Team Decision Making Events
Team Decisions Making events are team roleplay events where competitors will take separate tests (averaged scores), then proceed to do the roleplay interview together. Teams will receive a 30-minute preparation period to not only discuss certain topics included in the roleplay, but also to provide a solution to the given problem in the roleplay. The eight TDM events are centered around DECA’s five career clusters.
Business Law and Ethics
Employees in buying and merchandising positions get the product into the hands of the customer. This process includes forecasting, planning, buying, displaying, selling and providing customer service.
Buying and Merchandising
Employees in buying and merchandising positions get the product into the hands of the customer. This process includes forecasting, planning, buying, displaying, selling and providing customer service.
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship includes the ability to recognize opportunities and to act on them, determine needs, identify markets, utilize marketing research, identify sources of capital and use management skills.
Financial Services
Financial services refer to services offered in the finance industry by financial institutions. Concepts include understanding the source and purpose of financial statements, the impact of management decisions on statements, and the analysis and interpretation of data for planning purposes.
Hospitality Services
Hospitality services include marketing and management functions and tasks that can be applied in hotels, motels, lodging services, related convention services, and related food and beverage services.
Marketing Management
Marketing management includes marketing and management functions and tasks that can be applied broadly in a non-retail marketing environment.
Sports and Entertainment Marketing
Sports and entertainment marketing includes marketing functions and tasks that can be applied in amateur or professional sports or sporting events, entertainment or entertainment events, selling or renting of supplies and equipment (other than vehicles) used for recreational or sporting purposes, products and services related to hobbies or cultural events, or businesses primarily engaged in satisfying the desire to make productive or enjoyable use of leisure time.
Travel and Tourism
Travel and tourism includes marketing and management functions and tasks that can be applied in enterprises engaged in passenger transportation, travel service, attracting and serving the traveling public, arranging tours or acting as independent ticket agencies, and other services incidental to the travel or tourism industry.