Alrighty, so it's time to talk about training teaching staff for your dojo. 

Piece of cake, right? I mean, all you have to do is find someone who is a black belt, and then BAM! instant instructor.

Er... not quite.

Sure, you can hire someone from outside your dojo like we talked about earlier in this email series, and you might even be able to find a qualified black belt in your style (if you teach one of the more popular styles, that is).

Yet, no one - and I mean NO ONE - ever starts teaching the martial arts entirely knowing what they're doing or what they're getting themselves into.

Look, you probably take what you do every single day for granted, but trust me it's no cake walk to learn how to do what we do. Whether you're teaching adults or teaching kids, walking that fine line between considerate coach and disciplined instructor...

...well, it's really an art unto itself.

And the question is, how do you impart what you need your instructors to know to someone who hasn't come up through the ranks under you?

For that matter, how do you impart those additional skills and that certain attitude to someone who HAS some up through the ranks with you?

Well, that's going to be our topic of discussion for the remainder of this week, and probably well into next week. Since your teaching staff also has to pull double duty (even if they're part-time) we're going to spend a bit more time discussing how to train them than we did on training office staff. 

See, they have to know how to do a lot of the office stuff too, in order to help out when things get busy. And if you're doing everything I advise with regards to marketing and sales, things WILL get busy in your school.

Which means you're going to need staff members who are flexible enough to pick up the slack.

So stay tuned over the next week or so as I take you through the process of breaking in a new instructor trainee. Even if you've gone through the process before I promise that it'll still be worth your time, if only to see a different approach to training new teaching staff members.