Course Category: Short Courses

This course introduces learners to the fundamentals of quality management. It allows them to appreciate the importance of overlooking all activities and tasks within organisation to ensure that they are conducted with maximum efficiency and to a level of excellence. Furthermore, this module allows them to understand the principles of conducting quality assurance and planning, as well as control and improvement within organisations.

Competences:

1. Carry out design, implementation, monitoring and controlling of quality plans under supervision of top management within organisations;
2. Implement effective critical thinking and problem solving techniques when it comes to decision making;
3. Manage change both on an individual, a team or an organisational basis;

This course introduces learners to the fundamentals of risk management and its role within organisations. This module allows learners to understand the complexity of risk management and to the various factors, both internal and external that influence risk. Following the successful completion of this module, learners shall be able to implement effective and relevant techniques to assess and mitigate risks.

Competences:

1. Manage risk and change on a day-to-day basis within organisations;
2. Comply with key risk management techniques within organisations;
3. Implement various risk management tools and practices known within the organisation;
4. Work with colleagues in ensuring effective risk mitigation and reduction;
5. Develop an effective organisational risk strategy;
6. Perform under pressure using risk management skills;
7. Conduct a gaps analysis regarding various areas within an organisation;

This course critically examines the importance of leading and supporting a Learning and Development strategy in an organization as it qualifies employees with the right skills and knowledge, crucial in today’s competitive business environment.

Learning and Development strategy will not only impact the culture of an organisation. but also affect an organisation’s ability to respond to the market’s internal and external forces, demands of change, and geopolitical events. It is therefore an important element in the portfolio of skills that a manager should possess.

It will equip managers in developing a targeted Learning and Development strategy, to putting it into practice by building the learning culture and landscape within the organization.

In this process, the learner will identify key learning needs, analyze skills gaps, and use learning analytics to evaluate the effectiveness of learning interventions. Lastly, the learner will immerse in mentoring and coaching and learn the skills to set up managerial mentoring and coaching programs.

Competencies:

1. Carry out effective learning and development needs analysis.
2. Be responsible for strategic direction for Learning and Development activities within the organisation
3. Collaborate with other managers a Learning and Development strategy by considering short and long-term human resources requirements.
4. Comply the essential theoretical framework within which you can use a coaching approach with confidence and knowledge.

In 2025, the pass rate for the course was 100%.

This course approaches the communications field by initially focusing on the critical role  that internal communication can play within a sport organisation. It emphasises that the success of external communication is often dependent on first getting your internal communications environment in good order. The next section then builds on this by examining the area of external communication and developing good communications strategy in practice. One of the central components within the communications mix is of course the media. Thus, the second half of this study unit looks at the practical aspects of media operations and the growing role social media can play in a sport organisation’s strategic thinking. The media industry has changed; increasingly we live in a 24/7 ‘always on’ media news culture; the speed at which information flows has never been greater, media are more mobile, there is more user generated content (UGC) and communication is potentially global in terms of digital and web based communication. Sport managers need to recognise that this mediated age, offers both challenges and opportunities to their respective organisation.

Competencies:

1. Describe and distinguish differences in various sport events with respect to media coverage;
2. Understand fundamentals of the historical/contemporary issues in sport media professions;

Sporting events are much more than just competitions between teams and players, they can forge an identity and create solidarity, bringing people together, giving them a sense of belonging and contributing to the development of the host region. They have a short and long-term impact. Years of preparation are required to produce a few days of sporting celebration, but these few days can continue to have an impact over more than a generation! Over the last decade, local sport organisations such as the Malta Football Association, Malta Shooting Sports Federation and Amateur Swimming Association have had increasing opportunities to host international competitions / tournaments and this trend will continue to manifest itself as sport becomes more popular.

Sport events in particular have special characteristics which make their management quite peculiar. These characteristics are underlined in this study-unit as it is essential that sporting events are well-organised by the sporting body and well-attended by the stakeholders in order to optimise ticket sales, broadcasting rights and sponsorships, as well as strengthen its public image! Sport events require a large quantity of materials, amenities and facilities such as the sport zone where the actual event takes place. Event organisers should have full and complete authority within this space; however in order to mobilise this zone, organisers must pay attention to the contractual obligations governing the loan or rental of premises. Ideally, sport event organisers should ensure that the environment is not negatively affected and that there is a legacy that is beneficial to the local community.

