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HOW TO STAY MOTIVATED IN THE NEW YEAR

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“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Welcome back! Welcome back! Welcome back!! A new year is upon us everyone and studio owners, you must have been thinking over the last few weeks how to best motivate your students, faculty and yourself to stay excited and focused through the new year! As the owner, you are the ring-leader, the master of ceremonies, the chief, the director, the head coach…. and your team is going to look to you for the cue on where this year will take you all!

There are so many things to consider when maintaining motivation and it’s your time to reflect on everything that may have been successful and even not so successful last year to make a fresh start moving forward. Experience and hind-sight are two of our greatest indicators, so make the most of building on all of your accomplishments, take the lessons learned in stride and revamp, renew and re-energize to make this season even more successful than the last.

Remember even a business is like a work of art or piece of choreography; always a work-in-progress, so continue to plan, organize, develop, execute, edit, tweak and follow-through on what you know is best for your business to thrive and your dancers to succeed! Furthermore, you made great strides and put great effort into building the team around you to make this vision come alive, so let that staff and faculty do what they’re there to do…HELP YOU! No man is an island for sure and while you are the delegator in this studio, let that amazing faculty you’ve painstakingly assembled support your endeavors as well and share in that common goal along the way! Here are some things to think about and ask yourself as the year gets underway!

  • How do you plan to kick-start your year?
  • How will you motivate returning families and faculty and inspire new clients and new teachers?
  • What social activities/get-togethers do you have in store for your “welcome back event?”
  • What are your plans for the year ahead?
  • What are the goals your wish to achieve?
  • What were some of the things that worked really well last year? What are some things that need to change going forward?
  • When are you having that welcome back “team meeting” with faculty and staff?
  • When are you having that welcome back meeting with parents and students?
  • Where would you like to see your student progress develop this year?
  • How would you like to see the business aspect of your studio progress?
  • What new additions would you like to try this year in terms of classes, performance, etc.?

Good luck!

See you in the dance studio,

Jess

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Jessica Rizzo Stafford

Jessica Rizzo Stafford

Jessica Rizzo Stafford is a native New Yorker and graduate of NYU Steinhardt's Dance Education Master’s Program; with a PK-12 New York State Teaching Certification. Her double-concentration Master’s Degree includes PK-12 pedagogy and dance education within the higher-education discipline. She also holds a BFA in dance performance from the UMASS Amherst 5 College Dance Program where she was a Chancellor's Talent Award recipient. Jess now works extensively with children, adolescents and professionals as choreographer and teacher and conducts national and international master-classes specializing in the genres of modern, contemporary, musical theatre and choreography-composition. Jess’ national and international performance career includes works such as: The National Tour of Guys & Dolls, The European Tour of Grease, West Side Story, Cabaret, Sweet Charity, Salute to Dudley Moore at Carnegie Hall, guest-dancer with the World Famous Pontani Sisters and IMPULSE Modern Dance Company. Jess has been a faculty member for the Perichild Program & Peridance Youth Ensemble & taught contemporary and jazz at the historic New Dance Group and 92nd Street Y in NYC. She was Company Director at the historic Steffi Nossen School of Dance/Dance in Education Fund and in 2008 traveled to Uganda where she taught creative-movement to misplaced children. The experience culminated with Jess being selected as a featured instructor at the Queen's Kampala Ballet & Modern Dance School. She has conducted workshops for the cast of LA REVE at the Wynn, Las Vegas and recently taught at the 2011 IDS International Dance Teacher Conference at The Royal Ballet in London, UK. She is also on faculty for the annual Dance Teacher Web Conferences in Las Vegas, NV. Currently, Jess is a faculty member at the D'Valda & Sirico Dance & Music Centre and master teacher & adjudicator for various national and international dance competitions. Recently, she has finished her NYU Master’s thesis research on the choreographic process of technically advanced adolescent dancers and is the creator of “PROJECT C;” a choreography-composition curriculum for the private studio sector. Jess is also faculty member, contributing writer and presenter in the choreography and “how to” teaching segments on the celebrated danceteacherweb.com. For more info, visit her website at www.jrizzo.net.

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