Networking 

Cultivate meaningful relationships and exchange information and ideas among managers, instructors, and school owners.

Grandmaster Chong is the founder of World Class Tae Kwon Do, a national organization with 30 affiliated schools and over 12,000 students. He is known for his passion for teaching, attention to detail, and his ability to motivate and coach instructors and masters of all levels. With forty years of experience in the martial arts industry, Grandmaster Chong has personally experienced several “waves” of change. His schools continue to thrive because he has discovered the rock solid foundations that lead to a successful long term organization.

TOPICS:

Teaching Students to Love Learning Fundamentals

• Physical review of foundational Tae Kwon Do techniques and principles
• Keeping students engaged with specific level appropriate challenges
• How to create a passion for attention to detail that motivates students to improve
• The secret to maintaining YOUR excitement while teaching students of any level

The Multiple Benefits of Proper Sparring Training

• How to introduce sparring to lower ranking students
• Proven drills to give students a feel for sparring while building confidence and maintaining safety
• Helping adults to gain self defense skills through sparring
• Why sparring is an invaluable tool for teaching life skills

Master Mertens is a veteran school owner and industry leader who has personally mentored some of the most successful Masters and Instructors in the U.S. He has presented at seminars around the country and is considered one of the leading experts on martial arts marketing and sales.

TOPICS:

How to Create a Sustainable Community in Your School

• Storytelling vs Salesmanship: The future of martial arts enrollment
• 5 keys for effective retention based events
• 3 Must have Instructor/Parent communication tools
• What your staff need to know about the real foundation of teamwork and communication
• What student surveys tell us are the greatest needs and wants of our students

My Top 5 Biggest Staffing Mistakes and How I Fixed Them

• The most important element to selecting a potential staff member
• Why some teams are destined for conflict and failure before they even start
• How you can take a struggling team and get them back on track
• What YOU as a leader need to be extremely careful of to avoid demotivating your staff

Master Jun Kyu Kim is a successful instructor and competition coach based in Greenville, South Carolina. He is passionate about teaching high quality Tae Kwon Do, creating a positive energy atmosphere, and ensuring that every class meets the needs of his students. He is also dedicated to creating systems and tools to help the next generation of instructors and masters to teach more systematically and effectively.

TOPIC:

Maximize your student and Black Belt retention through instruction that is organized, focused, and progressive

• CLASS = Character Building, Learning, Attitude, Smile, Sweat, Safety
• How to design curriculum for Little Tigers, 1st Dan-4th Dan Black Belts, Leadership, and Competition Team Programs.
• The 8-Week Teaching format: Disguise fundamentals and repetition
• Partner Drills- The secret to World Class TKD success.
• Creating a class schedule that allows you to deliver the service your students want consistently
• Teamwork: Running a team driven school that students love and that grows the skills of your staff at the same time.

Note: This presentation will be offered in Korean only

Master Mark Wright is the Director of Operations for Tiger Kim’s World Class Taekwondo with five locations in North Carolina and one in South Carolina. Their continued expansion has been based on the strength and longevity of their staff.

TOPICS:

Grow your Team…Expand your Opportunities

• The most important conditions you need to provide to attract and retain skilled staff
• How to educate your staff and provide long term futures for them
• Effectively sharing your vision and setting team goals
• Managing your results and taking control of your financial future
• How the leader ultimately determines the level of success that your school achieves

Master Harrison Chan from Toronto, Canada, is the president of 6 locations under the founder of OMAC, Grand Master Hyung Chul Kim. He currently has one of the most successful After school Programs in the nation, with over 60 staff members and a student count of over 2000 members. Master Chan will share his outrageous work ethic, both mentally and physically that allowed him to grow his organization from one location to six within just a ten year span.

TOPICS:

Designing your School and Your Life for Explosive Growth

• The compelling story of how it all began
• Congruency between vision, brand and belief
• Mega Branding and distinguishing not only your business but who you are from the rest of the pack
• How to grow your after-school program from 0-70 students in your first year of operation and dominate your market area.
• The daily rituals of workout routine, gratitude, scheduling, and focused time blocks that lead to energy, productive work, and family life balance

Master Chris Berlow has been training in Taekwondo for over 35 years, and has competed at the national and international level. He is a principal of United Martial Arts Centers, where he owns two successful schools in Westchester, NY, with a third school under his tutelage.

TOPICS:

How to stand out and be uncommon in the martial arts industry

• How much do you love your students?
• The secret to why some students stay and others quit.
• Eight ways to be uncommon and stand out from all other martial arts schools
• How to develop your personal “Why” statement and share it with the world
• Create an enrollment experience that connects to families at an emotional level, thereby inspiring action

Master Chan Lee is a 2nd generation Tae Kwon Do teacher, who learned from his father, Grandmaster Jae Kyu Lee. He has been trained by the Verbal Defense Institute to teach children on how to deal with conflict and has presented those concepts to over 20,000 school children. He currently runs his family’s Tae Kwon Do school in Milwaukee, WI. They currently run six dojangs with over 2000 students. In addition, Master Lee has built three freestanding buildings for his schools. His philosophy for his organization’s success is that, “to be the ultimate teacher you have to be the ultimate student. Always be learning”.

TOPICS:

The Complete Guide to turn Leads into Prospect and Prospects into Students

• Basic strategies to get and keep the attention of your modern prospects in today’s busy world
• How to best educate trial members on the value and benefits that Tae Kwon Do can provide for them
• Learn how to nurture your leads to turn them into motivated prospects that become lifetime students

TOPICS:

Google & Social Media Dominance

• What makes engaging social media content
• The importance of your social media follow ratio
• How to effortlessly plan your posts and when to post them
• Timeline and profile posts vs. story posts and creating content for each
• Get to the top of Google listings spending next to nothing by just social media posting

TOPICS:

How to Grow and Maintain a Mega School

• 15 Minutes and the 5 Whys
• Transparency = Trust
• Feeling and Emotions: Do I have to?
• Not Good, Not Bad… Just Learning
• Treat you students and staff with C.A.R.E.

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Attract, Retain, and Thrive: Using 20/20 Armor to Change The Way Your Students Think About Sparring (Sponsored Presentation)

• The vehicles martial arts schools have to deliver the effects on students we all advertise.
• The 3 reasons why sparring is currently ineffective in your schools.
• Speaking kids’ language through video games.
• How 20/20 Armor makes your classes exciting and keeps your students wanting to keep coming back each day.
• Attracting new students by using video game technology to your advantage.
• Using 20/20 Armor for in house tournaments and other income generating events.