Applied Garden Centre & Nursery Management - Diploma - (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK)

Applied Garden Centre & Nursery Management Online Course. 600 Hours Diploma Course. (Endorsed by TQUK - Training Qualifications UK).

Diploma in Applied Management (Garden Centre & Nursery) Course Online. Learn the skills necessary to manage a retail garden centre or nursery. This course develops both skills required to manage a retail business and knowledge in identification, care and handling of plants and other products sold in garden centres and nurseries. It is aimed at those with one year’s experience in a horticultural related industry, wanting to step up to assistant manager, deputy manager and manager positions.

Among other attributes, most positions for garden centre and nursery assistant managers and managers will ask for the following:

• 1 to 2 years horticultural experience
• Supervisory experience and/or a qualification in a horticultural subject
• Good plant knowledge
• Excellent people skills and the ability to motivate others
• Accomplished communication and customer service expertise
• The ability to display and merchandise products
• Competence to create a safe working environment for staff and to ensure they adhere to health and safety laws

Applications for managerial positions in garden centres and nurseries are likely to be very competitive. Many job applicants will have many of the required attributes, so how can an employer differentiate between one interviewee and another? The answer is that they will test the depth of each applicant’s knowledge and transferable skills against what they need. By completing this Diploma in Applied Management for Garden Centres and Nurseries, developed and improved over 25+ years, you can stand head and shoulders above the competition. Not only will you be able to demonstrate a sound understanding of garden centre or nursery management or both, you will also be showing a potential employer that you have taken control of your own professional development, to achieve your career goals.

There are two core (compulsory) modules in this online course, studied via distance learning, followed by a choice between Garden Centre Management and Wholesale Nursery. Finally, there are three elective modules, chosen to best suit your educational needs and requirements. For those who would like to study both Garden Centre Management and Wholesale Nursery Management, you can also choose the one not taken as your selective option as an elective module.

Benefits of an ADL Endorsed Course?

Endorsed courses are skills based. They have been evaluated and approved by an independent awarding body such as Training Qualifications UK (TQUK).

What makes ADL’s Endorsed courses different?

• Flexible Self-Paced Learning– adjust your learning around your home and work commitments
• Start and Finish at any time
• Courses globally and industry relevant
• Practical Component at the end of most lessons.

Allocated your own tutor relevant to your subject. You can have as little or as much contact as you like with your tutor. They are there to support you all the way through.

This course is endorsed by TQUK -Training Qualifications UK, an OFQUAL awarding body.

Lesson Structure: Diploma In Applied Management (Garden Centre and Nursery) VBS001

Core Modules: Both modules to be completed

1Business Operations Management I BHT326

• Your ability to manage a business can make a huge difference to your success in horticulture. In this course, you will learn to the business side of horticulture, including how to plan and implement effective strategies for your business and/or services. This is a module in the Royal Horticultural Society's Master of Horticulture.

2Horticulture I BHT101

• Apply horticultural basics to all situations. Gain a broad technical grounding in horticultural principles and practice. The ideal course for the beginner, this is a basic, yet thoroughly practical course. Each lesson involves plant identification. This module has been written to teach horticulture in a way relevant to all parts of the world. It puts aside regional techniques, and tries to teach you principles and concepts which can be applied to anywhere.

Selective Modules: Choose either option 1 or option 2

Option 1:

1 Garden Centre and Retail Nursery Management BHT213

• Achieve excellence in your garden centre! Designed in 1986, in conjunction with the state garden department manager of a major retail chain store; this course has been very successful in training both staff and managers of retail nurseries and garden centres. It was thoroughly updated recently by horticultural professionals in both Australia and the U.K. to be relevant to countries around the world.

Option 2:

1 Wholesale Nursery Management BHT212

• Learn to produce great plants in a commercially successful way. Managing a production nursery involves more than just propagating and potting up plants. Even the small nursery must be able to not only produce plants, but do it at a predetermined cost, then sustain those plants before and during marketing.

