Peter Sage is a well-known international serial entrepreneur with twenty-five years of experience in growing fast-paced enterprises. During that time he launched, operated and brought to success over a dozen companies. He served as the Chairman of the London YES Group (the largest personal development organization in Europe) and currently serves on the Entrepreneurship Advisory Board for INSEAD – a global top-five business school and one of the world leaders in the field of entrepreneurshipeducation. Peter is also an advisor to the Hungarian Government on their creative think tank policies. His current passion is to focus more on sharing his insights, wisdom, lessons and mistakes with others. He is also involved in working bringing to fruition a clean energy solar project in India, where his focus is on providing clean energy to 250,000 families in Rajasthan.

In today's very special podcast throwback, we are bringing you the one and only Marci Lock - and her Mindset strategies couldn't be more perfect for the challenges you are currently overcoming in business.

Marci joined our expert panel at the Dance Teachers Unite event to share her very real and empowering strategies to get your mindset in order and really start taking control of your goals, success and your life.

The last 7 days have been a week like no other we have experienced..

That’s why we're sharing this FREE workshop for studio owners globally today.

In this 90 minute free Studio Rise workshop we’ll be sharing with you:

▪️What you need to focus on during this time to ensure the impact is minimal to your business.
▪️Duty of care strategies focused on your team and customers.
▪️How to effectively communicate with your parents and students at this time that promotes peace not panic.
▪️Actionable tips for managing cash-flow and expenses.
▪️Immediate options for setting up a high-functioning virtual workplace and team.
▪️Options for revenue streams that don’t involve students coming into the studio - online classes and how to make them work.
▪️How to ensure your studio makes it through to the light at the end of the tunnel (which will happen it’s just going to take some time).

Over the coming weeks we are delighted to be sharing with you a rare opportunity to be a ‘fly on the wall’ during Clint’s one-on-one coaching sessions with our Inner Circle members.

During this special series of ‘Dance Studio Doctor’, join Clint as he workshops innovative ideas and solutions around student attraction and retention, finances, building your dream team, expanding your dance studio empire, reigniting your passion for business and so much more.

Clint knows exactly what it's like to run a dance studio and face all of the team challenges that you're currently battling. In today’s special episode, he shares the secret to building a truly invested team who treat the studio like their own, resulting in a profitable and systemized business that most high-level CEOs would envy.

There are 3 big leadership challenges that consistently come up for studio owners regardless of whether they have been in business for one year or ten:

1/ I don’t know how to get my team as invested and committed to the studio as I would like.
This may be when they show up 5 minutes before class, they call in sick with hardly any notice or they are always late delivering their music or class plans. Their communication is inconsistent and you feel like you’re banging your head against a wall every week when you need to remind them to mark their class rolls or submit their timesheet. It seems like ‘just a job’ to them.

2/ My teachers aren’t getting the results I expect and I don’t know what to do or say.
Parents may be commenting that the class is too easy, their child is unmotivated or they aren’t being challenged by your teachers. Or perhaps you have walked into their class and wondered why they are sitting on a chair while teaching. They aren’t retaining students or converting trials into enrollments as much as you would like. You know they are a great teacher - it’s why you hired them - but you need them to step up.

3/ I’m too close to my teachers, and it’s impossible to give them feedback without them taking it personally.
They are your Facebook friends and you do love spending time with them, so how can you possibly tell them that their personality is not fitting with your studio’s values and culture? And how can you set boundaries for them on social media when they are adults? You’re probably losing sleep over it and still avoiding the confrontation that needs to happen.

If any of these sound familiar to you, then make sure to listen to this week's podcast, and download our free Dance Studio Culture Checklist at dsoa.com/culture-checklist

Stepping up as a "boss" in your business can be a hard pill to swallow at times, and after all - running a dance studio certainly isn't like every other business. Today's live event special is all about empowering you to be the leader that you (and your studio) deserve.

Joins Clint today for this Live Event sneak peek where he talks about one the most important topics there is when it comes to business and studios: Leadership.

Clint's experiences have shown him over and over again how leading from one’s values has the power to affect long-term meaningful change, and we can’t wait to share these gold insights with you today!