We are the pioneers of Industry-Specific Business Coaching in Australia for the Hairdressing and Beauty Industry. Gita has 20 years’ experience assisting over 5,000 salon owners and many thousands of team members on how to improve overall business profitability and performance. Gita trained many of the coaches working within the hair and beauty industry today, which is true testament to the fact that the information created in this groundbreaking business coaching program really is well respected not only by the clients that use it, but also by fellow coaches working within these industries.
“Our Unique Point of Difference is that we not only work with the Nuts and Bolts of your business, we enroll your team in the process to help you grow a profitable and truly successful business”
Gita Thomas
Gita has her finger on the pulse with regard to industry changes, trends and associated training needs. Throughout her 30 years in the hairdressing and beauty industry, both here and overseas she saw the need for business education for otherwise technical and creatively minded business owners, first needing this information to successfully run her own business. Then writing the program and running it through her own business and taking it out nationally to small to medium business models.
Having established Salon Advantage and Beauty Advantage coaching programs in 2000, the program has remained current with industry trends and current business educational standards. The Business program was developed to enhance management and staff skills in all aspects of sales, service and profit building within the hair and beauty industry. Salon Advantage and Beauty Advantage is a nationally recognized business coaching program delivering these unique and comprehensive training programs to business owners and their staff.
Setting up franchise systems and tools for numerous master franchises nationally utilising the proven tools that are included in Salon Advantage and Beauty Advantage and Business Advantage Management Programs.
Performance Plus Training Academy is excited to have implemented Salon Advantage resources into many Colleges of TAFE in Australia and the Polytech Colleges in New Zealand as a resource tool to deliver units of competencies to our young hairdressers National Training Package.
Business Advantage Coaching Program has also been tailored for generic small to medium business models and has the opportunity to be tailored specifically for any business; however it is utilized successfully in its current format.
Since developing Salon Advantage Business Coaching Program Gita has been keynote speaker at many industry events including Hair Expo, Hair Biz Forum, Salon Melbourne and Toni&Guy Owners Conferences to name but a few. Many product companies including Schwarzkopf Professional, Goldwell, Salon Support and LabelM have engaged her services as a professional development speaker for both internal staff and their business clients here in Australia and overseas.
Professional Project Coaching is an area of expertise at which Gita excels. The most recent acknowledgement of Gita’s expertise in business coaching and development came in the form of an Award for “Outstanding Service to Toni&Guy” presented by the owners of Toni&Guy Australia, Dennis and Graham Langford. Gita has worked closely with these Global leaders for the past 6 years in a Business Development Management Capacity.
When it comes to business education Gita has devoted many years to the creation of workable systems and structure that can be delivered in a very simple manner. Enrolling staff in the process of growing businesses has been at the fore of the success of this unique and proven business system. The program has remained current with today’s marketplace and workplace and financial issues to ensure it is always cutting edge information being delivered.
Gita is committed to raising the standards in the hair and beauty industry. To date Gita has created many tools that remain exclusive to Salon Advantage and Beauty Advantage, they really do assist in helping all salon owners analyse their business performance showing them where they can earn more money.
We have been called the conscience of many a business owner, bringing accountability and creating momentum to follow through on tasks that are sometimes overlooked. We are outcome driven to ensure your time and money invested with us produces the results you are after. We help you make more decisions based on fact rather than emotion.
The core values Gita stands strong to throughout the process of her professional career include Integrity, Trust and Honesty, which is why all companies she has been fortunate to work with have continued to maintain contact and utilize her services wherever possible.
SERVICES
One on One Personalised Business Coaching Packages tailored specifically to meet your individual needs
In Salon Education Team Sessions to motivate and educate your team
Masters Class that empowers you to take the next step in your business development
Business Education Full and Half Day Workshops
Webinars to help you stay in contact online with fellow peers in a learning environment
Key Note Speaking Presentations at your next Salon or Company Conference
“Tailored to meet your needs and priced accordingly”
This program is for you if either own a salon or are considering buying a salon and you…..
- Want to take back control of your business and make more money
- Want to understand how to implement change to achieve higher profits from your business and enrol your team in the process
- Want to take a holiday and still get paid from your business, implementation of our proven systems enables you to do this. Sooner rather than later.
- Want to Attract more clients who are eager to buy from you and refer new clients to you.
- Would like to develop the confidence to charge, and get paid what you’re really worth based on a clearer understanding of your back end financials
- Need ideas on how to motivate your team and implement incentives that are financially sustainable
“Increase your bottom line profits $$$, business knowledge, personal development and team skills to achieve total business success”
Tap into our Salon Advantage Coaching Program that has a strong track record for getting the results, using Face to Face contact, Phone & Skype Coaching assistance along with In Salon Education of your team.
