Huddle Time
Team building is essential for a salon’s success and not as difficult as you think. Daily communication creates clear objectives and promotes participation by all.
by Heather Goodwin
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Team building is essential for a salon’s success and not as difficult as you think. Daily communication creates clear objectives and promotes participation by all.
During the course of a foot treatment, nail tech Ruth Windsor asked her client what type of work she did. “She responded with, ‘I own a doggie daycare facility.’ And I told her, ‘I want to come work with you.’” It was a few years later that Deb Watkins, owner of Canine College, hired Windsor as an administration specialist.
Nail tech and salon owner Kathy Dent shares her favorite work-related person, place, and thing.
Suite Romance: Several nights a week, you’ll find nail tech Steven Hall 20 miles away from his Janesville, Wis., salon in beautiful Lake Geneva, working the evening shift as an innkeeper at the Lazy Cloud Bed & Breakfast.
These five tales of survival prove that timing isn’t everything. Hard work and determination can make almost any reason for delaying the fulfillment of career goals seem like a paltry excuse. Take inspiration from these salon owners to surmount your obstacles in 2014.
Sometimes you think you know a person, but it turns out there is more than meets the eye. We gave our six AVA Nail Technician of the Year finalists a few questions for them to ponder. Some of their answers may surprise you.
Eggs for All; Megan Gollop, owner of Nails by Megan in Portugal Cove, Newfoundland, Canada, is the proud owner of six laying hens.
Owner of Nails by Heather inside D.C. Haircrafters in Warsaw, Ind., Heather Lackey discovered she was an inspiration to the younger generation when her client, Tanya Smith, brought in this drawing her 7-year-old daughter Hallie Bale had done as an assignment for her second-grade class at Warsaw’s Lincoln Elementary.
Deb Hentschel, salon owner. In her other life: florist.
A nail tech at Essence Hair Salon in Pasadena, Calif., Dori Swope first learned to juggle at age 16 when she was taught by a cute boy who lived nearby.