Anne Veck takes to her bike for sustainable salon education

Sustainability and training are two of Anne Veck’s greatest passions.  Driven by changes in education needs of salons and learners, Anne has re-worked her educational offering.

Anne has developed some creative and sustainable solutions for what she terms her ‘micro-education’ offering of small-bites of training:

• A problem I hear time and again is the cost of training, the time it takes out of the salon and the expenses incurred by team members getting there.
• An optimal learning period is between 45 minutes to two hours – covering a topic at a time and keeping a short, sharp focus. And for the Gen Z and X it’s a lot less with learners retaining less than 50% of the content.
• There is unhelpful inconsistency. One big burst of training, a day or a two-day course, and then nothing for weeks or months.

Solutions to each of their issues are addressed with Anne’s micro-training – testing this out close to home (within a 30 mile radius of where she lives) to  work around the time the salon has available, rather than the other way around, it is trainee and salon led.  The micro-education presents as short, regular training the team.  By limiting sessions to 2-3 participants enables Anne to deliver highly targeted training, adapting time with individuals according to attention spans, learning goals and immediate and longer term goals.  Supplementary learning materials for trainees to review between sessions to support continual growth.  Budget savvy and mindful of the impact on the planet are winning principles for all involved.

With this approach, Anne has met the frustrations of salon owners with current training head-on, and gone are the full day absences and holidays and the big financial impact with the ‘all or nothing’ effect.

I love that this combines the best of all worlds, and with the training being local, I take to the road on my bike, with my training materials in my back pack, mental as well as physical fitness!