ISPAL has always recognised its responsibility for motivating and developing the professional workforce to support the development of a world leading community sports, active leisure, management, administrative and governance system.

ISPAL prides itself on going as far as possible to ensure that you get what you need from your industry's professional body.

ISPAL has recently relauched its Learning and Development Programme. Current course dates can be found by logging on to the ISPAL Events Website

ISPAL Learning and Development Update

Learning and Development course categories include:

Leadership & Management

- A Beginner's Guide to Project Leadership
- Commercial Development for Sport and Leisure Professionals
- Effective Networking
- Effective Sales & Marketing for Sport and Leisure
- Finance for non-finance managers
- Managing Leisure Projects
- Managing your priorities
- Managing Discipline, Grievance and Dismissal
- Developing effective partnerships
- Introduction of outcomes based planning and evaluation
- Application of outcomes based planning and evaluation (2 day)
- Training the trainer training
- Planning for Open Space, Sport and Recreation
- Reviewing Performance


Sport Community Enterprise

- Certificate in Community Sports Work (level 3 VRQ) (2 day)
- Certificate in Managing Community Sport (level 3 VRQ) (2 day)
- Charitable Leisure Trading
- Coaching - Coach Education in Disadvantaged Communities
- Leisure Trusts - Accounting and Governance Issues
- Young People - Challenging Communities
- Sports Development Foundation Workshop


Leisure Operations

- Effectively Manage Membership
- Caring for Leisure Customers
- Club Development in Sport Facilities
- Developing Duty Managers
- Managing Safety in Leisure (2 day)
- Procurement of a Leisure Management Operator


Event Management

- Delivering Successful Public Events
- Delivering Successful Major Public Events and Festivals
- Delivering Successful Sports Events
- Delivering Successful Conferences
- Essential Leadership Skills for Events Managers
- Event Risk Assessment
- Events Safety Management and Site Design
- The Complete Major Event and Festival Course (2 day)


Tailored Training Solutions from ISPAL

ISPAL's training courses can be delivered at your convenience and tailored to help you to maximise the potential of your people and to achieve improvements in your business performance. We will:

- Provide your organisation with a free training needs analysis
- Tailor our programmes to meet those needs
- Supply one of our national faculty of tutors to deliver your training
- Certificate your course
- Arrange the training at your venue, reducing travel costs in the process
- Help you sell places to industry colleagues to minimise your costs
- Support you every step of the way.

Prices are £235+VAT (non-member) £195+VAT (ISPAL member) per delegate per course.

Contact learninganddevelopment@ispal.org.uk for further details or call
0844 418 0077.

N.B. A minimum of 10 delegates for each course is required