How does your centre run lessons? What is the best way to schedule and run your swimming program? This article will discuss pros and cons of the 2 types of program, which may give you some food for thought when scheduling lessons for your centre. Perpetual Swimming Swimming year round has benefits and negatives attached […]
Swim Schools
The Importance of Staff Training
A team is only as good as its weakest link! Swim School owners and operators should put a huge emphasis on their in-house staff training. Remember the saying ‘a team is only as good as it’s weakest link’. Regular staff training will produce good quality, well-educated staff, and professional staff members. These staff will keep […]
Swimming Toys and Their Uses – Teaching Tips
Toys can be a very useful tool for a swimming lesson. Young swimmers love using toys in their lesson and they can be a huge help for swimming instructors and parents. Toys come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colours. Swimmers are limited only to their imagination for toys and their uses. Here are […]
Keep Clients Swimming Through Winter
As a business operator, retention of clients is important to the success of your business. One of the hurdles than many swim school operators face each year is the “drop-off through winter”. We can say it’s inevitable, leave it at that and continue to do what we have always done. With that we will continue to […]
Using Mats During a Swim Lesson – Teaching Skills
Using equipment, such as mats, during a swim lesson, can be a rewarding and interesting part of your lesson. It’s important that all equipment used in your lesson has a swimming related purpose. You may have the world’s cutest toys but if you’re not using them to further your swimmer’s skills, you are wasting your […]