NATA Spring Training Week



The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) is pleased to host their 4th annual Spring Training Week in conjunction with Cygnus Aviation Expo. Spring Training is a line service camp featuring all-star seminars designed to enhance safety practices, provide major league knowledge and help you coach your team to a winning season.

Benefits of Attending:

NATA’s Spring Training Week provides the business skills and conditioning necessary for improved performance in 2012 and for years to come.

  • You’re Safe...The skills and techniques learned at NATA’s Spring Training Week help to ensure safer operations for your team. Don’t miss the opportunity to complete FAA required 14 CFR 139.321 Fire Safety Training.
  • Cover Your Bases...Attend all seminars for full coverage of safety, environmental, and training issues.
  • Meet the Team...Visit NATA’s booth to talk to the Spring Training Week team.
  • Hit a Home-run...Apply the skills and tactics you have learned at NATA Spring Training Week right away.

NATA’s 2012 Spring Training Week

All-Star Skill-Building and Conditioning


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Line Service Supervisor Training Seminar (LSST)

Strengthen safety and team synergy with enhanced leadership skills.
Monday, March 5 & Tuesday, March 6
9:00am – 5:00pm

Summary:
This seminar, specifically designed for Line Service Supervisors, provides the training you need to become more proficient in strategic planning, supervising staff, motivating others, communicating and coaching a team. This high-impact, high-energy seminar includes guided group discussions, interactive activities and various case studies designed to take you to a new level of leadership. You will also take part in self-assessments to explore your strengths and weaknesses and their effect on your management style.

Seminar Benefits:

  • Share your challenges and triumphs with colleagues and speakers
  • Discover your strengths and weaknesses through invaluable self-assessments
  • Learn to promote safety and synergy through teamwork
  • Instill a culture based on trust, partnership and respect at your FBO
  • Begin interacting more positively with your employees, other supervisors and senior management
  • Discuss various legal compliance issues to help prevent lawsuits
  • Review and discuss the technical information crucial to performing your job
  • Ensure top-notch customer service at your company
  • Make your FBO more efficient by learning how to engage and motivate your staff
Who Should Attend:
  • Line Supervisors & Managers
  • Line Service Technicians
  • Fuel Company Representatives
Topics:
  • Attendee Self Assessments
  • Creating a Healthy Safety Culture by Promoting Teamwork and Synergy
  • Leadership and Supervisor Essentials
  • Legal Compliance as a Leader
  • Employee Engagement
  • Team Building Exercises
  • Coaching Leadership
  • Leadership Essentials
  • Line Service Supervisor Technical Review
  • Managing Technical Procedures through Your People
  • Simple Steps to Ensuring Top-Notch Customer Service
Featured Speakers (speakers subject to change):
  • Walter Chartrand, AirBP Aviation Services
  • Todd Dewett, Ph.D., President, TVA Inc.; Professor & Assistant Dean, College of Business, Wright State University
  • Mike France, National Air Transportation Association
  • Reed Fuller, Ascent Aviation Group
  • Leonard Kirsch, Esq., McBreen & Kopko
  • Amy Koranda, National Air Transportation Association
  • Mario Martinez, Ph.D., ServiceElements

**Your registration confirmation will include access credentials to complete the FAA required 14 CFR Part 139 section 321 online Fire Safety Training.  This training must be completed prior to attending the seminar in order to receive your certificate at the end of the seminar class. 

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FBO Finance Fundamentals - For New And Seasoned Managers Responsible For The “Bottom Line” In Aviation Services

Tuesday, March 6 & Wednesday, March 7
9:00am – 5:00pm

Summary:
Successful managers understand the financial metrics of their business. Metrics are key indicators, numbers or relationships between key numbers, which help managers recognize changing trends. This allows them to take appropriate actions to adjust activities to the ever-changing aviation environment. Good managers know on the last day of the month if they had a good month financially without waiting weeks for their financial statements. Do you and your managers know if you made money?

