SPORTS MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATION COURSE

Modules include:

• Communication for a sports manager
  • Produce and respond to written communication appropriately in an office environment.
  • Produce verbal communication appropriately in an office environment.
  • Respond to verbal communication appropriately in an office environment.

• Ethical behaviour and discipline in a sporting environment
  • Describe what professional values, in a sporting environment, are.
  • Indicate how professional values function in sporting association.
  • Describe what professional accountability is.

• Disability management in sports
  • Be able to detail the side effects that sportsmen and -women with disabilities suffer from.
  • Determine how people with disabilities can be included in sport.
  • Examine the similarities between sport, fitness and recreation.

• Manage the sporting environment
  • Establish organizational structures in sports.
  • Ensure that you aim for the highest levels of customer satisfaction.
  • Learn how to deal with project finances as well as financial management.

• HR in sports
  • Be able to manage teams of volunteers brought in for specific tournaments.
  • Manage diversity in sports.
  • Become knowledgeable about governance in sports and fitness.

• HIV and AIDS in sports
  • Be able to identify the national policies regarding HIV/Aids in the workplace.
  • Detail the national policies regarding HIV/Aids in the workplace.
  • Develop a workplace-specific policy on HIV/Aids that is in line with national policies.

• Managing and administering sporting tournaments
  • Explain a particular sporting event’s evacuation procedures.
  • Explain why safety and fire-fighting equipment is regularly inspected.
  • Decide what safety and security information needs to be communicated to staff

• Personal developmental training
  • Understand intra-personal dynamics.
  • Understand interpersonal dynamics.
  • Bring about personal behavioural changes.

• Safety and security
  • Design a programme that promotes risk management and safety.
  • Describe an emergency medical evacuation procedure.
  • Analyse the most common forms of injuries.

• Sports and fitness marketing
  • Draw up a comprehensive business plan for your sporting business.
  • Plan and implement operational procedures for your sporting business.
  • Carry out administrative functions, financial and accounting procedures which will support your sporting business.

Trifocus Fitness Academy’s Sports Management Certification – which is accredited with CATHSSETA – will equip you to manage any number of sport management titles including:

• Academic services advisor for student athletics
• Athletic business management
• Athletic director
• Compliance director
• Corporate sales director
• Director of ticketing and finance
• Facilities coordinator
• Fitness manager
• Intramural director of campus recreation
• Programme directors in community sport programs
• Sporting goods sales representative
• Sports marketing and promotions director

Course admission requirements: NQF 4 or Grade 12/Matric

The National Certificate of Sports Management is accredited through CATHSSETA and SAQA ID 60309 Level 5

How to learn at Trifocus Fitness Academy

This is a correspondence course that can be done at your own pace and started anytime of the year.The course takes roughly 8-12 months to complete.

Correspondence:

We will send you all the course material – that you will need – via courier. If you have any questions, our student support team is available – on the other side of the phone – to help.