Managing Conflicting Goals

When you finally open your own martial arts school, the control factor continues to be an influence. It is important to make follow-up calls to people who have inquired about your school but never joined.  In order to make these important calls, you need to get...

JOB DESCRIPTION: Martial Arts Instructor

REPORTS TO: CHIEF INSTRUCTOR OR SCHOOL MANAGER POSITION PURPOSE To implement the missions and the goals of this school through the teaching of martial arts. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Guides students and prospective students through the various levels of curriculum...

Launch Your BBC In Three Steps

I suggest you have your first color belt exam for a new student within the first six weeks. Get color around a student’s waist as soon as you can, so they can feel that they have made some progress. I use the gold belt as the first belt instead of yellow. Yellow is...

How to Determine Your Retention

In consulting with school owners for more than a decade, I can pretty much predict how the initial conversations will go. I ask how many students the client wants and then how many he currently has. When he gives me his current student count (usually higher than it...