Message from DeSoto Parks and Recreation Director
In Fiscal Year 2023, the DeSoto Parks & Recreation team strategically focused on effective staff development and improving relationships that would ultimately manifest into a tangibly improved service delivery. In our annual departmental retreat, staff identified the following goals:
• • Enhance the environment to be more conducive to succession planning • Focus on a healthy work/life balance • Improve Internal Communication •
Celebrate accomplishments
Increase accountability
To assist with the development of a solid foundation to accomplish our departmental retreat goals, our vision team, (also known as our V-Team), which consists of supervisory staff, embarked on reading a New Your Times and Wall Street Journal Best Seller, “Radical Candor” by Kim Scott. Radical Candor is about caring personally and challenging directly, soliciting criticism to improve leadership skills, and
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providing guidance that fosters growth. It focuses on praise but doesn’t shy away from criticism. In addition to administering an implementation plan for a $53 million Aquatics & Recreation Center that is scheduled for completion at the end of 2025, our team accomplishments for this year included:
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Three National Parks & Recreation Conference Presenters National Athletic Business Conference Presenter Commission for Accreditation of Park and Recreation Agencies (CAPRA) Commissioner – National Recreation and Parks Association (NRPA) Executive Board Member
• Organized and hosted the Inaugural Annual Directors • Summit – a derivative of NRPA Director School • Two Texas Recreation and Parks Association Presenters • National Forum for Black Public Administrators (NFBPA) – North Texas Vice President • National Recreation and Park Ethnic Minority Society (RPEMS) – Southwest Region Board Representative • NRPA Supervisor Management School Attendee – Oglebay Resort, West Virginia
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Tourism Planning for Park & Recreation Agencies Certificate from Indiana University, Eppley Institute International City/County Management Association (ICMA) City Manager Certification NRPA Marketing and Communication for Parks and Recreation Certificate Maintained Four Certified Parks & Recreation Professional Certificates
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Two CAPRA Evaluators
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