How often do you brainstorm as a team? ‘National Swap Ideas Day’

‘Everyone you will ever meet will always know something that you don’t’ 

In every aspect of your life, communication is key. How you choose communicate with others is fundamental to the outcome of every conversation and task you may encounter. For 'National Swap Ideas Day', we want to highlight the importance of successful interactions in the workplace because it really can be the core stimulant to grow your business in the long run.

With the National Swap Ideas Day approaching us on the 10th September, we thought it would be a great excuse to encourage a meeting with your team to support the day. It's a great excuse to mix things up in your business and apply new and creative techniques to the business that you might not have thought of yourself. It also allows colleagues to raise any flaws in the system, increase team morale and ensure everyone feels comfortable expressing their thoughts and ideas in moving forward and developing with your business. 

An example of how you can 'swap' ideas and roles are to really evaluate each member of staff you have. Do they hold any other passions or skills? This could be in the use of social media or in sales. Delegating tasks of importance to your junior technicians can help improve staff motivation and encourage their development within your business. It also provides the 'newbies' with room to grow and use their initiative to reach the given target. For your salons junior technicians, the delegated task could be something as small as, retail product encouragement and management or managing the Instagram account. Can this particular employee encourage the upsell of 3 retail products per calender month, per staff member or ensure you post relevant graphics on Instagram 2x per day? 

Ensure your longstanding staff members have their area of input too, can they handle more responsibility? This could be increasing their role to manager within your salon software service offering them a more of a supervisor role in your absence. 

So, in light of ‘Swap Ideas Day’, why not create a communicative task at the salon. Social events with your colleagues creates great scope for the gathering of new information, creative ideas and those genius ‘light-bulb’ moments. It’s a great excuse for a catch up with your team one on one, and, on a whole with the insight to their current motivation and performance.  

So try it out, propose a little team brainstorm and see what your salon team can bring to the table! 

P.S... as its edging ever closer to our EXCLUSIVE exhibit at Professional Beauty North, our offers have been released! Why not come down and see our ideas of how we can help improve the management of your salon! 20th & 21st September at Manchester Central, stand B35.

Register for your ticket here http://bit.ly/1J5UiUS

Hope to see you there!

Salon Tracker x