Intermediate Marina Management Course

The marina industry is full of liabilities, risks and great opportunities, how you manage these will be the measure of your success.  Let AMI guide you to success!

The Intermediate Marina Management School (IMM), IMIs most popular program, focuses on marina operations, policies, and procedures. The IMM program is the first step toward becoming a Certified Marina Manager (CMM) and Certified Marina Operator (CMO) and is a prerequisite for admission to the Advanced Marina Management course.

Course Goals and Objectives – Why you should attend

This course has been designed with the right balance of relevant management topics presented by leaders in their industry coupled with valuable facilitated group discussions to create the ideal setting for learning. The intensive participatory nature of this residency course will also provide one of the greatest assets, an invaluable life-long peer network.  The agenda has been designed to provide guidance on the issues affecting the industry today and to sharpen leadership skills to ensure successful management of these issues.  

Completion of this course will provide, but not limited to:

• New ways of dealing with the issues and challenges common throughout the industry
• Full contract review to provide proper contract language to significantly reduce risk of liability to your facility
• Leadership guidance to successfully manage and grow your staff
• Guidance on Human resource management to reduce your risk of lawsuits
• Policies for best practices in emergency preparedness to protect your staff, facility, and marina assets
• Exposure to OSHA and Environmental regulations that are industry-centric and critical in protecting your facility from crippling fines and your staff from life-altering injury
• Direction on marketing and branding your facility and how to use social media to self-promote
• A lifelong invaluable network of industry-leading peers
• New perspective and fresh approach to management and leadership that will benefit a facility in its entirety
• Invaluable tools for success

FEES: $2,995 (members), $3,470 (non-members) includes four nights of lodging, opening reception, closing dinner, and breakfast, breaks and lunch daily and study tour of local marinas

COURSE PREREQUISITES:

At least one full year's experience working either as a marina manager or in a marina-leadership position, in which the applicant has performed day-to-day onsite work in a marina of 50 or more berths or at least $500,000 in gross revenues. Limit: 28 students.

A WEEK OF LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• Over 40 contact hours
• Formal lectures by leading experts
• Facilitated roundtable discussions
• Field trip to inspect and critique nearby marinas
• Marina/boatyard-industry networking
• Networking with peers & colleagues
• Introduction to the CMM and CMO Certification Program

For more information or to register, visit the Association of Marina Industries' website here.