Program Design
Use the Wheel Strategy To Coach Retention
Repurpose the classic short-put plus covered-call loop as a teaching cadence: each leg mirrors how you onboard, challenge, and celebrate your learners.
Structure the Weeks Like the Wheel
Week one = “sell the put”: give learners premium upfront by handing them quick wins—maybe a templated checklist or a chart they can reuse. They feel compensated before they invest more time.
Week two and three = “assignment zone”: introduce higher-effort labs or quizzes while you stand by as risk manager. People accept the challenge because they still remember the earlier premium.
Debrief Like Rolling Premium
Schedule a five-minute retro after each submission. Ask what part of the strategy they would “roll” forward and what they would close. This language keeps the investing metaphor alive and encourages iteration.
Celebrate the Call Being Assigned
When a learner demonstrates mastery, treat it like shares getting called away—mark the win publicly, free up their attention, and invite them into an advanced loop. That community spotlight is the dividend that keeps subscriptions sticky.
Key takeaways
- Hand learners a “premium” in the very first session.
- Use short retros to decide what gets rolled forward.
- Treat every win as a reason to upsell the next learning loop.
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