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โYou know what separates professional athletes from amateurs?โโโIt's not just โ talent.It's not just work ethic.It's Game Film review.โโโAnd whether you throw touchdown passes on Sunday, or teach 8 year olds how to kick Monday - Friday, this edition of the Black Belt Business newsletter is for yo...
I'm lucky enough to have watched my brother's martial arts organization grow to 60+ full-time martial arts instructors and 200+ part-timers.
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And here's the 3 lessons i've learned over the last 13 years about building a team of reliable instructors for your martial arts school that doesn't depen...
โItโs Friday, which means weโre talking Team Building in our 3 min newsletter.ย โโ___Have you ever hesitated to share your schoolโs business stats with your team?โโโYouโre not alone.โโย Many school owners are scared to reveal numbers like new student enrollments, quit rates, active student counts, ...
โIf you run a martial arts school, and you want to either grow your team of instructors, or you want to create a better, well functioning team that works together like a well oiled machine, this newsletter post is for you.ย โโWhether you have a team of homegrown instructors, or people you have rec...
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When it comes to social media, everyone likes to share their wins.ย
This isnโt that kind of post.ย
I get it, you share the wedding, never the divorce. You share losing weight, but never when you gain it back.ย
Nobody wants to be a โdowner.โ
But this post is going to be different.ย
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I love teaching martial arts, and thatโs probably the same reason why you started your school.ย โโBut what happens if you get hurt, get sick, or get abducted by space aliens.ย โโCan your school survive without you? Will you still be able to support your family?ย โโIf you want your school to thrive ...
โAll teachers should know about thisโฆย โโMost instructors default to one or two teaching styles: they say what to do (auditory), or show what to do (visual). But when you're teaching a full class, that leaves a lot of students hanging. Humans learn three ways: hearing, seeing, and doing, โ thatโs ...
Letโs talk about a habit thatโs quietly slowing down your studentsโ progressโฆ
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Generic praise.
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If your instructors walk around class tossing out โGood jobsโ and โawesomesโย like theyโre giving away free samples of bourbon chicken at the mall, youโve got a problem.
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I get it. We want to be en...
If you want to build a championship team at your martial arts school, you need to get real good at spotting red flags in the hiring process.
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Hiring the wrong instructor doesnโt just cost you money.It costs you your time, your culture, and sometimes even your reputation.
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Here are the 4 red fla...
Itโs Friday! So today weโre talking about team building.ย
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If youโre a solo operator and you like it that way, more power to you.
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But if youโre training a team of instructors because you donโt want to be the only person holding up your business like Atlasโฆ this one's for you.
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Here's the trut...
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โThat's Not My Jobโ Will Kill Your School Culture
Thereโs one sentence I never want to hear from a martial arts school team member:
โThatโs not my responsibility.โ
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Youโre not Amazon. Youโre not Chase Bank. Youโre a small business. A dojo.
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And in this business? Everything is everyoneโs respo...
No one talks about this publicly, but here I go...ย
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Most martial arts school owners dream of building a stacked team.
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A team where you can snap your fingers and boom,ย someone steps in on the mat, leads the class like a pro, and keeps the school humming.
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Thatโs what we call bench strength.
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