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Advanced Management Certificate focus: Building Resilience and Managing Mental Health

10 March 2025

Over the coming weeks, we will be putting each of the 11 Advanced Management Programme Certificates under the spotlight.

The GCMA Advanced Management Programme consists of four Awards and 11 Certificates, each developed and created in association with specialist training providers and industry experts.

We are putting each of the Certificates under the spotlight so you can learn all you need to know about them.

This week, we’re looking at the Building Resilience and Managing Mental Health Certificate, part of the Leadership and Personal Development Award. This Certificate will be delivered on April 8th & 9th in Cardiff.

You can learn more about this Certificate, including a chat with our training partner Charlotte Wiseman of Charlotte Wiseman Leadership and Wellbeing Consultants, on this episode of the GCMA Insights podcast.

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Certificate

Building Resilience and Managing Mental Health

Training Partner

Charlotte Wiseman Leadership and Wellbeing Consultants

“Drawing on over 35 years of psychology, neuroscience and behavioural science, we help leaders, teams and organisations to improve individual and business performance by enhancing wellbeing, resilience and mental fitness.”

Programme Overview

Cultivating psychological safety by:

  • Establishing a shared understanding of the role psychological safety, positive mental health and resilience play.
  • Introducing a practical framework to understand, assess and share top tips.
  • Providing practical steps to enhance performance, resilience and success.

Leading with mental health in mind by:

  • Leading with mental health in mind by:
  • Providing essential skills to spot the signs of poor mental health proactively.
  • Exploring the complexities of balancing business needs and people needs.

Exploring the leader’s duty of care by:

  • Exploring the leader’s duty of care by:
  • Establishing how to apply your learnings on psychological safety and mental health.
  • Establishing metrics to track progress and sustain positive change.
  • Written examination and practical assessment

Who is this Certificate suitable for?

  • Golf club managers
  • Deputy golf club managers, operations managers or similar role
  • Director of golf, head professional or similar role
  • Course managers, head greenkeepers, deputy course managers
  • Honorary secretaries

Learning and Development Outcomes for YOU and YOUR CLUB

You will gain a greater understanding of the importance of managing mental health and wellbeing in your club. You will also decelop the skills to enhance engagement, inspire excellence and promote mental fitness by improving psychological safety, resilience and mental health.

You will return to your club with a new perspective, a comprehensive toolkit of skills and a personal action plan to achieve this plan for yourself and your team to aid in your quest for greater success in the future.

Delegates will also gain a MHFA England Certified Managers Mental Health Qualification as part of this certificate.

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Allister Frost

A former Microsoft Digital Strategy leader who now inspires audiences to discover the life-enhancing benefits of having a Future Ready Mindset. As a tech pioneer, Allister gained unique insights into how to transform uncertainty into opportunity, and now loves giving others the positive mindset and simple habits needed to:

  • Stay resilient in the face of uncertainty and change
  • Spot quick win opportunities for improvement
  • And *create* a brilliant future!

 

With AI and robots coming for our jobs (hint from Allister: they won’t, if we know how…), many people are anxious about the future. But Allister asserts that we’ve nothing to fear when we leverage our human superpowers and ingenuity to thrive alongside emerging technologies. That’s why having a Future Ready Mindset is now a must-have skill to remain competitive and relevant to the people we serve, our golf club members and the local community. And the best bit: everyone can do it!

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John Steele

John Steele is a former professional athlete, sports coach, Olympic Leader and is the Executive Director of Sport at Loughborough University. He has been Chief Executive across a range of sectors. Drawing on leadership experience of nine different Olympic and Paralympic Games (including the amazing events at the Rio Games), John reflects on the lessons from this unique period in British sport and relays his fascinating views on creating high performing teams.

Indeed, inspired from PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, by the most successful performance ever for Team GB, he has a whole host of new business and leadership insights into how this was brilliant performance was achieved and how it can translate back into your organisation.

