Download Internship Reflection: Evaluating Objectives, Ethics, and Skills Development and more Exercises Sport Marketing in PDF only on Docsity! SMGT 447A – Internship Reflection Paper Please use the following template when writing your internship reflection paper. Name: Internship Site: Site Supervisor: Faculty Supervisor: I. Evaluation of Learning Objectives Please list each of your internship learning objectives, as specified on the Work Site Approval and Information Form, and provide an evaluation regarding the degree to which you were able to attain each objective. Please support your evaluation by citing specific outcomes of the work performed and/or including work samples as appendices to this paper. (Example) Objective 1: Develop sales skills by working on telemarketing campaign Evaluation: I worked extensively with our group sales telemarketing campaign using a database of contacts managed by the organization and a script to guide me in my sales efforts. I completed call reports each week (see example in Appendix 1). My work resulted in four sales totaling 150 tickets and $2,000 in revenue. II. Connection Between Internship Experience and Course Subject Matter Please identify at least 10 instances in which your experiences as an intern related to subject matter presented in your sport management classes. Be sure you are specific in identifying the course subject matter and clear in describing how it relates to your internship experience. As you reflect on your experience, you may find it useful to refer to some of the observations you offered in your weekly reports. Example: My sport marketing class covered the various tools that may be used to segment markets and identify target markets. Demographics were one of the tools we discussed, and my organization identified a key target market as males age 18 to 34. My organization used the demographic variables of gender and age to segment its market. III. Ethical Decision Making Describe an ethics‐related decision you either had to make yourself or observed a staff member made during your internship. Specifically, please address: 1. What was the ethical issue? 2. What were the competing values involved? 3. What decision was made? 4. What was the rationale for the decision? 5. Upon reflection, what do you think about the decision? Why? IV. Critical Thinking Skills Describe a time during your internship when you had to employ critical thinking skills to solve a problem. Specifically, please address: 1. What was the nature of the problem? 2. What alternatives did you consider as you moved to problem solution? 3. Which alternative did you select? Why? 4. Upon reflection, how well would you say handled the issue? Why? V. Diversity Describe how you may have encountered diversity either within the organization in which you served as an intern or within the publics it served. Specifically, please address: 1. What forms of diversity did you encounter? 2. How did the organization manage diversity‐related issues and opportunities?
