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The Fitness Manger's Report
Staci Alden is dedicated to helping Fitness Managers find ANSWERS! If you're a fitness manager who wants to have more fun and create more impact with your team, subscribe now! I provide ideas, strategies, resources, interviews with industry leaders, and more. I can't wait to meet you and help you get the answers you need!
Episodes
23 episodes
G.R.O.W Approach to Increase Class Attendance
I'm excited to be bringing Ingrid Knight-Cohee back for more!She's been kind enough to preview some highlights from her upcoming session, "GROW Your Classes!" coming up at IDEA World 2024. We will review how to use the classic GROW coac...
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Episode 23
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22:31
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Sensible Retreat Planning with Erin Wimert
As a fitness leader, have you tried or ever considered planning a retreat?They may be on trend, but without the right process and purpose, they can cost your business significant time and money. I'm excited to have Erin Wimert of Panace...
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Episode 22
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22:34
Peloton demise? Thoughts for fitness managers.
Peloton is back in the news, and the news isn't good once again. There have been thousands of layoffs, the company is seeking to find yet another CEO, and it is still dealing with lawsuits from the past.In this special episode, Shannon ...
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Episode 21
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46:57
What Fitness Managers NEED to Know about HR with Katie Santos
As fitness managers, most of us understand the importance of working with our human resources teams to ensure we understand. We can communicate our compensation and benefits plans, but what about when things get dicey? Do you know the federal, ...
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Episode 20
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24:59
The Value- Driven Fitness Manager with Victoria Tolbert-Ashley
The fitness industry has always been a complicated world, but it has become even more complex since the pandemic. Some facilities and businesses have chosen to adjust to this new world, while some are very much stuck in their ways. As a "middle...
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Episode 19
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30:13
The Power of Understanding Your Nervous System with Eliza Kingsford
Understanding and regulating your nervous system as a leader can help you lead with greater clarity, empathy, and resilience.😶🌫️ It allows you to navigate complex challenges while maintaining your well-being and supporting those around...
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Episode 18
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32:23
Making the Club/Studio Website Work FOR You as a Manager
Club and Studio websites can be so much more than just a landing page for current and prospective clients to learn more about what you do and how you do it.The website can be a place where... frequently questions can be answered, meetin...
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Episode 17
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11:31
Developing A Signature Format Formula
Creating, building, and offering successful Signature Formats is a unique challenge for fitness facilities. It takes creativity while also staying true to the specific talent, equipment, and formats facilities offer. I had the pleasure of meeti...
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Episode 16
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27:33
Creating Exceptional Circuit Offerings with Michael Piercy
Circuit experiences where clients move from one exercise or station to another for a dynamic and effective workout are timeless formats that remain popular. Circuit formats can become very successful programs with a large dedicated following an...
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Episode 15
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31:25
Teaching and Managing with Multiple Sclerosis with Tamra Stephenson
As fitness leaders, we must recognize that fitness instructors and participants come from all walks of life. What actions can we take to find, hire, support, and motivate instructors and applicants with disabilities or as their bodies and lives...
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Episode 14
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24:42
Turning Clients into Talent with Patricia Norman
Hiring quality talent in the fitness industry has always been a topic of conversation among managers. Still, now more than ever, the hiring situation in the fitness industry has become dire. As older instructors must either lower their client l...
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Episode 13
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20:03
Leading Independent Providers with Billy Polson
When people work for you, you want to do right by them. But hiring and motivating independent providers who are running their own offerings within your business is very different than managing a team with a more strict "corporate-like" structur...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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23:25
Negotiation Power for Fitness Managers with Doris Thews
Regardless of your title, Fitness Director, Manager, Senior Director, or Supervisor, we must all learn to negotiate. We have to negotiate with instructors about their classes, negotiate with vendors for lower prices, negotiate with upper manage...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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23:18
Opening Doors for Clients and Instructors with Disabilities with Matthew Alexander
As fitness leaders, we must recognize that fitness instructors and participants come from all walks of life. What are actions we can take to find, hire, support, and motivate instructors and applicants with disabilities? Are our instructors tra...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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34:33
Guide to Reviewing Instructors with Shay Kostabi
Ever provide feedback to an instructor after taking their class or during their annual review and feel like it didn't go as well as it could have or wonder if what you shared actually stuck and will make a difference? Attending classes and prov...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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24:41
Turning Divas into Assets with Patricia Liston
How can we as Group Fitness managers succeed in understanding, interpreting, or identifying more about the instructors who may be more demanding and, dare I say, more challenging than others? In our upcoming interview with Patricia Norman, the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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12:47
Guide to Difficult Conversations with Jessica Maurer
Difficult conversations are an important part of being a good leader; there ARE ways to make them easier and more effective with your team. In this episode, I speak with Jessica Maurer the Senior Director of Instructor Development at Fit4Mom ab...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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16:45
Managing Group Fitness in the New World with Tiffany Hamlin
Disclaimer - Apologies for the feedback from my microphone, wireless headphones are on their way for the next episode!Not only has the entire fitness industry changed in the past two years, but so have the roles and responsibilities of ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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15:14
Leveraging Your Team on Social Media Leah Rich
In this podcast with Leah Rich, we will discuss how Social Media can be useful for fitness managers more than just as a way to promote our offerings, but also to make us better leaders.I'll be asking Leah how social media can help us le...
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Episode 5
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17:56
Programming for Outdoor Fitness with Chris and Marisa of the Empower Group
Chris Stevenson and Marisa Hoff are the founders of The Empower Group, a full-service consulting firm with services ranging from staff training, workshops, full facility management, and more. T...
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Episode 1
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27:16
Leveling Up Instructors for Virtual with Dane Robinson
Virtual is here to stay. We may have gotten away with some "okay" content in 2020 but it's time to level up. Technology and devices are only a small part of that equation. The talent you select and train to teach on camera is essential. In this...
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Episode 3
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19:21
Lessons on Connection with Jessica Rodgers
From moving to a new location during a pandemic to teaching with masks, and having participants in "pods", Jessica Rodgers has seen it all. She's also created and fostered community at her new facility with her Women's Empowerment program. We w...
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Episode 4
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23:48
Fostering Fitness Professionals with Gail Bannister Munn
Hiring talent is something we must constantly be thinking about as Group Fitness Managers. Having a deep bench of quality, engaged subs and instructors who teach various formats is helpful, but what about tapping into the other professionals in...
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Episode 2
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27:18