Strategic Risk Management
An Advanced Online Course
Course Instructor: Ian McGregor, Ph.D., Ian McGregor and Associates Inc.
Course Goal
This course is aimed at the department ‘Risk Manager’ (or Chair of the Risk Management Committee) – the staff member who has been delegated by the Director to assume overall responsibility for leading and coordinating all risk management efforts in the department. The primary goal of the course is to provide the Risk Manager with the tools and leadership skills needed to successfully lead and champion risk management within their department.
Course Description
As a follow-up to the introductory ‘Risk Management for Recreation Professionals’, this course is designed to take your risk management efforts to the next level. Focusing on teaching the skills needed to develop, coordinate and lead a comprehensive risk management plan for the department, the course will also train participants on how to position themselves as the Risk Manager – both internally within the department and externally within the University setting.
Learning Outcomes
Note: The course is spread over 8 weeks. (There are 4 weeks of actual course content, with one week between each ‘course week’ to allow time to complete assignments.)
On completion of the 4 week course, participants will:
- Develop
- Skills needed to assume leadership risk management role in department
- Strategies to entrench risk management within Recreation staff
- A simple, comprehensive and doable risk management plan
- Create
- A highly functional Risk Management Committee
- An effective and sustainable risk management ‘Training & Education’ plan
- Understand
- The importance of ‘Strategic’ and ‘Enterprise’ Risk Management
- What leadership in Risk Management entails
- How Campus Recreation can become campus leaders in risk management
Course Length
This is a 4 week course spread over 8 weeks.
Course work and assignments should take approximately 4-5 hours per week.
Course Features
- Online format means students work at their own speed, in their own time
- Webinars used to deliver online ‘lectures’ – also incorporate student Q&A
- Guest lecturers via Webinars
- Class enrollment limited to 8 participants to maximize interaction
- Course participants establish a network with colleagues from across N. America
- Results-oriented assignments are based on real department situations
- ‘Certificate of Completion’ issued to all participants who successfully complete the course.
Course Text
SportRisk: Risk Management Planning Resource by Dr. Ian McGregor.
Who is Course aimed at?
Designed exclusively for those schools taking proactive steps towards formalizing the role of a department ‘Risk Manager’, the course is aimed at the professional staff member who has been (or will be) asked to assume this role, on a full or part-time basis.
Prerequisite
Risk Management for Recreation Professionals (Introductory Online Course), or appropriate experience and background in Risk Management.
Course Outline
Next Course:
Date: October 21 – Dec 6, 2013 (spread over 8 weeks)
Register now to secure your place! To Register: go to ‘Add to Cart’ and pay through PayPal – you are then automatically registered and you’ll receive confirmation within 24 hours.
Fee: $695 USD
To get more information contact Ian McGregor directly at mcgregor@sportrisk.com