Wednesday Mar 20, 2019
This 1 Thing Can Help Get Freedom in Your MA School
Tips in Managing and Growing Your Staff In Your Martial Arts School
Most (if not all) successful business owners have the best and most effective team along with their side.
Today, Gordon gives us incredible tips on how to build, manage, and grow the team/staff for business owners. Gordon, himself, has led a great team in his businesses. The beautiful thing is despite his team being small, he and his staff have managed to stay on track and head on in the right direction of their martial arts school’s vision. Gordon emphasises that allying the right team behind you can give you the freedom you need in your business. Discover today, how you can manage your staff effectively and teach them to get the best results for your business without compromising each individual’s growth.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Gordon manages a team of 10-15 people in both his businesses, business mastery and martial arts school. He has built this fantastic team, and it takes a long time to develop that. He has also made mistakes with them, but that’s part of the learning.
- It’s such a big help if the team can help you with the business’ operations (e.g. marketing, sales, etc.). You focus more on your passion and objective which is teaching martial arts to more people.
- Build a team and the infrastructure that will let your business’ status stable and secure even if you step back from it. This gives you the freedom to enjoy your lifestyle or strengthen your visions.
- Top tip: Make your members do the role that they love, and don’t ever overwork them.
- As the business owner, you should know what their skill set is. You can make assessments every 3 months. Sometimes, what they think their skill set is, is not necessarily what their skill set is.
- Tips in managing and growing your staff:
- Motivate and inspire your staff.
- Don’t tell them what to do, teach and guide them to get the results that you want. Understand their style of learning.
- Empathise with your staff. You see them every day, so it’s better to know and understand them. Respect their values, opinions, choices, etc.
- Be adaptable as a leader.
- Find out what they want.
- Crate accountability for your staff.
- Recognise how valuable they are.
BEST MOMENTS
- “Building a team is the one thing that will give you freedom above everything else.”
- “Building a business, as in like you are doing it, is okay. Building the staff team is a completely different piece altogether.”
- “You know from the action that they take, from the work they do, and from the results they give you, how good they are.”
- “Being a great manager is not telling them what to do, it’s managing their expectations… it’s managing them as people – nurturing them, making sure they’re on point.”
- “Step into people’s model world without judgment.”
- “Recognition is so important when you want to build up your team.”
ABOUT THE HOST
Gordon Burcham is a best-selling author, 3 x World martial arts champion and award-winning Martial arts school owner. He has helped 1000s of Martial arts schools grow and has over 20 years of experience running martial arts schools.
Gordon has been training, teaching, and working in the Martial Arts industry for nearly twenty-five years. After earning his first black belt, he went on to win three consecutive World Titles against guys half his age. In 1998, in the midst of his competitive career, he launched his own dojo which still runs today. After retiring from the competitions, he decided to focus more on helping others in the MA business while still running his club.
Burcham has trained with industry giants like Alfie Lewis and developed his street-smart business attitude working with top business coaches. He is now considered one of the foremost authorities on peak performance in the business side of the MA industry. He has proven his techniques work through the transformation in his own personal life, athletic career, and business as well as those of his coaching clients. Burcham teaches that success is the result of forming good habits and moving forward.
He is a real-life success story going from bullied school kid to earning multiple world titles, and his MA school is currently one of the most successful in the UK. Gordon loves self-development and helping others, enjoys travel and family time. He is now learning how to fly planes and pursuing a speaking career!
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