essence, the definition of project management begins with the understanding of the concept of the project, which is a temporary undertaking with a definite timeline. Project management researchers and theorists have based their definitions on the current trends and the projections for the future. In the past, the concept of project management acted as a planning and technique-oriented academic field, which mainly applied in engineering works and optimization. In the contemporary times, the advancement in technology has resulted into project planning software that improves the business process, decision making roles of managers, and the ease of execution of projects (Hornstein, 2015). Project managers and their teams should understand the goals, integration needs of the organization and achieve the requirements of the projects within the terms and conditions of the tasks. Project management includes activities that promote the efficiency, effectiveness, timely, and quality execution of projects as per the guidelines, policies, budget, and skills, which results in meeting the project requirements.
Lots of research has focused on the methodologies that enhance the general factors of successful project management. As far as the mid-20th century, project management gained popularity as a profession with strong academic interest and emergence of creative methods and strategies for successful project management. However, even with the passage of time, there are recurring elements of project management that remain to date, including stages of initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and the closing of projects. In most instances, scholars and researchers have focused on different areas of project management such as integration, time, scope, cost, procurement, quality, communication, and human resource and stakeholder management (Olson, 2014). Therefore, project management principles and concepts should bear in mind these factors for the achievement of project requirements. Cost and time are considered to be ideal factors at the onset of the study on human resource management. However, with time, integration, communication, and management of stakeholders' expectation have evolved to become integral for the managers of different projects across any industry. Successful plans have to be shaped by the resources and schedules, goals, and timeline, which the project managers have to adhere to during the project.
Project management as a practice and profession has evolved to become a central activity in almost all organizations in such areas as improvement of existing products and services, software development, marketing campaigns, and initiation of new service. Through effective project management practices, organizations can efficiently control such demerits as delays, failure to deliver on project expectations, and other disappointments. Furthermore, most projects fail to meet the budget goals and the expectations of the stakeholders, which create a gap. Project management concepts have evolved, beginning in the 1960s up to the current timeline. For example, the project management concept of the 1960s focused on scheduling, while the next century majored on teamwork and participation amongst the members of the project team (Hornstein, 2015). Consequently, the ensuing centuries concentrate on uncertainty reduction through firm decisions, the orchestration of contending demands through simultaneity, and strategic focus and globalization. The evolutionary path of project management concepts has ideally meant that individuals and organizations have to adapt to the changes in business management such as technology and globalization.
Fundamentally, project management goals should address the categorization challenges in most organization. Most organizations categorize projects for undertaking based on different organizational purposes such as differentiation of new and ongoing projects, capability alignment, and strategic alignment. Most project management works efficiently upon the categorization of the projects regarding novelty, complexity, technology, and criticality of the timeframe. The categorization guidelines enable for efficiency in the application of project management concepts to achieve the goals and outcomes. Importantly, in-depth understanding of project management concepts and theories highlight the importance of increased studies to explore closer categorization goals, according to Hasibuan and Dantes (2012). For instance, should there be different approach while managing projects across diverse industries such as hospitality, petroleum, sports, agriculture, and business management? Categorization of different sectors enables the achievement of project goals through specificity and specialization to avoid clouding and blunt approaches that practitioners employed in the past. Project planning and execution require specific knowledge and project leadership, which are ideal values that project managers should possess.
Project management impacts on ERP systems implementation
The ERP system entails a set of application software that defines, organizes, and standardizes the organizational processes for more natural management through planning and control. Businesses have benefitted from the evolution of technology and computers, which has resulted in different models, software applications that improve the management of organization's activities. Through the ERP system, organizations can understand and enhance the relationship between processes and products, enhance the ability to control the information flow across different departments, improve the procedures in the organization such as in the production and distribution of products. Furthermore, a series of application planners in ERP system enhances the ability of the organizations and businesses to generate feedbacks and recommendations on improvement of the services and products, according to Olson, (2014). With the generation of appropriate proposals, organizations can achieve the forecasted goals on the management and competitiveness across different industries in which it competes. Therefore, every business requires the ERP applications, which serve as computer models for various companies, which are synonymous with the operations of such organization.
ERP primarily works as a planning tool based on the top-down hierarchical operations on resource allocation and planning, production controls, and other master planning roles. ERP system a core component of the business model and is ideally the technology that the business uses to achieve the management goals concerning planning and controlling. In most organizations, ERP system lays on a single database with comprehensive data analysis tools that explores a wide range of information in the organization. The information is sourced from such sources as production, human resource, goals and mission statements, as well as the research outcomes on improvement and efficiency of services (Ram & Corkindale, 2014). There should be presetting of the ERP system to enable it to handle the full range of information across these sources, which improves the recommendations and feedback that the management of businesses can retrieve. Therefore, technology is an ideal component of the ERP system, hence the need to upgrade the technological appliances used in these organizations to achieve the outcome that projects require.
It is ideal that management should employ the latest and the most efficient technology that will improve the project management through recommendations. Project management skills and practices in an organization are therefore directly related to the successful implementation of ERP application in an organization. Through the use of such technological components as internet connectivity and other links on e-business practices, it is possible to achieve the project management expectations. Internet connectivity, for instance, is an essential part of generating and managing projects on e-commerce, supplier and consumer relationship, and achievement of collaboration through connectivity in the organizations (Schwalbe, 2015). An elaborate project management practices in an organization would offer a platform for the successful application of ERP system to achieve the project goals and expectations. Smaller and larger ERP implementations require broad project management framework and strategies to fulfill, including software updates. Just like project management concepts and principles, implementation of ERP system in any organization need regular and effective communication, achieve the expectations of the stakeholders, enhanced change management practices, risk management potentiality, and cost-benefit assessment to deliver the project satisfaction.
Understanding and knowledge of project management principles improve the ERP implementations in any setting, based on the need to understand the impacts of the project to the end users. The decisions that most project managers make are best distinguished based on their anticipated effects on the stakeholders such as consumers, investors, and public agencies in the industry. Therefore, project management leads to successful implementation of ERP as it balances the business concepts and the technical needs of an organization. Furthermore, the administration will understand how the ERP decisions impact the budgeting, financial statement, and other ongoing processes and business operations. Hasibuan and Dantes (2012) underscored that project management concept appeal to the best outcome of the business operations and improved the efficiency of pace and budgets. It is the same concept that the ERP systems in an organization called for the interdependence in the knowledge and practice of the same. Project management teams are essential for the success of different projects, while also improving the performance of the businesses regarding decision making, improvement of ineffective and inefficient processes, and finding solutions to business challenges.
Project management can, therefore, be used to source for the best ERP systems concerning software that improves the efficiency, effectiveness, and security of the processes in an organization. Based on the knowledge of the project managers, it is easier to achieve the potential outcome of projects through the valid configuration of the ERP system, as well as how the customization of the system can appeal to the organizational culture and goals. The acquisition and implementation of the ERP system require the input of project management team to ensure that the budget, scope, and time get strictly followed. According to Lee and Yu, (2012) project management facilitates the processes and roles that provide for the clients' and stakeholders' interests. The timeline is observed and is realistic towards the project goals, budgeting is viable to accomplish the outcomes, and enhancement of communication on the success and mitigation of risks. The complicated relationship underscores the relationship between the effective and efficient understanding of project management and ultimate progress in the implementation of the ERP system. Project managers should also understand the software basics to facilitate the knowledge of possible discrepancies in the system.
Many companies treat ERP system application as a form of project management, based on different management functions and reorganizations involved. According to project management body of knowledge (PMBOK), projects und...
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What is a Constraints?
Within a project or initiative management context, constraints are technological, resource, capacity, skill, knowledge or other constraints that may limit the scope or execution of the project.
