Sports Management – Management Strategies and Organizational Techniques

Catalog description

This course is designed to inform sports managers how to more effectively organize and manage their time, apply time management principles, be more productive and have balance to life. Instruction will focus on 12 key components and strategies, including proven techniques and tips to teach participants how to: Set Goals, and Priorities, Plan for Results, Organize for Success, Process Paperwork, Delegate Effectively, Eliminate Time Wasters, enhance Decision- Making, Make Meetings Productive, Conquer Procrastination, Utilize Technology, Communicate Effectively and Reduce Stress. This course will also address the role in managing the public address program for athletic contests. It will provide announcing guidelines, emergency situations, unsportsmanlike situations, pre-game, during contest and post game announcement. Contest management methods and procedures currently in use throughout the United States will be reviewed. The course will emphasize the need for flexible plans and responses to various contest situations and contingencies. Basic prevention and intervention methods are examined. Finally this course will examine the causes of challenging or difficult personalities in society, with specific reference to athletic programs. Specific protocols will be defined for dealing with individuals who “must be right,” “must win,” “must be logical” and “must be accepted”.