Welcome to another episode of The Tutor Podcast. In today’s episode, your host Neil Cowmeadow explains why staying playful, having fun and enjoying your job, may be the most important factor to achieving success in your tutoring business.

If tutoring sessions are fun for you, you’ll never work a day again in your life, you’ll have fun and have a steady stream of income as a by-product. The more fun you have, the more students you will have, and they will become your fans your advocates and the greatest assets in your business. Learn how to merge your passion and profession and turn your playfulness into profit in this inspiring episode of The Tutor Podcast.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

1. Continuously explore your field - stay curious and get busy learning more.
2. Ask yourself, how else can I do this? - if you only have one way or teaching you won’t be successful.
3. Lighten up - put your happy smile on, every time you teach. Don’t be miserable as it will rub off on your students. Manage your emotional state and manipulate it.
4. Ask your students to do things wrong - failure becomes a success.
5. Catch them doing something right and amplify it - congratulate them for doing something right, rather than catching them doing something wrong.
6. Use humour to teach - jokes are a great way to get lessons across.
7. Draw pictures - pictures convey messages very effectively.
8. Invent catch phrases - this helps to encapsulate ideas.
9. Write poems or limericks - this helps to speed up the learning curve.
10. Create games to teach with - have fun and use games to keep your students engaged.
11. Use stories why you teach - this will help to create comparables, humans love stories and they can help you teach.
12. Pursue the rabbit hole of curiosity - your students will have rabbit holes, when your students ask why explain why.
13. Encourage questions - you are there to serve them, you’re their resources to education.
14. Teaching anything is about putting the student first - your student is the most important person.
15. Share your love affair with your students - show them how to use your passion in daily life and infect your students with your passion.

BEST MOMENTS

“Be real about tutoring, if you hate it people will know and you’ll struggle to find students, struggle financially and be unhappy”

“If you’re the most important person in the room, you’re in the wrong room. Your student is the most important person, check your ego and lighten up.”

“Playfulness really matters, if you laugh and smile while your tutoring you will be fulfilled it’s the key to a long career in business”

“By being playful you will create fans and they will want to come and interact with you and learn from you”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Neil Cowmeadow - Weird Things Guitarists Do

www.Neilcowmeadow.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!

CONTACT METHOD

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