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What is a Controls?
Within a project or initiative management context, controls are management actions put in place, either in advance or as a corrective action, to mitigate known risks related to people, processes, costs, scheduling or other factors that can impact the success of the project.
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What is a Core Values?
The organization's beliefs and principles that articulate the culture of the organization. These are the standards that describe how employees and the organization are expected to behave internally and externally. They serve as the basis for decision making and influence actions in everyday situations.
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What is a Challenge (Pains)?
Strategic challenges or obstacles; derived from the SWOT assessment: Challenges= Weaknesses+ Threats.
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What is a Strategy Gap Analysis?
A process for comparing an organization's current strategic planning elements with good practices to determine which elements need to be improved.
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What is a Unit of Meaure?
What's being counted,such as dollars, number of items, degrees, Fahrenhait
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What is a Critical Uncertainties?
Unpredictable external drivers such as public opinion or the economy.
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What is a Drivers
Underlying causes of change that are external from the organization undertaking any scenario planning exercise. They are large scale forces such as funding cuts or policy changes that an individual arts organization is powerless to change in the short term.
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What is a Risk
The probability of an event occurring and the scale of the impact said event would have on an organization.
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What is a Risk Management
Planning how to respond to potential but defined risks with foresight rather than facts. The aim of risk management is developing strategies to reduce the impact of identified risks. | https://www.strategyhubbub.com/glossary/ |
How do governments fare when it comes to strategic planning and execution? Consider a recent session BCG conducted with a group of government leaders. To kick off the discussion, we asked for a show of hands: Who among you knows exactly what your agency’s priorities are? A few raised their hands. We then asked, Who among you believes that your agency’s strategic-planning process has had a real impact on your work? Again, just a few. Our final question: How many of you think that your agency can—and must—do better in this area? To that, everyone raised a hand.
Smart planning and sustained execution are needed to anticipate and navigate the increasing complexity and challenges facing government leaders around the world. Governments must make the best use of limited resources and mitigate the risks of economic and political turbulence. Despite these imperatives, public-sector agencies commonly fail to value strategy, and they rarely excel at strategic planning and execution. The result: government leaders struggle to change their organization’s behavior and to drive progress toward the most important policy outcomes.
The key to upping government’s game on this front is to understand what prevents effective strategic planning and execution and then to attack those challenges head on. On the basis of its more than 50 years of working as a leader in strategy, BCG has developed deep insight into the barriers that confront the private sector and an understanding of how they also challenge the public sector. These hurdles include a planning system that is too focused on bureaucratic processes at the expense of outcomes. In the public sector, such challenges are compounded by the frequent changes in leadership that are tied to election cycles, entrenched hierarchies and regulations, and a culture of risk avoidance.
Drawing on 31 interviews with current and former public-sector leaders around the globe, we have identified four steps that governments can take to eliminate these obstacles: promote a strategic culture, leverage the organization’s purpose to catalyze action, transform the operating model, and build a system for execution and learning.
Remaking the strategic-planning process is not about creating the optimal meeting schedule, metrics, or mission statements. It is about building a system that allows agency and department heads to determine priorities, put adequate resources behind those priorities, and then hold people accountable for results. It is about solving real problems. When they achieve this, government leaders find that they are fighting the right battles and delivering lasting value for their citizens.
It is through strategic planning and execution that both private- and public-sector organizations develop and implement strategies, whether for corporate growth or for achieving a federal mandate. Through this process, organizations reconcile their responsibilities with their resources and set strategic priorities. When done well, strategic planning and execution can effectively account for and manage the numerous variables that affect their plans and programs and make the important connections within and among stakeholders, allowing them to work in concert toward critical goals. Sustainable and flexible execution of the strategy promotes the likelihood that government will deliver on its promises, improving citizens’ confidence and promoting their trust.
Exhibit 1 illustrates one highly effective approach to strategic planning: the W-shaped model. (See Four Best Practices for Strategic Planning, BCG Focus, April 2016.) This approach starts with leadership’s definition of the organization’s vision and strategic ambition. Next, the division, field unit, or function heads are asked to respond to a series of pointed questions about the organization’s big challenges relative to this vision. Answering these questions, the unit or function heads suggest concepts or proposals for meeting the challenges. On the basis of their subsequent discussion, management selects proposals and assigns the unit or function heads responsibility for developing detailed plans for putting those proposals into action. Management drives execution of the plan, as well as a system for learning and adapting that is based on new information.
Mounting Public-Sector Challenges. The need for this sort of effective strategic-planning and execution process in government is intensifying in the face of four difficult realities.
First, owing to the scale and pace of change, including changes driven by advancing technology, today’s operating environment is more complex than ever before. Case in point: the democratization and proliferation of advanced technologies is upending the way governments manage risks to security and their economies. Second, finding solutions to most public-sector challenges requires the involvement of more stakeholders—in and out of government—than in the past. For example, responding effectively to the risks posed by infectious diseases such as the Zika and Ebola viruses required international collaboration within and across government agencies as well as the private sector. Third, many governments are facing ongoing erosion of public confidence. A 2017 Pew Research Center survey, for example, found that only 18% of Americans trust the national government to do what is right. A 2015 survey by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, meanwhile, found that just 43% of citizens in its member countries trust their government. Fourth, many governments are feeling the squeeze on discretionary spending due to rising deficits, aging populations, and the increasing cost of government services.
Obstacles to Effective Strategic Planning. Amid such challenges, strategic planning becomes more important than ever before. However, in many public and private organizations, such planning is frequently undervalued and poorly done.
Many of the obstacles are common to both government and the private sector. In numerous situations, the process is too bureaucratic, requiring multiple iterations and consuming too much time. It can also be too internally focused, failing to account for external factors or to learn from the experience of other sectors or similar organizations. Furthermore, in all too many cases, strategic planning excludes key stakeholders who are needed both for diagnosing challenges and for delivering outcomes. The failure to involve midlevel managers is particularly problematic because it can mean that the right issues are not elevated to the attention of senior leaders as they set strategy and that there is limited buy-in among the rank and file, weakening execution. Finally, there is a disconnect between the strategy and the incentive structure that is meant to promote follow-through on the strategic plan.
Public-sector organizations are, of course, quite different from private-sector companies. Some challenges seen in the private sector may be magnified in the public sphere while other additional issues that exist in government have no presence in the private sector.
For one thing, government leaders—especially political appointees—generally have a more limited window of time for action than do private-sector leaders. That’s because there is high turnover among government leaders in many countries. In the U.S., for example, not only does a considerable majority of the federal government’s most senior political leaders turn over every four to eight years, but the average tenure of a federal government, Senate-confirmed appointee is only 18 to 30 months.
At the same time, although many government leaders have solid policy expertise, a large number have little of the strategy and management expertise that comes from running a large and complex organization. As a result, it’s not unusual for them to delegate responsibility for the strategic-planning process, and they are not always personally invested in execution. This lack of engagement at the top filters down, leading to marginally engaged staff members who are not optimally committed to developing and implementing the organization’s strategy.
Finally, many government organizations don’t perceive risk as private-sector companies do. Public-sector organizations can often be focused on short-term outcomes and compliance with rules and regulations rather than on long-term strategic results. Consequently, creating a strategy that can be adapted in the face of changing environments or new information is difficult.
To improve their strategic-planning and execution track record, government leaders should focus on steps that leverage four critical areas: culture, purpose, operating model, and execution. (See Exhibit 2.) Steps taken in these areas affect all stages of strategic planning—and can enhance the entire process. Of the four, culture is the most critical. It shapes and is shaped by the other three major levers for change. Changing an organization’s culture will unlock opportunity in the other three areas and help embed change in the organization.
