NCAA Basketball Tournament Case Study

In 2018, Oklahoma City will be hosting the Final Four women’s NCAA basketball tournament. Given a year and a half to plan for the event, there are a lot of managerial and organizational items on the agenda that must be accounted for in order for this to run smoothly and successfully. The following items will be detailed out in order to accomplish the task at hand: planning and budgeting, organizing and staffing, controlling. Along with these specific agenda items, personal objectives as the director of sports commissions need to be address during the entire process. These objectives include problem solving, setting a direction, aligning people, and motivating and inspiring. If all these personal objectives are met, the process of creating …show more content…
Although I am the one in charge, I would want my workers to see that I am always involved in decisions and that I’m not afraid to get my hands dirty. Helping the people in the marketing area is just as important as assisting the custodians and concession workers. By having these workers see you getting involved, you will gain their respect and motivate them to work hard to achieve their own goals. Being a good manager means you are more than just organized, but you are well versed in all aspects of your event planning, and you work well with other people. Once you are organized, you get everyone on board with your decision, and then you are able to encourage everyone to make it happen. The total planning of the event takes months while the actual event is only a few hours or a weekend. That is a long amount of time to have people working under you, so in order to have a successful event you need to be a successful leader. There are many skills that make up a good leader but being able to relate to your staff will motivate them and inspire them to work for your …show more content…
The goal and main focus is to have a well-run event that people will talk about for years to come, and to spotlight the city of Oklahoma City to increase tourism and our local economy. By being organized and having a solid plan on how to create and execute this event, it will run smooth, and everyone will be happy. Having a clear direction on how I want this event to run, motivating my employees to work hard, and hiring the best staff, we will be able to provide an event that people will want to attend, and make people desire returning to our city for all future sports events as