Essentials of Effective Health Club Management

Series Summary

A health club, also called fitness studio or exercise center, is a place which houses exercise equipment for the purpose of physical exercise. Usually, there are courses at the health club for aerobics or yoga available. It's not unusual for a sauna or wellness area to be present at one of these facilities, and health clubs generally charge a fee to allow visitors to use the equipment, courses, and other provided services.

So, what if you want to manage a health club? Where do you start? How do you choose employees and provide maintenance? In this free video series, our expert will answer these management questions while outlining specific techniques that will benefit the health club manager, as opposed to other managers. You'll be shown how to maintain an effective staff, how to empower your employees, and how to institute programs for better management. All aspects of management from building to money issues will be examined. Get your managing skills in shape!

Video Transcript

"I'm Ivan Madar, I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. I'm going to be talking about the essentials of effective club managment. By clubs, I mean "health clubs, fitness clubs, spas, tennis clubs, and it will probably translate also to management of other fitness facilities, golf facilities, and so on. Wherever you're managing people, wherever you're managing guests or members." This is a summary of my experiences over 25 years of managing various clubs. I'd like to breakdown the managing of spas into several areas. The most important, being management of people. That would follow with the management of facilities, management of programs and finally the management of money and marketing. Management of marketing and the manager of money and management of marketing has been covered many, many times and it varies incredibly from one facility to another. It is the management of people, the staff and the members and the guests that really is the essence of, my perception of proper management. So, that's what I would like to concentrate on the most."