John moved into the corporate world, before he enjoyed an outstanding career as a professional rugby player achieving international honours. After his playing career, he turned his hand to coaching and achieved the highest accolade for a British club coach by winning the European Cup with Northampton Saints. He then became Executive Director on the Saints Board during a period of unprecedented growth, and served on the England Rugby Board during the successful world cup campaign of 2003. It was no surprise that John’s talents were called upon to drive through a change and modernisation programme as CEO of the Rugby Football Union – a challenge that became controversial and ended in his departure from the post after only a year, but with his dignity and professional pride intact.

Headhunted by UK Sport, John took up post as CEO the day before London won the 2012 Olympic bid – and this promising start was sustained as he embarked on developing the UK’s high performance sport system, which he led for a six-year period of unprecedented success through the Beijing and London Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Post-London 2012, with the Olympic legacy in place and an obligation to continue inspiring a generation, John took up his post as Group Chief Executive of the Youth Sport Trust. He has also succeeded Steve Cram as Chairman of the English Institute of Sport, an organisation described as ‘the team behind the team’, which delivers a range of performance impacting solutions to over 40 Olympic and Paralympic sports and some non-Olympic sports.

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Dr Jo Salter MBE is famed for becoming the first female fast jet pilot, having flown the Panavia Tornado ground attack aircraft during her services in the Royal Air Force. Joining the RAF aged 18, Jo has since taken Air Cadets into the skies as part of Air Experience Flights, become the Director of Global Transformative Leadership for PWC, and most recently become a Global Advisory of GenAI for PwC.

Jo has piloted flights in the Air Cadets Air Experience Flights and inspired countless budding armed service members to pioneer a male-dominated sector, having been the leader of an all-male squadron. Since leaving the military behind, Jo has established a strong business career working in roles such as Head of Technical Services for NetConnect, European Operations Manager for Automated Power Exchange and Managing Director of Saltin Ltd.

Having developed first-class expertise in leadership, analytical thinking and performing under pressure, Jo is now a highly sought-after public speaker to share stories from her time in the skies.

Jo is a passionate Trustee of The Royal Air Force Club and an Ambassador of the Global Angels charity, an organisation that gives communities around the world access to clean water, education, healthcare and encourages female and youth empowerment. Jo has also authored two books, titled Energy: 52 Ways to Fire Up Your Life and Become an Energy Angel and Energize: Spring Clean Your Mind and Body to Get Your Bounce Back Today and Every Day.

In recognition of her achievements throughout her career, Jo has also been named as one of the 50 Most Inspiring Women in the World by Harpers & Queen. She is now working as the Director of Global Transformation Leadership at PWC, after working in other roles such as Director of Risk Technology Strategy, Director Chief of Staff to Head of Technology & Investments and the Director of People & Organisations.

In 2022, Jo was invited personally by Tom Cruise to attend the premiere of Top Gun: Maverick. Most recently, Jo received an honorary doctorate of Arts from Bournemouth University.

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Colin Maclachlan, celebrated for his roles on Channel Four's SAS: Who Dares Wins and Channel 5’s Secrets of the SAS, brings over three decades of expertise in security and risk management. Colin's military career began in 1989, and after serving nine years with the Royal Scots, he joined the elite 22 SAS at just 23. His time in the SAS saw him participating in numerous high-stakes operations, including the notable rescue of hostages from the West Side Boys in Sierra Leone—a mission so perilous it was dubbed Operation Certain Death.

Colin was also pivotal during the longest hostage siege on UK soil, when a hijacked Afghan plane landed in London in 2000. The standoff lasted four days with Colin as the first sniper on the scene.

After leaving the SAS, Colin exchanged insights with international forces such as Delta Force and Seal Team 6 and provided security consultancy to the Saudi Royal Family and various celebrities. His academic pursuits led him to earn a First Class MA (Hons.) in History from Edinburgh University and an M.Litt in Terrorism from St. Andrews University.

Today, Colin extends his expertise through television, books, radio, and video games. He supports numerous charities and has founded Who Dares Cares, which assists veterans and those experiencing stress. As a speaker, Colin excels in discussing Resilience, Teamwork and Leadership.

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