Teaching is a secure occupation, your salary is guaranteed, fixed and you have security of tenure. However, teaching is also a profession of low self-esteem and disproportionate wages considering the qualifications needed. There is also little reward for excellence. The poorest and the best teachers, the most diligent and the laziest, the good and the bad are all paid from the same pay scale.

1. Perceived indifference by the employer: Teachers feel they are not valued within the system.
Our solution: With your own franchise you are the boss. The attendance of your students to be coached by you validates your worth.

2. No rewards for initiative and outstanding talent:
Our solution: You reap the rewards of your initiative and undoubted talent.

3. Lack of career growth opportunities: Promotion is stalled by too many people seeking too few opportunities. Promotion often requires moving to an unfavourable school or location.
Our solution: As a business owner you already have a higher position than a school principal and you choose the location.

4. Low self-esteem: Community perception of teachers contributes to this feeling.
Our solution: The community respects the small business owner, a person who takes risks and relies on his talent and efforts to succeed.

5. Too much unnecessary documentation involved in the teaching profession. Teachers understand the need for accountability, but today, about 80% of the paper work filled in by teachers will not be read or used.
Our solution: In your own business you decide the documentation that is necessary and you know its value.

6. Financial considerations: Teacher`s salaries have fallen far behind other professions. The realisation of your dreams is inhibited by the limits of your salary.
Our solution: At Master Coaching you determine your upper salary limits. This does not guarantee you a higher salary than teaching as you have to rely on your talents and self-belief, but you have the opportunity to affect your own income and dreams.

7. Teachers are conscripts and reactive: The bell rings, they respond. A forced transfer can come at any time in your career, even to principals who have earned the ire of their superiors.
Our solution: In your own business, you choose your working hours and days. You can choose where you want to work. Our original franchisee started at Ulladulla, moved to Wollongong then moved to Woolgoolga. Where and when the owner moved was his choice.

8. Children don't fully appreciate your efforts made on their behalf: Too often you are seen as an authoritarian figure whose main role is to discipline and punish.
Our solution: The intangible rewards of coaching are far greater than teaching. You are the child`s mentor and are dealing with children who genuinely want to be there. You also have the full support of the child`s family as they see the difference that you make in their child.

9. Work place stress: You have to deal with relationships with difficult children, often without the support of your colleagues or superiors and, in some cases, even the parents. When you also factor in relationships with other staff and superiors, there are many opportunities for stress.
Our solution: In your own coaching business, you do not need to accept difficult children. You have a choice. (As Robert, one of our franchisees said, I knew that I had made the right decision when I was able to refund one weeks fees to a disruptive student and say don`t return!) As the boss you have the opportunity to set the tone in staff relationships.

10. Environment: No PE classes, no canteen rush, no play-ground duty on wet days.
Our solution: With your own franchise, you coach for generally three or four hours on most days. Your office can often be where-ever your mobile phone and lap top are.

Master Coaching franchises offer you an opportunity to explore another side of your life. It is a challenge that can only enrich you with better and greater experiences. Robert made the change after eighteen years of teaching in large high schools in the South Western Region of Sydney. Eight of those years were as Head Teacher of Mathematics.