We are an outcome driven coaching organisation and to date have successfully coached over a 3000 salon owners using Face to Face coaching as well as Phone & Skype coaching to increase their bottom line profits in excess of 35%, helped to enrol their team, and ultimately empowered salon owners to make more decisions based on fact rather than emotion.
We have a very formatted approach to our coaching programs, every session has an agenda with follow up action needed by both the salon owner and the coach to ensure what is discussed is implemented for maximum financial return for the salon owner.
Each package is uniquely different, however what you would stand to gain by enrolling into one of our Specialised Coaching Packages would be:
- Increased understanding of the financials of your business including how to use the industry KPI’s confidently to maximise your profits
- A more motivated team that is enrolled in your business and understands their costs that needs to be covered consistently.
- Your team will have a greater awareness of what they are achieving each day, week and month personally which means your team will be more consistent in their takings and servicing of clients.
- A happier work environment and less sick days in your salon
- Strong growth in client numbers, client average spend and salon income
- Systems that free up your time to do more of what you most enjoy
- Marketing concepts that work for your salon in your area and increase your profits ongoingly
- You will develop stronger self confidence and run your business with more fact based information rather than just emotional reasoning.
“Increase your bottom line profits $$$, business knowledge, personal development and team skills to achieve total success”
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PRODUCTS AND TOOLS
TEAM MEETING IDEAS BOOK
The Team Meetings Ideas Booklet is designed to support the process of involving staff in the business and addressing many topics that need to be addressed in Team Meetings, assisting all team members in servicing clients more efficiently and effectively.
With over 65 Unique concepts for you to follow from consultation techniques, retail promotion to motivational sessions and personal development meetings. Re-energise your team meetings today.
$22 NOW $11 Incl GST
PRODUCTIVITY GAP – EXCEL TOOL
This tool works out the true potential of your salon measuring the number services your team is performing each week against industry benchmarks.
Then it tells you how much your business could be making if the clients were being serviced correctly. NO EXTRA CLIENTS are included in this gap, so when you add that to the equation you will see what areas you need to be marketing stronger and areas you need to increase your training with the team to deliver.
Your data collection software is a great to collect the information; however it does not tell you what you need to do to improve the overall profitability of your business. This tool compliments all data collection point of sale software by collating the data into an understandable format that answers the “how do I improve question.”
We go one step further with this information by using visually stimulating graphs to highlight areas you need to improve.
This tool is great to use for the SALON FIGURES OVERALL plus it is a great tool to use with INDIVIDUAL TEAM MEMBERS RESULTS. The same tool doubles for both.
The “how to” is explained when you load the software and put the data in the coloured bits of the calculator.
$69.95 NOW $35 Incl GST
TEAM MEMBER COST PER PERSON – EXCEL TOOL
This tool is the jewel in the crown.
Your team members think for sure you have just pulled a figure from the air when you set them targets in order for them to achieve incentives.
We help you set the GOALS and INCENTIVES based on all the financial costs incurred to employ a stylist
IMPORTANT: You need to get your stylists involved in the process of goal setting and this tools breaks up all the costs incurred when you hire your stylists.
We encourage you to show them the results of this calculation.
For example – a stylist that earns $600 Gross Income per week thinks that is all they are costing you, yet when you add oncosts like super etc it works out to be $733/week, more if they use a receptionist to help them.
When they see it in print and see how much the oncosts add up, it does make sense to them and they take onboard why you need them to be achieving their target before incentives are paid.
This calculator also has a unique feature on the last page of it, it also has the ability to show you who your most profitable stylists are over a three month period.
So many great stylists leave salons because they consistently achieve over their targets and are rarely rewarded for this effort.
So you could say this tool has many benefits:
1. You can work out what your stylists need to make before you can afford to pay incentive bonuses
2. It enrols your stylists in the Goal Setting Process and they can see the actual costs associated with them working with you
3. It can stop you losing a dynamic stylist because you have overlooked their consistent high achievement.
$69.95 NOW $35 Incl GST
SALON MARKETING MADE EASY BOOKLET
This marketing booklet presents a compilation of over 20 PROVEN MARKETING CONCEPTS enabling you to promote yourself and your salon to the market place while increasing your client base and overall profitability. Each marketing concept is divided into informative chapters comprising of everything you need and how to run the marketing activity so it really is salon marketing made easy.
$117 NOW $58.50 Inc GST (Downloadable PDF)
$147 Incl GST (Printed Version) Currently out of Stock
SALON ANALYSIS ELECTRONIC TOOLS DISC
“The original PROFIT TOOL”
All the electronic tools you need for reducing the time spent analysing the data to improve salon profits. Industry KPI’s explained and calculated with the press of one button. You make more fact based decision as opposed to emotional driven decisions about the profitability of your business. These tools are exclusive to Salon Advantage.
