 Hey, what's up guys? It's coach Ben from soccer entrepreneur in today's video I'm gonna be answering a couple questions that I got From the last couple of newsletters that I sent out. So if you're not on my newsletter yet, definitely go jump on that right now It's free. I just go in the link in the description and you can click a button there and just enter your email address You'll get my weekly update there where I share a lot of tips and insights about how to start your academy So today I'm gonna answer a couple questions and the first question I see is from Greg and he says what should I do if a player on training is not committed and my answer to this is very blunt because I've been in that position before especially when I was starting I would train a lot of kids who were just uncommitted and it wasn't just the kids It was the parents as well kids would get there late. So their parents would not be there on time They wouldn't be mentally prepared They wouldn't be Into the session at all and there's only so much you can do as a trainer to motivate Encourage and try to get the most out of every session. But if a player is not committed Then there's no reason for them to be there because in the end of the day They're just gonna be wasting your time and you would rather be training someone else who would be in that spot Or you'd rather be training no one at all during that time And I know that's very blunt, but I kind of want you to reverse engineer Your onboarding process when players are coming in you should be finding out Immediately if they're a committed family or not and that's the thing I figured out with my academy is Before I even train anyone. I know if they're gonna be committed or not If they're not they're not gonna be able to come to my evaluation session And the reason I have that set up that way is because I don't want to waste any time I don't want to go train anyone who's not on this at the same level as me mentally And if they're not gonna be into it I know I'm not and I'm not going to want to train anyone and accept anyone into my program if They're not gonna be committed because I know I'm gonna be committed on my end and This whole job this whole Start your own academy is very Pleasant and you're gonna love doing that if you're around players who are committed And if you're not then what's the whole reason why you're starting this in the first place? You know because yours you probably want to start this to do it because you really like it And so you need to attract players who? You want to train and that's gonna start with your onboarding process and the next question I see is kind of along the same topic And this is from mark and he says should I cut players from my program? who are Coming to my sessions late and my answer this is also very blunt and the answer is yes But you should have your own guidelines set up with players before they even step in your program this way like I said When I answer the last question you already know beforehand if they're gonna be committed or not and if they say they're committed and You feel like they are and then they go a couple sessions where they're late or they don't show up You need to reflect back on your terms and conditions page that you should have set up this way Before anyone steps in your program. They know what you're all about. They know that they can't Miss a session and get a rescheduled session. They know if they show up 15 minutes late They're gonna lose out on 15 minutes of time This is how you get people to respect you and respect your time a lot more if you have terms set up You don't have that set up No one is going to do anything that you want them to they're never gonna pay on time They're never gonna show up on time Their kids won't be committed and you're gonna be attracting a lot of people who ultimately are going to make you lose interest in training players So you kind of have to hit the reset button Go back to the beginning stages and figure out how you want Everyone in your program to be and so you need to set up a page on your website Or on your payment page to let people know this is this is what I'm looking for and once you have that figured out Everything else is very simple because now you can start attracting The right types of people in your program and you can eliminate Anyone who's gonna give you headaches and that's really kind of to recap everything is You have to be able to train people who you want to be around and if you're not doing that Then you shouldn't be doing this because what's what's the point of training people who don't want to be around you And who you don't want to be around there's no one's gonna benefit that way So going forward I want you guys to think about that You need if you're trying to start your or set up everything right now you want to have that in mind You want to know okay? This is who I'm looking for this is the type of commitment I want and this these are where those players are at that way you can just follow that very simple process this way you don't have to worry about cutting players or Accepting players who you you are kind of on the edge about you think that they might be committed But they're not you there's really no you know gray area there You have to be very stern on how you have things set up for yourself And this is going to protect you at the end of the day So that's it for today guys if you have any questions for me shoot me an email at start your soccer academy at gmail.com or just comment below this video and Below this video if you click on the description box There are a ton of different resources there that I've already set up I have my book called the startup soccer academy. I have a mastermind setup where I work with four coaches per year You can read all about that there just click on the different links below this video, and I'll catch you next time