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.
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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.
If you want this year at your school to look different from last year, this webinar gives you a practical plan for goals, leadership, and staff training you can start on before January hits.
- Your plan starts with you. Your habits and mindset come first. Without them, the rest of the plan won’t stick.
- What gets measured gets better. Tracking seven key stats every month shows you what’s working and what isn’t.
- Small improvements add up. A couple more enrollments and a slightly lower quit rate each month make for a very different year.
- Retention starts with reconnecting. Sitting down with every student and family early in the year is one of the biggest retention boosts you have.
- Prep time makes primetime work. The hours before classes start are where your best-run schools get ahead.
- The steps you want to skip matter most. Write down your commitments, share them with someone you trust, and don’t quit.
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