One of our upgrade programs at Black Belt Excellence Martial Arts Academy is the Leadership Excellence Program.

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Leadership Excellence Program
- Developing the Next Generation of Excellent Instructors and Leaders in Society

Benefits:

Our Leadership Excellence Program is an outstanding opportunity for you to:

• develop your teaching, instructional, and leadership skills.
• improve your own Taekwon-Do technique, theoretical knowledge, and self-confidence.
• have fun in a positive and yet structured and disciplined environment
• learn how to lead with confidence and competence
• experience the joy of teaching, coaching, and mentoring and seeing the smile on students' face when they achieve their goals and improve themselves
• discover your full personal potential while making a positive difference in the lives of students of all ages
• develop your assertiveness, communication, presentation, interpersonal, and organizational skills
• accumulate volunteer community service hours as per the Government of Ontario's mandated Community Involvement requirement for graduation
• give back to your academy for the benefits you have received through your own martial arts training and education
• take on the challenge of being a leader and a role model to others
• make new friends, develop positive relationships, and share your talents with a group of like-minded high achievers
• be mentored personally by the Head Instructor and receive specific, regular, and constructive feedback to improve yourself

The leadership and teaching aspect of the martial arts is what has made the difference between me training in Taekwon-Do for 4-5 years versus enjoying Taekwon-Do as a Way of Life. - Mr. Phil Nguyen, Head Instructor

Program Description

The leadership opportunities you have offered the boys and I have added a whole new dimension to our Taekwon-Do training. I personally find it exhilarating to be able to assist in the earlier class and I believe it is an invaluable learning experience for Pat and Sam. It has certainly reinforced to me your adage that "teaching is learning twice". - Bob J.

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Thank you for giving my daughter the opportunity of being on your Leadership Team and teaching her so many wonderful things and giving her countless opportunities.  Ever since she started, she's been so much more active at home and at school.  Being at Taekwon-Do has taught her a lot about pushing herself to be the best she can be and to communicate better with others.  She is definitely not the shy person she was the first day she came to your school. - Alice W.

I learned enormously from the Leadership Team Training Session. The class was very well structured and the pace was good. We had enough time for each exercises and the examples, scenarios, and discussions around them helped me understand the concepts.

I also want to mention that the technique that you use to help us learn and remember is incredible. The out loud repetitions and the movements associated with the word help me enormously. You also use this technique in class and it is a technique which I appreciate. - Genevieve C.

"Teaching is learning twice." - Joseph Joubert

Blair has been lucky enough to become a Little Dragons S.T.O.R.M. team member and loves working with the younger kids. It amazes me that at such a young age she has already decided on a career and has started working towards it and being part of the team will help her work on her leadership skills. I believe that Taekwon-Do is great for exercise, but as a parent of teenagers, I think that it really guides kids in a different direction and creates very strong, confident, and respectful individuals. - T. Woolley

Leadership Retreat "A" 2007 Attendees

Leadership Retreat 2007 Attendees

Taekwon-Do and Leadership Excellence has been an excellent program program for my daughter in many different ways. Physically, she is a solid young lady and in good shape.  Mentally she is much more confident and it shows in her day to day behaviour but very noticeably just recently in the way she was coaching her brother and I on some of the basic new skills we are learning. It was a side of her I rarely see and I thought I would take a moment and share it with you.

We decided, at my daughter's suggestion, that we should use part of the basement as a pseudo dojang - an area we can practice some of the skills/patterns we will be learning. As we entered, she transitioned from my daughter, to instructor and it became instantly clear the benefits she has gained from her volunteer work at Black Belt Excellence. Her patience with her brother increased instantly, her ability to balance the correction of faults vs positive reinforcement was very good.  Her insistence on following proper protocol (Yes Ma'am) and her brother's  - and my - willingness to follow her lead.  It was as if a different young lady had emerged. She owned the moment.  In a very short period of time, her presence changed from daughter and sister, to instructor.  She commanded the room naturally. It came easily to her and was not forced.  I was also impressed by the depth of knowledge she had, but more importantly her ability to clearly communicate the subtleties and nuances of the walking stance, and the motions between transitions of each move while correcting me. Clearly at her belt level this should be all second nature but it is one thing to have the ability to do something, and it is another to know it well enough and have the skills to teach it.  Despite the fact we were in an informal environment and she was just helping "her Dad" and "her bother", I was impressed with the way that she handled herself.

Clearly your influence through both the normal Taekwon-Do training and the leadership skills you have been exposing her to have had very positive benefits.  I have always believed this but what stood out for me that evening was a part of the benefits I had never witnessed. In my mind, I saw a snapshot of the young woman she is transitioning into. I was very proud at what I saw.  Now, I hope that my wife and I, and my daughter herself can take some of the credit for who she is today :-), but clearly your influence has been a very positive factor and I thought you should know.

Too often folks only take the time to pass along negative feedback, and miss the opportunity for positive feedback.  I wanted to share with you positive feedback of the job I think you are both doing and the impact it is having on our family. - Jim P.