Promote a Strategic Culture
Certainly, there are pockets of robust strategic planning in government, particularly within the defense sector: it is ingrained in the military profession. But either the culture of too many public-sector organizations does not embrace the value of strategic planning or the organizations’ leaders aren’t committed to that process.
To ensure a successful culture shift, the head of the agency or office must take a leading role in strategic planning, middle management must be involved from the start, and the risk-averse mindset inherent in government organizations must be addressed.
“Strategy is ultimately the top leader’s responsibility,” according to one former senior government official. “You can’t delegate responsibility for leading change.” Public-sector leaders must personally drive the effort to set strategic priorities, build buy-in, align resources, communicate the strategy consistently, and hold people accountable for executing the plan. And they should make it clear to everyone in the organization that the unit responsible for strategic planning has a clear mandate from the top.
To draw midlevel management into the strategic-planning process from the start, senior management must identify key staff throughout the organization who have responsibility for implementing policies and programs and bring them into the process through cross-functional teams. In addition, leaders should link the day-to-day work of frontline staffers to the strategy by highlighting ways that their roles and responsibilities—and the strategic-planning system itself—can help eliminate the obstacles to achieving important objectives and directly contribute to solving citizens’ real-world problems. Such steps will develop strategic thinking in personnel who are likely to be the next generation of leadership. And just as important, it will build buy-in for the strategy, making successful execution more likely.
The former head of a major operational directorate within a large government tax authority told us, “If a team is closely involved in developing the strategy, they will feel ownership of it. If they feel ownership, then they will want to make it work.”
For the head of one large government diplomatic organization, ensuring commitment to the strategy among the rank and file was critical for delivering results. She initiated and personally led a strategic-planning process when she took the helm of the organization a few years ago and involved managers from across the organization in the effort. In addition, goals were designed to drive agency-wide cooperation across various functional and regional silos. “This created a clear sense of where we were going, why, and the role each group played in achieving our goals,” she reported.
The conservative mindset that some government organizations cultivate in employees can be a serious impediment to execution of the strategy. It’s important to find ways to reward and protect—not punish—those who take reasonable risks and achieve less than positive results.
The head of a large transportation department understood that risk aversion could seriously undermine the progress of an extensive infrastructure project that the department was managing. The staff knew that rather than confine traffic to one lane during the many months of construction, the most cost-effective way to manage one element of the project would be to completely shut down traffic for several weeks. The head of the department knew that shutting down all traffic would generate short-term public outcry, but he was willing to take that risk. He understood the long-term public benefit and cost-saving opportunity that could be achieved in expediting the project, and he made it clear to his staff that he would own the decision should public backlash be directed at any of them.
Leverage the Organization’s Purpose
A critical element in effective strategic planning is a clear sense of purpose, which consists of an organization’s timeless reason for being—its mission—and the strategic goals for fulfilling this mission within a set period of time. Strategic planning and execution allow organizations to deliver on that purpose by setting priorities, aligning resources, and mobilizing and measuring action.
The following three actions help overcome the barriers to effective strategic planning and execution that stem from the organization’s overall sense of purpose:
Consistent messaging was a powerful tool for mobilizing staff behind a large government defense agency’s new strategy. To help drive change, a variety of carefully drafted messages were developed to communicate the strategy, including a short “bumper sticker” message, a three-minute elevator pitch, a series of videos from top leaders, and detailed documents and presentations. One senior leader recalled that the head of the agency “joked that the strategy bumper sticker message would end up on his tombstone.” Still, consistent communication was critical. “Absent that kind of commitment to messaging of the strategy,” she noted, “it is difficult to overcome the cultural resistance to change.”
Transform the Operating Model
Typically, the public-sector operating model—the governance, structure, and processes of a government agency—is hierarchical, rigid, and not adaptable to changing circumstances. Action in three areas can eliminate those impediments and, in so doing, enable a more effective and efficient operating model:
Leaders within the large defense organization described previously not only created multiple ways to communicate the strategy but also built a process that ensured that strategic priorities were supported with the necessary resources. During the budgeting process, one military department cut back on orders for equipment that was needed to support a crucial strategic objective. The aim was to trim purchases in order to invest in modernizing other conventional capabilities. Armed with a clear understanding of the priorities, senior defense organization leadership directed the department to fund strategically important equipment while allowing the department to determine how to offset the costs of other, less critical programs.
Develop a System for Execution and Learning
Agencies that lack critical tools and data that can be used to measure progress cannot adjust course on the basis of new information. In addition, when strategy is not integrated into the day-to-day actions of frontline staff, employees can focus too much on programs that are not relevant to the organization’s strategic priorities.
Doing an effective job of executing and adjusting the strategy hinges on three elements: the right data, a system that values accountability and aligns incentives, and the ability to adapt where necessary. The involvement and commitment of frontline managers is critical to success in all three areas.
The data required includes not only upfront information about what works in terms of programs and initiatives—data that can drive the initial strategic-planning process—but also timely and action-promoting data during the execution phase. Such information can come from both internal and external sources. Internal data may be the result of monthly strategy “pulse checks” with staff, quarterly or annual strategic reviews with senior managers, and evaluations of specific programs. External data can and—in many cases—should include information on the impact of certain programs in the real world. For the data to make a difference, it must be available, reliable, and timely. A senior executive in a large finance and tax agency told us that it’s important to “measure what matters—and movement will happen on things you measure.”
The second element—accountability and incentives—is critical to successful execution. Leaders should hold regular evidence-based progress reviews with key managers, including officials who have direct oversight of programs that support each strategic objective. The sessions should focus on performance data for each program and allow in-depth discussions that include suggestions related to improving performance and mitigating risk. These sessions must be held more frequently and cover more detail than the annual or quarterly strategic reviews that many government departments and agencies already conduct. At the same time, the organization should create clear and valued incentives, including formal and informal awards and recognition for those who adopt new behaviors and contribute most to achieving objectives.
The most effective government organizations understand that without accountability and the right incentives, even the best strategic plan will likely never become reality. One large agency responsible for managing much of the government’s real estate holdings held biweekly meetings at which staff reported progress on strategic priorities. According to the agency administrator, that “repeatable rhythm” of reporting kept the team focused on those priorities. A public-housing-and-finance organization, meanwhile, tied management’s performance evaluations to the accomplishments of the agency’s strategic objectives. This required identifying the right metrics for tracking progress against the objectives and instituting a credible and timely review process that integrated that information.
The third element—the ability to monitor performance in a way that helps the organization adapt—can result in two types of adjustments. First, data on the progress of key strategic objectives can help the organization alter the way it is executing its existing strategy. The strategic objectives may not change, but the way in which the organization tries to achieve them may. The second involves revision of the strategy itself. The need for such a shift can become evident only if the organization steps back periodically to assess whether or not things have changed in the overall operating environment. Such analysis may reveal that the assumptions on which the original strategy was based have changed, making it necessary to revisit the strategy.
Government agency and department heads worldwide can confirm that, as public-sector leaders, they are struggling to be successful in a uniquely challenging period. Political upheaval is the norm, and technology continues to alter the ways that society functions.
In such an environment, government institutions must up their game or risk becoming irrelevant to the citizens they serve. Because confidence has slipped and must now be rebuilt, governments will be forced to take a major leap in the ways that they plan and execute strategy. Government leaders must institute a strategic-planning process that identifies the right priorities and drives decision making that supports those priorities. Taking steps in the four areas we’ve outlined—culture, purpose, operating model, and execution—can move governments from endless rounds of planning to delivery of results. | https://www.bcg.com/en-us/publications/2018/four-steps-to-high-impact-strategic-planning-in-government.aspx |
Construction management in Dubai requires the coordination of many factors. A project’s success depends on careful planning, meticulous attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple variables. The construction manager is the key to achieving these goals. Here are the key elements involved in construction management:
Planning – a systematic approach to building the project. Early planning steps include site assessment, engineering evaluation, entitlement analysis, land use, and green building options.
