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IHRSA Tips
Job Descriptions: Why and How to Use Them Generally, U.S. federal law does not require written job descriptions. However, these documents can be useful to employers, employees and job applicants.
Non-Compete Agreements with Health Club Employees With the strong focus on member retention in the health club industry, a defecting instructor or trainer can have a devastating effect on business. It is therefore not surprising that health club owners search for ways to prevent the defecting instructor from leaving to go to work for the new club across the street and taking an army of members with her.
Personal Trainers: Certification & Accreditation In 2002, IHRSA began working with some of the fitness industry's leading personal training certification groups on an initiative to promote safety for consumers working with personal trainers in health clubs. One important outcome of these meetings was a determination of the value of an independent and nationally recognized accreditation for personal training certification programs.
Background Checks: What You Don't Do Could Cost You As an employer, you are expected to perform a certain level of investigating or due diligence on each person you hire. If you don’t, and an employee does something to harm another employee or even a member, you could be held liable.
Divas and Dollars: Group Fitness Instructor Recruitment Whether we like to admit it or not, group fitness IS instructor driven! A great instructor can fill a room to its capacity; conversely, a bad instructor can empty it. When looking to maximize your Return on Investment, it is crucial to make sure the room is as full as possible whenever an instructor teaches.
Classifying Employees Personal trainers, group exercise instructors, tennis pros...are they employees or independent contractors?
Creating Champions: Training New Hires for Success Attention all hiring supervisors! Did you know that the average cost of a hiring mistake is estimated at 40%-60% of the position’s annual compensation? Or that 46% of new hires fail within 18 months of joining a company? This article will teach you how to decrease employee attrition and avoid the top ten mistakes that industry hiring supervisors commit during the recruiting, selection, orientation, accountability and retention of a new employee within the first year.
Identifying Eagles The Eagles are out there. You just need to know how to identify them! These are the true professionals that soar and strive for excellence. Eagles are the ones that have a positive, "fly high" attitude. These are the players you want on your team; the ones that think outside the box and the ones that can truly grow your business!
Reading Between the Lines Modern day managers have all but given up on reference checks. The word on the street is that because of liability, HR departments won't let management answer any questions anyway so why bother? We have found that there are elements of the reference check that can be very telling in today’s business world—managers simply have to be aware of them and might find that the reference check is a priceless recruiting tool after all.
The 3 Steps to Successful Staffing Organizing and leading a first-class group fitness program is arguably one of the most challenging tasks in the fitness industry, explains Shannon Fable, 2006 ACE Group Fitness Instructor of the Year and founder/CEO of Sunshine Fitness Resources.
The Right Stuff: Finding and Interviewing Your Club's Most Valuable Resource The most important feature that any club organization has is a competent, well-trained and motivated staff. The most important feature, however, is the most challenging to make happen. Following this systematic process to accomplish this objective has assisted many successful clubs in doing so.
Talent Retention Myths Dealing with talent retention and turnover is annoying for CEOs and managers focused on growing their companies and their earnings. It’s like finding holes in your pockets just as you're trying to stuff them with coins.
What Do Your Personal Trainers Need to Learn? There is a palpable level of frustration among many club owners and personal training managers. They need trainers immediately, but they find that too many individuals who have nationally recognized certifications do not seem to "know" many of the practical components that it takes to work as a personal trainer on a day to day basis.
Why Hire an Executive Recruitment Firm? Jeff Randall, the founder of JLR Associates, a fitness industry executive search and recruitment company, outlines the benefits of hiring a firm such as his.
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