Project Management At It's Best

The South Florida Gospel Music Awards

The South Florida Gospel Music Awards held it’s annual event earlier this month. The event was organized by Peppi Hendrix, Founder, CEO and Executive Producer for the SFGMA. Mr. Hendrix and his staff are a good example of project-based teamwork.

According to the organizations website, (http://www.sfgma.com/) Peppi Hendrix started the gospel music based organization in 2004. He and his team have since held two awards events in the West Palm Beach, FL area. Because of Hendrix’s leadership, the group has seen significant growth in the state of Florida, The Bahamas, and internationally.

As any project manager will tell you, success does not come without failures. This includes spiritually-based projects as well. An awards show of the magnitude in which SFGMA holds has many different components that need to come together for an excellent finished product. There are venues to be secured, hotel rooms to be blocked, and artists to be booked. Many things can go wrong in this phase of the process. Venues can already be secured by other events. Hotel rooms can be sold out. Artist’s availability may become an issue. An organizations organization skills can remedy all of these problems, and based on the success of the 2010 SFGMA Show, that’s exactly what happened. The show was a success, with several groups from the South Florida area receiving awards for the following categories: Best Gospel Male; Best Gospel Female; Best New Group; Best Gospel Hip Hop Artist; Best Praise and Worship; Minister of Music of the Year; Best Contemporary Gospel Artist, and more. 

Hendrix and the SFGMA staff have once again brought a project from brainstorming to successful finished product.