Subject: Walking The Talk In Your Dojo, Part X
Walking The Talk In Your Dojo, Part X
June 16th, 2016 at 8:23 am CDTFriend, So what in the heck is a "service-based community education program? It's a term I coined that's a fancy of way of saying you're teaching free classes in your local community. Read on to find out why I started doing teaching free classes, and ...
Walking The Talk In Your Dojo, Part IX
June 15th, 2016 at 7:21 am CDTFriend, If you want to have a successful scholarship program that doesn't result in you getting screwed, and that really and truly helps people who need it, you need to set it up properly. As I mentioned yesterday, just giving away memberships to any ...
Walking The Talk In Your Dojo, Part VIII
June 14th, 2016 at 6:54 am CDTFriend, It's time to talk about scholarships. Not college scholarships, but scholarships for tuition at your dojo. So, why in the heck would you want to offer scholarships at your school? Here are a few very good reasons: The Right Thing to Do I don ...
Walking The Talk In Your Dojo, Part VII
June 13th, 2016 at 8:08 am CDTFriend, So last week we looked at different ways you can get involved in your local community with charity and fundraiser events. And, we looked at doing these events in your school, versus getting out and networking to get your dojo involved in even ...
How to Hire and Train Employees for Your Dojo...
June 11th, 2016 at 2:27 pm CDTFriend, Hey folks, just wanted to let you know that I've completely revised and updated my book on hiring and training martial art school staff and leadership team members: http://amzn.to/1XOjbwE Although Amazon is still showing that the book is aro ...
Interesting Developments At Gracie University...
June 10th, 2016 at 7:09 am CDTFriend, This is a really interesting video put out by the Gracie Breakdown guys (Ryron and Rener, along with their uncle Rickson and Pedro Sauer) about changes they're implementing at Gracie U. http://youtu.be/keRaWLVOuPQ Regardless of your opinions ...
Walking The Talk In Your Dojo, Part VI
June 9th, 2016 at 7:37 am CDTFriend, After you've done a few fundraisers or food drives in your dojo, you're going to want to get out in the community at large to help with community charity efforts. The reason for this is two-fold:You're not going to meet anyone or make any con ...
Walking The Talk In Your Dojo, Part V
June 8th, 2016 at 7:28 am CDTFriend, So we've been discussing how to "walk the talk" in your dojo. Teaching character education lessons is one way to do so, which we've already discussed. But this week we're talking about community service and volunteering. Yesterday I provided ...
Walking The Talk In Your Dojo, Part IV
June 7th, 2016 at 7:50 am CDTFriend, Community service -- it's not just something a judge gives movie stars and politicians in lieu of jail time. No, for us it's a way to get out from behind our computer monitors and off the mats, to do some good in the local community at large. ...
Walking The Talk In Your Dojo, Part III
June 6th, 2016 at 9:10 am CDTFriend, So last week we started talking about walking the talk in your dojo. In other words, actually living up to all the things we martial art schools talk about in our ads. Things like honor, integrity, perseverance, courtesy, and so on. The idea ...