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Career Street is designed to help employers and educators to network for the purpose of offering a variety of quality career exploration experiences to the students throughout the city of Erie and Erie County. YOUR GUIDE TO CAREEER CAREER STREET ROADMAP EXPLORATION IN THE ERIE REGION SeaWolves President Used Radio Skills to Begin Career in Baseball Today’s question-and-answer interview is with Greg Coleman, President of the Erie SeaWolves. What is your job title? about your career? a pre-med major, but I realized it we moved a few more times, to President of the Erie SeaWolves My career has afforded me wasn’t my passion. I switched to California, New Jersey, Kentucky Describe your day to day the opportunity to support my Communication Studies, which and eventually Pennsylvania, so job/work related tasks and family doing what I love. I enjoy has proven to be very useful in I could take on bigger and more activities. the game of baseball, and Minor my role. I often speak in front challenging opportunities. On a day to day basis, I am League Baseball in particular of groups or to the media, and What qualities are important most focused on selling and provides me with an outlet the lessons I learned in college for you to hold the position marketing the Erie SeaWolves. for creativity. We’re always still apply. While in college, I you have? Every day, I wake up thinking dreaming up new ideas and played football, wrote for the You have to always remain about how we’re going bring taking on new challenges. Minor TCNJ newspaper, and served as a student. There is always people to the ballpark. Often League Baseball can really make PR Director of our college radio new information to learn, and that means working on a new a difference in a community station. My radio experience that information can have real promotional idea or identifying too, and one of the best things was probably what gave me the business ramifications. I can new opportunities for our staff about my career is helping others needed experience to get into read a story online and it can to pursue. Selling and fulfilling make lifelong memories with the baseball. spark an idea that turns into a sponsorships is also a major part SeaWolves at UPMC Park. What has led you to your new sponsorship or promotion. of my role. In addition, I focus What are the challenges faced current career? I also think you need to have on keeping our promises. Fans in your career? After a couple of years in vision and surround yourself expect a quality experience from It’s exciting to work at a the workforce in New Jersey, with those who buy into that ERIE SEAWOLVES | R. FRANK PHOTOGRAPHY our team and our brand, and I ballpark, but it’s still work and our I got engaged to my college vision. It doesn’t mean that you Greg Coleman, President of the Erie SeaWolves. spend a lot of time during the workday is a lot longer than the sweetheart, who was working at only bring on people who agree season making sure that we’ll average eight-hour day. During Disney World in Orlando. This with you. It means hiring people take pride in your work or you What would people be constantly improving all off- the season, it’s not uncommon changed the course of my life. who are committed to a common don’t. You either put in the extra surprised to know about your the-field aspects. Our team has to work 90-100 hours in a week. Not only did I marry a wonderful goal enough that they have the effort or you don’t. If someone is career? several key partnerships, and I am Between baseball and other woman, but uprooting my life courage to disagree with you at willing to run through a wall for When my son was three years responsible for making sure that events, the SeaWolves operate gave me the opportunity to times if they believe it’s in the our fans, we’ll show them how old, he was diagnosed with autism. we work closely with the stadium over 100 events annually at really make a choice about what best interests of reaching that climb that wall instead. Shortly after his diagnosis, I was owner, our concessionaire, our UPMC Park. Many of those events I wanted to do for a profession. goal. How many employees do you trying to make sense of everything stadium naming rights partner, fall on weekends and holidays, so I was starting fresh, and I could There may not be a more have? and figure out how to cope with and our Major League affiliate, flexibility is required. There are pursue any path. Prior to important quality than resilience. The SeaWolves employ 11 our new reality. At the time, I was the Detroit Tigers, to get the best many things I love about my job, moving to Florida, I applied with Things are going to go wrong. people on a full-time year round working for the Trenton Thunder. results we can. Our front office but my least favorite things are a number of baseball teams. You have to be able to pivot and basis. When you factor in seasonal With support from the Thunder staff has no bearing on wins wind and rain. Even the best plan Shortly after moving to Florida, I find a new path, and bounce back and part-time staff, we employ organization, I ran around the and losses, but we work hard to or promotion can be thwarted by was hired by a team in Daytona quickly when you fail. If you’re nearly 200 people annually. I bases at the ballpark 500 times, make sure the SeaWolves are a weather. Beach. I lived and worked in not failing, you’re not trying. have five direct reports, but our collecting pledges for each lap. I great community partner and What’s your educational Daytona for a season, got married What do you look for when organizational chart is very flat. completed the 500 “home runs” that UPMC Park is a fun place for background? later that summer, and then you hire a new employee? We’re always working across the totaling over 34 miles and raised families I attended The College of got a job with the Minor League We can teach a lot of skills, but organization to accomplish our more than $11,000 and valuable What are the best things New Jersey. I spent two years as team in Orlando. From there, we can’t train attitude. You either projects and goals. awareness for Autism New Jersey. Soft skills are personal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people. Make a list of as many of these “soft skills” as you can think of. Then, discuss what you think the most important skill is, and how these skills might be used in Greg Coleman’s ACTIVITY job as President of the Erie Seawolves. Are there different soft skills that an electrician would need? A lawyer? A customer service representative? THE COLOR-CODED PATHWAYS ARE: Red – Arts and Communication Blue – Engineering and Industrial Green – Science and Health Find your career color Purple – Business, Finance and Technology Information Technology Orange – Human Services THIS PAGE BROUGHT TO YOU BY: NIE.GOERIE.COM Forward together.

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