Communication – A construction project involves many parties. Clear communication between the team members and stakeholders is critical to the project’s success. The project team is constantly switching between schedules and views of the project. Maintaining a central repository for all the project documents is also essential. The document management system stores all the project documents in a secure location that anyone can access at any time. In addition to planning, the project team also purchases materials, buys tools, rents services, and coordinates with suppliers.
Project organization – Preconstruction is crucial for construction projects. This is the time to build the project plan and define roles. The team must be accountable for their tasks and deliver the project on time and within budget. The entire process is more efficient when each party understands its role and the responsibilities of its peers. Without clear leadership and a well-defined structure, a construction project can become a nightmare. However, a project can be completed without issues or delays with the right planning.
Identifying and delegating responsibilities – An effective construction team must have an effective communication process. This is necessary because it helps everyone in the project to stay on the same page and communicate effectively. It also helps avoid redundancies and confusion. They should be able to report frequently and effectively. Managing a team’s resources is essential for any successful project. The smart sheet is the most popular work execution platform for the construction industry.
Organization – Successful construction projects require thorough planning. The construction team must have the right resources to ensure that they work towards a common goal. It should also be coordinated with the project’s stakeholders and work in a team environment. It should be centralized for easier access. The records management specialist can also provide the information needed for the project. These experts are vital for the smooth running of the project. They are key to the success of the project. | https://bob-toutelaverite.net/art-and-design/key-elements-involved-in-construction-management/ |
Many projects in the world are failing to be completed according to plan due to poor project planning and problems in the planning phase of the project. The study by (Donnelly, Ivancevich and Gibson 1998) has shown the importance of project planning on projects and its influence on project success. Findings of their study have proven that higher levels of project planning effort can result in significant cost and schedule savings and poor planningalso causes for the failure and increase of the cost of a project. Stakeholders of projects would like to accomplish their projects successfully, according to their plan and schedule. But they fail to achieve what they plan due to the problem they create in the planning phase of the project. A paper by (Pedro 2013) explains that project planning is widely thought to be an important contributor to projectsuccess.
According to the research paper by (Yu-Ren and Edward 2008) well prepared project plan have an impact on the success of the projects.Many developing countries in the world are affected by poor planning in projects.Weakness in planning and implementation has been identified as one of the main reasons for the disappointing results of projects in Africa (Moradat,Merrery, Seshoka and Sally 2005). If you have no plan, by definition, you have no control, because it is your plan that tells you where you are supposed to be in the first place.
Furthermore, if you don’t know where you are, you can’t have control (Lewis 2005). African nations simply do not have adequate institutional capacity or trained personnel to plan and implement projects effectively(Lavangon 2014). Projects in Africa fail because of poor planning practices in the projects.
Nigeria’s economy has enjoyed a high rate of economic growth for the past decades (IMF 2014). So to make this economic growth sustainable she needs to deliver more electric power, roads and expansion of different infrastructural activities like building of hospitals, schools, telecommunication services and building of residential houses. These activities will be implemented through different projects and which will help for the development of the economy of the country. These projects will help for generating additional capital for the country. Nigeria as a nation is investing its scarce resources with a view of improving the living standard and socio economic condition of its citizens. These projects are designed with assumption of efficient management. Even though projects have such major contributions in the development of the economy of a given nation, most of them are failed to be completed as planned.Like that of other African countries Nigeria is also facing the problem of poor project planning. According(Tekalign 2014) project success is highly determined by the performance of the project plan prepared. Although the country is trying to make its projects successful most of them are still are either failing or delaying from their date of completion due to the problem of poor planning(Tekalign 2014).
When we come to Church auditorium, it is one of the few mega projects in Nigeria which are currently implemented by the Government of Nigeria and it is also affected by the same problem of poor project planning and which in turn is causing for delay and increasing of cost. According to( Hiwot 2012) the projects fail because of the capacity of the contractor and its level of project management skill. In the paper it is stated that the level of the knowledge of the contractors in project management determines the fate of the projects in Church auditorium. So according to her study poor project planning is also one of the main reasons for the failure of completing projects according to specified schedule, cost and quality. According (Yardley 2002) there are different reasons for projects to fail. Among this poor project planning is one of the most common one in projects. So the planning practices of the projects should be improved and be systematized so that all projects can be successful. There are no many studies conducted in the field yet in the country. So this research will help to see the gaps in the planning practice of the organization under study and will help to fill same. After assessing of the planning practices, this thesis will recommend the best project planning practices to the concerned organization and similar project running organizations.
The Research conducted by (Whitaker 1999) indicates that a project plan which is properly prepared is highly determining factor for the project’s success. (Raz and Shenhar 2003) also state activities done in the planning phase are the most important ones than the other project phases in determining the success of a project.
Poor project planning is also one of the main problems in the projects of Nigeria Different studies are conducted by different scholars regarding project planning and its impact on project success. The studies by (Wang and Gibson 2008), shows that Time spent on project
1.2 Statement of the problem
Project delay and failure to be completed as planned, is the main problem in our country as like that of the other African countries. Project performance is measured in terms of cost, time, and quality of a project. Usually projects fail due to problems in selection, planning, execution, or control phases of a project. A failure in one of the phases may result in the failure of the whole project. According to (Yardley 2002) lack of effective planning process is the main reason for project failure in developing countries. Like that of other developing countries, the planning practices and process of Nigerian projects is very poor and even projects usually executed without preparing a proper project plan. The planning processes according to (PMI 2001) are highly important, and project execution without proper/poor/ development of a project plan often causes delays, high costs and general execution problems in the project. Without a good plan and estimate, resources cannot be managed or organized, risks cannot be mitigated, dates and budgets cannot be forecasted and effective reporting cannot take place, as a result projects will fail. The lack of an implemented project plan has caused problems in all project management areas and has made it impossible for the management team to have the required control of project activities.
One of the main reasons of project failure in developing countries is lack of effective or poor project planning process (Richard 2012).
Even though there are no such enough number of studies conducted in the area in our country,So on this paper the student researcher will try to assess in detail the planning practice of the study organization.
1.3 Research questions
In light of the above mentioned problem statement, the following basic research questions were addressed:
- What is the current project planning practice of Church auditorium?
- Which project planning tools are applied?
- How much is the level of awareness among project staffs about the existing project plan?
- To what extent the project team participates in preparing the project plan?
1.4 Objectives of the study
1.4.1 General objective of the study
The general objective of this study was to assess the project planning practices in the context of Church auditorium.
1.4.2 Specific objectives of the study
- To explore current project planning practice of Church housing
- To identify which project planning tools and techniques are used in the study organization.
- To assess the awareness of the staff about the project plan
- To examine the extent, the project team participates in preparing the project plan
1.5 Definitions of terms
Planning: is determining what needs to be done,by whom, and by when, in order to fulfill one’s assigned responsibility (Kernzer 2009).
Project: A project has a defined scope, is constrained by limited resource (time, budget), involves many people with different skill and, usually progressively elaborated throughout its life cycle.(Cleland & Ireland 2002).
Project plan: A project plan is a formal approved document used to manage project execution. Project plan is also called integrated management plan because it comprises of all other specific plans (PMI 2009).
