Hot on the heels of the announcement of the main programme last week, the Breakout sessions for GCMA 2021 Conference have now been revealed…
Whether it’s how to best utilise technology when marketing your club, saving money by using water better, or sustainably managing your course, you’ll find something to capture your attention in the Breakout sessions for GCMA 2021 Conference.
After the announcement last week of the main programme, a total of 15 Breakout sessions have been revealed for the three-day event in November.
Featuring key speakers around the GCMA Hot Topics, GCMA Know How and GCMA Inspire banners, they will focus on the Conference themes of Leadership and Wellbeing, Sustainability and Technology.
GCMA 2021 Conference is being held between November 21 and 23 at Wyboston Lakes Resort, in Bedfordshire.
You can find details of all the sessions below, and you can view the main conference programme by clicking here.
To book your spot at Conference, visit the dedicated website here.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Monday, November 21
8.30am to 9.30am
Breakfast Club
Choose one of two simultaneous sessions; “Put Your Oxygen Mask on First” or “Setting the Tone”.
First collect your breakfast and then join us as we discuss and, along with our hosts, share the ideas and best practice on how to create greater levels of personal wellbeing to enable us to deliver outstanding results for our Clubs.
Each session limited to 42.
10.50am to 11.20am
Breakout Session 1: World class Wellbeing – a practical application
Danielle Brown MBE supported by GCMA Board Member, Gareth Morgan
Danielle Brown MBE will continue the theme of her Keynote Speech of putting your own wellbeing as a priority in order to be better able to look after the wellbeing of your team and others around you, and how to implement practical tools and actions to achieve this.
Gareth Morgan will speak from personal experience of how he has successfully applied this in the golf club management environment.
Breakout Session 2: Ignite Employee Engagement & Boost Your Bottom Line!
Miklós Breitner, Golf Business Monitor, Golf Club Marketing Consultant
In this session, Miklós Breitner, globally acclaimed golf club marketing consultant and Founder of Golf Business Monitor, the world’s #1 B2B golf business blog, will share his insights around the issues of employee experience. This session will provide you with ideas, tools and motivation to return to your club and put your employees at the centre of everything that you do.
12.30pm to 1.05pm
Breakout Session 3: The Story of COVID
Kevin Fish, Contemporary Club Leadership
In this session, internationally recognised Golf club industry education and professional development specialist, Kevin Fish, will share the results of a nationwide survey undertaken to measure the impact of covid on our golf clubs. Beyond the data, Kevin will give us his prognosis on where golf clubs are likely to excel but also where the challenges may lay in the months and years ahead, the legacy of covid.
1.15pm to 1.50pm
Breakout Session 4: Repeat of Session 3
3.05pm to 3.35pm
Breakout Session 5: All roads lead to the CAPITAL
Kevin Fish, Contemporary Club Leadership
In this session, Kevin Fish will tackle the issue of Financial Sustainability and highlight the importance of making profit in a club in order to fulfil the club’s obligations and ultimately raise the “value of a share” in your members eyes.
Breakout Session 6: Golf Club sustainability and climate action made easy (This session will run for 1 hour)
John Kemp, GEO Foundation
Sustainable clubs are efficient, popular and future proof; overcoming risks of regulation, cost, resource availability, and the impacts of climate change, and promoting themselves in ways that matter to younger consumers.
The only question now is – how can your club deliver this?
You will leave this workshop with a greater understanding of the issues and opportunities; the practical actions that have most business impact; and access to a programme that will engage your team to track, plan and promote your sustainability work. Including a new and easy way to measure your carbon emissions and the C02 your golf course stores.
Breakout Session 7: Panel: Key issues in sustainable management of golf courses
Jonathan Smith, GEO Foundation; James Hutchinson, BIGGA; Shaun Anderson, Rain Bird; Kerr Hunter, Symbio UK; Marc Addison, JCB Country Club
This quickfire panel session will cover some of the key course management topics and trends that Club Managers need to be aware of:
- Sustainable water use for golf courses
- Developing the natural environment on your course
- Moving to hybrid and electric equipment
- Integrated pest and disease management
- Managing a sustainable golf club
3.40pm to 4.10pm
Breakout Session 8: Repeat of Session 5 – All roads lead to the CAPITAL; Kevin Fish, Contemporary Club Leadership
Breakout Session 9: Case Study: Water efficiency, GCMA; Jimmy Sandison, Rain Bird; Andy Baker, Worcester Golf & Country Club
This session will highlight the benefits that can be gained from a water efficiency audit. The Case Study of Worcester Golf & Country Club is an example of how a golf club can save money by becoming more efficient with water usage whilst at the same time, investing in their long term sustainability.
Tuesday, November 23
10.35 to 11.05am
Breakout Session 10: Current trends in Technology and how best to utilise technology within your Club; Peter Kirk, Parconex
This session, delivered by our Keynote speaker, Peter Kirk and will highlight what the current trends in technology are so as the golf club manager leaves with the most up to date information available. Peter will aim to shed light on what an efficient technology strategy could look like for your golf club.
Breakout Session 11: Use of technology in Marketing Golf clubs; Miklós Breitner, Golf Business Monitor
In this session, Miklós Breitner, globally acclaimed golf club marketing consultant and Founder of Golf Business Monitor, the world’s #1 B2B golf business blog, will share his insights around the role that technology can play when marketing your golf club.
Breakout Session 12: Golf Clubs – where Technology meets Tradition; Craig Higgs, Golf Genius Software
In this session, Craig Higgs will share with us his international experience of implementing Technology into golf clubs – an environment traditionally resistant to change – and how clubs can increase efficiency and customer experience whilst preventing their tradition and culture. An integrated technology strategy is becoming a fundamental piece of any successful clubs overall strategy.
12.10pm to 12.40pm
Breakout Session 13: Mobile Technology, customer journey and your golf club members; Scott Seaborn, Capita
Scott will continue with theme of mobile technology coupled with key learnings on customer lifecycle management.
This interactive session offers practical applications to the customer journey related to golf clubs, from the first contact with a potential member right through to the end of the membership – and what to do on each part of the journey.
Breakout Session 14: Marketing your Golf Club; Tom Irwin, Sports Publications
Tom Irwin is a director at Sports Publications, the owners of National Club Golfer, 18 Players and NCG Top 100s Tour.
In this session Tom looks at digital and print marketing for a golf club in 2022. There will be a particular focus on organic and paid for activity across, web, social, and traditional media. You will leave knowing your influencers from your instagrams!
Breakout Session 15: How to use digital tools to generate more revenue; Rob Corcoran, The Revenue Club
Rob Corcoran will show how to make the most of digital marketing tools and online tee sheets to increase direct revenue and retain golfers from the post lockdown boom. Online green fee sales now form 70% of all visitor sales in UK and can be an important revenue stream for golf clubs if managed well. With insight into up to date market trends, learn how you can use some simple tools that are already at your disposal to achieve the vital link between effective digital marketing and pricing to generate more sales.
Check out the full programme from GCMA 2021 Conference, and book your spot, at our dedicated website here.
