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into small groups now there's not really a specific way to start your business okay everyone starts at a different different stage i personally started my business doing one-on-one training and i feel that that's a very common thing among coaches right a lot of coaches start when they start their business they start off doing one-on-one training and then they expand into groups it's something that just happens naturally by in my case it happened because i was doing too many one-on-one sessions and i had to sit down and really study my business and look at it and and and say to myself right if i want to grow and scale i can't continue doing one-on-one training because every new client or every new parent that wanted one-on-one training with me was adding an extra hour of training per week to my schedule okay so the only way to grow and scale in my situation at the time doing one-on-one training was adding more time during the week and you know there's a there's only a certain amount of hours and days during the week where you can train okay so the way i had to transition is i transitioned into small groups at the beginning and then from small groups i went into open and bigger groups okay so now the way i run my business is training we do all our training on one day which is the Saturday morning and we run three different groups back to back but at the beginning i was doing anywhere between 25 to 30 one-on-one training sessions per week but i realized right yes i'm i'm getting a lot of inquiries from parents a lot of parents are reaching out to me they're interested in in training with me which is fantastic but it was getting very difficult to grow and scale so i had to transition into small groups to begin with because a lot of the clients that i was working with they didn't want to go into groups so some of them left which left me with small groups to begin with and then those small groups gradually with time started to grow and they became more open open groups to the point where i was working with well our current groups now we have anywhere between 15 to 20 players per per group so if you have a look at the screen in front now what i'm what i've decided to do in this video is i've decided to sit down and give you a breakdown of the benefits of both right so the benefits of one-on-one training and the benefits of doing small group training so hopefully this video once you've watched it you consumed it will give you a better understanding into which niche to focus in now when i talk about niche it's important that you understand that in order to grow and scale a business you have to be niche specific this is something we teach our coaches in our sports accelerator program how to become more niche specific so being more niche specific means that you're focusing on not only just a certain type of player but you're focusing on a certain type of training so when parents think of one-on-one training they think of your company if parents think of small group training they think of your company right so you've got to be niche specific and if you're niche specific and you you're attracting a certain type of clientele your business will be able to grow but also you're going to be able to demand higher fees as a result of being niche specific okay so want to go into this a little bit a little bit more detail okay because this is something i get asked on a on a regular basis one-on-one training versus small group so if you have any questions for me take advantage of the free call or the ways to contact me this is what i do every single day now i work with coaches predominantly in the us okay but we do get messages from coaches all around the world from the uk australia but if you are a coach watching or you've been watching our channel for a while but you haven't reached out do that okay i'd love to jump on a call with you and help you with your your business right so if you have a look at the screen in front benefits of one-on-one training right my first point is i put player develops faster so obviously when when you work with players in a one-on-one setting okay that player is getting all that attention which means your coaching is being more effective but not just that you're able to work on specific things that that player needs help with okay this is a little bit different when you're working in groups because when you're working in groups you've got so many different players to to help but when you're working with one player at a time then players are able to develop faster because you're focusing on what their needs and wants are second one again more personal attention it goes back similar to the first point but the first point is more in terms of your your drills your sessions they're more specific to the player the second one is more personal attention right because in a training session in a one-on-one setting okay that player is getting all your attention so you're able to focus solely on what that player is doing well what that player needs work on and how we can get that player to the next level okay the third point is stronger client relationships as a result of working one-on-one with with your client okay you start to build a really close relationship with them which is really positive okay and it's a lot easier to build these relationships than in groups because that player is coming to you specifically and you're giving them all your all their attention and then with time you know you might decide to go watch some of their their games on the weekend you might decide to do some zoom their calls with them right so the experience becomes very personal and that is one of the reasons why I do like one-on-one training okay they it's it's a lot more personal it's a lot more focused on the player on the individual and you can get results a lot quicker and your training is a lot more effective than in a group setting right now moving on right the benefits of small group training okay small group training when I think of small group training I think of anywhere between four to six players some coaches see small group training as maybe two to three right but I think of it more as four to six so it still becomes this personal type of experience but you know four to six players is a lot different than one player okay so the first point I make is very training sessions which means this is um very training sessions means because you're working with so many different types of players right you know you might have a curriculum in place for the next three six or nine weeks and based on that curriculum you might change your training sessions week by week because of the the needs of your players whereas in a in a one-on-one setting you might repeat the session week week on week because it's something that they need specific help with okay and you and with one-on-one training it's like right let's focus and narrow down on this specific thing and then we'll move on to the next thing whereas small group training because you're working with varied amount of players and sometimes players of different abilities you know your sessions might be varied so one week you might be focusing on passing now another week you might be focusing on dribbling so you're touching on all all the basic foundations that your the players need but the sessions are varied and they're not just focused on one individual but they're focused on the group right the second one is more interaction amongst your clients and players so very different to one-on-one training where it's just the player and the coach small group training is there's more interaction because there's more players in that group so then what there's more camaraderie there's more you can say it's a little bit more fun because it you know they can challenge they challenge each other during the session and so there's a lot more interaction and that's fantastic in terms of building relationships amongst players and getting results quicker okay now the third one is game specific drills now this one is very different to one-on-one training because game specific drills is something that when you're working with four to six players right you can do certain drills which are more game specific so for example playing out from the back right if you've got six players in your group you can put one player as a goalkeeper and you can do a functional air type of drill with they're playing out from the back in a type of game specific environment so small group training allows that flexibility allows you to do that type of those drills where you're working with players in smaller groups but you can do moments in game situations that are specific to how you know their team or those players may play on the weekend okay so if you need more help with this okay reach out to me like I said I work with coaches every single day I help coaches and we've got coaches in our sports accelerator program so if that's something you want to inquire about or learn more about right reach out to me number of ways you can do that okay so if you haven't yet make sure you subscribe to the channel to stay up to date with all the latest content and again visit the description below if you want to schedule a 315 to 20 minute call with me or you can jump on zoom can ask you a couple of questions see where you are at with your business and see where you want to get to okay thank you for watching and I'll see you on the next video