Jan 28, 2019
By Janet Ready, Instructor
Today I got an excellent surprise in the mail. Well, not a huge surprise because I knew it was coming….just something very cool and exciting to open and hold in my hands.
In fall 2017, I sent out an email to a lot of people in the recreation field. I had been asked to be the Canadian author of the Second Edition of the Leisure Services Management textbook – specifically to update Chapter 10, “Motivation, Rewards and Discipline” and Chapter 13, “Evaluation”. I had a great response and spent time meeting with people and talking about these areas – my vision was to have the chapters be alive with information from the field. Meeting people was great – writing was a long and slow and sometimes frustrating/sometimes exhilarating process but it was worthy work.
Today I opened the box and held the Leisure Services Management, Second Edition Textbook. Woot! Woot!
In the acknowledgements section I wrote:
To the managers and directors of recreation organizations who met with me, emailed me, had spontaneous conversations, and coordinated working groups to generously share their knowledge and experience – thank you. You helped the theory in these chapters come alive. I am inspired by your commitment to growing people. I am grateful to my colleagues in the recreation studies department at Langara College who walk the talk. And a very special thank you to my family – Craig, Claire, Kate and Murphy – for supporting my work and keeping it real.
A very big thank you to everyone in the recreation who contributed to these chapters. And to the recreation students who get to read this – aren’t you excited now?!
… Who knew that I could get so excited about getting a textbook in the mail?
