Planning for the New Year with Dave Kovar: Set Your School Up for Its Best Year Yet
With nearly 50 years of experience as a successful school owner, instructor, and mentor to martial arts professionals around the world, Dave Kovar knows the plan you make before January decides how your whole year goes.
In this webinar, he’ll walk through his Annual School Improvement Plan, 20 steps for heading into the new year with purpose. He’ll start with your own habits and mindset, then cover reviewing last year and tracking the seven stats that matter most, setting statistical, financial, and personal goals, and seeing your facility through a first-time visitor’s eyes.
From there, he’ll move to reconnecting with every student and family, running staff reviews and weekly meetings, mapping out your curriculum and calendar, and making real use of the hours before classes start. Then he’ll show you how to commit to the steps you’re most likely to skip, giving you a complete plan for making this your school’s best year yet.
Join us at 10 am PST on October 20 for another great free session! We'll cover:
- Start with you. Why Dave’s plan begins with your own daily habits (rest, exercise, personal development, and finances) and the belief that your best years are still ahead of you.
- Know your numbers. The seven stats every school should track monthly: active count, inquiries, students on trial, new enrollments, quit rate, gross revenue, and average revenue per student. Plus how to dig deeper by inquiry source and belt rank.
- Set goals that connect. How to turn last year’s results into statistical, financial, and personal goals, and how a few small monthly improvements add up over a full year.
- See your school like a first-time visitor. Dave’s fresh-eyes facility walkthrough, plus clearing out clutter and replacing worn equipment before it makes your school look tired.
- Reconnect with your students and your team. Progress checks with every student and family by the end of the first quarter, one-on-one staff reviews, and weekly staff meetings that keep everyone on the same page.
- Plan the year before it starts. Breaking your curriculum into cycles, getting promotions, events, and camps on the calendar now, and using prep time so your classes and your business both run better.
- Turn the plan into action. How to spot the steps you’re most likely to skip, why those are often the ones you need most, and how to build accountability that lasts all year.
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Hanshi Dave Kovar
Hanshi Dave Kovar has been a prolific author and has produced countless video, online, and written series on curriculum, teaching, business systems, and more. His methods have been shared through a long list of industry organizations. He founded ProMAC, the Professional Martial Arts College, to help share a deeper level of what he’s learned about running a successful martial arts business with school owners around the globe. In 2010, he was honored to be named the recipient of the Martial Arts Industry Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Clearly, his impact in the industry has been widely felt through the last four decades.
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