In Business Your Success is Determined by Choice – Not by Chance

Simply hoping to have a good year in 2015 in your salon will not get you very far; you must move beyond hope and move towards taking action, with clear defined and outlined steps to your goal.

1. Your retail target should be to sell out of all the “overstock”. This way you are starting the New Year with a better than par stock level.

1. Plan to have internal appraisals even if it just to talk about the last year, and what team members would like to do in 2015.
2. Ask yourself, what are we going to do in down time for the six weeks until the clients come back?  Maybe training new colour and styling tech?
3. The big clean, the run up to the holiday is a busy time. “Spring cleaning” helps you to focus.
4. Schedule a staff meeting to work on what are the plans for the New Year and to brainstorm. – Make commitments to implement.
5. Do each other's hair.
6. Look at (and be aware of) people taking their holiday time off. Less team members in the salon means more clients for those that are working. Plan accordingly.
7. Plan the date for the mangers and owner to have a two-day planning meeting.
8. Throw a small party as a ‘thank you’ for the year’s hard work.

1. Write down a list of all the things you didn’t do this year so you are ready to attack it head-on, next year.
2. Choose your outcomes – don’t let chance determine your destiny!

Edited and abbreviated by Lachlon Silver, original article by UNITE Global Education Director Marcus Allen. Lachlon Silver Salon Specialist