The Cornerstone Blog
Providing insights, updates, and guidance to the experiential education & travel industry
Meet Cornerstone’s Mental Health Team
Meet our Mental Health Team! As the first organization to provide all-inclusive health, safety and risk management services for the travel and experiential education industries, Cornerstone relies on a team of experts. To offer our members customized consultation, advisement, and thought leadership, it takes a professional who can navigate the space between industries.
Today, we’d like to introduce you to our mental health team, compassionate and self-motivated professionals who assist with the ongoing development of training and education, support our members, and develop best practices to keep organizations evolving. We’re fortunate to be joined by a the following individuals with significant industry experience and passion for transformative travel.
Finding Additional Programming Staff
When you’re looking for more staff, it’s prudent to consider where these individuals might be looking for YOU. Below, we’ve compiled a shortlist of some of the most popular training platforms where tour guides/directors/program leaders look to educate themselves and connect to operators like you.
Some of these organizations even offer the option to list last-minute staffing vacancies on their site or be included in an “emergency” mailing list to all their members - an ideal place to find floater staff in a pinch.
Delivering Effective Safety Briefings to Participants
How do you consistently deliver safety briefings to your travel operator or tour operator staff? How do your program leaders embody your values through delivering safety information? Staff need tools and support to realistically deliver the required information in a memorable, clear, and value-rich manner. After all, there’s little point in delivering information to cover your liability if no one is paying attention.
Let’s address the challenge first - when and how the safety briefing can be delivered.