IOG
Iog Launches New Online Team
Management Courses
To Help New Managers ‘Learn To Lead’
that will help them to
successfully lead teams of
any size.”
IOG chief executive, Geoff
Webb, added: “This course
fits perfectly with the IOG’s
drive to widen the scope of
training we offer. The role
of groundsmanship is ever
changing and we encourage
those who have yet to
undertake such training to
sign up.”
T
he Institute of
Groundsmanship
(IOG), the leading
membership
organisation for
everyone involved
in the management and
maintenance of sports
pitches, landscape and
amenity facilities in the UK,
has introduced a series of
online modular management
courses that will enable
‘accidental managers’ to get
the most from their grounds
teams.
•
The new learning route
will help to support and
develop those managers
who have been promoted
into management positions
without any formal training
or experience in issues that
are ‘non turf-related’ by
offering:
“With ever-increasing
demands being made on
budgets and time resources,
getting the most from an
entire team is essential,”
says IOG head of learning,
Chris Gray. “This course will
help managers do exactly
that, enabling them to gain
new skills and approaches
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A detailed insight into
the skills needed to
lead, build and manage
a team, including
the development of
coaching skills;
•
An improvement in
personal management
performance to enhance
team motivation; and
•
A way to review
practices to meet the
challenges involved, by
creating better ideas
and solutions.
The five modules - team
motivation, coaching
skills, encouraging new
ideas, managing meetings
and supporting team
performance – can be
studied individually for the
IOG Level 3 Certificate in
Supervisory Management,
totalling around 150 hours
of learning. The resulting
workbook can subsequently
also be put forward for
accreditation to the Lantra
Awards Level 3 Certificate
in Leading and Managing
Teams in Land-based
Establishments.
Alternatively, learners
can enrol onto the Lantra
Certificate without building
up individual modules.
The course can extend across
nine months at a pace that
suits the individual and is
based on distance/home
study learning, with tutor
support primarily by email.
Further details are available
from the IOG by email –
learning@iog.org – or by
‘phone at 01908 312 511.