Anthony Williams, CGCS at Stone Mountain (Ga.) Golf Club, will discuss how setting career goals for yourself and your golf course for 2012 and beyond and working to attain them can help ensure career longevity. His presentation will include how to establish realistic standards and how to go about working toward achieving them. He also will talk about how to market yourself, from self-promotion and public relations strategies in your current position and resume-writing and other career advice tips designed to help you realize your next opportunity.

In this TurfNet University Webinar, Gary Grigg, CGCS, vice president of Grigg Brothers discusses the importance of developing and selling a program-based budget. His presentation includes tips on how to write a maintenance standards policy and a subsequent program-based budget that includes a written maintenance plan, organizational chart of your department, description of each category item in your budget, capital equipment needs and improvement projects.

Tim Hiers, CGCS at The Old Collier Golf Club in Naples, Fla., will discuss turf management topics specific to various types of Bermudagrass and Seashore Paspalum. His presentation will introduce the attributes, including the benefits and limitations of these warm-season grasses, grow-in techniques, water-related issues, disease matters, soil-testing needs, best-management practices and other concerns specific to warm-season grasses.

In this TurfNet University Webinar, Gordon Kauffman III, Ph.D., technical representative for Grigg Brothers, will address how to prepare for the inevitable summer stress season and its impact on cool-season turf on intensely managed sites. He also will provide insight on how to implement the correct cultural practices; an overview of biotic and abiotic stress; definitions; pesticide programs; research; and the correct uses of phosphites and elicitors and how to put it all together to build comprehensive programs.

In this TurfNet University Webinar, Roch Gaussoin, Ph.D., of the University of Nebraska will define elicitors and target how golf course superintendents can use them in turfgrass management programs. The presention will focus on use of elicitors such as phytoalexins, specific amines or amino acids, carboxylic acids, phosphites, silicon, glycoproteins and oligosaccharides, peptides, jasmonic acid, salicylic acid, sugar analogs and others and how they interact with the plasma membrane of undamaged cells and trigger activation of genes involved in a plant�s defense response. Dr. Gaussoin also will discuss the when, if and why superintendents might consider using elicitors in their program and the science behind the multitude of product claims.