5 Strategies for Busting Up Backroom Gossip
Eufora Business Team Trainer Donna Rodrigue shares 5 ways to put a to stop salon gossip, which can be detrimental to your culture.
How to Create a Lifetime Employee in 90 Days
The key to retaining your newly hired service provider lies in the first 90 days of her career with your salon. At Data-Driven Salon Summit, Salon Cadence's Ronit Enos will show you how to onboard new hires for the best retention, but first she stops by SALON TODAY to share what you will learn.
by Stacey Soble
Treatment Sales Fund Education for Genesis Team
Stylists allocate their share from one service category to build a bank for classes and travel.
SALON 200: Gordon Salon Team Uses App to Show Appreciation—To Each Other
Bonusly gives staffers an easy way to award points in real time to every staffer in the salon who helps out.
Losing Employees? These Factors Might Be Why
Experts reveal six factors in the workplace that could be increasing staff turnover.
How Inflation Intensifies Your Salon's Staffing Headaches
Recruiting and retaining talent it tougher than ever. Adding to that pressure is the impact of inflation which may making your team members feel stretched. It may even prompt them to entertain the idea of a career outside the industry. Stef Fox illustrates the conversation you need to have with your team right now.
8 Tips for Great Team Building
Building a strong team and enforcing it by constantly cultivating your team culture is one of your most important roles as the salon's owner. But it isn't easy. Vish's Tim Howard offers up 8 great solid steps to get you started.
How to Get Off Manager’s Island
Shanalie Wijesinghe, director of education at Boulevard, outlines the critical steps leaders can take right now to create a better, more inclusive experience for themselves and their teams.
Salon Today 200: Mirror Mirror Salon Lives Its #mirrormirrorstrong Branding
After several false starts, some postpartum depression, and COVID followed by a devastating Texas storm, owner Martha Lynn Kale has shaped her career and her salon to stand up to pretty much anything.
Salon Today 200: Headlines The Salon Rebounds Mightily
A series of small changes during the pandemic added up to deliver March 2022 as the California salon’s best month ever.
Salon Today 200: Jyl Craven Hair Design Removes the Ceiling to Success
When adding yet another stylist level felt like a band-aid solution, the owners empowered their top stylists to define their own earning potential.
Salon Today 200: JEM Hair Studio Keeps the Team Connected Through a Video App
The Marco Polo app gives staffers multiple times each day to video-share what’s on their minds.
Face Value Salon Passes the Baton
When the Covid lockdown cleared, the Virginia salon had a new but very familiar owner, proving that family businesses can achieve a smooth transition and a lifelong storyteller can channel that passion through salon ownership.
Salon Today 200: Gordon Salon Devises a Tool to Creatively Motivate the Team
Through Ultimate Teams, a companywide competition league, each location’s staff came together to step up their game.
A Frank Conversation on Employee Retention in Today's Workplace
With the Great Resignation, it's critical that employee retention is a focus for salon owners at this time. To get to the heart of it, Strategies Michael Yost has an open dialog with two leading salon owners. Watch the conversation, or read the recap.
by Stacey Soble
Don't Get Bored With the Basics
Many salons relaxed their dress codes and their customer service perks as they scrambled to keep up with Covid-19 policies. But now is time to elevate your standards again, says Minerva Beauty's Jeff Grissler and he explains why.
Two Industry Icons Reflect on What It Takes to Be a Great Leader
In an exclusive SALON TODAY video interview, Oribe's Daniel Kaner and Gene Juarez Salons and Spas Founder Gene Juarez discuss how to create an inclusive, collaborative environment; the role mentorship plays in leadership; and how they witnessed owners valiantly lead over the past two years. Then they make a few suggestions for your leadership reading list.
by Stacey Soble