This document discusses various ways to keep staff motivated at a gymnastics facility. It provides tips for developing positive attitudes, listening to staff input, providing regular education and feedback, empowering staff through knowledge, recognizing top performers, and fostering an environment of gratitude. Regular meetings, surveys, and roundtable discussions are recommended to engage staff and get their perspectives. The overall message is that staff will mirror the attitudes of management, so it is important to create a supportive culture focused on continuous learning and improvement.
2. People don’t care
how much you know
until they know how
Listen and respond
Do you need anything
special for set up?
• Did your kids start
school?
• Did you have fun at your
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3. Attitude is
Everything!
Smiles are
Contagious!
Your Staff
will become
a mirror of
YOU!
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5. What is your core
philosophy, mission
To Teach
Gymnastics
through
Loving Discipline
while serving and
enriching the lives
of others.
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6. Discipline: An organized plan of attack
to reach a goal.
Direction with space for
personality, individualism,
creativity but consistent
guidelines & direction for each
program.
• Weekly planning for preschool and classroom.
*Curriculum by Level plus bi monthly themes
(Recreational)
• Monthly lesson plans for all levels of team with
guidelines for content, tumble talk, evals
(Competitive Teams)
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8. Get Their
Input…
• Round Tables at staff meetings
• Surveys as needed
• Department Meetings
regular basis, weekly, monthly,
per term
Be Consistent, Prompt and
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9. EXAMPLE OF
ROUND TABLES
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3
Staff Uniforms Staff Office Staff Social Events
Group 4 Group 5 Group 6
Doc Ali Staff Evals Leadership
“disciplinary actions”
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10. Regular Meetings
• Weekly Director’s Meeting
• Weekly Team Meeting
• Term Staff Meeting
• Monthly Parent Meeting
• Department Meetings as needed
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11. • Cincinnati Gymnastics Director’s Meeting Agenda
• Week #_______ Date _______
• “What you think about you bring about!”
• Education:
• Term Organization:
• This weekend activities:
• Birthdays Open Gym Special events
• Next weekend activities:
• Birthdays Open Gym Special events
• Mini Camp Week #_______ Theme_______
• Snack_______ Activity_______Set Up________
• Marketing and Advertising:
• This Monday Next Monday
• *Window: 1. 2.
• *White: 1. 2.
• *Doors: 1. 2.
• *Handout: 1. 2.
•
• DIRECTORS REPORTS
• Office / Staff and scheduling needs - Julie
•
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12. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER…
Empower Your Staff!
• Education acts as fuel to the brain
and the soul.
• Better people are better instructors.
• Education reduces boredom, stress
and burnout.
• Continuous education keeps staff in
your gym.
• Improve your people, improve your
business!
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13. Staff Education
Continue to add fuel to
keep the engines going!
(High Octane is best!)
CGA Annual Staff Training
9:00 Power of the Word 12:30 CGA Staff Bingo
9:15 Qualities of a team player 12:45 Classroom / Preschool Meeting
Office Meeting
9:30 Customer Service
Team Equipment Check/ wishlist
9:45 Enrollment / Retention 1:30 CGA Aptitude Test
10:00 Stretch & Snack 1:45 All Coaches Meeting
Attendance Raffle Office Check / wishlist
Pre, Class equipment check/wishlist
10:15 Small Group Discussion 2:30 Staff Connection
10:30 Group Presentations 2:45 Top Performers at CGA
11:00 Employee Manual Review
General Staff Meeting
12:00 Lunch Time
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14. Staff Education
Cards
CGA EMPLOYEE EDUCATION CARD
2009-10
June 1st - Dec. 1st
Session /Ed or Ob /Date/ minutes/Clinician
*Spreadsheet
Required Hours for 2006-07:
Office: 12 Education Hours
Classroom & Pre-School: 15 education
15 observation
Team Coaches: 20 education
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15. ALISON SCHEDULE
No Limits….Live Big!