This seminar will help you develop a level of competence in Management Accounting as opposed to Financial Accounting. Management Accounting is the process of identifying, measuring, reporting and analyzing information about the economic events of the organization. We do not intend to make you into an Accountant. We do intend to help you take the information Accountants provide, and make decisions and develop strategies that improve financial performance of your department, location, division or company. You will gain a better understanding of the Numbers and where they come from. We will help you develop tools
that will allow you to do your job better.

Seminar Benefits:
  • Gain valuable tools and techniques to evaluate the Numbers.
  • Find out how to compare the Numbers to past performance and other key benchmarks.
  • Understand how your decisions affect the balance sheet as well as the income statement.
  • Discover how to develop your own metrics and measurements for tracking business performance.
  • Learn key steps to a solid business plan.
  • Stimulate your thinking during the seminar with provided forms, examples and pertinent articles.
Topics:
  • Understanding Financial Reporting
  • Understanding The Business Flows
  • Key Ratios
  • Understanding Metrics
  • Business Planning
  • Budgeting
  • Operating Plan And Capital Plan
  • Allocating Costs
  • Negotiations
  • Accounting And Other Important Details
Featured Speakers:
  • Phil Botana, Tampa International Jet Center
  • Mark Chambers, Aviation Resource Group International
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NATA Safety 1st Trainer Seminar (Train the Trainer)

Wednesday, March 7
9:00am – 5:00pm

Summary: One hallmark of the best FBOs is the professionalism of the line service specialists on the ramp. A key component of ramp safety, security and efficiency is the guidance provided by designated FBO line service trainers. NATA’s Safety 1st Trainer Seminar delivers the in-depth instruction necessary to make them more effective line service supervisors and instructors.

In the seminar, trainers will learn how to engage different students, increase learning retention, effectively present lesson plans, identify student verbal and nonverbal cues as well as many other skills.

The seminar also includes instruction on the industry’s premier program for initial and recurrent training of line service specialists - known as PLST or Professional Line Service Training. NATA’s Safety 1st Trainer Seminar was designed specifically to enhance PLST program training via cutting-edge teaching techniques.

Seminar Benefits:

  • Learn the benefits of online PLST training
  • Return eager to implement  proven PLST Online training tips and techniques to make your FBO better and safer
  • Strengthen your training skills
  • Realize the benefits of a highly organized and coordinated training process
  • Participate in peer networking opportunities
Topics:
  • Structuring a Training Program
  • Keys to Successful Training
  • How to Properly Prepare
  • How To Engage Students
  • Implementing Various Teaching Techniques
  • Energizing the Learning Environment
  • Recognizing and Utilizing Resources
  • Setting Goals
  • Staying Consistent
  • Keeping it Simple
  • Utilizing Your Experience
  • Making the Most of PLST Online
  • Learning and Practicing with Your Peers
Featured Speakers:
  • Walter Chartrand, AirBP Aviation Services
  • Mike France, National Air Transportation Association
  • Amy Koranda, National Air Transportation Association
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Environmental Compliance Seminar

Thursday, March 8
9:00am – 3:00pm

Summary:
The NATA Environmental Compliance Seminar for Aviation Facilities is the only event that focuses solely on environmental compliance issues confronting FBOs and general aviation airports. With mounting pressure from the media, the federal government and the public at-large, this seminar is designed to ensure that FBOs and general aviation airports are complying with environmental mandates that affect their daily operations.

Seminar Benefits:
  • Increase awareness of all applicable regulations
  • Ensure compliance with new environmental mandates
  • Avoid costly errors and negative press
  • Discuss best management practices
  • Review procedures, equipment and requirements
  • Receive a training certificate
Topics:
  • Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasures (SPCC) regulations
  • Storm Water Permitting and Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans
  • Newly proposed de-icing requirements from the EPA
  • Waste Issues (hazardous waste, universal waste, waste oil and waste fuel)
  • Underground Storage Tanks (USTs)
  • EU Emission Trading Scheme – current requirements in Europe and what to expect in the future for the U.S.
Featured Speaker:
  • George S. Gamble, PE, 2G Environmental, LLC
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