Uncategorized Archives - Anne Veck - EDUCATOR | HAIR ARTIST

Businesses taking biodiversity seriously!

Business and biodiversity. Great post on LinkedIn by Emma Toovey from Environment Bank about the benefits of membership of UK Business & Biodiversity Forum . Join now here in taking biodiversity and business seriously!

“Did you know that the total asset value of ecosystem services in the UK was estimated at around £1.8 trillion in 2022, according to the Office for National Statistics.

🌊 And nearly half of companies on the London Stock Exchange are highly or moderately dependent on nature, says PwC (a widely argued under-estimate).

🤓 Adopters of the voluntary Taskforce for Nature-Related Financial Disclosure framework has seen an increase of at least 30%

Businesses are navigating a new world where understanding and addressing biodiversity and nature-related risks, dependencies and opportunities are increasingly becoming critical in making good decisions for a sustainable, resilient and viable business. But it is not easy!

If this is your business and you want to join a supportive community of professionals looking to integrate biodiversity into operations then I would highly encourage you to join the UK Business & Biodiversity Forum as a member. Join today for a whole range of brilliant benefits.”

A great post. But UK Business and Biodiversity Forum membership is not just for the big players because it’s good for small and medium sized businesses too. So if you run a salon or a wholesaler or L’Oreal, Davines, Aveda or any of the other brands talking the talk about sustainability and nature, then do join us at UKBBF. Be part of the movement of businesses working to integrate nature into their decisions and operations.

Transparency alert! Keith is a director at UKBBF and Anne Veck Limited is a sponsor and member,so call Keith on 01865 744612 if you’d like to know more. Or if you are shy, email him on keith@anneveckhair.com and for more about sustainable hairdressing, this is the place to go!

Hair collaboration: Arctic Angels

Anne loves a good hair collaboration and here is her latest “Arctic Angels”.

The creative team’s goal was to achieve looks that were both powerful and delicate, much like the Ice Queen herself. The collection features icy textures, shimmering accents, and dramatic silhouettes that exude a sense of regal elegance.

And here are details of the artists behind this stunning hair shoot collaboration:

Hair Anne Veck
Styling Tia Ori
Photography Izabela Wojnarowska
Make-up Roxanna Petran
Retouching @adretouchstudio @taya_podletska @retoucher_sofi..
Modeling Estelle Digridi @estellethegazelle Vania Angel @v.aniaangel Temi @temitemss

Now to view the whole collection go tohere!

On her bike! Making hairdressing education effective and sustainable!

Sustainability and training are two of Anne Veck’s greatest passions, and with an inspired re-work of her educational offering for local Oxfordshire salons, she has found a way to combine the two with phenomenal effect!

“Keeping it local has been a really revolutionary training move for me, it has so many advantages and I think meets team and individual training needs in a very ‘of the moment’ way. ” Says Anne.

Anne came up with some creative and sustainable solutions for local hairdressing training:

• A problem I hear time and again is the cost of training, the time it takes out of the salon and the expenses incurred by team members getting there.
• An optimal learning period is two hours – covering a topic at a time and keeping a short, sharp focus.
• There was an inconsistency, one big burst of training, a day or a two day course, and then nothing for weeks or months.
• The solution to these problems has proven remarkably simple.
• I keep training close to home, that way I work around the time that the salon has available – rather than the other way around, it is trainee and salon led. This means short, regular training sessions that really meet the current and emerging needs of the business and the team. Budget savvy and mindful of the impact on the planet.

With this approach, Anne has met the frustrations of salon owners with current training head-on, and gone are the full day absences and holidays and the big financial impact with the ‘all or nothing’ effect.

“Ultimately, I observed that the effectiveness of full-day training was limited by the staff’s ability to retain information, often only remembering around 50% of the content, and that does not serve anyone well, either the learner or the salon funding the training.”

Anne’s solutions and response to these difficulties has been a new model of local hairdressing training.

I have developed 2-4 hour sessions for nearby salons (within a 30 mile radius of where I live). Preferring to maintain my commitment to the in-person training (again retention rates are shown to be higher for in-person training versus online).

This flexible approach allows for easier integration into salon schedules. Limiting sessions to 2-3 participants enables me to deliver highly targeted training.
Keep in touch training means that I provide supplementary learning materials for trainees to review between sessions on Instagram.

I am now part of the in-house training teams for three salons and bring weekly or bi-weekly input.

As part of this I have found it essential and valued to uphold regular communication with the owners to drive through the training’s positive impact.

I love that this combines the best of all worlds, and with the training being local, I take to the road on my bike, with my training materials in my back pack, mental as well as physical fitness!

Want to know more? Want to book Anne for some hairdressing training? email anne@anneveckhair.com, call 01865 744612 or grab your copy of her new education brochure here! Or for an overview check this out.