Candidate: Chloe
Related Goal: Chloe Harwood: Improve lifeguard vigilance and safety responsiveness through peer accountability and shift engagement tools.
In this meeting we discussed my next step which is to introduce this idea to Jeff and everyone on leadership during our next leadership meeting. I will say something along the lines of, “I’ve developed a system called the buddy-check in system, similar to the pool families, that I think could really improve safety, focus, prevent burnout on long shifts, and team accountability. The system is simple: before each shift, guards are randomly paired into buddy teams using ‘Wheel Decide’. These pairs will stay consistent for the entire shift, and although the pairs wont always be rotating together, they’re responsible for checking in with each other people their own rotations. The purpose is to improve vigilance, reduce burnout, and create more structure during transitions. I’ve also created a flyer to guide staff and make it easy to roll out, which I will pass out now.” We also discussed that I will print out some copies of the flyer and bring it to the leadership and ask for everyones opinion’s and possible feedback. We also thought that I good touch would to buy magnets to represent the pairings without having to make the rotation colors super overwhelming.
Action items:
Print 15 copies of my flyer and practice what I’m going to say to everyone. After that the next step is to actually implement it during my shifts and receiving feedback from the guards. I would also like to talk to Jeff about what he thinks about my idea and the possibility about purchasing magnets.