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GOAL SETTING QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF IN 2020

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The new year is a great time to get those lists out on your intended goals for the upcoming season and make them happen. Think about what you hope to accomplish for your business and where you hope to take your students. While it may seem daunting at first to try and accomplish everything, go slow, and prioritize! Soon enough you’ll be checking each goal off one by one and meeting your 2020 goals! Here are some ideas to jump-start your list and get you going towards a year of fruitful success for the studio and amazing progress for your students.

Goal-setting is the pre-cursor for getting organized and creating an outline for yourself and your team. Take your time with this and think about things like:

 

  • Where do you want to take the studio?
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  • How do you intend to increase the studio’s revenue?
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  • What are the goals for your students’ progress? What role does your faculty play?
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  • What performance experiences do you want to provide for the dancers this year?
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  • Are you exposing them to a variety of performance venues?
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  • Are they performing for the community and outreach programs?
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  • What does your summer curriculum look like?
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  • Are there summer intensives?
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  • Guest teachers and master-classes?
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  • Trips into the city as a group to take classes?
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  • What can you realistically provide students while creating exciting and fresh challenges to keep pushing them to progress and experience new things?
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  • What does the following fall 2020 season look like for you?
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  • Are you planning on expansion?
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  • How? 
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  • Adding faculty?
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  • Adding to the curriculum?
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  • OR….do you anticipate the need to down-size the number of classes/teachers to make a profit? While you may have to fine tune these things when the time comes and reassess, it’s good to have a game-plan going in and project ahead on trends you have seen this year and what you anticipate from your initial outline.

Good luck!

See you in the dance studio in 2020!

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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