1.6 Significance of the study
Conducting this assessment has much significance for the student as well as the organization under study. The student was be able to know the actual planning practices of the organization under study and it will also help for the study organization to know what its project plan looks like by comparing with the best practice. On the other hand this study will try to show the importance of preparing a participatory project plan. Finally this research will be somehow a base for interested researchers in the area to conduct a deep study and analysis.
1.7 Delimitation and Limitation of the study
This research has the following major delimitations. Geographically this study covers only the planning practices of those housing projects located at Church city in the selected four sites. Conceptually this study tried to assess only the project planning practices of the organization under study even if there are many concepts related with project management and should be assessed. The major target population of the research was those team members of the organization who are part of the project. In the project there are project managers, contractors and professionals that are participating. So this study involved all professionals related with the project. So the scope of the study was as explained above.
Every work is done with limitations. This study is also subject to limitations as that of other researches. To address the objective of the study the student researcher tried to assess only the project plan of the study organization. There are so many factors that affect the success of a given project. Even in the specified study there may be other untouched factors by the researcher. So the student researcher suggests for further study on the area.
1.8 Organization of the research report
The thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter includes the introductory issues about the research, what the problem in question is, the researchers purpose, brief overview about the methodology, the research objective and the research questions to be answered, definition of terms and concepts used in the study and the significance for undertaking this research. The second chapter is devoted to literature to the area under study so as to better understand concepts, theories and models related to project plan. The third chapter is devoted to research methodology in a bit more detail than what is discussed in the introduction part while the fourth chapter is dedicated to data presentation, analysis andfindings.
The final chapter (chapter five) concludes the topic under discussion with concluding remarks and recommendation. | https://projectchampionz.com.ng/2018/11/20/the-design-and-plan-of-a-church-auditorium/ |
Since March, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we work, the way we live, and the way we interact with the world. To cope with these widespread changes, organizations have had to make tough choices and “hit the pause button”, delaying projects and strategic initiatives.
We are now seeing enterprises reinstating their paused projects and initiatives, but in a changed world where challenges such as limited and/or remote staff, constrained budgets, and emerging competing priorities need to be factored into the mix. Organizations need to relaunch project work in a strategic way that accounts for today’s ever-changing business climate as well as the increased pressure employees are facing while navigating the complex COVID era.
Before deciding to restart a project, consider the following questions:
1. Are there environmental, emotional, or other considerations that should be taken into account before kicking off this project again?
2. Is the project still relevant and does it represent a productive use of time?
3. Staffing levels may have been impacted. Team members may be overwhelmed with competing priorities. Does the organization have adequate staffing and resourcing for this project or is there a need to secure outside assistance to support internal staff?
4. Does this project provide clear benefits regardless of possible uncertainty in the future?
5. Are there risks and costs to the organization by further delaying the project?
Strategies for moving forward
Applying a comprehensive strategic framework to think through the complex logistical, financial, and human components of the project can help an organization ensure multiple angles have been considered before moving forward with stalled projects.
The steps outlined here are relevant for any project initiation, but it’s particularly crucial now to make sure that the organization is fully prepared to launch an initiative in a thoughtful and informed way.
Evaluate and Revise Strategy: As our global situation evolves, public health policies enacted to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 will impact the availability of resources and timing of many projects.
Additionally, it is important to re-evaluate the big questions—those considerations that are less tactical and for which planning is more difficult. How does this project align with the organization’s core values, and are those values changing in response to the impacts of COVID-19?
Lastly, there may be tactical components of the original project strategy that may not be conducive to a COVID-19 environment. For example, brainstorm sessions, project meetings, and testing will likely take place remotely. Timeline and toolset considerations may also need to be adjusted.
Align Stakeholders: Even in the best of times, projects often begin prematurely, before stakeholder alignment is adequately reached. Now more than ever, it is imperative for the success of any reinstated work that stakeholders are informed, aligned, and have a renewed commitment to contribute towards the successful culmination of the project. As appropriate, leaders should seek to foster stakeholder participation and feedback in the prioritization process to align on the purpose of the project and to provide consistent messaging to employees and consumers. Commence replanning efforts by conducting a stakeholder analysis and integrating the findings. Overlooking this vital step could result in major roadblocks and setbacks throughout the remaining life of the project.
Resource Project: The resources originally allocated for the project may now be unavailable, team members may lack required skill sets, or they may not currently have the bandwidth to contribute to another project. Therefore, the need for both external and internal support should be properly assessed.
Recently, McKinsey & Company emphasized the need for leaders to focus on reskilling and upskilling their workforce to deliver new business models in the post-pandemic era. Companies also face a learning curve as managers figure out how to lead their teams virtually, build social capital, and maintain cohesion without the benefit of in-person interactions. As companies contemplate returning to the workplace, a new set of skills is also likely to emerge for the transition.
Sometimes a major reskilling effort isn’t feasible or practical to fill key needs for a project. In this scenario, pulling in outside expertise or resources may be the best option. Consultants are often brought into the fold of a project to fill an experience, knowledge, or skill set gap or even as an extra set of hands for a daunting effort where the organization’s future hiring picture is unclear.
Build Execution Roadmap: As things continue to change, a well developed and clearly communicated execution roadmap will help keep the project team’s eye on the prize. The steps taken so far in restarting the project—updated strategy, aligned and informed stakeholders, and prepared project resources—are the building blocks of an execution roadmap. Identify where it is possible to include flexibility points in an execution strategy. Planning for potential changes to “Plan A” will allow for an easier path forward if additional unexpected changes occur in the life of the project.
Employ Agile Execution Model: There’s no better time than now to embrace an agile methodology. By definition, the agile project management methodology is designed to be collaborative, flexible, and adaptable to change, and the change introduced to organizations by COVID-19 has put it to the ultimate test. Research conducted by McKinsey & Company found that companies with agile practices embedded in their operating models have managed the impact of the COVID-19 crisis better than their non-agile counterparts.
Communicate and Engage the Org: Effective communication and engagement can be challenging, especially given the challenges of physical distance, work-life balance, physical distance, and a multitude of other distractions. Project details must be communicated to the right people at the right time.
Many organizations are also at the point where employees are hitting conference call and email fatigue. Since the majority of our communications are now limited to back-to-back video calls or an ever-expanding email inbox, communications are at greater risk of being lost in the shuffle.
Fortunately, there are many tools and resources available to help streamline communications in 2020, some of which may already be familiar and some lesser known:
– Facilitation tools (MURAL, retrium, MS Teams, klaxon, miro, STORMZ)
– Communication tools (Skype, Zoom, Google Hangouts)
– Presentations & Meetings (Ideaboardz, Conceptboard, workplace, slack, Google Meet)
– Project Management (Smartsheet, Microsoft Planner, Teamwork, Confluence, Jira, Basecamp, Trello, asana, N)
– Team Building (Kahoot!, TEAM MOOD, Dr. Clue, donut)
– Events (Meetyoo, HEXAFAIR, ENGAGE, VIRTUALIST
Build Rapid Feedback Mechanisms: Integrating feedback loops, both internal and external, into the project’s workflow, such as cadences in the Kanban method, for example, offer a powerful communication tool that fosters efficient and continuous improvement through effective adaptation to the often evolving needs of one’s client. It is valuable to build a mechanism, such as frequent, effective meetings, to facilitate constant and constructive evaluation as a team.
Moving forward with grace
With all the tactical and strategic planning that is needed to evolve an organization or advance a project forward, it is important not to lose sight of the human element. The planning process should be imbued with emotional intelligence, described as the ability to appropriately apply emotion to manage and solve problems—an approach with many tangible and far-reaching benefits within any organization.
In many different ways, it has been a challenging year and people are facing internal and external hurdles that could not have been predicted a year ago. Contributing to a project is a wonderful growth opportunity, gives people a chance to connect with their teammates towards a common goal, and produces tangible results. However, it is more important than ever for leaders to show that they care about their team.
