Avoid This Common Mistake When Training Your Instructors

Want your instructors to improve?

Stop throwing 15 pieces of feedback at them at once.

Too many school owners say stuff like:

“I told them what to fix... why aren’t they doing it?”

Imagine this:
You’re a white belt in Jiu Jitsu. You’re learning a rear naked choke for the first time. 

Your instructor bombards you with a million details all at once: wrap the hips, apply downward pressure, line up your elbow with the chin, hide your fingers, breathe, use your hooks, compress the chest, tell your opponent that you are their daddy (ok-maybe not this one).

If you tried to do this all at once, you wouldn’t retain ANY of it.

Now here’s the punchline:
It takes YEARS to master the rear naked choke.

So why do we expect our instructors to instantly “get it” after a 3-minute conversation?

If you want your instructors to improve fast, give them ONE piece of feedback at a time.

Not five. Not even two.

Just ONE.

Then drill it with them until they’re 90% proficient. Until you don’t need to remind them anymore. Until it becomes part of their default instruction.

THEN you move on to the next layer.

If you give too much feedback at once:

• They’ll forget it.
  
  

• You’ll think they’re lazy or incompetent.
  
  

• You’ll get frustrated.
  
  

• They’ll feel overwhelmed and start second-guessing everything.
  
  

And that kills confidence, which kills classroom energy.

Instead, slow it down.

Refine one behavior at a time.

That’s how you build a team of confident, skilled instructors who actually deliver high-quality classes that create black belts you’re proud of.

ACTION STEP: Pick one instructor this week. Give them just one thing to work on. Help them drill it. Then follow up next week to check progress. That’s how a team grows.