| Having good Karate lesson plans can make or break | | | | question....why? |
| a Dojo. You can see it all around you - Dojo's closing | | | | The answer was not the one that I was expecting. |
| left and right, why? Sure, the economy is partially to | | | | This student wasn't quitting because they didn't have |
| blame. But the real reason is because they cannot | | | | the money to pay for classes or because their |
| keep the interest of the students they do have. I | | | | schedule suddenly got too busy. It was because our |
| know because I was in this predicament not too long | | | | classes were boring and she didn't feel challenged and |
| ago. | | | | she felt her money was better spent finding another |
| I worked my way up the ranks and turned my love | | | | class. |
| of Karate into a full time business. I opened my | | | | I was floored...but she was right...taking a good hard |
| Karate Dojo and immediately began gaining students. | | | | look at the classes they were repetitive and dull. The |
| Call it karma, but it seemed that fate was on my | | | | Karate lesson plans we were implementing weren't |
| side. As my business grew, I began to hire instructors | | | | working. Our students weren't enjoying themselves in |
| to help teach classes. But only a year into the | | | | classes and this is why my drop-out rate was so high! |
| business did things begin to go wrong. | | | | I had to do something...I had to change our drills...but |
| I began to lose students...one here...one there...but I | | | | how? |
| was losing students at a rate faster than I could | | | | Now, one of my friends owned his own Dojo. His |
| replace them. I started to lose money and found | | | | drop out rate was low and he seemed to be doing |
| myself having to fire some of my Karate instructors | | | | really well. His classes were always full and I found |
| to cut the budget. Why was this happening to me? | | | | that he was hiring new instructors to keep up with |
| As fate would have it, that same day I had a | | | | the demand. I called him up and I asked him, "How |
| student call up to say they were quitting. So I | | | | are you doing this?" His answer? |
| mustered up the courage and asked the | | | | |