Hair Education
My portfolio of hair education courses range from classic cutting techniques to advanced creative approaches and specialised teacher training courses. All courses are in line with the latest techniques and delivered in a way that can be adopted across your salon.
Hair Education
My portfolio of hair education courses range from classic cutting techniques to advanced creative approaches and specialised teacher training courses. All courses are in line with the latest techniques and delivered in a way that can be adopted across your salon.
Hair education is crucial to the growth of any business. As an individual or a team developing skills, expanding knowledge, sharing and learning from others is essential.
Structured training can provide your foundation. I can teach you and your team, classic and creative cutting techniques and crucially how to make these techniques work on the salon floor.
Why my hair education?
Tailor made courses taught anywhere in the world. I offer individual in-salon training programs aimed at the latest salon looks.
Fundamentals
A course designed to deliver the fundamentals of our craft.
Fundamentals
A course designed to deliver the fundamentals of our craft.
A clear understanding of one length, layering and graduation techniques will help you build shapes within the hair. I will teach you essential techniques to allow you to tailor haircuts to the individual and develop your skills to the highest level.
You will learn:
- Precision cutting
- Consultations
- One length,layering and graduation
- How to build shapes in the hair
- Face shapes/ suitability
Salon Contemporary Creativity
An experience to encourage creativity, this course looks at the elements of disconnection to produce modern inspirational looks.
Salon Contemporary Creativity
An experience to encourage creativity, this course looks at the elements of disconnection to produce modern inspirational looks.
The shapes and the size of the sections dominate the techniques, creating easy to use sectioning and patterns. Sharing of skills, thought processes and inspirations, illustrate contemporary salon work. A truly motivational insight into the art of creativity.
You will learn:
- A range of commercial, classic and creative looks to enhance day to day salon work.
Teacher Training
My teaching training courses share the exclusive art of teaching incorporating tried and tested methods used only by top class academies.
Teacher Training
My teaching training courses share the exclusive art of teaching incorporating tried and tested methods used only by top class academies.
These courses will train you how to teach, improve your communication skills, perform stage demonstrations confidently and the skills to give you a hands on tutoring approach whether to your own staff or a classroom setting. Some of the benefitsare: Access to the exclusive teaching methods only known by first/top class education academies, Communicate effectively to obtain best results in shortest amount of time, Teaching /coaching step by step, demonstrations and show work, A variety of teaching methods, leadership skills
Communication and presentational skills, demonstration and teaching skills
An exclusive insight into the art of teaching, revealing all the secrets along with long established teaching methods. Devised to teach you how to teach. Level 1 will increase your communication and presentation skills and help you develop your terminology in order to help you communicate to any audience. Demonstration and lecturing skills allow you to enhance your ability to teach a hands on approach covering the very fundamentals of teaching.
You will learn
- Communication and presentation skills
- Terminology, how to talk about haircuts
- Key words
- Demonstration skills
- Blackboard lectures
- Lecturing skills
- How to teach step by step, a hands on approach
Advanced demonstration and teaching step by step skills
This progressive course follows on from Level 1 sharing key methods such as linking, working with difficult audiences and demonstrating with technicians and delivering key messages. It deals with all levels of teaching problems and enables you to extend your teaching abilities to the next level. A unique opportunity to develop your teaching skills and become an excellent presenter with stage presence and continue the ideal teaching package as a dedicated instructor.
You will learn
- Advanced demonstration and teaching skills
- Including linking and key messages
- Practical skills
- Teaching problems
- How to work with technicians and interpreters
Show training, salon training plans, interview and appraisal training and everything you need to know to run your own training academy
To complete the all round teaching package, this course lets you into the insight of how to prepare and perform shows and seminars. Lesson and salon plans help you plot the strengths and weaknesses of your individual staff. Interview and appraisal training ensures you can set goals allowing you to give competent appraisals on an individual basis, ensuring you get the very best from your dedicated team members, with the inside knowledge of how to run your very own training academy.
You will learn
- Show training including preparation
- Comparing skills
- Opening and closing speeches
- Salon training plans
- Lesson plans
- Short and long term courses
- Interview and appraisal training
- Creative teaching, different styles of teaching
- How to run a training academy
Leadership and motivational skills
Leadership is a multi-dimensional function, it requires knowledge and understanding as well as organisational needs. As a leader you must master the various roles that are required to handle different people and circumstances with skill and efficiency.
This forward thinking and directional approach covers the fundamentals of Leadership, how to manage your team, develop your business, from holding meetings to analysing problems and motivational skills, which will establish you as one of the leading names in the industry today.
You will learn
- Leadership and motivational skills
- What is a leader?
- How to become a leader and lead others
- Developing your team
- Holding meetings
- Analysing problems
- Motivational skills
- Media and marketing training
Ladies Comprehensive
6-8 weeks
A course designed to deliver the fundamentals of our craft. A clear understanding of one length,layering and graduation techniques will help you to build shapes in hair. Important step by step coaching allow you to perform precision haircuts tailor made to the individual. These disciplines are the essential concepts to everyone's repertoires and progress to developing your skills to the highest level.
Ladies Comprehensive
6-8 weeks
A course designed to deliver the fundamentals of our craft. A clear understanding of one length,layering and graduation techniques will help you to build shapes in hair. Important step by step coaching allow you to perform precision haircuts tailor made to the individual. These disciplines are the essential concepts to everyone's repertoires and progress to developing your skills to the highest level.
