Golf Instructor Interviews.

The New Direction of the Golf Industry

Will Robins sits down with Jay Karen, Chief Executive Officer of National Golf Course Owners Association, to discuss how Teaching Professionals and Course Owners/Managers can align in vision and work together for more effective results.

The NGCOA has three main missions: advocacy, education and a commercial program. He shares feedback from countless owners and their priorities when it comes to the value of teaching professionals. Will and Jay debate how to prove value – correlation vs. causation, is complacency or busyness the culprit to slowing business development. They also talk about how the industry has gotten to its present state and what needs to be done to solve its issues.

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10 Years of GITLO: Will and Cordie discuss the journey and evolution of the golf industry (Part 2)

Will and Cordie hop directly into technology’s influence on the golf industry and instruction. We’ve come a long way with indoor training, from the first bad simulators to indoor facilities becoming commonplace for entertainment in addition to practice that offers real data, fast feedback and furthers the progress of instruction that’s focused on getting results and not selling time.

They also discuss how strong golf currently is and has grown in the past decade, and explore why instruction hasn’t kept pace with increased interest. Will shares practical ideas that will get players on the course that breaks away from outdated clinic teaching and into training that’s interactive, entertaining and offers connectivity to other players. An epic conversation of what to celebrate about the current state of golf, to improve upon and to look forward to.

10 Years of GITLO: Will and Cordie discuss the journey and evolution of the golf industry

After ten years of Golf In The Life Of, Will and Cordie reflect on how they started working together and how the past ten years have been for them both and the industry. Their journey has led to impactful shifts within the industry, a partnership with PGA, helping Teaching Pros overcome their biggest challenges, and how they’re bringing change management to more coaches. You’re going to gain incredible insight into improving your business and quality of life.

Shane Ryan: Fixing the Golf Pro Crisis

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Shane Ryan joins Coach Will Robins to discuss his recent article, “The Club Pro Crisis”. He shares several of many stories he received of the hardship and difficulties that Pros currently face. They talk through the current club labor expectations not allowing Pros to have a balance between work and personal life, subsequently leading many to face mental health issues, divorce and alcohol abuse. Coach Will and Shane discuss the ability to change this without a labor union would mean the responsibility falls to the clubs to hire more employees in diverse roles and the Pro to use their leverage to ask for better working conditions.

They also address what the future of coaching looks like, the role of PGA of America and their current programs, what causes a coach to become stuck and avoid making a change to improve their quality of life and Will’s past experience and ideas to help coaches see better success while feeling more fulfilled in their role.

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Pete Hinojosa: The Power of Personalities

Coach Will Robins and Pete Hinojosa jump right in part two, discussing how you can simplify the DISC training to be remembered and without over generalizing people. Pete explains, “everyone is a unique combination of the four tendencies”; and why the first step to improving your coaching is doing a self-assessment. You’ll learn who you are and discover your strongest patterns in different environments. If you’d like to take the assessment click here: https://www.questlv.com.

Pete offers a couple questions t0 quickly understand your players. You’ll also learn great tips to learn new players’ tendencies without questions and how each behavior has specific expectations of themselves and of you. You’re getting a major key to building better relationships.

Pete Hinojosa has more than 25 years of experience in training and development. His background includes design, development and delivery of training curriculum with emphasis on leadership. Pete has owned his own company since 1997, Omega Quest, specializing in leadership development, and was an educator for 20 years. Currently, Pete is the director of human capital development with Insperity where he develops and delivers leadership training to all leaders and managers across the country. He received his degree in biology and composite science in education from the University of Texas. He is a published author and is a master trainer in DISC the Model of Human Behavior.

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