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07/03/2024

Build your skill set and develop your career

It’s National Careers Week 2024, what better time to look at how you can enhance your skills and progress your career.

Whether it’s your next CPD opportunity, developing your interpersonal skills, face to face workshops or identifying the qualification to drive your career in the right direction, we’ve got you covered with a multitude of support and resources.

CIMSPA Academy

From bite-sized CPD learning to certificate courses that award multiple CIMSPA CPD points.

As part of your membership, you receive access to a huge range of free CPD to enhance your skill set and develop, maintain, and elevate your professional status.

With hundreds of courses there is sure to be numerous areas of interest for all members.

Take a look at our variety of ‘Written English and Grammar’ tutorial programmes, including:

  • Business Writing Style
  • Getting the Right Tone
  • How to Write in Sentences
  • Presenting Information Clearly
  • Using Apostrophes Correctly

Or why not utilise our range of certificate and tutorial programmes that are designed to enhance your soft skills and aid your personal development. Programmes include:

  • Being Assertive
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Ask Better Questions
  • Be Confident
  • Planning and Communicating your Company Strategy

Discover the CIMSPA Academy

Premium UK Coaching Club Membership

Support, tools and guidance which assist coaches to inspires people and transforms lives.

Your CIMSPA membership* gives you free access to a vast number of useful resources such as qualifications, webinars, eLearning courses, online classrooms and face-to-face workshops as part of a Premium UK Coaching Club membership.

The UK Coaching Club platform is focused around supporting you with your coaching development and helping you in handling life’s challenges in and beyond coaching.

Whether you’re new to coaching or a seasoned professional, the dedicated hub for coaches, allows you to connect, learn, challenge, and inspire – enabling you to elevate your coaching.

Most popular UK Coaching Club resources for improving your coaching

  • Coaching Behaviours
  • Safeguarding and Protecting Children – Frequently Asked Questions
  • The STEP Model Explained
  • Coaching People with Autism
  • Understanding Unconscious Bias

Find out more about the benefits of a UK Coaching Club Membership.

Set up your free Premium account now and start benefitting by visiting your portal and clicking member benefits, then UK Coaching Club.

Access your portal

Endorsed Qualifications

Gain your next qualification and drive your career forward.

Looking to upskill? Want to add another offering for your clients? Or maybe you’re considering a complete change in career direction?

Whatever it may be a CIMSPA endorsed qualification will put you in good stead.

Remember, all of our endorsed education products map to the CIMSPA Professional Standards for that area, meaning that on completion, you will have the knowledge, skills and behaviours to step into a new role.

Below is a taster of some of the qualifications available.

BCAB Level 3 Coach Award

Education provider - British Canoeing Awarding Body
Professional standards aligned to – Coach

BSc (Hons) Strength and Conditioning

Education provider - University of Central Lancashire
Professional standards aligned to - Gym Instructor

BSc (Hons) Physical Education

Education provider - Liverpool John Moores University
Professional standards aligned to – Working with Children

BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Therapy

Education provider - Anglia Ruskin University
Professional standards aligned to - Gym Instructor, Personal Trainer, Coach and Strength & Conditioning Trainer

Discover more endorsed qualifications via our partner directory.

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Digital Marketing Hub

Develop your digital marketing strategy for FREE.

The Digital Marketing Hub is here to help improve your digital marketing to engage, gain and retain more clients and members.

It is free to anyone involved in sport, fitness, health and physical activity in England - such as freelance trainers, sport volunteers, marketing executives, operators, business owners, administrators, managers and directors. And across sport, fitness, leisure, gyms, community, charity, education and more!

Covering content marketing, social media marketing, websites and metrics, search marketing and email marketing, you’re sure to get everything you need from the DMH to develop an engaging, effective, and ultimately successful marketing strategy.

The vast digital marketing support and resources on offer include:

FREE Digital Marketing Playbook

FREE Google Mentoring

FREE ‘How to’ Video Shorts

FREE Catalogue of webinars

FREE Socia Media Content Calendars

See all the DMH has to offer

 

*Only eligible membership categories have free access to the UK Coaching Club. These are Practitioner Membership categories: Personal Trainer, Gym Instructor, Group Exercise, Exercise Referral, Swimming Teach, Yoga Instructor Associate, Pilates Instructor Associate, Coach and Coaching Assistant.

 

The Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity

CIMSPA’s work enhances the career opportunities and professional development of the workforce operating in sport, fitness, exercise, leisure, gyms, coaching, outdoor exercise, health and wellbeing. We achieve this through sector-wide engagement, membership, networking, events, directories and professional standards.