The course emphasizes the connection between communications, an essential element of leadership, and its relation to management functions. It explores both the objective elements of communication, including understanding the concepts of the sender, message, channel, and receiver, and the subjective elements of communication to include assumptions, purpose, intention and audience. An examination of the planning, building, and equipment acquisition process for sports facilities. Students will learn the steps involved in the design and construction of sports facilities, developing specifications and the selection of professional assistance. A study of procedures for locating and hiring staff motivating employees through salary and benefit administration, and personnel evaluation systems.
Emphasis is on the importance of the people who make the organization work.
Also included is an examination of ways to maintain employee discipline through a system of progressive sanctions, ways to develop job descriptions, and setting staffing levels within the organization. The course also includes a study of fund raising in sports organizations and practical techniques that may be employed for this purpose. Sport specific aspects of the marketing mix are discussed. Negotiable for each country, depending on airfare. Many organizations who have been beneficiaries of these programs have found it to be a very cost effective way to upgrade the skills of their cadres as this approach is far more cost effective than sending a comparable number of students to the United States for similar instruction.