127: Negotiation In The Athletic World

Are you interested in sports? Want the insider scoop on how high stakes athletic negotiations take place? Well tune in to this episode as host, Cindy Watson, interviews Jeff Mitchell. Jeff serves as Deputy Director of Athletics at Southern Miss. He oversees strategic planning of the Athletic Department, provides leadership for special projects, manages the department's legal affairs and is the primary liaison to the University's Office of the General Counsel. He is also nationally recognized as a co-author of a textbook entitled Sport, Ethics and Leadership and is an adjunct professor for the Southern Miss School of Business and Economic Development, teaching classes on leadership, governance, and policy in sport.

You’ll come away from the episode with greater insights on:

• Negotiating development of multi-million-dollar facilities agreements and game contracts and multi-media rights agreements;
• How to manage big egos and strong personalities in the sports world and beyond;
• The importance of preparation and how to do it;
• Role of creativity in negotiating better outcomes;
• Gender in negotiations;
• Emotions in negotiations;
• Key reasons negotiations fail;
• Skills that make a great negotiator
• Negotiation lessons we can take away from sports
• Art of negotiation, and how that helps you both professionally and in life

Learn more about Jeff at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-r-mitchell/ 

Twitter: @JeffMitchellUSM

https://southernmiss.com/staff-directory/jeff-mitchell/438

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