Here's some recommended reading to either wrap up your week, or kick off your weekend.
Let's kick things off with a blog I published this week on my own website:
- 3 Avoidable Leadership Mistakes - My blog this week touched on a hiring tip, thoughts on work/life balance, and more. If you manage a team of fitness professionals, I think you'll find some value here.
My Friday FOUR:
Four pieces of content I've consumed this past week that will influence my future blog material and challenge me to think differently about how I manage Cressey Sports Performance - as always, I'm looking to bring you some business-specific information from outside of the world of fitness. Enjoy:
- 70 Percent of Workers Say They Are Actively Looking for a New Job - You read that right...so if you employ 10 strength coaches, there's probably a decent chance at least 5 of them are actively looking
around for new employment. Check out some of the crazy statistics in this piece, and then ask yourself, what am I going to do about this?
- How and why do influencers make so much money? - My business partner Eric passed this link along to me via email earlier in the week with a single sentence: "Some pretty staggering numbers in here." He wasn't wrong. The amount of money people are earning on social
media is staggering, and the agency director being interviewed in this piece goes into some real depth on explaining how the system works.
- Should America be Run by...Trader Joe's? - My biggest objective for this weekly newsletter is to introduce you to information from outside of the world of fitness highlighting the way other industry leaders differentiate. This episode of the Freakonomics podcast does just that. Find a way to carve out 48-minutes of time this
weekend and listen closely to this recording covering positioning strategy, product selection, culture building, and much more.
- Stop Wasting Money on Team Building - I've seen a trend in recent years of gym owners throwing thousands of dollars at extravagant "team-building getaways," simply because they saw the big name gym on social media do it. Investing in the sanity of your employees is one thing, but throwing a party because
everyone seems to be doing it is a whole other. The author of this Harvard Business Review article makes a convincing case for making collaborative team-building exercises clear, specific, and compelling if we have any hope of seeing a return on the investment as gym owners.
Make sure to let me know if you come across any material that you think I'd enjoy. More importantly, have a great weekend!
- Pete
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