$350 NOW $175 Incl GST “Limited Stock Available”
SALON MANAGEMENT ELECTRONIC TOOLS DISC
All the tools you need to run a HIGHLY EFFICIENT salon, with the explanation on how to do it included. This electronic tools disc contains the Management Manual and the Team Meeting Ideas Booklet in electronic version which means you can find any information in these books quicker utilising the easy to use find guide.
$250 $125 Incl GST “Limited Stock Available”
Salon Record Book and Inserts
Nothing replaces your team recording their own figures to be aware of exactly what they are achieving. Our Salon Record Book has three sections;
- SALON takings incl services, retail and client numbers
- TEAM to record their own figures
- STOCK CONTROL to help you with your stock control.
This book alone increases takings in excess of 10% in the first month of implementation, just because the team are now aware of what they are or are not achieving daily.
$43 NOW $21.50 Incl GST “Limited Stock Available”
WEEKLY BUDGET PLANNER - EXCEL TOOL
Gain more confidence about the back end of your business by keying in the yearly costs of your business into the fields displayed and hit the button to FIND OUT how much it costs to open your doors each week. GST, PAYG on wages plus oncosts, PAYG on the business as well as your Return on Investment are all included in this budget.
“WHY JUST BUDGET TO PAY OTHERS, IT’S JUST AS IMPORTANT TO PAY YOURSELF AND GET THE ROI FROM THE MONEY YOU’VE INVESTED IN YOUR BUSINESS”
Accountants can make it all look hard yet we simplify the process and show you where you can improve your bottom line profits. Combine that with a plan of action and you can turn your business into a profitable business in no time.
Make your salons business decisions based on fact rather than emotion and enrol your team in what it means to them.
This tool has a graph that shows your team where the income is going and helps them understand why they need to be more consistent in achieving their own personal targets.
$69.95 NOW $35 Incl GST
SALES TREND ANALYSIS – EXCEL TOOL
Identify what times of the year you need to market your business stronger. Marketing plans are great; however on what facts do you base your decisions?
This tool identifies the highs and lows of your business performance, now you can set your marketing plan with confidence.
Use this tool to project out salon targets for the upcoming year based on last year’s performance. Again fact based decisions and a plan on how you can achieve it.
$69.95 NOW $35 Incl GST
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PRINTABLE TOOLS DISC
24 tools for you to implement into your business ensure the service delivered is consistent and PROFITABLE …… Each tool has its own function to strengthen the SYSTEMS within your business to improve your bottom line profit. Simply print and implement, IT’S THAT EASY…………
$195 NOW $97.50 Incl GST “Limited Stock Available”
MANAGEMENT MANUAL
The how to guide for running a successful salon covering all areas of business development. This 196 page manual is your go to reference whether you are setting up a new business, looking for ways to grow your existing salon or empowering a new team leader in your business. Never before have we sold this tool separately, however there are no other tools like this in the marketplace, so its time.
SECTION ONE Leadership Skills and Staff Management Strategies
SECTION TWO Implementation and Assessment of Effective Systems
SECTION THREE Marketing Strategies
SECTION FOUR Goal Setting, Business Planning and Financial Management
SECTION FIVE Team Member Training
SECTION SIX Cost Effective Stock Control
$250 NOW $125 Incl GST “Limited Stock Available”
Induction Probationary Manual
Why wait and hope that all new team members are going to service your clients to the same high standards you uphold in your salon?
This tool helps you with the induction process from a technical perspective covering all areas from introducing themselves, capping up, how to shampoo with all the why’s answered.
NOW you can delegate the training to a trusted member of your team to ensure all new recruits offer the same standard of service you expect.
This tool is Brandable and we tailor it to meet the standards you expect to be met within your salon to ensure your business maintains the same high level of service to every client, which equates to a more profitable business.
Trainers Notes and Trainee Booklets to complete are included.
$295 NOW 147.50 Incl GST
POLICY AND PROCEDURE MANUAL
Having a Policy and Procedure Manual personalised to your standards, branded with your imagery and logo and then implemented with your team right from their first day working with you means you get more consistency in your salon. This then equals a more profitable business that runs the way you want it to.
Includes:
- Policy Manual for you to personalise and brand with your logo
- Induction Layout to help you maintain your standards
- Daily Weekly Monthly Management functions
- Job Descriptors to ensure all team members understand your expectations
A tool to ensure all new staff members are trained to the same high standard and policy and procedures are followed.
$750 NOW $375 Incl GST
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