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.