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Congratulations you’re a “Get Smart” Embodied Course Creator
You’re an expert in your industry who leans into your intellect and thoroughness to design well-thought-out programs. You love professionalism, resonate with research, and love the role of advisor, thinker, mentor, and teacher. The value of Life-long learning runs through your veins. You’ve set yourself up well. It sounds like your offers are well-researched and you focus on bringing your expertise forward so your students have all the information they need to create massive change. You likely deliver impeccable course material. Get Smart Embodied Course Creators are thoughtful and thorough but can also have their struggles. You may come across challenges such as: “continuing to research” and never quite getting your course off the ground your courses may not be super focused on the transformation you desire for your students and too heavy on information you may be too dogmatic about how your clients achieve their results You may give too much information and your mentees get overwhelmed You may get frustrated that more students don’t continue with you because you have so much information and knowledge to share As smart as you are there are sometimes problems you just can’t think your way through. And so here are two opportunities for growth:1. Lean into your Get Strong persona by choosing 1 option to employ so you can track your improvement in course engagement and sales. Begin to master how your students nervous system responds to behavior change so that you can support them feeling when they get stuck Create content that supports bringing your students to their own insights Listen to what excites you and share that enthusiasm with your mentees Without implementing some of these changes you may lack fulfillment and meaning, experience eminent burnout, feel exhausted from action-taking, and overthinking, and have persistent health challenges. Write down 2 Get Strong Inspired-actions and choose a due date 2. Try Taking New Action behaviors by choosing 1 option to employ so you can track your improvement in course engagement and sales. Embrace emergent behavior change in your students so that you can support them build their new habits Taking vision aligned action so that you build enduring courses Lean into trusting your insights as much as you trust data Write down 2 Take New Action-inspired ideas and choose a due date Without implementing these changes you may get stuck in endless business development and ideation but never create last healthy habits and profitability. Without getting your expertise and information out into the world you won't be able to push your mentees' thinking, or challenge their beliefs. Meanwhile, other pseudo-experts may reach people who could really use your help and unfortunately, these customers might knot know the difference between quality work and questionable work. It’s time to take action in your life and business to create programs, containers, education, and courses that can influence the people, communities, and our planet. We encourage you to choose one concept to explore within your course design so that you can track the data and discover which changes produce results in your courses. If you’d like to unpack these results with us so you know which action is the best for YOUR business now hop on a Embodied Course Creator Type Call with us. We’ll use these results to clarify what’s not working, what next action might be best to take to improve course sales or engagement and if you’re the right fit we might invite you to work with us in one of our containers. Mark, M., & Pearson, C. S. (2002). The hero and the outlaw: Harnessing the power of Archetypes to create a winning brand. McGraw-Hill.