Organize your employee files and send the Dept of Labor and IRS packing when they come to double check your paperwork Let’s talk about staff paperwork. Yes, I can hear you groaning in the background. Paperwork is no fun. I finally got serious about my employee files the day I got a letter from the […]
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If your program isn’t filling up as much or as quickly as you want, it may be time to revisit your customer profile. Understanding your customer needs will help you shape your program and your messaging. This way, you can give your customers what they want. And your customers will learn to rely on you […]
Get a free home practice booklet to help grow your business! Get Your Students to Practice At Home Getting your gymnastics students to practice at home… easier said that done, right? That’s why we created the “Home Practice Skills” booklet. Home Practice Skills contains simple exercises and drills that your gymnastics students can do right […]
How do trademarks protect my business?
Why I decided to trademark my business nameTM A few years ago, I took a specialty business course at LaGuardia College in Queens, NY. It was a specialty course, designed to give small business owners an overview of how to manage each aspect of their business. Over the course of the semester, I learned the importance […]
Don’t Mess with the IRS I’ve learnt the hard way that it’s “Best not to Mess with the IRS!” After more than one tax issue, and tired of the exhaustion from last minute cramming, I finally came to the realization that I needed to be proactive and organized with my tax planning. Recently, I’ve started reviewing […]
Creating Values that Unify your Team
A company’s values reflect the essence of a company’s culture and identity. Our values support the vision and directions that the company follows. They should be the driving values and beliefs that are the reasons why you chose to do what you do. Why is it so important to put your company values down on paper […]
Candlesticks to Build Your Core
Skill of the week is a little section about introducing at-home exercises for your athlete. At our gym we do a skill of the week every week with our recreational classes so we can introduce fitness in a fun way also so that we can take the time to breakdown the technique for conditioning exercises […]
Introducing the Cartwheel-a-Gator!
Cartwheel-a-gator is a visual tool to teach kids how to cartwheel. We encountered several struggles when teaching cartwheels so we created the gator as a teaching aid. Two recurring issues when teaching a cartwheel is teaching the difference between left and right sided cartwheels and getting kids to turn their hands sideways. Our preschool students kept […]
As educators, sometimes students are the easiest part of class management. Don’t get me wrong… managing students is no simple feat. However, managing disruptive parents is much more complicated. We went through a multi-step process to get parents to stop disrupting class. After one month of implementation, we were able to greatly reduce the number […]