Deeply considering the outcome of new or restarted work on employees and consumers has never been more important. Prioritizing the work ahead should consider not only the immediate benefit to the organization itself but also the benefits of doing right by the people of the organization in the long term.
At The Gunter Group, we can help implement the project leadership and process improvement strategies discussed above. Contact us to learn more about how we can support and optimize your organization.
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In the business world, there are two types of people. Amateurs who talk about strategy. And then you have professionals who are all about execution.
This collection of our library's most popular execution plan templates is for the latter.
Alright - tell us if this has ever happened to you…
You and your team are in a meeting, and you've just presented your strategy. Everyone seems really pumped up and ready to take on the challenge.
But then what? At the first quarterly review, you're suddenly confronted with every leader's worst fear: not only did your team not make any significant progress, but they went in a completely different direction.
How can you avoid this common pitfall of every strategy execution?
In this article, we’ll walk you through the essential components of a highly effective execution plan. You’ll also get to choose your customizable strategy or project execution plan template, pre-filled with examples based on the use case or a team function.
This way, you can give your team a systematic approach and direction to stay on track and execute your strategy to deliver business results.
Execution Plan Checklist: 8 Things You Must Include To Support Your Team
Ok, time to roll up your sleeves and get ready to do some planning work before we jump into the template section. There are many methodologies (agile, lean, waterfall, balanced scorecard, etc.) that describe how strategies and projects should be planned, managed, and executed. Here’s a recap of the eight most important things you must include in your execution plan, no matter the methodology you follow with your team:
No.1: Objectives
If you don’t know what you’re aiming for, how can you get there? Well-defined and measurable team goals are vital to any plan. Having clear objectives to understand what success looks like and how you will measure progress is crucial. This will also help your team stay aligned with the direction and prevent drifting off course.
No. 2: Specific actions
Strategic planning requires turning big ideas into actionable projects or initiatives that your team can complete. Including actions in your execution plan will help team members focus, make it easier to track progress, and help you identify where to make adjustments.
No. 3: Deadlines
A start date, project schedule, and completion date will help you plan and prioritize, keep your execution roadmap on track, and ensure on-time completion. A good execution plan template will provide this functionality at the task, objective, project, and strategy levels.
No. 4: Milestones
Long-term business strategies and plans can often lose momentum. Milestones help divide your journey into manageable chunks—strategic goals—that will keep your team motivated and your progress on track. Creating key points that mark significant progress or achievements can help your team members stay on course.
No. 5: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Metrics should be used to evaluate the success of execution and its overall impact on the organization. Your execution plan template should allow you to use specific, measurable KPIs that make it possible to track progress and identify areas for improvement.
No. 6: Owners
Big plans are a team effort. By giving each goal or task to a specific person, it is clear who is in charge of making sure it gets done and who can be held accountable.
No. 7: Allocated budget
Project cost estimations are a good starting point, but they must be monitored. Consistently aligning your budget will ensure your plan remains realistic and achievable. It will also help you prioritize tasks and reallocate resources. Your execution plan template should make it simple to set and keep tabs on budget spending.
No. 8: Risk management
Every good strategist or team leader will identify and address potential risks or issues that can happen. Risk management is a proactive way to keep your execution plan on track and reduce the chance of problems. Does your execution plan have a risk analysis component to it?
So there you have it—the 8 things you need to include in your plan so you can write a highly effective execution plan that keeps your team engaged and on track.
The next step is to put all of this in the right place so your team can collaborate, share information, and deliver results.
Here are our 5 most popular execution plan templates you can use right away, whether you want high team engagement, a quick spike in project ROI, or faster business results. All five of them fit the criteria we outlined above.
1. Execution Plan Template
What do you want to achieve this year? This quarter? Or even this month?
When you define your strategy, it’s time to plan it out and execute it. You need to set clear priorities, goals, and action plans that will help you achieve your desired outcomes. But there’s more to it than just writing down goals and setting KPIs. You need to measure and monitor the execution of your strategy.
Cascade’s Execution Plan Template is a ready-to-use tool for strategic planning, goal setting, and performance management in any industry or on any team. With it, you can quickly develop a plan that will help you and your team bridge the gap between strategy and execution.
Executing strategy with this template will help you keep the focus on strategic priorities and set guardrails to prevent drifting in the wrong direction. You can use the prefilled examples or customize the template to ensure it fits your needs.
But why not just use spreadsheets? Using Cascade to manage and execute your strategy is more effective than using static tools like Excel, Google Sheets, PowerPoint, and Word Docs.
Cascade is a powerful execution platform with everything you need to plan, execute, and measure your strategy in one place.
With Cascade’s template, you get instant access to powerful features like live dashboards, collaboration tools, and the ability to track and measure your execution performance as it's happening.
💡Best for: Strategy leaders, department teams, or specific project teams who want to improve their performance, resource allocation, and double down on strategy execution in 2023. It’s applicable to strategy execution at the business, functional, or team level.
👉Click here to get instant access to your Execution Plan Template. It’s 100% free; no credit card required.
2. Project Execution Plan Template
The main goal of execution on a project level is to help organizations create value and ROI through specific initiatives. Using a project execution plan (PEP) can help you do this faster while making sure your cross-functional teams are rowing in the same direction.
If you want to get started with creating a PEP, try Cascade's Project Execution Strategy Template. It has prefilled focus areas, project objectives, and KPIs to help you define the project scope of work and use a work breakdown structure (WBS) effectively.
A strong project execution plan will have multiple project roles and teams overseeing the project lifecycle. Cascade’s planning features will help you customize the project name, project goals, and project tasks, as well as assign owners and add collaborators. You can also include project milestones, KPIs, and OKRs to measure progress.
And that’s not all...
With Cascade’s Dashboard and Reporting features, you’ll get high-level visibility into project status while also being able to drill down into individual tasks and activities.
💡Best for: PMOs, project managers, and project teams that need a central place to manage project work, implement project controls, and ensure successful project completion on time.
👉Click here to get your free Project Execution Plan Template.
3. Go-To-Market Strategy Execution Template
With this customizable Go-To-Market Strategy Template, your team will be able to create a clear plan, monitor progress, and work proactively.
You’ll be able to set focus areas for your strategy and keep your cross-functional teams aligned around shared goals.
This template is also packed with free features, like Dashboards, Reports, and basic integrations with your favorite business tools, including Slack or Microsoft Suite.
With Cascade’s strategy execution and performance management features, you can track each initiative and adapt in real-time as early feedback and results on GTM tactics are gathered in one, centralized place.
Using a closed-loop execution approach will enable your GTM team to quickly adapt to your customers' shifting needs and create initiatives to meet them.
💡Best for: Business development managers, product managers, team leaders, or GTM teams who need a centralized tool to manage GTM initiatives and ensure a successful product or service launch.
👉Click here to get your free Go-To-Market Strategy Execution Plan Template.
4. Construction Execution Plan Template
Our Construction Execution Plan Template can help construction teams plan, monitor, and enhance construction execution and planning. With its easy-to-use design and simple interface, everyone from project managers to project team members can use it to handle the design, procurement, and logistical aspects of construction projects.
💡Best for: Strategy and project teams in the construction industry looking to streamline their construction project execution.
👉Click here to get your free Construction Execution Plan Template.
5. Change Management Plan Template
A change management strategy should help you deal with and manage organizational change in a way that minimizes the bad effects of change, takes advantage of transformation, and meets goals quickly. It should also help to communicate change openly to all project stakeholders.
If you need a framework for planning and executing a change management strategy, try our Change Management Plan Template.
