Managing a team in an eyelash salon

Running your own beauty salon is quite a challenge, if only because there is a lot of official paperwork to deal with, but also... the need to hire employees. Why actually hire an employee for an eyelash styling salon? How to manage the created team so that the work is effective and pleasant? Read Rarity's guide and learn how to become a good boss in the beauty industry.

Running a beauty salon - the most important information

As a salon owner in the beauty industry, you will be responsible for virtually everything - from customer service to ordering the products needed to carry out beauty treatments. Opening your own business requires a lot of commitment, if only in such aspects as:

• accounting,

• customer acquisition,

• organization of working time,

• hiring employees.

For all these aspects of running a business you need time, which unfortunately cannot be bought. It often happens that people engrossed in working in their own beauty salon neglect their private lives and give up their free time. When such situations occur, it is worth stopping and thinking "what am I doing wrong?".

When maintaining your own beauty salon with a complete team, you must not forget to invest in professional eyelash and eyebrow products. This is the basis for providing customers with the highest possible quality of beauty services, as well as contributing to the comfort of your work - yours and your employees.

Recruitment of employees for a beauty salon - how to do it right?

On average, it takes from a few days to even a few weeks to prepare a job advertisement, conduct interviews and complete the formalities for hiring a new employee.

What's more, even after signing the contract, you must remember to train your employee for the right position in your company. Otherwise, you won't maintain high standards of service performance and customer service, and this will cause clients to start leaving for the competition.

When it comes to customer service, you might want to read our blog post: eyelash and eyebrow styling and customer service - does routine matter? It's a guide to help you develop the right treatment routines. This will help you easily keep your salon's regular clients for longer.

When building a team in your beauty salon, be guided by positive considerations. Never treat the fact of hiring employees as an unpleasant necessity or a risk that new competition will appear in the market after training. When building a team, what counts are such aspects as partnership, striving for joint development of the company, flexibility of action and excellent atmosphere.

Beauty salon development - with your own team it is possible!

Many eyelash stylists and cosmetologists love to do their work independently - following their own treatment procedures. Unfortunately, but nowadays hiring a qualified team or one to be trained is the basis for a thriving business.

If you choose not to hire a proven employee for your beauty salon, you run the risk that your business will stop growing, or worse - fall far behind the competition.

When looking for a person to fill the position of beautician or eyelash stylist, you need to ask one basic question. What is it? Ask about a given candidate's plans for the future. It's a good idea to build a team of people who are focused on long-term cooperation.

Remember never to run away from the conversation about money. This issue is worth leaving for the end of the interview. An additional person in the salon is not supposed to be a "machine for generating more profit" - after all, it's about relieving the pressure on your own work calendar.

Beauty salon team - planning is the basis.

When building your own brigade in the beauty industry, it is necessary to clearly define the responsibilities of the position. If you yourself have a plan for how you will lead and train your employees, you are likely to achieve great success. The better you take care of the people in charge of your salon's treatments, the greater the chance that trained professionals will stay with you for the long term.

Bottom line: if you want to build an informed and active team - never expect too much to begin with. It's the small steps towards growing together and creating a partnership atmosphere at work that count. A good way to plan future hiring activities is to create a mind map. This will help you clearly establish your needs, common goals and any expectations from the new people on the team.