Staff Flexibility
Employees need to be able to teach a variety of levels and abilities of students on all of the apparatus - girls, boys, preschoolers, tumbling, trampoline, tumble trac, vault, bars, beam, floor, dance, conditioning, flexibility and warm ups.   The most productive employees will be able to handle the widest variety of tasks with the least preparation time.  The learning matrices for these two include a bi-modal matrix for gymnastics with events on the one scale and the level of gymnast from preschool to elite on the other.  The gym management matrix includes an increasingly wide array of tasks compared to the successful assumption of responsibility and completion of those tasks.

Learn All Your Students Names
 The complexity of personal skills is probably best dealt with by setting and meeting quantifiable goals within a deadline in each of the areas.  For example, a goal to learn and use every class period the names of all the students in your class by the end of the second week can be achieved.  Goal setting should be done on a personal basis as a matter of course and can be done or may be required to do in conjunction with a supervisor.

Job Traits
 Creativity and problem solving are not job traits that can easily be required, but they can certainly be rewarded with promotion and appropriate pay incentives and rewards.  It is well know that the employees who actually perform the everyday tasks are often the best suited to originating methods for increasing the efficiency of their performance.  It is our expectation that every staff member will actively participate in attempting to create improved systems of productivity for the gym.  Because individual staff members may not be aware of all the ramifications of changes in the systems, ideas should be submitted, preferably in writing (which will ensure that proper credit due is given). 

Career Path
 The career paths in the gym may be varied depending on a number of factors.  It is reasonable to expect that even the highest positions in the gym are available to those who successfully progress up the career ladder.  The current size and structure of the gym and current management theory do not require multiple levels of management and supervisors, but all areas of management responsibility are open to those who have successfully demonstrated their capability and commitment.  Their are increased management responsibilities available in the front office, day time office management, Saturday and Sunday weekend management, marketing, advertising, public relations, program development, with the non-profit team organization, fundraising, for birthday parties, the preschool, boy’s, and cheerleading programs.  There is more than enough work and responsibility for all who choose to accept it.  Those who do will be fairly and adequately rewarded with appropriate promotions and financial rewards.

Get on the Team
 The continued success of the gym will be a team effort.  Providing the best gymnastics program requires far more than simply coaching.   Our growth has not yet peaked and that means there are numerous opportunities for increased promotion and remuneration.  Those choices will be based on actual productivity.  It is in the best interests of the gym and shareholders to satisfactorily compensate productive employees.  There should be no doubt that this will be done.  It is only right and the dealings with internal clients of the gym of the gym (employees) must be no less positive than the treatment of the external clients if a positive consistency is to be maintained.  It is hoped that the employees have a better understanding of the gym’s expectations for them.

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