Eleven staff from Leisure Connection, celebrated their graduation from the Leisure Connection Management Academy at an awards evening at Lilleshall National Sports Centre.
Candidates graduated with an NVQ level three in Leisure Management after a 12-month course, with others still working to complete their programme. Attending a two day module every month the trainees were given extensive training in all aspects of leisure management, including recruitment and selection, coaching and appraisals, health and safety, incident and emergency management, budgeting and sales, each giving an insight to the details behind what they do and how they interlink.
Academy trainees “shadowed” senior managers at Leisure Connection as well as attending a series of workshops and handling specific project work.
Claire Owen, Leisure Connection’s Training and Development Manager, comments: “It’s great to see our staff graduate from the Academy. They have put in a great deal of work, time and effort to their training and it’s fantastic to see them achieve their NVQ level three.”
Leisure Connection is the only operator working directly with the Learning Skills Council, enabling staff to achieve nationally recognised standards of quality and excellence. Claire Owen adds:
“The support we received from the LSC enabled us to include more team members in learning and is a fundamental part of our overall training programme. It provides a solid base of learning and development from which team members can progress and grow within the company and many of our colleagues have done just that.”
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