yeah, i definitely agree that you have to make the lessons suited to the student. but I do find times when they really need to know something, even if they don't seem to like it. For example my student is great at chords, and thats mostly what they play, so I to change it up we were working on this simple solo to work on single note stuff and they just couldn't do it, we worked on it some more and no real progress was made. The thing is when they need to play that sort of thing along with the chords they need to learn to pick well. I have the student practice scales, but theres got to be a way to relate it better.

Also, depending on the abilities and just general intelligence of your student the pace of the lessons are key. to fast, which is the easiest thing to do...and you will lose them. Always always review the next week what you were working on, and if they don't have it down work on it some more. It might seem tedious but if you keep learning something new each week and then review it all later nothing will have been learned!