Corporate Manger Presentation

Sarah Freund:

The CM Duties are...
-arrange, schedule, and chair corporation meetings
-report to the corporation's plans and contingency plans
-seek and provide information with the GCB
-help other corporation members
-help establish and maintain maximum levels of productivity






Presentation
-product/service:
Extreme Sports(Skydiving, bungee jumping, hot air balloon rides)
-Summer Sports
-alternative:
Extreme Sports(Skiing, Tubing, Mountain)
-Winter Sports
-justification:
There is nothing like it in Charleston area
-who is the consumer?
College Students
-history of corporation

Founded in 2006, Sports and Beyond (S&B) specializes in extreme sporting activities. Some of our activities include bungee jumping, hot air balloon rides and skydiving. A trained staff of about ten to fifteen people per office carefully monitors all the activities.

Sports and Beyond started in response to young adults wanting to experience exciting new activities around their campuses. The first campus, University of Illinois, took hold of the new inspired idea, and today the company has expanded to a second school, Eastern Illinois University. With continued growth and profit S&B will proceed to expand across the state of Illinois.

With being a new company, S&B is privately owned through the founders: Sarah Freund, Brittney Waite, Megan Scharf and Megan McGhee. The founders all work closely with every on-site team, and the purpose for that is to be more connected with the consumers who use the packages as well as secure the safety of the individuals. By having such adventurous activities, consumers and employees need to feel comfortable and trust those around them. Sports and Beyond offers just that, and since the company is privately owned, it isn’t subjected to the releasing of unapproved customer documentation as well as enables the company to have lower advertising costs.

Part of the reason for the continued success of S&B is the variety of packages offered to the consumers. The summer package, which was mentioned earlier sponsors hot air balloon rides, ski diving and bungee jumping. However, the success at the University of Illinois has allowed for a water extreme package, which includes canoeing/rafting, jet skiing and tubing/water skiing. Also, with our demographic mainly being college students, all the activities are constructed within a 60mile radius of the campuses.

Most of the promotional advertisements reflect off of the demographic. There are brochures, promotional videos, newspaper exerts and a web site, which is being contrasted at this time. The company is hoping to have it up within the next few months. With the use of a variety of advertising techniques, Sports and Beyond will continue to increase profits and become a successful company

-tentative plans:
advertising- film,brochure,business card, poster
-roster:
Sara Freud, Brittney Waite, Meghan Sharf, Megan McGee
-who will assume someone else responsibilities?
Brittney-will take on Sarah's responsibilities
Sara- will take on Brittney's responsibilities
Megan M- will take on Megan S responsibilities
Megan S will take on Megan M responsibilities
-schedule of meeting time:

Available meeting times for corporation:

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
		9:30a.m.- 10:45a.m.		9:30a.m.– 10:45a.m.
4:30p.m.- 6:00p.m.	5:00p.m.- 6:00p.m.	4:00p.m– 6:00p.m	5:00p.m.- 6:00p.m.	4:00p.m.– 6:00p.m.

Budget form for estimated income and anticipated expenditures

(due with the CM report)

Corporation Name: ___Sports and Beyond__________

Date ___2-16-10___

I. Assets and estimated income

A. Assets at the start of the cycle 5,000_____

B. Estimated daily earnings 1,800_____

C. Estimated sales

(_____units @ $ _______each, 7,500

_15__units @ $ _300___each,

__5__units @ $ _600___each)

D. Total assets and estimated income 14,300___

II Proposed or estimated expenditures 4,200____

A. Wholesale costs (_____units @ $ ______each,

_18__units @ $ _150__each,

__6__units @ $ 300__each)

B. Advertising costs (total) 1,000____

1. Newspaper ad __X____

2. Posters __X____

3. Pamphlets, brochures, flyers __X____

4. Audio _______

5. Video __X____

6. Other _______

C. Taxes (estimated) 992.50___

D. Total estimated expenditures 7807.50____

E. Total income minus expenses (ID - IID) 6492.50____

If I could go back and be in another corporation instead of the GCB I would have chosen to be the Corportae Manger because I feel like they have more say in what is going on with the corportation. Also another good things about being a CM is they give their speech at the very begining of the cycle and then they are done except for the trade fair and helping others in the group. I found this position very intiging and and I feel as though I would have been better at this position then the Sale Manager that I was.

