A Career As A General Manager For The Chicago Baseball Team

My dream job is to be the General Manager for the Chicago White Sox professional baseball team. General Managers have lots of responsibilities ranging from player contracts to dealing with team revenues and budgets. A lot of what they do is access an organization or a team's needs and go out and try to find players to fulfill those gaps. They spend a lot of time negotiating contracts and salaries with players and coaches within the organization. They have to make the best team possible while still keeping their budgets low and their profits rising. General Managers oversee the marketing staff and help with promoting the company in a positive way such as doing in game promotions and dealing with ticket sale prices to get the most people into

They have to be extremely reliable, possess strong leadership skills, be a good negotiator, must be ready for challenges and obstacles, have a positive mindset, and pay attention to extreme details. General Managers must have the ability to be a critical thinker and must care about each decision that they make, and must avoid making decisions based on convenience. Most of the important decisions within a company are part of a decision made by the General Manager which is why they need such great decision making skills.

Basic education requirements for a General Manager is a bachelor's in sport management or having a bachelor’s degree in management. Along with just strictly the education background they must have experience in a similar position. Becoming a General Manager is very difficult and that is why so many of them start in a lower sports managing job and work their way up to their goals. Many General Managers started as either assistant General Managers where they learn the skills to run their own team, or in another sport management

They want customers to stick with their organization and keep performing at a high level and keep attracting new fans while also having loyal customers. Brand Loyalty is a large part of making organizations money which is a big responsibility. Brand awareness is consumers seeing product images and being able to associate that image with the brand and the familiarness of a brand to its consumers. It is a big responsibility of a General Manager to promote their brand enough that is recognizable easily by consumers. The fourth component of brand equity is perceived quality. Perceived quality is consumers personal idea of the organization as well as the overall quality. The General Manager is one of the most influential positions in professional sport and any actions they make have a direct effect on their