Dive Centre Management Course

Perhaps you are already a PADI Divemaster, or you may already be an experience and certified instructor.

Either way, taking a Dive Center Management Course can help get you on the right path in dealing with dive clients and the high demands that a dive center puts on its employees.
Being able to manage a dive center will help make you stand out from the crowd and making it a part of your resume is essential.

Managing a dive center takes skill set far apart from being an instructor or DM, so this course is operated to assist you with making the transition from a DM or instructor, to running dive center successfully.

Sarah’s team will conduct training at our real dive center and you will learn how to deal with staff, divers and clients through hands on experience – the only way to learn effectively.

We will fully prepare you for work in a dive center and provide you with a good understanding of how a center operates successfully.

Take on the essential elements of working and managing dive center and join us today.

Important areas of Dive Centre Management you will cover during this 8 - day program are:

1. Organization
Organising Scuba Dive Trips – You will schedule the scuba diving and snorkelling trips on our dive boats.

Organising Scuba Dive Courses / Dive Training schedules – You will arrange and organize courses. This will include organizing instructor scheduling, manuals, slates, equipment requirements and swimming pool logistics etc and all other aspects of actual diving courses and organisation.

2. Marketing
This is a detailed description of dive business marketing techniques used to promote a diving business, including print, visual and electronic media.
We will also conduct a workshop on marketing a new diving venture.

3. Sales
This area will concentrate on the retail side of the scuba industry including ordering, presentation and sales techniques.

4. Accounting
This area will look at the principles of bookkeeping and accounting. We'll show you how to mange cash flow as well and also how to price various courses and dive trips for maximum profitability.

5. Working with the Diver Training Agencies
This module will look at getting the most from PADI and the various training agencies such as Divers Alert Network that you will deal with as the owner/operator of a dive business.

6. Customer Complaints
This area will look at the skills and temperament needed to deal with those difficult situations and/or difficult customers that can make or break any dive business.

7. Staff
This area will look at the realities and techniques of dealing with your shop staff. Training will include the handling of instructors, shop personnel, boat captains and crew and the myriad of other folks who keep a dive business together.

8. Marketing yourself
Last but not least getting your foot through the door to your first dive job. Essential to starting your dive career is knowing how to present yourself professionally and effectively. Following this course you will be skilled in many areas of dive resort management and this needs to be presented properly.