Triggered recommendations for skills advancement

Purpose

1.1. Automate triggered recommendations for individualized skill advancement, based on ongoing swimming performance tracking, providing actionable learning paths, feedback, and targeted resources to each student or athlete.
1.2. Automation aims to maximize improvement by alerting students, parents, or coaches at exactly the right time, using real-time assessed data from lessons, training logs, and performance trends.
1.3. Automating this process ensures each student is guided by data-driven, dynamically updated suggestions for drills, coaching sessions, or feedback, minimizing admin intervention and enabling continuous, personalized learning.
1.4. Automatedly push notifications, email summaries, or app updates with tailored recommendations when swimmers meet, exceed, or fall below skill thresholds.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Automate triggers when new performance data is logged after each session.
2.2. Automatedly initiate when swimmer skill ratings cross set thresholds or plateau for a defined period.
2.3. Automator triggered by gaps in attendance or lack of progress across metrics for predefined intervals.
2.4. Automation runs on scheduled reviews (weekly, monthly) to re-assess and push new advancement paths.
2.5. Triggered when manual feedback from coaches highlights readiness for advancement.

Platform Variants

3.1. Twilio SMS
• Feature/Setting: Configure automated SMS via Twilio Programmable Messaging API, set message triggers on skill achievement events.
3.2. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Automate recommendation emails using SendGrid Marketing Campaigns API, mapping personalized content to performance data events.
3.3. Microsoft Power Automate
• Feature/Setting: Build a flow using automated triggers from Excel Online (Session logs) and Teams notifications for recommendations.
3.4. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Automated Slackbot DM using Slack Web API, triggered by webhooks from performance tracking apps.
3.5. Google Chat
• Feature/Setting: Configure Google Chat bots using Apps Script to display automated advancement recommendations.
3.6. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Create automated channel messages with actionable drills using Adaptive Cards API, triggered by student data change.
3.7. Gmail
• Feature/Setting: Automated Gmail draft/send with Google Apps Script, triggered on Google Sheet score updates.
3.8. WhatsApp Business API
• Feature/Setting: Automate WhatsApp notification on skill milestone with templated message API, mapped to individual student events.
3.9. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Use multi-step Zap automator flow: performance data-in → trigger filter → automated email/SMS/action.
3.10. OneSignal
• Feature/Setting: Automate push notifications to app users via OneSignal API, triggered on skill rating changes.
3.11. Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: Use Process Builder automation to send in-app or email recommendations based on custom object updates.
3.12. Pipedrive
• Feature/Setting: Automate activity creation with custom fields for follow-up coaching tasks on skill data update via API.
3.13. HubSpot
• Feature/Setting: Automate email workflow with contact property triggers for swimming progression events.
3.14. Intercom
• Feature/Setting: Trigger in-app automated messages or tours via Intercom's Event-based Messaging API.
3.15. Mailchimp
• Feature/Setting: Automate segmented email campaigns for different skill bands using automation rules and triggers API.
3.16. Notion
• Feature/Setting: Set up database automations using Notion API to add actionable recommendations alongside student profiles.
3.17. Monday.com
• Feature/Setting: Automate item updates and notifications using Monday.com automation center, based on board data change.
3.18. Google Classroom
• Feature/Setting: Automated assignment or feedback post via Google Classroom API on skill achievement trigger.
3.19. Trello
• Feature/Setting: Automator adds checklist/cards as recommended drills using Trello API when specific skill labels are applied.
3.20. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: Automate email/SMS notification using Airtable Automation, triggered by record condition changes in performance logs.

Benefits

4.1. Automating skill recommendations ensures timely, personalized advancement for every swimmer.
4.2. Automation eliminates manual sorting and notification tasks, reducing admin workload.
4.3. Automator tools improve consistency in feedback and resource delivery to students and parents.
4.4. Automatedly increases student engagement with actionable, relevant training paths.
4.5. Automation enables scalable, data-driven coaching that adapts dynamically to each student's progression.
4.6. Automate feedback loops maximize resource utilization without missing advancement opportunities.
4.7. Automation improves trackability and reporting of skill advancements across all students.