156 – Martial Arts Staff Development: How to Build a High-Performing Instructor Team

Following up on Episode 155, Hakan Manav shares martial arts staff development strategies to build a high-performing team - giving you the freedom to scale and grow.IN THIS EPISODE:• How to transition from solo instructor to building a scalable team• The first hire that can make or break your martial arts school's growth• Why letting go is essential for business expansion and instructor success• A proven framework for training and promoting instructors from within• How to turn parents and adult students into valuable team members• And more INVITATION: If you’d like more info about working with me in and Hakan in Partners Mentor, Just message me ‘Mentor’ on Facebook and I’ll send the details over in a doc (no sales call required) Send Message On Personal Profile >TRANSCRIPTIONGeorge: Hey there, it's George Fourie. Welcome to another Martial Arts Media™ Business Podcast. So, this week I've got Hakan back on the call. Good day Hakan.Hakan: Hey George.George: In the previous episode 155 and you can check that out if you haven't, martialartsmedia.com/155. We spoke about the four obstacles that Hakan and his family overcame over the last 43 years to build their 1800 student strong academy.And so this week we thought we would dive deeper into these obstacles. Thanks for jumping on again, Hakan.Hakan: Pleasure to be here. Thank youGeorge: We spoke a little bit about the product. We spoke about staff development, personal leadership. Let's loop into staff development for this call. Let's just dive a bit deeper and look at the things to watch out for. Why should we even be doing it? Which direction to take when scaling your school? Hakan: Absolutely. Once the product is nailed and you've got a great thing people are coming back for in terms of the actual martial art that you're teaching. The next step we want to think about is how we can deliver this at scale. For a number of reasons? First of all, we love what we do. But there are days that we might feel ill or we might want to go on holiday, or we're going to be away for various reasons. So you need the classes to be running at the same acceptable standard.So we've got those obvious reasons, but I want to touch on a personal experience that we went through as an academy. I'm going to say about 25 years ago now.