Strategies for enhancing sports performance require attention to both physiological and psychological aspects. Sports psychology is an important field of influence and plays an integral role in the coaching regime of any athlete or sporting team. The coach must ensure that the psychological needs of athletes within their care are catered for. This program provides detailed information about the following key areas addressed by sports psychology; Role of the coach and coaching team; Management of training and identifying causes and symptoms of overtraining from a psychological viewpoint; Motivating the athlete; Arousal levels and performance; Mental rehearsal, imagery and simulation; Goal setting, building confidence levels and powers of concentration
Grade levels: Senior High (10-12)
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Design for Sustainability
Sustainable design is the art of designing physical objects to comply with the principles of economic, social and ecological sustainability. It ranges from the microcosm of designing small objects for everyday use, through to the macrocosm of designing buildings, cities and the earth’s physical surface. The essential aim of sustainable design is to produce places, products and services in a way that reduces use of non renewable resources, minimizes environmental impact and relates people with the natural environment.
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Understanding And Managing Type 2 Diabetes
The incidence of diabetes around the world is rapidly rising. Predominant causative factors include age, lifestyle and obesity with up to 90% of the diabetic population having type 2 diabetes. As a direct result of this rise, the need for nurses with diabetic expertise has also risen. This program has been developed as a response to growing demand for diabetic nursing knowledge, signs and symptoms awareness, and management of type 2 diabetes. It will provide an invaluable learning resource for both nursing students and clinical nurses delivering hands-on nursing care.
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Up-selling Products and Services in Tourism and Hospitality
The total tourism and hospitality experience consists of both products and services. Products are considered more tangible whilst services are intangible in nature. Recognition and an understanding must be developed of the key differences existing between a product and service before they may be marketed more effectively. The marketing concept implies an organization aims all of its efforts at simultaneously satisfying its customers and achieving its own corporate goals. Up-selling is a marketing tool used in an attempt to have the consumer purchase more expensive items, upgrades, or other add-ons in an attempt to make a more profitable sale. Training employees to up-sell during the selling process may lead to increased consumer satisfaction through value adding as well as increased profits for the organization.
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Food Poisoning: Prevention is Better Than Cure
So what is food poisoning? Another name is foodborne illness. This illness generally results from consuming food or drink contaminated with pathogenic bacteria, viruses or toxins. It often produces symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, diarrhoea, or fever. The symptoms are often the same as for gastro-type illnesses caused by other sources (other people carrying the bacteria, unhygienic surfaces, etc). This usually makes it hard to tell illness caused by food from the other sources of illness. Foodborne illness can occur from any fresh or processed foods consumed in a range of settings such as homes, restaurants, large catering establishments, schools and institutions. Most cases of foodborne illness can be avoided through good hygiene and good food handling practices.This program will look at – what is food poisoning? how is it caused? And methods to prevent it.
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Forensic Science In Action: From Crime Scene To Courtroom
An Introduction to Forensic Science’ we delved into the day-to-day activities and tasks of real-life forensic scientists and compared these with typical TV stereotypes. But before you draw a conclusion that specialist forensics work must be dull, let’s put on our lab coats and get involved in the forensic investigation of a mock-up crime! Follow our intrepid scientists through a crime scene investigation, various facets of evidence analysis and the presentation of the forensic findings in a court of law! Can forensic science really be the deciding factor in convicting criminal suspects?
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How To Make Digital Stories
A digital story is a form of media that allows students to share their creative writing in a way that can be expressed through audio files, digital photos and imagery. It can be shared via email or downloadable link and can be stored safely on a CD, DVD, website, computer hard drive or other storage device. A perfect example of using multiliteracy in the classroom, creating a digital story is one of the ways in which technology is re-shaping the way students learn and relate to each other by allowing them to share their thoughts, ideas, images and music digitally with the world.
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Australian International Business: A Case Study
We are often alarmed to see how many businesses are being bought out by foreign companies. This program case studies Intrepid Travel, an Australian business, operating in Australia which is sucessfully competing in international markets.
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Change Management in Large Organizations: Smoking Laws – A Case Study
Large organizations only survive in today’s highly competitive environment if they have the ability to effectively deal with change. External changes such as changes to the smoking laws have forced change upon hotels and other venues. This program looks at how a major entertainment complex which includes a hotel and casino has effectively managed this change process in response to the new laws.
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Aged Care: Communicating with Aged Care Residents
Effective communication with those elderly people living in residential care is the keystone to the delivery of high quality care – care that not only meets the physical needs of patients, but also mental, emotional, social and even spiritual care needs. This high quality program examines the basic elements of communication and how it can be enhanced to meet the care needs of older people who are living with hearing, vision, speech and cognitive losses. The program also looks at effective communication methods for those from culturally diverse backgrounds.