Our Group

Our Group consist of 4 people including myself

• Me-Brittney Waite- SM
• Sarah Freud- CM
• Megan Scharf- PRO
• Megan McGee-IS

We all learned our groups the next day of class after our interviews and although I would not have picked the other two girls in our group I put Sarah first as my group leader. Even though I would not have picked the other two girls I felt that we all worked decently well together. Me and Sarah knew each other before this class and I had another previous class with Megan Scharf. When we were trying to decide what our product or service was going to be we had a really hard time trying to come up with something that was original. We thought of a spring break thing and a few other but finally we came up with something for extreme sports. The problem was that Megan Scharf was not on board of what we were doing so we had to get her to be on board and believe in the product just as we did. That was our first problem of many. We all had different schedules which made it hard to meet so usually Sarah and I would meet and the two Megan's would meet which worked out because we just divide out our task that needed to be done. Another problem we had was that Megan Sharf did not participate as the PRO should by making the advertisements and brochures ect. She just assumed that it was our job to do them so we helped her but we also required her to do some of the work too. Overall our group did a good job of respecting each other and getting things accomplished but if I could go back and have another group I would.

Found this image on the Internet and I thought about my experience with group work in this class. I am not a big fan of group work in the first place because I always feel that I am doing all of the work. Communication is our major but that does not always mean that some people are good at expressing their opinions to the group. In our case, we had one person who was too opinionated and did not agree with anything the other three of us came up with. We ended up resolving the conflict of what product/service to do by compromising so that the one person disagreeing was happy with our product. Another problem we had was that Sarah and I did not trust the other two members of the group and without trust a group does not function properly. They use the word collaborative in the example above and this word to me means that we each are to do our part in the group. This is not what happen because two of us went to Walmart, two of us did the advertisements, and two of us did the poster board. As a whole we did not work well as a team.

Week 4- From other Blog

On my other blog from another class I posted a blog about week 4 of my final semester and said a little bit about each class.

So for Simulations it said, "Simulations- This class is a set up like we are playing a game. We first had to take our test over the workbook until everyone passed it which was four times. Then we followed by having interviews to decide which group we wanted to be in. I thought the interviews were really fun and did a good job of helping us get to know each other better. I just got my group yesterday and am very excited to get the game rolling." Wednesday, February 3, 2010

I found this interesting that I put I was ready to get the game rolling because it really is a game. I was also really nervous even though I did not let on that I was. I am not one to bring attention to myself and this class make you take the stage and learn to be confident in your public speaking. The "game" was fun but it also requires a lot of work which I think our whole class expected because of all the rumors/ information that previous classes have told us.

Starting Over...

As I forgot I had created this blog and why I had created it our teacher reminded us in class on Tuesday that we will have some sort of creative paper to do about ourselves and what we have learned this semester. Since I have forgotten about journaling every week for this class I am going to journal and recap what happen last semester and then begin journaling for the second cycle. I am also going to tell you a little about myself what makes me happy, what this semester has been like for me, and what I plan to do when I graduate here shortly. I am going to start with catching up on what happen in the last cycle.

We started the beginning of the semester by taking a test over the workbook we had to take the test four times until everyone passed it at the same time. I ended off last time saying I got an 83 and for the final test I got an 95% and everyone passed it because we all worked together as a team. I felt this was ridiculous at the time but now as we actually started having to do the simulation I realized how important it was to know exactly what we were doing as well as all of the rules.

Even after taking the tests and passing them I still felt so confused as to what we were going to be doing and how it was going to take place. I am a person that likes structure and although the workbook seemed as that I did not feel like I knew what to expect which makes me nervous. I think if I were to talk this class again I would ask more questions at the beginning so I wouldn't be so unsure of what to expect. I felt like we were just thrown into the class and the simulation but by just being thrown in we made up our own rules and learned how to manage as a corporation with our group.

