Keeping Your Coaches - Business of Fitness #69
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
He's back everybody! M.D.V (Matt DellaValle) is a seasoned guest and co-host of the Business of Fitness Podcast. MDV is the Chief Fitness Officer at NCFIT, managing all fitness, coaching, and programming operations worldwide for the company. Over the past decade, MDV's journey has taken him a few different directions—coaching at some of the best gyms in the biz (CFNE, Reebok CrossFit ONE, CrossFit ONE Nation & NCFIT), leading seminars as part of CrossFit HQ Staff, and managing fitness partnerships for Reebok INTL. Before all this fitness stuff, MDV earned his law degree from William & Mary Law. He is passionate about coaching, fitness, and American traditional tattoos.
Today is all about coach retention and best practices for staff satisfaction. From paygrade and bonuses/incentives to creating culture and building rapport, today's episode shares what we've learned about employee gratification over the last 11 years at NCFIT. Fitness aside, anyone in the service industry has a takeaway or two from today's show. Sit back, relax, and enjoy!
Minute Breakdown:
0—10: Creating a culture to keep your coaches
10–20: Paying for performance: Financial incentive and benefit packages
20–30: Honest communication about expectation and trajectory
30–40: Cultivating passion, purpose, programming, and a coach's development
40–50: Leading by example and building bonds
Check out our latest episode with MDV: https://www.ncfitpodcast.fit/businessoffitness/ep63
Contact MDV: mdv@nc.fit
Find MDV on Instagram: @m.d.v_
Connect with Jason at @jasonkhalipa
Work with Jason and the NCFIT Collective Crew at ncfitcollective.fit
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| 0:00.0 | All right everybody and welcome back to the business of Fitness Podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | I'm Jason Clepa and today is Monday. |
| 0:07.0 | I hope if you're listening to this right now you're ready for an incredible week. |
| 0:10.1 | I know we are. |
| 0:11.4 | I have on the show a very special special person. |
| 0:14.6 | His name is Matt De LaValle, MDV. |
| 0:17.4 | He is the CFO of our company Chief Fitness Officer. |
| 0:23.2 | He came with us a couple years ago and we tasked him with this idea of creating culture, |
| 0:27.4 | creating trajectory for our team. |
| 0:29.2 | Helping us keep our coaches and provide the best quality product we can on the floor. |
| 0:34.2 | Since then he's delivered on every expectation I had for him and sitting down today we dive into how we're currently doing it |
| 0:41.2 | and what we're looking to do in the future. |
| 0:43.0 | I hope that if you're in the fitness space you take a minute, |
| 0:45.5 | dive in this episode, get fired up like we are to constantly be improving. |
| 0:49.3 | If you're not in the fitness space that's okay. |
| 0:50.9 | Hope there's some takeaways for some of the things that we do for our team |
| 0:53.7 | and if you have any questions, concerns, anything. |
| 0:56.1 | DM us, email us, let us know what's going on. |
| 0:59.0 | Guys, if you have a gym in the middle of the United States or somewhere else and you're listening to this podcast, |
| 1:03.5 | you're not on an island. |
| 1:04.7 | There's other people that have the same problems. |
| 1:06.9 | Everybody has the same problems potentially and we want to be able to help solve those through this podcast and through other platforms. |
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