The Axelis Committee Management Course has been specifically written to assist you to address the committee management issues affecting sport and recreation organisations. It explores the roles and responsibilities of the key office holders in your committees, highlights best practice for the management of your committees and discusses meeting protocols. In addition it also covers the essential practice of evaluation and review

This course aims to help you develop the basic skills and knowledge necessary to initiate, develop and manage committee processes and procedures for your sport and recreation organisation.

The course is a must for club administrators, anyone who is on a committee, who is looking to join a committee, or anyone who has an interest in how their club/association is run.

Specific topics including, committee responsibilities, electing committees, position descriptions, meeting procedures and setting the agenda are all covered in the course.

By completing this course, you will gain the knowledge and skills to enable you to:

• recognise the role of the management committee to plan, lead, organise, and control management processes of organisations
• describe the duties and attributes of different committee positions
• conduct formal and informal meetings
• evaluate committees, their roles and processes
• propose methods for improving committee functioning, roles and processes
• anticipate the potential for conflict between paid staff and volunteers
• propose ways to manage the working relationship between paid staff and volunteers
• evaluate effectiveness of meetings and propose ways to improve processes.

Your course presenter will guide you through a series of activities that will help you apply the course information to typical sport and recreation contexts, and ideally to your own club or organisation. Many of the activities will be group activities to maximise the benefits of collaborative learning, which will allow you to share the concerns, issues and questions of all participants. A final project-based or written activity may be part of the course but your presenter will provide you with all the information and support required to help you complete it successfully

You will be provided with a detailed learner guide, which has been compiled from the accumulated knowledge and experience of all those involved in its writing. It will serve as a simple, but high-quality, reference text for you to use as you progress through the course. Your presenter will also be able to provide you with references if you would like additional information related to the topics covered in this course.

At the end of the course when you have successfully completed all the requirements, you will be presented with a Certificate to show that you have completed the course. 

Financial Management

The Axelis Financial Management Course has been specifically written to assist you address financial management issues affecting sport and recreation organisations. It looks at how sound financial management protects and supports an organisation, the role of the elected individuals in applying the principles and how specific responsibilities apply to both the Committee and to the Treasurer.

This course aims to help you develop the basic skills and understanding you will need to develop, apply and manage sound financial processes and procedures for your sport and recreation organisation.

The course is a must for club administrators, club secretary's/finance officers, anyone who is on a committee and those involved or interested in managing the financial direction of their club, association or peak body.

Specific topics including, the use of financial information, the treasurers role and responsibilities, financial stationary, financial reporting, GST and FBT, are all covered in the course.

By completing the course, you will gain the knowledge and skills to enable you to:

• collaborate with the committee and treasurer to achieve a financially healthy organisation
• standardise financially responsible practices as an organisation and as a committee
• understand the duties of a treasurer
• appraise an organisation's financial position and implement procedures for discrepancies
• implement effective day-to-day financial practices
• construct key financial documents and present these to the organisation's management committee
• examine financial reports and seek further clarification, use budgets as working documents to compare with current financial data, and identify budgetary issues
• evaluate the organisation's financial situation using key financial documents
• make suggestions for improving the financial contexts of organisations
• prepare financial accounts for auditing
• make decisions about key taxation issues
• be familiar with key financial terms

Your course presenter will guide you through a series of activities that will help you apply the course information to typical sport and recreation contexts, and ideally to your own club or organisation. Many of the activities will be group activities to maximise the benefits of collaborative learning, which will allow you to share the concerns, issues and questions of all participants. A final project-based or written activity may be part of the course but your presenter will provide you with all the information and support required to help you complete it successfully

You will be provided with a detailed learner guide, which has been compiled from the accumulated knowledge and experience of all those involved in its writing. It will serve as a simple, but high-quality, reference text for you to use as you progress through the course. Your presenter will also be able to provide you with references if you would like additional information related to the topics covered in this course.

At the end of the course when you have successfully completed all the requirements, you will be presented with a Certificate to show that you have completed the course.