After we were finally done taking the test then we had to pick who the group leaders also known the the interviewers were going to be. People just volunteered themselves. I did not realize that they did not have to be the Corporate manager at the time. If I would have realized this I would have been an interviewer because I would have enjoyed doing that. I was one of the interviewee and it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. I took my resume up to the interviewers nervous and they just asked questions about what position I wanted to be and how I thought I could better their groups.

When the interviewing process was over we were asked to rank who who's group we wanted to be in just like the interviewer were asked to rank who they wanted to be in their group and our groups were then posted later that day.


Resume:

BRITTNEY M. WAITE
________________________________________________
3722 Sims Drive, Decatur, IL 62526 217.454.5284 bwaite@eiu.edu


OBJECTIVE

To obtain a position as a Sales Manager or a Corporate Manager within a successful corporation.

EDUCATION Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
Bachelor of Arts, May 2010
Major: Communication Studies
Minor: Business Administration & Advertising

ACTIVITIES
Sigma Kappa-New Member Ritual Leader
∙ Instructed new members on sorority rituals
Caterpillar Leadership Institute
Richland Community College Youth Leadership Program

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Lab/Office Position, ADM/Corn Plant
Decatur, IL Summer 2008-Current
· Reformatted Standard Document Procedure forms and completed sign off process with plant staff
· Researched and presented options for document system purchase
∙ Inventoried laboratory equipment
∙ Calibrated equipment
∙ Developed spreadsheets


Lab Technician, ADM/East Lab
Decatur, IL Seasonal 2007
∙ Tested food products for e-coli and salmonella

Telefundraiser, EIU Alumni Services
Charleston, IL 2007-2008
· Performed outbound fundraising calls

Associate Trainer, Panera Bread Co.
Decatur, IL April 2004-May 2007
∙ Trained new employees
· Planned special events for staff

COMPUTER SKILLS
Microsoft Office Suite, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Indesign,Fireworks


VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Special Olympics
Good Samaritan Inn
Eagle Ridge Nursing Home
Meals on Wheels

Week 2

As I begin my second blog ever, I decided to keep an online journal of our simulations class. This class is not an easy one to describe but to my understand this class is going to be a "game." A game of corporations and a government board that rules over the civilizations. This class is going to be a game of teams and learning how to work together. It is important that each corporation finds a way to work together to make a profit just as you would in the real world. Simulations class is one of the only classes I have taken that require us as a class to act as if we are in the real world. I feel as though this is why this class is going to benefit me more than some others. This class from the very beginning has been very stressful. Although, I am a person who gets stressed out very easily I feel as if this class is going to be a lot of work. We will take our test again on Tuesday, this will be the fourth time we are taking it. It is very frustrating but what we have learned is that we fail together as a class and do not want to leave anyone behind. We started with about half of the class failing the test which I was not one (I got a 65! just barely passing) The second test seven people failed which I was one of them. I was so disappointed in myself that I didn't do better than the first time but I found that the information was different on the test and I did not study as hard as I did for the first one. The third test I study really hard for an pulled off with a 83! I was so excited I passed because I worked so hard. Although I passed and many others did... One person did not and we all passed together or fail together and we still failed on the third test. So our teacher A.J. Walsh asked us to find out what we could do as a class to help everyone pass. We all just sat there and stared at her like we were dumbfounded or it was a questions we could not answer. People then began speaking up and asking when we could all get together and how many people we interested in studying together. As a class we then decided to meet on Monday night at 9pm in the library and then 9am Tuesday morning before the test to get in a quick study session as well. A.J. then asked us to take action so we assumed she meant actually go to these sessions but that is not what she meant she meant send out a reminder or email or take some action right then and there. So Sarah F in our class got up used the computer in the room and send out an email to everyone in the class through Web Ct reminding us of what times we were going to meet.

This class may be challenging this semester but I feel as though you do not get anything out of things coming easy in life :).

As A.J. says, " How you see the problem is the problem."