Are Your Instructors Making or Breaking Your Studio Brand?

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Are Your Instructors Making or Breaking Your Studio Brand?

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While your software is key to the functionality of your business, your studio brand is ultimately based on one thing: your instructors. To build a successful studio, you need a team of talented, thoroughly-loved professionals to support your business. The teachers you hire will determine whether your business makes it or not. Hiring the wrong instructors could lose you business faster than you can say “Namaste”. 

So how do you find the right teachers for your studio and brand? How do you weed out the potentially troublesome candidates that could cost you business? Here are some tips to help guide you in the hiring process. 

Decide What You Need Out of a Fitness Instructor 

You’re not going to know what a “good” instructor is until you define it explicitly yourself. If you have already hired staff for your studio, then identifying the qualities you seek in new hires will be easier because you have instructors to reference against. However, if you’re getting to hire your first instructor, you’re going to need to be thoughtful about what you’re looking for before you start the hiring process. 

Simply considering whether a candidate has the necessary skills and certifications for your studio is not going to cut it when you’re trying to build your specific brand. It’s 2018–– to build a successful business, entrepreneurs have realized you need a successful company culture to support the growth of that business. You need to look at an instructor’s personality, values, and strengths to be sure that they are a good fit for your company. You want staff who back your mission because they hold similar values to yours. You want staff that vibes well with you, your other staff people, and your customers.

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Identify What Your Students Need From a Fitness Instructor

Every instructor you hire should not only meet your personal and company culture criteria, but they should also fit the needs of your clientele. Who is your target demographic and what do they want out of yoga? What strengths could a new hire bring to your studio that you or your current staff might not have? Ultimately, you want a studio team made up of instructors of varying strengths and exude what will get your ideal customer through the door.

For yoga studios, the following are some gold standard traits to look for in your new hires:

Knowledge

Do your students want to have perfect form and understand all the mechanics of what they’re doing? A knowledgeable instructor can fulfill that desire for your students by understanding and clearly communicating how to have proper form, the Sanskrit names for all the poses, and the muscle groups that each pose activates. This kind of instructor guides each student’s technique in the way that best suits that student. And a knowledgeable instructor is always learning themselves. A candidate that is eager to learn is an instructor worth strongly considering.

Patience

Yoga is one of the most accessible and self-reflective fitness practices out there, but there’s a definite learning curve for beginners. Some skills, flexibility, in particular, can take a while to develop. An instructor with patience understands each student’s current capabilities and doesn’t make them feel self-conscious for lacking experience. This instructor is fantastic at providing modifications to poses and celebrates the wins of students even when improvements are slight. A patient teacher is definitely one you want in your studio because they encourage beginners to stick around and keep coming to class even when it gets tough. This is the kind of candidate you want to hire to teach your beginner classes.

Intensity/Enthusiasm

Some people practice yoga to push themselves physically and grow in their capabilities. This type of student needs an instructor to match their intensity–– and while yoga is meant to be a relaxing and serene practice, it can definitely challenge you and make you sweat. For the ambitious student, they need an instructor who can help challenge them and provide safe guidance. This teacher is the type who’s able to demonstrate difficult poses themselves and have a lot of experience with yoga as their craft. The intense and enthusiastic instructor is the one you want to hire to teach your more difficult classes.

Conclusion

The relationships your instructors form with your clients are what will fuel the success of your business. Make sure you hire people that not only you can trust, but your clients can fully depend on too. When your instructors establish that trust with your clients, that’s when your business spreads like wildfire.

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