Author: Tom Bugdorf

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G y m n e t S p o r t s L e a r n I n g L I b r a r y
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Your Job Performance Matters - The gym is a business. This is not a community center with all of the bills paid by community tax money. This is a serious business and usually the owner has a lot of money invested. Your job performance matters. Keeping the kids coming back from session to session is your most important part of your job. Yes, teaching forward rolls is important but the satisfaction of the kids and their parents is absolutely vital to them coming back. Your job performance matters.
Training - You are a perfect teacher? With all of the knowledge? There is little room for improvement? Few, if any, teachers can say yes to those statements. So we all need to train to improve and be better educators and employees. We need to read. We need to attend hands on training. We need to listen. Why be “pretty good?” If you were owner of the gym would you want your staff to be eager to train? Eager to have them look at their performance and make adjustments?
Self Management - If you were the owner, would you want a full staff of people who managed themselves? They accepted a job and a deadline for that job and they made sure they did a terrific job and finished ahead of schedule. That makes the business do better. Do you mange yourself very well? Do you need others to remind you of deadlines? Do you need to be reminded to do the job according to the instructions?
More Than The Minimum - There seems to be a trend lately that people do the bare minimum. What happened to doing more than what is expected? To impress the bosses that you went above and beyond? Even with the kids we train, they seem to have been taught to do 4 when their coaches and parents and teachers said to do 4. What happened to 6? Or even double? Is that a good trait to teach young children? “Go rake the leaves in the back yard.” And the child rakes the front too? That would be shocking.
Do you do the bare minimum? Do you do a job with the thought of “what would make my boss happy?” Doing more gets you places. AND, it makes you feel better to do more than what was expected. If we all did more, everything would be better.
Making Things Better For The Bosses - How much time do you think the bosses at the gym spend on managing the staff? The less they have to manage people the more time they will have doing other things around the gym. If everyone manages themselves and everyone does more than is expected of them, everyone benefits. The gym benefits. The customers benefit.
Author: Tom Burgdorf
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