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16. CGA Staff Education – Sept /Dec
Thursday September 7th / All About Flipping & Round Offs
Clinician: Mary Lee
Time: 1pm-2pm
Thursday September 28th / Body Shaping, Drills & Flex
Clinician: Enrique
Time: 1pm-2pm
Friday October 13th / All About Bars: Taps, Free hips, baby giants,
Development from Compulsories to Optional Levels
Clinician: Enrique
Time: 1pm-2pm
Friday November 11th / Beam: Basics for Ever (turns, leaps, basic tumbling)
Clinician: Amy Wert
Time: 11am-12pm
Thursday November 16th / Vault Basics: Everything from the Run to Landing
Clinician: Enrique
Time: 9pm to 10pm
Tuesday December 5th / Sport Psych: Motivation through Discipline
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17. Annual Christmas Party
• DEDICATED
• 1. DISPLAYS PASSION FOR EVERYTHING THEY DO
• 2. UNDERSTANDS THEIR PART IN THE SUCCES OF THE TEAM
• 3. GOES THE EXTRA MILE TO GET THE JOB DONE
• 4. KATIE MEINERDING
•
• WINNER
• 1. AHEAD OF THE PACK IN EVERYHTING THEY DO
• 2. KEEPS THE GOAL IN SIGHT AND GETS THE JOB DONE
• 3. RESPECTED BY COWORKERS AND PEERS
• 4. ENRIQUE TRABANINO
•
• ACHIEVER
• 1. FOCUSED ON COMPLETING THE GOAL
• 2. DOES MORE THAN EXPECTED IN EVERYTHING THEY DO
• 3. DELIVERS AMAZING RESULTS ON A DAILY BASIS
• 4. JENNI LYMANSTALL AND CINDY WHITCOMB
•
• LEADER
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18. JANUARY
Anniversary Celebration
Keepsake Box Cincinnati Gymnastics
5 years
Cindy Whitcomb
Jamie Broz
CB Studio Vase- Cincinnati Gymnastics
10 Years
Larae Dean
Kim Albrecht
CB Revere Bowl - Cincinnati Gymnastics
25 Years
Sharon MacDonald
January 2007
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19. Business Card Incentive
Cincinnati Gymnastics
Katie Meinerding
PRESCHOOL DIRECTOR
3635 Woodridge Blvd. Fairfield, OH 45014
CGA: (513) 860- 3082 Fax: (513) 870-3831
Website: www.cincinnatigymnastics.com
ON BACK: FREE!! One Trial Class
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20. Retention Reports
Incentive to give
your best…
a measure of
personal
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21. •
•
Reports
• ENROLLMENT COUNT
• Week________ Term_________ Date_________
• Total __________ Previous Term __________ Last Year __________
• Classroom
• Level 1 __________ Previous Term __________ Last Year __________
• Level 2 __________ Previous Term __________ Last Year __________
• Level 3 __________ Previous Term __________ Last Year __________
• Tumbling__________ Previous Term __________
• Term Total__________ Previous Term __________ Last Year __________
• Pre-School
• You & Me ________ Previous Term __________ Last Year __________
• 2 Years ___________ Previous Term __________ Last Year __________
• 3 Years ___________ Previous Term __________ Last Year __________
• 4 & 5 Years _______ Previous Term __________ Last Year __________
• Superoos __________ Previous Term __________ Last Year __________
• Superoos 2 _________ Previous Term __________ Last Year __________
• Term Total ___________ Previous Term __________ Last Year __________
• Homeschool
• 3 – 5 Years ________ Previous Term __________ Last Year __________
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22. Retention Reports
• RETENTION REPORT FOR INSTRUCTORS
• (Term 6 into Term 1)
• September 6, 2008
• Term 6 Term 1 %
Retained
• Katie Meinerding 123 95 77%
• Sharon MacDonald 63 57 90%
• Mandi Hinson 11 9 82%
• Cathy Mauro 109 85 78%
• Meg Satterlee 36 33 92%
• Michele Stuckey 22 17 77%
• Christina Hartmann 71 47 66%
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23. RETENTION
• RETENTION REPORT
• (Term 6 into Term 1) September 6, 2008
• Overall Retention – 81% Last Term – 67% Last Year – 77%
• Term 6 Term 1 % Retained
• Level 1 73 46 63%
• Level 2 52 46 88%
• Level 3 71 68 96%
• Classroom Overall Retention – 82% Last Term – 68% Last Year – 77%
• You and Me 4 2 50%
• 2 years 47 39 83%
• 3 years 50 42 84%
• 4/5 years 102 68 67%
• Superoos 57 51 89%
• Superoos 2 35 33 94%
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24. Develop Individual
Strengths
• Everyone has a unique talent
and can add to your program.
Fill people people up!
…Fill the “holes” so they can feel “whole” and do a great job on
the floor with each child.
You need to feel good about yourself before you can help others
feel good!
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25. Choose to make
your staff successful!
• If someone is good with
preschool, put them there.
• When an instructor really
doesn’t do well in the morning,
give them evening shifts.
• Some people crave leadership
while others prefer to follow.
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26. Expectations First – JOB DESCRIPTIONS
• Effective January 2009
• I Assist the Classroom and Preschool Programs
• A. Advertising and Promotions
• B. Retention / Courtesy Calls
• C. Track the Growth of Both Programs
• D. Assist in creation of term themes, bulletin boards,
• Newsletter information
• E. Outside programs / Tumble Time Fieldtrips
• II Customer Needs ands Satisfaction
• A. Developing surveys / customer satisfaction
• B. Staff Education on Customer Service
• C. Observation
• III ProShop
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27. Annual Staff Evaluations
• Once per year / staff sign up
• 2 copies
• 3 parts:
1. REVIEW JOB DESCRIPTION - evaluate
2. CGA EMPLOYEE GUIDELINES - evaluate
3. CGA NEEDS FROM YOU…
WHAT CAN CGA DO FOR YOU TO IMPROVE THE
QUALITY OF YOUR WORK?
• Closing appreciation!
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28. Attitude of Gratitude
• Thank you for being in our world…
There are people who one appreciates immediately and forever. Even to know
they are alive in the world is quite enough.
• Thank you for making a difference…
It’s not what we have in our life, but who we have in our life that counts.
• Thank you for being there…
The person we all love and appreciate is the one who’s coming in the door when
everybody else is going out.
• Thank you for seeing the silver lining…
We can always depend on some people to make the best, instead of the worst, of
whatever happens.
• Thank you for caring…
The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the
ones with the concern
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29. Staff Comments:
1.) My students' success is a direct result of my work ethic and
attitude with them.
2.) I love and respect everyone I work with and do not want to
let them down or disappoint them in any way.
3.) I look up to so many great coaches/employees and strive to
be just as good as they are -Christina
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What motivates me to work at Cincinnati Gymnastics?
1. The Fantastic People I work with!
2. I really Enjoy my job!
3. The much respected reputation that CGA has! -Julie
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1. The Staff - I don't know of any other company I have ever worked for that has
the staff that we have here. There isn't an employee here who wouldn't give
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