Leadership Training
The IADA is pleased to support the NIAAA Leadership Training Program by offering LTI Leadership courses at the division meeting days and at the state conference. The Leadership Training Program is a broad-based curriculum that enhances the leadership potential and ability of the NIAAA and IADA members. The program is composed of courses, each addressing a specific topic in athletic administration. Leadership Training Courses will be offered during the division meeting days and at the state convention. For the fall division meeting LTI courses, please click on the link. Please look for the registration form in your winter journal and on the IADA web page for the state conference.
Objectives of Leadership Training
1. To provide knowledge to improve professionalism in the field of athletic administration.
2. To develop a leadership pool for involvement in the NIAAA and member state athletic administrators associations.
3. To help candidates prepare for the Certified Athletic Administrator examination.
Benefits of the Leadership Training Program
1. Improve members' working knowledge of the NIAAA and NFHS.
2. Assist members in preparation for the Certified Athletic Administrators examination.
3. Prepare members for service on NIAAA committees.
4. Improve members' working knowledge and competencies in athletic administration.
5. Provide resource information in all areas of the curriculum.
6. Improve professionalism in the field of athletic administration.
7. Provide the opportunity to earn graduate credit.
LTI Courses
| LTI 502 | Athletic Administration: Principles, Strategies and Methods
Saturday, May 5 - 7:30 AM - 11:30 AM | | | Registration Form
This course takes a basic approach to the fundamentals and methods of athletic administration and alerts and educates athletic administrators regarding potential problems and possible solutions in areas such as budgets, transportation, and scheduling and parent/student/coach conflicts. The course also touches upon sample athletic/activity program philosophies, department organizational charts, activity procedures/checklist, public relations, coaching applications/assessments and emergency plans.
Enrollees who will derive greatest benefit: Inexperienced athletic administrators seeking to define and improve their operational procedures.
Required for: RAA, CAA and CMAA Certification
| | LTI 504 | Athletic Administration: Legal Issues I (Risk Management)
Friday, May 4 - 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM | | | Registration Form
This course has in-depth coverage of all aspects of liability for sports injuries and risk management, including the duties imposed on athletic administrators, coaches, athletic trainers, and other athletic personnel, documentation requirements for an effective risk management program, and development of a strategic plan for risk management in the context of an interscholastic athletic program.
Enrollees who will derive greatest benefit: Administrators seeking information concerning Constitutional law and the need of exposure to causes for negligence and to legal “Standards of Care”
Required for: CAA and CMAA Certification
| | LTI 611 | Athletic Administration: Concepts and Strategies for Interscholastic Marketing, Promotions and Supplemental Fund-Raising
Saturday, May 5 - 7:30 AM - 11:30 AM | | | Registration Form
This course will provide the athletic administrator with strategies and ideas to successfully promote and market the school’s interscholastic programs and to enhance the success of supplemental fund-raising efforts. Promotional activities designed to create interest in, increase enthusiasm for, and enhance the image of, a school’s interscholastic activities program are described. Models of supplemental fund-raising are summarized, including a focused segment on working successfully with booster clubs and safeguarding of funds that have been raised. The potential for raising funds through grants and outreach efforts for major gifts are introduced. Detailed information related to corporate sponsorship is provided. Appendices include sample materials that may be utilized for grant and corporate sponsorship applications, marketing plans, and booster clubs, as well as fund-raising resources.
Enrollees who will derive greatest benefit: Administrators seeking strategies to promote and market their school’s interscholastic program, work successfully with booster clubs, increase the success of fund-raising initiatives, and initiate or broaden financial gain from grants and/or corporate sponsorships/donations.
| | LTI 614 | Athletic Administration: Technology III - Enhancing Public Presentations
Friday, May 4 - 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM | | | Registration Form
This course is designed for those who would like to learn to use some of the advanced features of PowerPoint such as action buttons, master slide design, narration, sound and video insertions. Participants will also learn to use Photo Story 3 as a means of creating video stories and converting PowerPoint to video. Innovative methods of presentation and steps to better presentations, as well as public speaking, are included in the course. The hands-on course offers the athletic administrator opportunities to actively take part in the presentation of the course. For maximum benefit, it is highly recommended that attendees bring a laptop computer with at least Windows 2000, including PowerPoint and Photo Story 3, to this class.