Important step by step coaching allow you to perform precision haircuts tailor made to the individual. These disciplines are the essential concepts to everyone's repertoires and progress to developing your skills to the highest level.
Here is a list of subjects covered:
- Haircutting techniques, one length, layering and graduation
- All theory and technical knowledge, to include the key points to each haircut
- Advantages and disadvantages to each technique
- Face shapes and suitability
- Knowledge of different hair textures
- Understanding of certain growth patterns within the hair
- How your body position works in relation to the head, standing positions, clients head position
- Understanding of what finger angles to use and when
- How to gain the best balance
- Understanding the use of over direction, its meaning, what it does and how to use it
- Acquiring sectioning patterns for each technique
- How to achieve precision cutting
- Terminology and the understanding of key words
- How to talk about haircuts
- The consultation process, words to use in a consultation
- Ensuring you use correct technique for face shape, hair texture, suitability etc
- The correct way to use freehand techniques on the hair for example pointing and slicing
- How to advise clients on products/colour services
- Blow drying skills
- How to create shapes in the hair
- Difference between each technique
- Client care and professional service
- Complete and comprehensive understanding of hair
Students would also receive weekly appraisals to plot progress and work on strengths and weaknesses. Homework to complete and exams to monitor knowledge. A competent understanding of the classics to produce personalised haircuts and gain excellent results. Through informative demonstrations, lectures and work sessions you will grasp a strong sense of modern hairdressing skills.
Barber education
A totally different concept to ladies hairdressing. Barbering uses the idea of square shapes to flatter strong jaw lines. Everything from the consultation process to scissor over comb technique is covered to produce strong tailored shapes. Unique thought processes ensure polished, well executed results.
Barber education
A totally different concept to ladies hairdressing. Barbering uses the idea of square shapes to flatter strong jaw lines. Everything from the consultation process to scissor over comb technique is covered to produce strong tailored shapes. Unique thought processes ensure polished, well executed results.
You will learn:
- Classic and creative shapes
- Core techniques
- Consultation process
- How to build a square shape
- Scissor over comb and clipper techniques
- Outlines and finishing techniques
- Confidence
- Refinement
- Retail
Lectures & Demonstrations
Alongside the fundamental and advanced curriculums I offer a number of specialised subject lectures to develop your skills. I specialise in cutting and work alongside some very talented technicians who provide colour education to enhance cutting techniques, providing a holistic approach to hair education.
Lectures & Demonstrations
Alongside the fundamental and advanced curriculums I offer a number of specialised subject lectures to develop your skills. I specialise in cutting and work alongside some very talented technicians who provide colour education to enhance cutting techniques, providing a holistic approach to hair education.
Cut and colour demonstrations
An opportunity to observe the latest cut and colour combinations from London. Everything from the latest looks to the sectioning patterns will help you translate these looks into modern salon day life.
- Salon contemporary work
- Inspirational and motivational
HOW TO PUT A COLLECTION TOGETHER
The trade secrets are revealed to produce a strong, modern hairdressing collection. Ideas, storyboards, how to find the best models, and what to look for, photography and make-up are all analysed to produce the strongest images.
CONSULTATION LECTURE
A lecture covering the fundamental consultation process, this lecture will help you communicate with your clients ensuring that you use the correct terminology in order to achieve the best results. A discussion about face shapes and hair texture completes the package.
- The consultation process
- What questions to ask
- What descriptive words to use
- How to talk about shape
- Terminology - key words
- Suitability and face shapes
- What to look for prior to cutting, i.e. growth patterns and hair textures
- How to handle difficult clients
SALON IMAGES LECTURE
Images are used to create salon friendly looks. This allows you to take pictures of work and discuss how these can be used in the salon. Ideas and sectioning patterns are revealed to give modern contemporary looks.
- Individual salon looks
- How to create the best asymmetric styles, and the sharpest bob
- Body positioning, finger angles and sectioning patterns are also discussed
- Modern techniques
Business Consultancy
Today running a successful salon is not simply about doing great haircuts. A solid business foundation is crucial for surviving. Salon owners need to be all round business gurus and experts in everything from accounting to highlighting.
Business Consultancy
Today running a successful salon is not simply about doing great haircuts. A solid business foundation is crucial for surviving. Salon owners need to be all round business gurus and experts in everything from accounting to highlighting.
The clever ones have figured out what they are good at and surrounded themselves with people who have the skills they lack. That is smart! This program is designed to equip you with everything that you need, putting solid structures in place to obtain a professional business. Concentrating on basic communication skills as well as leadership and motivational skills. Leadership is a multifunction; it requires knowledge and understanding in conjunction with great organisational skills. As a leader you must master these various roles in order to be able to handle different people and circumstances with skill and efficiency.
Here is a list of subjects covered:
- Basic communication skills enabling you to connect with your staff
- Presentation skills to further develop your communication
- Understanding of what is a leader?
- How to become a leader and lead others
- How to develop your team
- Team building skills
- How to hold meetings
- How to analyse and deal with problems
- Motivational skills
- Interview and appraisal training
- Media and marketing training
Do you want to increase your revenue? How to develop and build your business. This course will be based solely on intense theory sessions, no practical skills involved.