Posts Tagged ‘Burnout’

Efficiency, Sanity, And Profitability Go Hand In Hand

Your profitability and sanity rely on how efficiently your school is run. Setting up your school to be low-stress early on is a sure way to maintain both.

Running a martial arts school can easily become a high-stress nightmare for new instructors. At first when you just have a few students, it’s a piece of cake. However, once you start growing beyond a few dozen students the enormity of managing a school can sneak up on you, until one day you wake up and realize, “I have no life outside my school!”

Well, running a high-stress school is a quick path to instructor/owner burnout, and a good way to ruin your business. Stress and fatigue leads to burnout, burnout leads to complacency, and complacency will soon lead to an empty floor.

I’d like to help you avoid all that. Here’s how to avoid burnout by setting your school up to be low maintenance from the very beginning. Read the rest of this entry »

January and February are great months to enroll adult students, if you capitalize on everyone’s motivation to lose weight and get in shape in the New Year. But what if you don’t offer fitness classes? Don’t let that stop you… EVERY MARTIAL ARTS CLASS IS A FITNESS CLASS! But, for January and February, you are going to spend some extra time focusing on fitness in classes. Now, if your classes are already vigorous, heart-pounding, sweat drenching workouts… that’s great! If not, then here are some ideas to give Read the rest of this entry »