Trust in Your Staff to Make a Dent in Your Task List

All too often, we find ourselves getting caught up in the hustle and bustle of our daily activities. Often it seems that the 10 items we had on our task list for the day are not the actual items that consume our day once we arrive in the office. This usually results in the infamous “There just isn’t enough time in the day” comment that many of us have probably rambled off at one point or another. While it may be easy to get a little flustered from time to time, it’s imperative that this not become the norm as your staff will inevitably begin to become flustered too.

Defining Event Presentation and Its Challenges

This article introduces a new career field to The Migala Report: Event Presentation.

Game entertainment, game operations, live programming – these are some words people typically use to describe what is ultimately become known as “event presentation.” So what is event presentation? When I ask today’s sports management students this very question, the response seems to be consistent along the lines of, “entertaining fans from the moment they arrive to the moment they leave.” Although this is true, today’s marketplace has transformed the definition of event presentation to include so much more. For the purpose of this article, I’m referring to sporting events, but the same principles apply to other events. To begin to define event presentation it’s important to visualize event presentation as a wheel with many spokes. The spokes represent the elements that must be incorporated into each and every event to support an organization’s objectives. These elements can include:

I HATE THE TERM NETWORKING

So as I asked around the office for suggestions on this blog post this morning, suggestions were all over the board.  Topics ranged from detailing the assimilation of Brazilians into American marketing culture, the differences between private and public schools and books I’ve read.  The other topic suggested by the talented Lauren Taylor was networking, which is the topic furthest from my heart.  The reason it strays so far from me is I’ve never really understood the term, yet everybody talks about it and tells you it is important.

Carrying Your Career Ladder through Your Personal Crossroads: A Parable

After leaving Upstart University in October of 1999 for a job that Knox Fitzgerald figured would have been his fast track to achieving his career goals, he found himself right back at Upstart in June of 2000. The job he took out of state was not what he had expected and, to his great fortune, the position he left with Upstart athletics had not been filled permanently. Knox got his old job back, received a title bump, and garnered a little bit more pay for his seven month sabbatical.