Strategic Planning

The Axelis Strategic Planning Course has been specifically written to assist you address the needs of your sport and recreation organisation and it's stakeholders in plotting the direction that best serves the needs of its stakeholders. It looks at what the directors and administrators responsible for strategic planning must be aware and take account of.

This course aims to teach you the basic skills and knowledge you will need to initiate, develop and manage the strategic planning process and thus good organisational management for your sport and recreation organisation.

The course is a must for club administrators, anyone who is on a committee and those involved in managing the direction of their club, association or peak body.

Specific topics including, the importance and benefits of strategic planning, understanding internal and external environments, strategies for organisational development, identifying and creating value for stakeholders and an examination of a planning model are all covered in the course.

By completing the course, you will gain the knowledge and skills to enable you to:

• define key terms and concepts associated with creating strategic plans
• list the benefits and objectives of strategic planning
• consider and select methods for identifying stakeholder needs
• apply at least one method in practice (i.e. open planning forum)
• analyse organisational potential through instruments such as a SWOT analysis
• work through a staged strategic plan procedure to draft a strategic plan
• take into account key issues involved with writing, implementing, monitoring and amending a strategic plan
• evaluate environmental conditions affecting an organisation and propose positive ways to address these conditions.

Your course presenter will guide you through a series of activities that will help you apply the course information to typical sport and recreation contexts, and ideally to your own club or organisation. Many of the activities will be group activities to maximise the benefits of collaborative learning, which will allow you to share the concerns, issues and questions of all participants. A final project-based or written activity may be part of the course but your presenter will provide you with all the information and support required to help you complete it successfully

You will be provided with a detailed learner guide, which has been compiled from the accumulated knowledge and experience of all those involved in its writing. It will serve as a simple, but high-quality, reference text for you to use as you progress through the course. Your presenter will also be able to provide you with references if you would like additional information related to the topics covered in this course.

At the end of the course when you have successfully completed all the requirements, you will be presented with a Certificate to show that you have completed the course.

Volunteer Management

The Axelis Volunteer Management course has been specifically written to assist you to address the challenges sport and recreation organisations face in attracting and retaining volunteers. It examines the how's and why's of an effective volunteer management process, which must be implemented and maintained in sport and recreation organisations, whether the organisation is managed by volunteers or paid staff

This course aims to give you an appreciation for the value that volunteers can add to an organisation. Included in this is an awareness of policies, strategies and practices for ensuring that volunteers have roles that are meaningful to both themselves and the organisation.

The course is a must for club administrators, anyone who is on a committee, those involved in managing or attracting volunteers, or anyone who is a volunteer wanting to learn about their role and how volunteers impact on clubs and associations.

Specific topics including why people volunteer, volunteer rights and responsibilities, developing a volunteer culture, volunteer screening and selection, succession planning and barriers to volunteering, are all covered in the course.

By completing the course you will gain the knowledge and skills to enable you to:

• recognise that volunteers and organisations are involved in volunteering for specific and different reasons
• identify the rights and responsibilities of volunteers
• locate existing codes of practice that can be adapted to meet a particular organisation's needs
• identify roles for volunteers that suit an organisation's needs
• plan a process for attracting and recruiting enough volunteers to meet an organisation's needs
• recognise potential issues regarding responsibility, authority and communication between volunteers and paid staff
• formulate a strategy for promoting volunteer-organisation relations
• create a volunteer management policy
• evaluate the effectiveness of an organisation's volunteer management program
• create a strategy for keeping volunteers actively involved in the organisation.

Your course presenter will guide you through a series of activities that will help you apply the course information to typical sport and recreation contexts, and ideally to your own club or organisation. Many of the activities will be group activities to maximise the benefits of collaborative learning, which will allow you to share the concerns, issues and questions of all participants. A final project-based or written activity may be part of the course but your presenter will provide you with all the information and support required to help you complete it successfully

You will be provided with a detailed learner guide, which has been compiled from the accumulated knowledge and experience of all those involved in its writing. It will serve as a simple, but high-quality, reference text for you to use as you progress through the course. Your presenter will also be able to provide you with references if you would like additional information related to the topics covered in this course.

At the end of the course when you have successfully completed all the requirements, you will be presented with a Certificate to show that you have completed the course.