Never Stop Learning

I am here in Toronto attending the second in a seres of seminars on managing your salon. It can be challenging when you have only had to deal with yourself all your career and now suddenly you are responsible for others in a way that your not used to. I take my role as salon owner very seriously and wish much success for my salon but also for my employees.

My focus is to my staff and making their working invironment pleasant and giving them the tools they need to feed their creativity. When it is needed I will help my staff where ever I can.

Now tomorrow is the first day of the managment seminar and I will see if my methods are on track or whether I need tweeking. It can be humbling to see that there is much to learn but it can be, and also should be very exilerating to have alot to learn, and I vow to never stop learning.

To be continued...

Thanksgiving

I have so much to be thankful for. I am thankful for our salon, Mix Salon and Spa. We are now 13 months old and growing every day in so many ways like new clients and repeat clients which shows me how hard my staff is working to build not only my buisness but their own and that makes me very proud (and yes very thankful.)

Thankful is also how I would describe how I feel about my profession and grateful that I get payed for doing something that I love so much. My niece is now in beauty school and I am so excited for how much joy she will feel not just learning everything she will be taught but actually practicing what she has learned.

One of my buisness partners, Bruno, just got back from a cruise in Greece put on by our colour company Schwarzkopf (the first picture is of their academy in Athens at the Grand Opening!) now WOW that's learning. In this buisness things are always changing and it is always great to see someone who still enjoys learning. Hope you enjoy some of his pictures. I know I did.