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Employee Onboarding: A Three-Phase Program That Will Work for You and Your New Employee
Who hasn’t heard the story about a new employee’s first day on the job, where his or her manager hands over a set of keys with a promise to return, only to disappear? The employee is then forced to guess what to do. It isn’t unusual when that same employee later shares this story with a sense of pride and accomplishment for having “made it” in the parking business. While the story might be exaggerated somewhat, there is some truth to it. Hiring managers are missing an opportunity for ensuring the success of their new employees from day one on the job.

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Chairman’s Update By Herb Anderson Between the Lines By John Fiegel Legal Matters By Michael Stevens On People and Parking By Charlie Munn TechTalk By Blake Laufer Marketing Minute By Jeff Pinyot GINP Corner By Robert Baer Safety Management for Parking Professionals By Kathy Phillips

By Vicki Pero

A New Age of Transparency: Client Reporting Becomes an Open Book

Parking operators are embracing changing times and new technologies in their reporting structures for their management account clients. These clients are increasingly more sophisticated, not only in their working knowledge of parking operations but in their need for detailed financial data and analysis.

By Charlie Munn

Approaching Strategic Parking Asset Management in Today’s Economy

Today more than ever, owners need to use creative and efficient strategies to reduce costs. While saving money is a major priority for individuals and families, this renewed emphasis on saving also rings true for most (if not all) corporations, institutions, and public entities. As a result of the recent economic crises, owners and decision makers carefully consider where funds are spent, and evaluate ways to cut costs. Many owners are looking for opportunities to protect and maintain the parking assets they have, rather than building new facilities.

By Kevin Carrigan, P CAPP .E.,

Dynamics of Hospital Parking— New Construction, New Approach

In today’s world, security can be an issue anywhere. If you are an employee of a rapidly growing medical center in an urban setting, security issues can be raised to another level. Poor planning for parking will always contribute to these issues. New construction in this setting presents unique opportunities for the planners and facility operators to come together and improve the experience for employees and visitors alike. In the case of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, we were able to incorporate several new features into facilities opened over the past two years.

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By Robert Baer

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