Facility Visit/Interview
Successful sport managers must understand a variety of components in the sport industry. One of those areas involves facility and event management. Another includes understanding consumer behavior and employing effective marketing.
One way to learn about these areas and to begin to understand their complexities is to ask questions and discuss these topics with professionals in the field. Upon completing this assignment, hopefully, you will gain the knowledge and skills pertinent to a sport management position.
For this assignment, you are asked to visit another local facility in your area to identify and determine the day-to-day operations and procedures performed at the facility and to conduct a personal interview with the director or manager. Contact this person, and schedule a day and time for this visit.
If this is not an option for you, you may elect to conduct a personal interview with the director or manager via phone, email, Skype, Zoom, Join Me, or any other conference-friendly application that will yield the answers to questions posed in the interview.
Create at least eight questions to ask this individual. The following sport-related topics are suggestions that may assist you as you generate your questions:
sport management responsibilities;
responsibilities and duties of other various positions;
best practices/processes in sport consumer behavior;
marketing and advertising strategies;
effects/influences of media relations;
communication techniques;
impact of facility practices (social, cultural, legal, and economic); and
skills required in the sport industry.
Please provide the answers to the questions you ask the interviewee, and include a section that discusses how this experience has helped you in your educational journey to better understand sport management, leadership, and best practices in sport.
The organization of your paper should resemble the following:
Title page: Include your name, the assignment title, and the name of the university.
Introduction: Provide a brief introduction of the assignment.
Body: List the questions and responses from your interview.
Conclusion: Provide a brief conclusion that wraps up the elements of the interview, including how this experience has helped you.
Reference page: If you use content from the textbook, be sure to include this as a source on your reference page.
Your paper should be a minimum of two pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages. Your paper should be typed in 12-point, Times New Roman font; be double-spaced; and include page headers. References and in-text citations should be formatted using APA style. Also, remember to cite personal communication in-text only. Examples on how to cite personal communications can be found below:
T. S. Smith (personal communication, January 20, 2016)
OR
(T.S. Smith, personal communication, January 20, 2016)
Note: It is suggested, but not required, that you send a thank-you note to the person you interviewed. Professionalism and courtesy always make a great impression, and you never know when that company may be hiring!
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