Elective Modules: Three to be completed

1 Communication VWR100

• Learn to communicate successfully! This course improves your ability to communicate in all situations. You learn to write and speak more fluently. Behaviour, visual communications, language, public speaking, conducting meetings, writing letters and reports, communications technology, and lots more are covered.

2 Garden Centre and Retail Nursery Management BHT213

• Achieve excellence in your garden centre! Designed in 1986, in conjunction with the state garden department manager of a major retail chain store; this course has been very successful in training both staff and managers of retail nurseries and garden centres. It was thoroughly updated recently by horticultural professionals in both Australia and the U.K. to be relevant to countries around the world.

3 Horticulture II BHT102

• Extend your horticultural knowledge! Learn to identify, care and use of plants in a systematic way. Plant knowledge learnt here is in high demand in the horticulture industry. It is something prized by employers, but all too often minimized in modern courses due to financial constraints.

4 Horticulture III (Plant Health) BHT103

• Achieve high standards of plant health! Learn with this practical course to identify and control pest and diseases in plants, to maintain high standards of plant health, in your business or at home. Develop with this course a deep understanding of plant health, the systematic identification of health problems in plants and the techniques for control of those problems.

5 Horticulture Business Operational Management II BHT327

• The ability to manage staff is pivotal in any enterprise (commercial or public); and in a society where law is becoming increasingly complex; the modern horticultural manager also needs to have a firm understanding of basic legal practice. This course focuses on building your capacity to manage staff and legal aspects within the horticultural enterprise. You’ll learn the to study the Legal, Contractual and Staff Management necessary for the successful running of a Horticultural Enterprise.

6 Horticultural Marketing BHT304

• Understand marketing in the horticultural industry. In any business, including horticulture, success depends upon good marketing of your product. This subject covers the theoretical and practical importance of marketing in the horticultural industry, including topics such as advertising, promotions, signs, customer relations, pricing strategy, labeling, transport, product presentation, etc.

7 Horticultural Resource Management BHT203

• Understand and manage a horticultural business or enterprise. Help your business thrive with this home study resource management course! Resource management for successful horticulture businesses. Planning for efficient and economical management in horticulture includes such things as work procedures and programming, budgeting and staff supervision.

8 Hydroponic Supply & Consultancy – An Introduction

• This Hydroponic course is suitable for: hydroponic shop managers and staff and hydroponic equipment and materials manufacturers and suppliers. For garden centre and nursery managers, it represents an opportunity to gain knowledge in a growth industry, which could help drive sales up.

9 Industrial Psychology BPS103

• Understand how psychology works in industry. By understanding the thought processes that take place in the minds of people at work, a manager or supervisor can develop empathy for their staff, and apply this empathy to the way they manage the workplace. Learn about: workplace conditions, effects of management, motivation and incentives, social effects, psychological conditions, recruitment etc.

10 Leadership BBS110 CLD

• Develop and expand your leadership skills! Leadership skills are needed in all facets of our society: business, politics, religion, youth services, and leisure industries, to mention only some. This new course is relevant to all of those areas, developing your understanding of, and capacity to apply leadership skills.

11 Management VBS105

• Online course for Managers. this course will help you develop the skills necessary to be a manager. Explore theories and procedures, problem solving and decision making tactics. Study staff management, organisation management, ethics etc. Developed by professionals with substantial industry experience, this is the perfect foundation for any successful career in private or public enterprise.

12 Motivation VBS111

13 Sales Management BBS102 CLD

14 Wholesale Nursery Management BHT212

15 Workplace Health & Safety VBS103 CLD

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the Academy, marked by the Academy's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Retail Managers, Assistant Managers, Horticulturalists

A pc or laptop with internet connection.

This course develops both skills required to manage a retail business and knowledge in identification, care and handling of plants and other products sold in garden centres and nurseries. It is aimed at those with one year’s experience in a horticultural related industry, wanting to step up to assistant manager, deputy manager and manager positions.

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Certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included