Teamwork

TEAMWORK

Every team wants to win. Winning cannot happen without teamwork, players having good chemistry and excellent communication. The manager of the team is responsible so that the team will work together to win.

Baseball played correctly requires a lot of teamwork and a coach that knows the players' strengths and weaknesses. Other team members need to help with strategy to beat a challenging opponent. It's really the only sport where one person cannot make your team great. Baseball forces the entire team to come together, because not one or two guys can make a great team. For example, in plays such as a bunt, sacrifice for RBI, single, double and triple plays all require teamwork. The ability to read the field as a team is very important so that when you have the ball, you know when to throw to a cutoff man or to the nearest base. Also, a batter only bats an average three or four times a game and he needs his team to get on base to score runs.

To work as a team, means that everyone believes in everyone, not just the star players. Even when the team is down by five runs, some teammates must be able to create a winning attitude.

Making the Media Yours

Making The Media Yours

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The 10 Commandments of Sports Management

The spotlight is on you, there are ten microphones in your face, cameras flashing from all over the room, everyone crowded around you and all talking at once trying to get a response from you. Who do I answer? What do I say? Which camera do I look at? How am I going to get out of this?

You may be wondering what the answers are to these questions, well there is only one question you really need to answer right now: can you handle it?

Sports managers are in and out of media conferences which is why it is so important to prepare responses beforehand. The media can be a bit overwhelming; however I’m going to provide you with the 10 Commandments of Sports Management which will ultimately transform you into a master of the media.

1. Pre-conference preparation

• Developing a mock conference beforehand will help you build confidence as well as perfect statements that you plan to make in the media conference.

2. Responses are well thought out

• Make sure your responses are safe and direct to avoid any media conflicts.

3. Answer questions in a timely manner

• Do not rush yourself and do not take too much time in responding to one question.

4. Do not answer any questions that you are not prepared for

• Hold off on any questions of substance that you are not prepared for.

5. Refrain from giving too much away

• As a sports manager you don't want to give too much away about your team, just keep it simple and respond to the questions that you are prepared for.

6. Maintain a positive atmosphere

• Keep everything positive for instance, if a teammate leaving the organization: tell the media that is for the better of both the player and the team. Be sure to let them know that we have many possible prospects looking to fill the position.

7. Respect the media

• Keeping your relationship on a respectful level is important when dealing with the media, because they can make or break you and they control the public eye.

8. Make eye contact

• Be direct with our responses and make sure you aren't looking down and away. This shows confidence and you will gain people's trust.

9. Don’t show any sort of weakness

• Do not crumble under any circumstance and if the media see's weakness they'll try to bring that out of you every chance they get.
  

10. Professional attire

• Attire is very important, you want to look very presentable and professional. You are ultimately representing your team.

Following these Ten Commandments of Sports Management will ensure as well as sustain success throughout your career. These are all very important aspects involving the image of your organization. These steps will help you on a daily basis avoid negative media and maintain a positive view of yourself as well as the organization you are representing.

How to Make a Successful Presentation

Both written and oral communication require skill. It isn't easy, but like any written message, e-mails can easily be misunderstood. It takes practice and hard work to express yourself well. The same is true for oral communication that takes place in telephone calls, face-to-face meetings, formal briefings, and conferences. Listed below are some guidelines to follow in order to make a successful presentation, no matter what situation a manager is facing.

1. Be Prepared: Know what you want to say; know how you want to say it; rehearse saying it.
2. Set the Right Tone: Act audience centered; make eye contact; be pleasant and confident.
3. Sequence Points: State your purpose, make important points; follow with details; then summarize.
4. Support Your Points: Give specific reasons for your points; state them in understandable terms.
5. Accent the Presentation: Use good visual aids; provide supporting handouts when possible.
6. Add the Right Amount of Polish: Attend to details; have room, materials, and arrangements ready to go.
7. Check Your Technology: Check everything ahead of time, make sure it works and know how to use it.
8. Don't bet on the Internet: Beware of plans to make real-time Internet visits; save sites on a disk and use a browser to open the file.
9. Be Professional: Be on time; wear appropriate attire, act organized, confident, and enthusiastic.

These guidelines are important to follow to ensure that the communication level is effective and credible. Sport Managers are faced with barriers every day in which they shouldn't attend a conference and just "wing it", the manager needs to be prepared so that every one is receiving credible information.

Running a Successful Campaign

Running a Successful Campaign

A sports team campaign can be very helpful. When the manager of the baseball team decides to campaign its own team then it draws attention. The cities that you campaign will know more about your team. This can create fans, players, and most importantly, donations to help the team grow. This type of publicity can make a managers life much easier in the future. Here are some steps that the manager must take when campaigning:

Step 1: Get the Right Tools for your Sports Campaign

- Well designed tools will allow your campaign team to share information easily and efficiently, make well-informed decisions, and easily expand as you approach your last day of campaigning.

Step 2: Hiring Your Campaign Staff

-When running a campaign, three positions must be filled: treasurer, fundraiser and campaign manager.

-The treasurer is responsible for maintaining the campaigns financial accounting both for internal purposes and for filing legally required campaign statements.

-The fundraiser's job is primarily to focus on raising the money necessary for a successful campaign.

-The campaign manager's job is to run the campaign.

Step 3: The Campaign Budget

-The important thing is to be honest in your fundraising projections so that you can make reasonable decisions about spending priorities.

-Your priorities should be divided up into three categories: Must Have, Like to Have, and Luxury.

Step 4: The Heart of Running the Campaign

-After your tools, team, budget, strategy and message are put together, running the actual campaign is mostly just a matter of implementing.

-With solid planning, your daily operations will run smoothly Following those four easy steps will make your campaigning a success. In no time will you have fans, players, and money to make your baseball team grow to its highest potential.

Running a Successful Campaign

The Importance of Coaching

In order to be a successful and competent coach, you need to have many skills that are mostly communication based. The list is as follows...


- Examine your personal communication style and show how to react fittingly to the communication styles of others

- Recognize obstacles to communication and select effective procedures to conquer them

- Provide valuable and real feedback

- Use influencing techniques: commitment, steadiness and shortage

- Show how to apply listening techniques to verify and establish a speaker's desires, use confirmation techniques to guarantee correct understanding and assert your own requirements professionally, graciously and resolutely

- Placate emotional or upset individual.

- Put assertive communication techniques into action

- Realize anger in self and others

- How to allot bad news to others

- Spot the basis of conflict and use the suitable reply.

- Comprehend and apply modern negotiation strategies to: know when to make the first offer, when and how to make concessions and how to make the other person feel like a winner

- Identify and deal with absurd conflict: when it is a "shark" attack.

- Explain e-mail custom.

- Create helpful and specialized e-mail messages.