Enrollees who will derive greatest benefit: Administrators seeking to improve their speaking and presentation skills as well as those who wish to improve their ability to use technology to enhance public presentations.
| | LTI 616 | Athletic Administration: Management of Indoor Physical Plant Assets
Friday, May 4 - 3:30 PM - 7:30 PM | | | Registration Form
This course will consider spectator facilities, special use gymnasia, natatoriums, laundry rooms and locker rooms and the various systems that support them. Mechanical system checklists for use in regular inspections and maintenance programming will be provided. In addition, considerations and issues related to construction and remodeling programs will be discussed.
Enrollees who will derive greatest benefit: Administrators seeking guidance concerning management, maintenance and construction or remodeling of sport facilities and methods to enhance customer satisfaction and safety
| | LTI 630 | Athletic Administration: Interscholastic Contest Management - Planning, Preparation and Methods
Friday, May 4 - 3:30 PM - 7:30 PM | | | Registration Form
This course examines the historic foundations and precedents for contest management as an extension of educationally sound sports programs. Planning methods for contest management are examined including selection of supervisory personnel, suggested need assessment tools, and checklists for the development of supervision plans and policies. In addition, an overview of methods is suggested for creation of an educationally sound competition environment among players, coaches, students and other spectators. Course appendices provide assessment tools and examples of contemporary management practices. These tools are also contained on an attached compact disc for local reproduction, discussions and planning.
Enrollees who will derive the greatest benefit: Administrators seeking to increase knowledge of event planning methods in order to develop policies, enhance safety and provide assessment surrounding contest management.
| | LTI 700 | Athletic Administration: Administration of Middle School Athletic Programs
Saturday, May 5 - 7:30 AM - 11:30 AM | | | Registration Form
This course provides insights and strategies for the leadership of developmentally sound educationally compatible middle level school athletic programs. Middle school philosophy is discussed along with the relationship it has to the psychological and physical development of the middle school child. This course also focuses on concerns and/or challenges raised about the value of middle school sports programs in today’s educational setting.
Enrollees who will derive greatest benefit: Athletic Administrators and coaches with limited perspective of the role of middle school sports and the developmental needs of the middle school students.
| | LTI 703 | Athletic Administration: Student Centered Educational Athletics—Performance Beyond the X’s and O’s
Saturday, May 5 - 7:30 AM - 11:30 AM | | | Registration Form
This student centered program will provide learning experiences for student athletes beyond the X’s and O’s. This course will support a value based curriculum that will demonstrate model behaviors and qualities that students should emulate both in and out of the athletic arena. Teachable moments beyond the classroom—center court, centerfield or center ice—provide the opportunity to promote and maximize the achievement of these educational goals and life skills. This course will provide the necessary strategies, methods and resources to implement this initiative within your own school.
Enrollees who will derive the greatest benefit: Athletic Administrators seeking methods and strategies to recognize, maximize, and enhance model student behaviors.
| | LTI 707 | Athletic Administration: Assessment of Interscholastic Athletic Programs and Personnel
Friday, May 4 - 3:30 PM - 7:30 PM | | | Registration Form
This course examines a philosophic rationale and a variety of methods that may be used to assess athletic programs and personnel. The goals of this program are to improve the performance of athletic coaches and other athletic department personnel, improvement of program operations and improvement of satisfaction among players, parents and employees. A central theme is to encourage assessment of needs, interests and opinions that can enhance goal setting and planning priorities. The course will examine a philosophic rational for assessment in high school sport programs, discuss basic statistical concepts, focus on Affective Assessment, describe various Personnel Assessment methods and concepts and details various Program Assessment techniques.
Enrollees who will derive greatest benefit: Administrators with no background in personnel and program assessment and administrators seeking templates for assessment
| | LTI 721 | Athletic Administration: Positive Sporting Behavior
Friday, May 4 - 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM | | | Registration Form
In this course students will learn to implement appropriate strategies and techniques, designed to create a positive, productive learning environment, which will support a system that encourages character and self-discipline and sportsmanship. This class will provide opportunities for self assessment and reflection in regards to prior performance. In addition students will participate in class discussions, and activities which will increase their knowledge and skills of the effective components of successful character, citizenship and sportsmanship to share with their students, coaches, parents and communities.
Enrollees who will derive greatest benefit: Administrators seeking strategies and concepts to implement and/or enhance the understanding of and involvement in a positive sporting environment for staff, students and community.
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