Professionalize, network, learn

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Professionalize, network, learn
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Todays goals

• Introduce AMIs training center IMI
• The importance of training certification
• Certification opportunities in the industry
• How to get training and certification

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Context

• The merger of IMI and MOAA to form AMI
• AMIs organizational structure
• Communications
• Research and documentation
• Legislative
• Special events (e.g., NMD, Marina Boatyard
  Conf).
• Member programs
• Training Center, including training
  certification programming, branded as the
  International Marina Institute (IMI)

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IMIs goals

• Provide world-class professional development
  opportunities to the marina industry globally.
• Ensure that those professional development
  opportunities provide consistent learning across
  geographies.
• Support existing and future professional
  certification programs for the marina
  professional.
• Evolve the notion that a successful training
  program is dependent on a successful CMM program
  and vice-versa.
• Support a uniform marina management certification
  system that is globally recognized.

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Some questions for you

• Are you looking for the best job in the best
  market for the best salary?
• Are you looking for business contacts in your own
  as well as other boating regions?
• Are you looking for professional colleagues with
  whom you can openly share experiences and ideas?

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Yes!

• You need to consider training and certification

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Why is training and certification important for
you

• Greater earning potential
• More job opportunities
• Career advancement and job security
• Job satisfaction and ability
• Networking with colleagues
• Instant recognition

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Greater Earning Potential

• Trained and certified managers
• have greater earning potential and are more
  competitive in the tight marina job market
  because they have the reliable knowledge and
  experience to make tem more valuable to marina
  owners who crave the kind of quality and
  reputation only the best marinas have.
• are projected to earn an average of 10 to 15
  more than their colleagues, based on experience
  in other service industries.

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More Job Opportunities

• Employers seeking the best qualified managers for
  marina properties are demanding that applicants
  be trained certified to ensure investors,
  bankers, insurers, and customers that their
  marina properties are run as professionally as
  possible.
• Training and certification gets you to the top of
  the resume pile.

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Career Advancement and Job Security

• Marina owners and investors see certified
  managers as being aggressive, qualified,
  professional, and more dedicated and committed to
  a career within the marina industry.
• Trained and certified managers are perceived as
  being most up-to-date in the latest procedures,
  techniques, industry regulations, and
  requirementsa most marketable collection of
  assets.

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Job Satisfaction and Ability

• Trained and certified mangers have the knowledge
  to give quick answers or know where to get the
  answers to the everyday situations that can slow
  down an otherwise seamless workday.

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Networking with Colleagues

• Through the process of obtaining a certification,
  most managers acquire networking contacts and
  tight peer relationships.
• Colleagues from around the world share tips and
  information with one another, ensuring that each
  is up to speed with the latest technologies,
  processes, and regulations.
• This knowledge network makes a certified
  professionals a highly qualified, respected, and
  able manager.

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Instant Recognition

• Training and certification creates confidence
  that the people you want to impressemployers,
  peers, bankers, investors, etc.will know it
  means youve distinguished yourself as an
  outstanding professional.
• Professional certification is a highly prized
  mark of distinguished achievement among
  practicing professionals.

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Bankers, Owners and Insurance representatives.why
seek certified operators?

• You would deliver a higher quality product
• You will be more competitive in the marketplace
• A CMM at the marina guarantees professionalism
• Fewer accidents means lower insurance rates
• CMMs see marina work as a career, not a job.

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Professional training certification in our
industry.

• IMI has been training certifying marina managers
  for 15 years.
• Nearly 200 managers, representing many of the top
  marinas in the world, have successfully been
  certified.
• Todays numbers are rapidly growing as the demand
  for highly skilled management increases within
  the industry.

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• Other professional management courses offer
  basic, inter-industry training, but only IMI
  provides its students with the customized,
  marina-specific training necessary to succeed in
  the competitive marina world.

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Professional training opportunities

• Certification schools
• Advanced Marina Management School
• Intermediate Marina Management School
• Marine Service Managers School
• Special courses
• Understanding Marina business
• Risk Management
• Valuating your marina
• S. Florida Study Tour

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Next course offerings

• Advanced Marina Management School
• West Palm Beach FL December 4-9, 2006
• Newport, RI March 26-31, 2007
• Sydney, Australia, April 15- 20, 2007
• West Palm Beach FL, December 10-December 15,
  2007
• Intermediate Marina Management School
• Olympia, WA, Feb 25-March 1, 2007  
• Australia, October 20 October 25, 2007
• West Palm Beach FL, November 11-15, 2007
• Marine Service Management Course
• Australia June 17 20, 2007
• West Palm Beach FL, September 14-17, 2007

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Special Programs

• Intl Marina and Boatyard Conference, Tampa, FL,
  January 28 31, 2007
• Understanding Marina Business (UMB)
• Newport, RI, April 23- 24, 2007
• Risk Management
• Newport, RI, April 26-27, 2007
   
• South FL Marina and Boatyard Study Tour Fort
  Lauderdale, FL, October 22-24, 2007

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IMIs Certification opportunities

• Certified Marina Manager (CMM)
• Certified Marine Service Manger (CMSM)
• Certified Marina Operators/Harbormaster (CMO)

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A professional certification

• is a designation earned by a person to certify
  that he is qualified to perform a job.
• Certification indicates that the individual has a
  specific set of knowledge, skills, or abilities
  in the view of the certifying body.
• Professional certifications are awarded by
  professional bodies such as IMI.

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Certified Marina Manager

• Five years marina general manager
• Completed the CMM qualifying training course
• Spent at least 60 of your time in that position
  on
• Executive leadership
• Financial planning
• Marketing and Customer Relations
• Staff Administration
• Supervised at least six employees.
• Best of the best

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Certified Marine Service Manger

• Designed for individuals who have leadership in a
  marine service organization
• Must have five years experience working knowledge
  of advanced marine service and repair skills and
  overall boatyard operations.
• Training and certification process, candidates
  will augment their technical knowledge with
  enhanced management skills.

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Certified Marina Operators

• New certification available in 2008
• Targeted at A marina operations managers (e.g.,
  dockmasters)
• Primarily responsible for managing the marina
  facility day-to-day
• Not responsible for the overall management of the
  facility and all of its profit centers

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How do I get involved?

• Register for a course
• Download a certification application
• Learn more

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For more information contact

• Raegan Quigley
• 50 Water Street
• Warren, RI 02885
• imitraining_at_marinaassociation.org
• 401-247-0314
• www.marinaassociation.org/training