It’s an excellent starting point for planning new change initiatives in 2023. But you can also use it if you want to enhance your existing change management execution plan.
Build change management projects that are inclusive and transparent with Cascade’s collaboration and reporting features. You can also use Cascade’s Strategy Dashboards to monitor change initiative outcomes against your baseline.
If you’re building an organization-wide execution plan, consider adding a communication plan, a training plan, and a risk management plan to your overall execution planning. In Cascade, you can build multiple execution plans and track all of them in one place, in real-time.
💡Best for: Change and transformation leaders in any organization that want to achieve their change goals and engage all stakeholders efficiently.
👉Click here to get your free Change Management Plan Template.
Execute With Cascade Templates 🚀
Remember that a strategy or project execution plan is a living document that will change as you progress toward your objectives. Don’t be afraid to pivot your approach if you need to.
Why settle for static spreadsheets and disconnected project management tools that are “slowing your performance” when you can start collaborating, planning, monitoring, and reporting on strategy execution all in one place?
Speed up your execution with a purpose-built tool like Cascade. And make sure your teams are working in the right direction and delivering results on time.
Spend less time setting up and starting from scratch. Get up and running with your execution plan with one of our templates. Our template library has more than 100 templates with pre-filled examples for different use cases and teams. Set it up in less than 20 seconds. And yes - they are free.
FAQs
How do you write an execution plan?
If you want to write a good execution plan, you should co-create it with the people who will be in charge of executing it on the ground. In this way, you will be able to create a plan that takes into account possible internal constraints and risks that could derail execution down the road.
What is included in the execution plan?
The execution plan includes key elements like clear objectives, an action plan, KPIs, owners, and, most importantly - governance elements. This includes real-time dashboards and progress reports that will give you real-time visibility into performance.
What are the benefits of an execution plan?
The benefits of an execution plan include strategic clarity, performance visibility, and team engagement. With a clear execution plan, you can turn your strategy from an idea into a real plan that will help you reach your goals.
What are the steps in the project execution?
The key steps in the project execution are (1) setting the project scope, project objectives, and project deliverables; (2) developing an action plan; (3) setting a timeline; (4) assigning owners; (5) setting a budget; (6) defining KPIs; (7) measuring performance and conducting regular reviews.
What is the difference between a project execution plan and a project management plan?
The difference between a project execution plan and a project management plan is that a project execution plan outlines the specific steps that will be taken to deliver the project's objectives and deliverables. A project management plan, on the other hand, is a broader document that defines the processes and procedures that will be followed throughout the project’s lifecycle. | https://www.cascade.app/blog/execution-plan-templates |
Effective planning and execution of all projects
The SAP Business One Project Management module can be used in project-based companies because it combines both financial and project management data into a single complete solution. It allows you to take specific actions: planning materials, capacity and resource utilization, ensuring that projects are delivered on time and within the budget limits.
Project management is an important part of the organization’s business and can be declared, executed, tracked and finalized for many areas of interest: operational, investment, social, research and development, advertising campaigns, human resources improvement, process improvement , automation services, production, development of new products.
Based on the size and scope of a project, the module can divide projects into different stages and subprojects, which can generate reports at each stage of the project. By using these tools, you can monitor the progress of the project.
At the same time, you can use various operations and resources according to the allocated budget, you can track purchases, consumption, overflows / deviations, activities and tasks for each stage of the project. You can make a Project Profit and Loss and track efficiently all costs. | https://sysinconsult.ro/en/erp-sap-business-one/managementul-proiectelor/ |
Diploma In Project Management
January 2021 Intake Ongoing.
Scheduled Dates: 26 - 29 Jan 2021
Welcome to the Kenya Institute of Project Management (KIPM)
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- Courses include:
- Ms. Project
- Monitoring & Evaluation
- Introduction to Project Management
- Project Planning & Design
Project Management entails the application of processes, methods, skills, and knowledge to accomplish a goal within a specified time. It consists of Project Initiation, Project Planning, and finally Project Closure within the stipulated time given. All these steps are crucial to complete a project.
HR & MANAGEMENT
- Courses Include:
- Performance Management
- Office Administration & Business methods
- Supervisory Management & Skills
HRM or HR is the strategic approach to the effective management of people in a company or organization such that they help their business gain competitive advantage globally.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL
- PMP includes:
- Project Management Framework
- Project Management Fundamentals
- Project Cost Management
- Project Human Resource Management
The course will bring participants up to speed on the current principles and practices of project management. The main focus of this course will center on the five PM processes of Initiation, Planning, Execution, Control, and Close-out. | http://kipm.co.ke/?option=com_content&view=article&id=796 |
Sudan University of Science and Technology, College of Business Studies, Khartoum, Sudan.
There are lots of construction projects been implemented in Khartoum State in the last decades. And, in order to implement construction projects successfully, there should be a perfect flow of materials, services and information related to those projects. The provision of providing projects with those essential needs lies within the concept of the logistics management; so, there will be a critical need for developing perfect planning for logistics services. The provision of supplying construction requirements should be conducted and handled in best manner with all the related aspects including quality, safety, time and cost to the proper execution of the construction projects. Many projects are failed and terminated because problems of the flow of logistics services. Those problems are occurred as result of many factors, but bad planning of logistics services is the one of the most important factors. Thus, in order to implement construction projects, there is a great need for the logistics supply service. Because, without delivering construction inputs in the required manner to the location of project, the project shall never be executed. And, in order to provide the project with the needed inputs in the best way and at a required time, there must be an effective planning for the logistics services of projects; in details, there must be a greater concern with the processes of purchasing, transporting and storing, handling as well as flow of information of all materials that used in the execution of projects. The study finds out that applying project management as well as perfect planning of logistics services play vital roles in better execution of construction project in Khartoum State and help maintaining the urban development master plan.
Keywords: Logistics Planning, Project Management, Logistics Management, Supply Chain Management, Khartoum State, Construction Projects, Project Life Cycle.
How to cite this article:
Omar Ismail Omar Mohammad, Ali Abdullah Alhakem. Logistics Planning and Its Role in Developing Construction Projects in Khartoum State. American Journal of Transportation and Logistics, 2021,4:18. DOI: 10.28933/ajtl-2021-09-1505
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This work and its PDF file(s) are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. | https://escipub.com/ajtl-2021-09-1505/ |
Apa , nursing | Nursing homework help
In order to identify areas for improvement, it’s important to review patient outcomes and look for patterns or trends that may suggest opportunities for improvement. To identify potential areas of improvement, you might need to look at the procedures and processes used in a particular type or surgery.
In addition to analyzing patient outcomes, it’s also important to review the organization’s operations to identify any areas that may be impacting the quality of care provided. It may involve reviewing the staffing, training programs and policies to make sure they conform with industry best practices.
Collecting data is an ongoing process, and it’s important to track patient outcomes over time to identify trends and track progress toward improvement goals. It may be necessary to establish benchmarks and monitor progress towards these key performance indicators.
A data-driven approach is crucial for healthcare organizations to improve quality. Organizations can improve patient care by reviewing operations and patient outcomes data regularly. | https://essayshelponline.com/2023/03/19/analyze-patient-outcomes-and-collect-data-you-cant-manage-something-that-cant-be-measured-the-first-step-in-enhancing-the-quality-of-care-at-your-company-is-to-examine-your-cu/ |
Monitoring and Evaluation gives your Eco-Schools programme its credibility.
To measure the success of your Eco-Schools programme and reach the targets laid out in your Action Plan, you must monitor and evaluate your progress. This will also indicate areas where activities have been successful and highlight areas where a different approach may be required.
