How do you see your students? Are they just your customers and cash cows or are they something more, something of greater significance? Today, learn how to start, grow and love your tutoring, teaching and coaching business by going beyond your remit to help your students and undergo the process of not just being a tutor but becoming a mentor. KEY TAKEAWAYS
Make your students your tribe, your extended family and go beyond your remit. The purpose of being a great teacher is to be able to empty yourself and refill yourself with more and better and to give away.
As a teacher and a leader of your tribe, it’s your purpose to maximise how you can help them. If a student asks for help, it’s because you have their trust and you must respect their vulnerability. By becoming an expert and a teacher in what you do, your calling is to reach forward and help others learn and be better.
Being the best version of a teacher you can comes from engaging with the whole person. A student cannot focus if their mind is elsewhere as where the mind goes, the body follows. Don’t be narrow in what you do, always try to help your student in life, the universe and everything.
One of the most rewarding parts of being a teacher is seeing that person grow and develop and being part of the catalytic acceleration of change in their minds.
Be a really good listener. Listen intently to the language that people use because it will contain clues for us to use to help them. Whatever you teach, take coaching or counselling course so that you can better resonate with your students.
Have an ongoing relationship with your tribe and care about them, believe in them and be there for them because when you achieve this, tutoring stops being work and becomes ‘hanging out with your friends.’
BEST MOMENTS
“Sometimes leading to becoming a confidant of the student and more often than not becoming their friend”
“Save your students time and give them the confidence to go after what they want. Move them close to their dreams.”
“Help your students understand the knowledge, understanding, music, passion and joy that there is in the world.”
“Empty yourself and more will be given unto you”“Be the best version of a teacher that you can be”“Where the mind goes, the body follows”“You have to engage with the whole person”“Listen intently to your students and it will reveal their answers”
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Listen to The Tutor Podcast on the Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tutor-podcast/id1369191372)! Build Your Online Course Week 1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/build-your-online-course/id1369191372?i=1000477109724
Course Planning Week 2: Who Am I?: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/build-your-online-course/id1369191372?i=1000477109724
Who are They? (Know Your Punters): https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/who-are-they-know-your-punters/id1369191372?i=1000478984529
Read the Weird Things Guitarists Do book by Neil Cowmeadow, which is available now on Amazon. Link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Weird-Things-Guitarists-Do-Misconceptions/dp/1519026579/
Contact Neil via this website - com!
ABOUT THE HOST
Neil Cowmeadow is a maverick peripatetic guitar teacher from Telford with over 19 years’ experience in the business of helping people. Learn how to start, grow and love your business with Neil’s invaluable advice and tips without the buzzwords and BS!
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