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Adam McClellan | Double Your Profits, Double Your Fun

On Castbox.fm — Adam McClellan | Double Your Profits, Double Your Fun

How can Parkour coaches and gym owners enhance their programs and business practices to better serve their clients and staff while addressing unique challenges?

A coach explores the challenge of bridging personal values with the priorities of clients.

What’s the path that my students and their parents, if they have them, are going to walk through and make that really easy for them to do? It might start as just starting or beginner program. And then there might be another choice, take this path, or that path. Here’s the value in one, here’s the value in the other, but let them decide, give them the freedom to choose.

~ Adam McClellan (3:42)

The conversation addresses challenges faced by Parkour coaches and gym owners in aligning their values with those of their clients. It emphasizes understanding that parents often seek benefits like confidence, discipline, and community for their children, beyond athletic skills. Strategies for effectively presenting program options to clients and balancing simplicity with flexibility are also discussed.

The discussion explores broader topics such as staff management, including gaining buy-in for new initiatives and recognizing individual strengths within the team. Insights are shared on leadership, trust-building, and leveraging the collective wisdom of experienced professionals to guide conversations and decision-making.

Takeaways

Understanding client priorities — Recognizing that clients may value outcomes like confidence, discipline, and community over purely athletic development.

Balancing simplicity and choice — Creating guided pathways that provide clear options without overwhelming clients with too many choices.

Implementing upgrade programs — Offering higher-value, optional services as a way to grow the business without alienating existing clients.

Gaining staff buy-in — Addressing the challenge of aligning staff perspectives with the goals of new initiatives and higher-priced programs.

Trusting team members — Encouraging leadership through identifying and developing individual strengths within the team.

Shifting presentation strategies — Adopting a flexible and discussion-driven approach to group sessions, allowing collective wisdom to guide outcomes.

Bridging knowledge gaps — Helping clients and staff see the value of programs through tailored explanations and processes.

Navigating pricing challenges — Exploring ways to offer premium services without making clients feel pressured or alienated.

Adapting leadership styles — Understanding that effective leadership involves trust, delegation, and allowing room for learning through mistakes.

Leveraging group insights — Recognizing the value of collaborative discussion for solving complex problems and generating new ideas.

Addressing misconceptions in coaching — Acknowledging that coaches may need to adjust their expectations to align with client priorities and perceptions.

Resources

Parkour Generations — A global organization promoting Parkour through classes, events, and community.

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(Written with help from Chat-GPT.)

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Inevitable failure

It’s inevitable that you’re going to fail. If you’re not failing, then you’re definitely doing something wrong because you’re supposed to find your limits. There are parts of it that are going to suck the whole way along— that’s a perfect possibility, but you’re going to grow.

~ Adam McClellan

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Failure

I’ve recently begun the long project of looking through my past recordings. Only in the last month or so have I been keeping notes about the conversations as I record them, and I want to go back to day-one, (January 28, 2017,) and update my notes on who, when, where— but also the themes and ideas that were discussed. (I’m not listening to everything, just going through the scattered information I already have about the recordings.) Although it’s a lot of work, it’s rewarding to see so many things organized in one centralized system! These days, ideas and connections I find in the slipbox also point me to my specific conversations.

It’s inevitable that you’re going to fail. If you’re not failing, then you’re definitely doing something wrong because you’re supposed to find your limits. There are parts of it that are going to suck the whole way along— that’s a perfect possibility, but you’re going to grow.

~ Adam McClellan

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You may fail miserably, or you’re gonna break through it— you’re gonna learn something new about yourself, and you’re gonna develop a new skill out of necessity that you didn’t have at the beginning of the painting. So that’s what keeps me excited about making paintings, is because I couldn’t do the same thing over and over again. I have to manufacture some sort of potential failure there.

~ Jonny Hart

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Also: Delightful connections like the two quotes above fall into my lap along the way.

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