The past few years have transformed the landscape of staffing within the boutique space. Virtual fitness provided new avenues for instructors to forge independent paths outside of brick and mortar spaces, and it became more challenging to provide adequate compensation to entice individuals into managerial roles. But with dramatic change often grows new opportunities. This module covers new and emerging ways that studios can look at recruiting.

Topics Covered:

• Defining the values & culture you convey to future employees
• Creating an employee brand and value prop
• Defining the role you want now – employee avatar
• Always be recruiting – job postings that stands out
• Looking under rocks – finding staff in untapped places

Even the best and most experienced fitness studio employees need to be onboarded and trained within the scope of a studio’s unique practices and processes. This module covers the most effective tools for effective onboarding and training.

Topics Covered:

• Objectives and principles for your fitness studio
• How to bring your studio’s objectives and principles values to life
• Creating required staff onboarding tools & checklists

Studios go through lengthy processes to recruit and onboard the best staff members, but often the emphasis stops there, with some studios disregarding the importance of developing their staff members and nurturing their potential. In this module, we’ll introduce you to the concept of a staff and development plan and how you can implement one in your studio.

Topics Covered:

• Establishing growth paths
• Training & development days
• Effective team building
• Getting team members involved in the success of the business

This module will cover effective ways to set goals for different employees within the business, how to productively review progress, and create visibility into the process that will encourage and motivate.

Topics Covered:

• Staying connected with your team
• Creating transparency into the successes and failures of the business
• Importance of staff KPIs
• Establishing career advancement goals for different team members
• Frequency builds competency-performance enableme