Sports management

SPT 111 Sports Industry Profile Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: In this assignment, you will create a PowerPoint presentation that addresses job growth in the industry. Please review the guidelines for presentation information located at the bottom of this document.

Prompt: Select a sports industry profile and answer the questions below. The profile can be selected from the textbook, the SportsBusiness Journal, the Teamwork Online website, or a sports team website. Respond to the following questions:

• What is his or her current job? What responsibilities does the individual have in this role? • How have the jobs within the industry grown? • What trends do you notice in the industry? • What have you learned from this assignment in regard to your own personal strengths and weaknesses?

Please note: This assignment should be submitted as a PowerPoint presentation. Detailed notes should be included for each slide.

Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: Your sports industry profile must be submitted as a 4- to 6-slide PowerPoint presentation with double-spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and at least two sources cited in APA format.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (80%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Sports Industry Job Identifies a job in the sports industry and describes the responsibilities that the job entails

Insufficiently identifies a job in the sports industry and/or minimally describes the responsibilities that the job entails

Does not identify a job in the sports industry field and does not describe the responsibilities the job entails

20

Job Growth Describes job growth in the industry in detail and cites evidence to support rationale

Minimally describes job growth in the industry

Does not describe job growth in the industry

20

Trends Explains trends in the industry in detail and cites evidence to support rationale

Provides descriptions of trends in the industry that are lacking in detail

Does not describe trends in the industry

20

Personal Reflection Reflects on personal strengths and weaknesses as it pertains to this assignment using specific details

Minimally reflects on personal strengths and weaknesses as it pertains to this assignment

Does not reflect on personal strengths and weaknesses as it pertains to this assignment

20

Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization

Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas

20

Total 100%

Guidelines for Presentations

In a professional career, one may be called upon to conduct research and deliver findings in professional settings. No matter how extensive the research or accurate the conclusions, a weak presentation can undermine an argument. A presentation is a tool to assist in making an argument. When creating presentations, students develop skills in researching an issue, synthesizing the information, organizing data logically, and presenting findings in an effective manner.

Principles of an Effective Presentation:

• You may utilize a product such as Microsoft’s PowerPoint, Google Presentation, or Prezi to create your presentations.

• There are various template designs that you can find on the web for your presentation. However, first consider your presentation from the perspective of your audience prior to selecting a specific style. Distracting backgrounds, large blocks of text, all uppercase fonts, elaborate font styles, grammatical errors, and misspellings are distracting. Be consistent with the style of text, bullets, and subpoints in order to support a powerful presentation that allows your content to be the focus.

• Each slide should include your key point(s). Do not place large blocks of text on the visual. Your presentation is not a means of presenting a short paper. In an actual presentation you would not “read” from your slides but rather use them as prompts.

• Any notes or narration you would use in delivering this presentation to a group should be listed in the “notes” section of the slide.

• References should be listed at the bottom of the slide in slightly smaller text.

• Use clip art, AutoShapes, pictures, charts, tables, and diagrams to enhance but not overwhelm your content.

• Be mindful of the intended audience and seek to assess the presentation’s effectiveness by gauging audience comprehension (when possible).

Below are some links that offer helpful tips and examples for developing your presentations:

• Making PowerPoint Slides • How to Avoid Making a Bad Presentation • 10 PowerPoint Presentation Tips • 7 Design Tips on how to Make Effective, Beautiful PowerPoint Presentations

Guidelines for Effective Presentations: Your final presentation can be submitted in PowerPoint, Google Presentation, or Prezi. If you do not have access to this PowerPoint, you can visit https://www.openoffice.org/ to download the program called Impress. It allows you to create a PowerPoint presentation with a free, compatible program through OpenOffice. A free Word program is also available at this web address.