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Keeping Adult Students Interested Isn’t Easy, But It Is Possible…

How do you keep adults in class? Here are a few ideas...

As hard as it is for some schools to attract adult students, you’d think they’d put more effort into keeping them around.

Even so, adult retention presents a real issue to school owners across the spectrum of styles and markets.

Adults seem to have ten times the distractions of children, and they don’t have parents paying for their lessons who make them go to class twice a week.

Work, family, dating, finishing a degree… these are just a few examples of things that can distract adult students and that may be competing with you for their attention.

So, how do you keep adults attending class?

I don’t have the 110% solution to that issue, but I can offer some helpful suggestions that may help boost your adult retention. Here are a few simple strategies you can use that may help increase your adult enrollment and boost your adult class attendance.
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Developing better time management skills will allow you to use your time more effectively – “leveraging” your time, if you will. This in turn will make you more productive, and can definitely have a positive impact on your income.

Mentally go through everything you did yesterday. How much time did you spend doing things that have no impact whatsoever on improving your quality of life?:

* Daydreaming
* Worrying
* Engaging in unimportant conversations
* Spending time with people you really don’t care for – aka, “energy takers”
* Letting others waste your time
* Starting projects, getting distracted, then starting them over again
* Reading frivolous and unimportant magazine or news articles
* Watching TV (for some, the biggest time thief – in my opinion, it’s also the main reason for the “dumbing down” of America…)

It can be pretty frightening when you think about how much time you actually waste in a day. Now, think about how much more efficient you would be, and how much more quality, unadulterated free time you would have if you managed your time better.

Instead of working extra hours in the studio, you might be out playing at the park, relaxing at the pool, going to see a movie with your friends and loved ones, and doing other fun stuff.

So, let’s work on some time management skills to see how to increase your productivity. The first step is to set priorities. Here’s how: Read the rest of this entry »