As far as possible, pupils should be encouraged to undertake the monitoring set out in the Action Plan to help foster a greater sense of ownership towards the programme and allow teachers to take a step back.
Reaching goals can provide a ‘feel good’ factor about the achievements and progress to date and continue motivation and participation at a whole-school level.
Continuous monitoring will help you to make sure that interest in Eco-Schools is maintained. This will facilitate the transition from establishing an environmental programme to becoming an integral part of the day-to-day running of the school.
Monitoring and Evaluating - Why, What and How? will help schools understand the importance of this step and how to carry it out.
Monitoring and evaluating the progress of your Eco-Schools work is an excellent opportunity to incorporate curriculum links, particularly in the areas of Maths, ICT, Art, Geography and English, as well as developing other skills such as personal understanding, mutual understanding, personal health, moral character, spiritual awareness, citizenship, cultural understanding, media awareness, ethical awareness, employability, economic awareness and education for sustainable development.
As part of the Green Flag award process, schools are expected to supply some quantifiable data in relation to the topics they have covered. The Data Zone is designed to help with Monitoring and Evaluation which traditionally has been a step that most schools have found difficult. By collecting data, the aim is to help schools to see the real impact of their work. Through collecting and monitoring data it will ultimately help schools with the evaluation part of the step i.e. to consider the results achieved - are these as expected, if not why not?; identify any areas for improvement; and to celebrate any areas of success.
Listing evidence of native wildlife/species of plants, shrubs and trees and how many have been planted on school grounds each year will assist in the monitoring of biodiversity.
This will assist you in producing a time-line of the progress made within the school and help you plan your future environmental strategy.
YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO UTILISE THE DATA ZONE AS EVIDENCE WHEN APPLYING FOR THE GREEN FLAG AWARD.
Once the monitoring/measuring data has been collated, it is important that you interpret and evaluate the information to determine the success of your activities.
Your monitoring data will help you to identify if your eco work is on target or not and whether it has been effective or ineffective. You can then decide if changes to your initial targets or activities documented in the Action Plan are required and what these should involve.
Make sure the whole school is aware of your progress by displaying any results and figures prominently in the school (e.g. on your Eco-Schools notice board, school newsletter, assembly, school website, etc.). Remember, successes should be celebrated loudly!
TOP TIP: It is important to quantify your Monitoring where possible, using a unit of environmental performance that is applicable to your school, e.g. number/volume of bins going to landfill weekly, units of electricity consumed per month, average cost of water consumption per student per month, etc. It is important to take before and after measurements so you can evaluate your progress.
To find topic specific tasks and activities, which show clear links to the curriculum, please see Resources where you can also find fact sheets and case studies.
For ideas on how to measure your environmental impact, analyse, evaluate and present the data you collect, click on to each of our Eleven Topics. You can find fact sheets and case studies in our Resources menu.
Our partner organisations can also offer advice and information on monitoring and evaluating the topics which they support.
The Eco-Committee makes a note of progress towards targets.
The group discusses success or otherwise of the action being undertaken.
The Eco-Committee reviews progress against set targets.
The Eco-Committee reports progress to whole school by appropriate means on a regular basis.
The value of activities and action is understood and is committed to by the whole school - pupils and adults.
The Eco-Committee ensures that evaluation of action is ongoing, appropriate to the activity monitored and that some of it is carried out by pupils.
The whole school is aware of progress of environmental action and is given the opportunity to evaluate its effect through discussion and debate.
The Eco-Committee meets to review progress and analyse the data collected.
They build on successes and decide on remedial action when activities are not proving successful.
Some monitoring data is used for curriculum work. | https://www.eco-schoolsni.org/cgi-bin/generic?instanceID=12 |
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Easing Your Transition To A New CRM
A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system is an essential tool for any business looking to streamline their customer interactions and improve overall customer experience. However, transitioning to a new CRM can be a challenging process for many organizations. The change can disrupt workflows, and employees may feel overwhelmed by the new system.
Here are some tips for easing the transition to a new CRM system:
- Plan Ahead:
Before you start the transition, it is crucial to create a detailed plan that outlines the objectives, timeline, and resources required. This will help you to stay organized and focused during the transition process. Involve all stakeholders in the planning process, including employees, management, and any external partners, to ensure everyone is on the same page.
- Get Buy-In from Employees:
One of the biggest challenges in transitioning to a new CRM is getting employees on board. They may feel overwhelmed or intimidated by the new system, and they may be resistant to change. It is essential to involve employees in the planning process, listen to their concerns, and provide them with training and support to help them understand the benefits of the new system. This will help to foster a sense of ownership and buy-in among employees, making the transition process smoother.
- Provide Training:
Training is an essential part of any CRM transition. It is important to provide employees with the knowledge and skills they need to effectively use the new system. This can be achieved through a combination of online tutorials, in-person training sessions, and hands-on practice. It is also important to provide ongoing training and support as employees continue to work with the new system.
- Integrate with Existing Systems:
Many businesses rely on other systems, such as marketing automation tools or accounting software, to manage different aspects of their operations. It is crucial to ensure that the new CRM integrates seamlessly with these existing systems to avoid disruption to workflows and ensure data consistency.
- Test and Evaluate:
Before fully implementing the new CRM, it is important to test it thoroughly and evaluate its effectiveness. This will help you to identify any potential issues or areas for improvement and make any necessary adjustments before the system is fully rolled out.
Conclusion:
Transitioning to a new CRM system can be a challenging process, but with careful planning, employee engagement, and training, the transition can be made smoother and more successful. By taking the time to understand the needs of your business, and working closely with employees, you can ensure that the new CRM system is fully adopted and effectively supports the goals of your organization. | https://mspaa.net/easing-your-transition-to-a-new-crm/ |
Group Technology and Operations forms a critical component to the bank, enabling first class customer service by leveraging on technology and efficiency. We provide software and system development, information technology support services and banking operations capability to the bank not only in Singapore but regionally. Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) is setup specifically to drive standardisation, efficiency and cost reduction in project testing phase. It’s a service provided to the Project delivery to address the effectiveness of testing and reduce leakage of errors.
This Vendor Performance Analyst function is to continuously and proactively analyse performance data and monitor vendor operations performance to achieve contractual targets on a periodic basis. Frequently interface with Vendor Account Managers to identify and communicate opportunities for improvement, address chronic issues, testing health and billing.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyse performance data to provide for the SLA and KPI metric, compare the intended outcomes with actual outcomes and evaluate the gap. Regular review with related parties.
- Create trackers on data required to gather feedback on SG and MY resource performances.
- Synchronise and collect necessary data from MY counterpart to support result outcome.
- Regular review with vendors, Test Delivery Lead and other stakeholders on vendor KPI performance results.
- Prepare and monitor TCoE metrics and dashboard in coordination with the vendors to identify, mitigate potential risks, resolve operation issues and drive improvement initiatives.
- Liaise with Test Delivery Leads on upcoming demand (forecast) to facilitate the planning of capacity with the vendor to make sure deployment of resources are not delayed.
- Work closely with Strategic Sourcing and Procurement (SSP) team on the required documents for contract preparation before the engagements.
- Liaise with Procurement and Business Finance on service delivery and payment schedule.
Key Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in computer engineering or related field.
- 5 to 7 working years banking experience.
- Exposure to large data analysis and familiar with vendor KPI measurements would be required.
- Demonstrated success in developing highly effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver collaboration, partnerships and services.
- Strong attention to details, excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Strong people management and vendor management skills.
- Excellent client facing, internal communications, written and verbal communication skills. | https://jobscentral.com.sg/job/vp-vendor-performance-analyst-testing-center-of-excellence-j3w1sr5wcmjjtqdgmpf |
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