Webinar: Building A Winning Student Staff

College Sports Communicators

This was the first in the CSC "Athletic Communications Building, Developing and Empowering Your Staff Live Webinar Series" presented during the 2024-25 academic year. The presenters discussed how to go about identifying, hiring, developing and empowering a student staff, in this time of shortened staffs and the need to cover numerous game day events and office management duties.They gave tips and strategies to bolster your office staff and office content production. This included: how to identify potential student workers on your campus; using Google docs, excels, calendars and GroupMe software to organize the students' schedules and organize their work flows; how to ID the best students for the diversity of assignments, and training for those assignments. They also discussed the importance of mentoring student workers and giving them opportunities to network and enhance their skills sets. Each panelist emphasized talking to student assistants about the "why" of their jobs and to help them understand how their contributions are making a difference in your athletic organization, and how their student worker skills and experiences will benefit them career-wise. Presenters:- Alex Gutierrez, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Assistant Sports Information Director @AGutierrez_WPI- Bryant Gray, College of Coastal Georgia Director of Athletic Communications @BGray25WE- Emilia Frizzi, The Ohio State University Assistant Director of Athletic Communications @emilia_frizzi Moderator/Presenter:- Adam Ledyard, East Texas Baptist University Assistant Athletic Director for Communications @adam_ledyard