How Karate Instructors Can Motivate Students In Three Easy Steps
If youve been a karate instructor for any length of time you will no doubt know that your success in retaining your students comes down to one key factor keeping your students highly motivated to continue training. How do you do this while still maintaining your focus on delivering a high quality program?
The majority of karate clubs have a wide range of students usually starting at around age 4 and going all the way up to 74 or older. Often within this student base there are the highly-motivated and gung-ho students who would practice running up a wall backwards if you told them it would help give them the edge over their fellow club members.
Then there are hobbyists who approach their training from a slightly more balanced perspective. Generally this group of students practice pretty hard and come to class regularly but karate is not the number one item on their daily to-do list.
The final group of students is made up of those who say they want to get their black belt but are strangers to the concept of doing the hard work to get there.
So how do you motivate this diverse set...