Competencies:

• Be familiar with the processes in designing, planning, staging and evaluating sport events; 
• To introduce students to a range of local sporting events and increase their knowledge and competency base in the field of event management. 
• Principles and practices of project management and effective teamwork will be demonstrated to the students, which in turn will have to apply them to a local sporting event.

This course will introduce learners to the multidisciplinary field of sports and exercise science. The focus will be the scientific principles behind sports and exercise, including training and fitness testing.  In completing this module learners will develop an understanding and be knowledgeable about the human body’s anatomy and physiology, psychology, nutrition. It will also provide learners with a comprehensive understanding how to enhance performance and tackle injury and rehabilitation.

Competencies:

1. Manage, and evaluate one’s own learning process independently and be responsible for setting academic goals.
2. Be responsible for one’s own learning by meeting deadlines, adhering to academic integrity, and reflecting on feedback to improve.
3. Engage in additional research and participating in academic discussions and activities outside of the curriculum.
4. Develop critical thinking skills to evaluate sources, arguments, and evidence independently, making well-reasoned and informed decisions.

This course will introduce learners to the core functional and professional areas of sports injury prevention and rehabilitation.  Additionally, learners will be introduced to injury screening methods and into the use data to design bespoke injury prevention strategies. Learners will explore real world case studies to build their understanding of returning an athlete after injury.  It will offer an excellent foundation and knowledge and skills that will be useful in another course of strength and conditioning, namely Foundations in Strength and Conditioning.

Competencies:

1. Collaborate with the rehabilitation team to allow the athlete to return to performance.
2. Manage the performance staff, in aiding athletes in achieving their goals in manging the person, injury and rehabilitation.
3. Comply to ethical standards in research and practice, including the responsible use of data and technology
4. Be responsible to continuous development and staying currents with the latest research and advancements in injury prevention and rehabilitation.
5. Manage to work independently taking initiatives in both research and its practical applications.

This course will introduce learners to the discipline of strength and conditioning and the requirements of a career as a strength and conditioning coach. Learners will learn about the role of strength and conditioning and the development of this discipline and its place within the sport and exercise science. Learners will identify, analyse and apply the key technical aspects enhancing performance in sport and exercise.

Competencies:

1. Collaborate with coaches, trainers and medical professionals.
2. Ensure support and motivation to peers
3. Be responsible for group workouts or training sessions
4. Comply training plans based on physical feedback and progress 
5. Monitor and adjust progress.

The aim of this course is to provide learners with an understanding of fundamentals of core psychological dimensions of sport. Learners will examine theories of sport psychology, covering topics such as motivation, competence, anxiety and the role of significant others in sport.

Competencies:

1. Comply to ethical standards in research and practice, including the responsible use of data and technology.
2. Be responsible to continuous development and staying currents with the latest research and advancements in psychology and sport science.
3. Manage to work independently taking initiatives in both research and its practical applications.

Marketing is at the heart of everything that happens in sport; whether it is the format of a competition, what consumers want from that specific sport, how media rights are sold to television companies or what forms of merchandise are created, good marketing underpins all of the decisions that are made. The essence of marketing in a sport organisation is therefore to match and reconcile the demands of the marketplace with the resources and competence that the organisation holds.

Marketing is the process of planning and developing products and services to satisfy organisational goals. Sport organisations primarily offer images, values, ideas and services rather than products, which makes the marketing of sport quite unique as they need to achieve both commercial and social objectives. Therefore, this study unit will consider the products and services that sport organisations have to offer within a specific context and highlights a number of regulations that they have to abide to. Secondly, it will assess stakeholder expectations in relation to the services provided by the sport organisation and how to enhance these. Methods and tools for improving communication campaigns targeting specific stakeholders will also be presented. 

Sponsorship will be introduced as a marketing strategy that pursues commercial objectives, exploiting the direct association between the commercial entity’s brand or product with those of the sport organisation’s. Finally, the strategic marketing process will provide information on how to get into an attractive position in the marketplace.

Competencies:

1. Analyse the relevance of a sport organisation’s services in relation to its stakeholder requirements
2. Ensure the quality of the services (both tangible and intangible) by being aware of the stakeholders expectations
3. Manage effective communication campaigns
4. Develops marketing goals and objectives