In the Press: Creative Head Magazine
A huge thank you to Creative Head Magazine for featuring us in their October 2021 Issue, allowing us to share space in their magazine along with other industry-leading salons and the advances we’ve made toward the new employment landscape post COVID-19. Since we re-branded in July 2021 to The Blushes Collective, we’ve launched our 6-month Training Academy, fast-tracking our stylists-in-training to qualify to the floor in a third of the time of the rest of the UK, providing a more flexible opportunity for people of any age and experience to complete the program.
The Blushes Collective signifies community and growth, it’s the umbrella under which we create dynamic environments where people come to flourish. Purposeful creation of happiness for our clients and our teams by changing the way we experience hair.
Following on from our training academy, we’re taking a Careers Not Jobs approach in an industry which traditionally only nurtures a single career pathway. With our Coaches Not Managers culture that we’ve adopted, we want to mentor our people into having a fulfilling careers that follow a path that suits their creativity and skillset.
The Blushes Collective has taken a careers-not-jobs approach, including mentoring individuals to reach their individual goals, whether that’s to best hairdresser possible or to upskill in a new area of business, such as marketing, PR or management.
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Our Coaches not Managers initiative which brings our salon structure into a more contemporary working culture, nurturing a community of people led by mentors. Information sharing between team members is so important to creating a culture of growth within our salons. Some people may thrive in one area where others may not and to us, that’s ok.
“It’s all about listening and exploring options. We decided during our rebrand to listen to what was going on in the world of recruitment and make the benefit of flexible hours and days, available to our own employees. We don’t micro-manage our teams anyway; we want them to feel they can express their own personalities and thought processes in their work, which enables multiple employment models to exist in one environment together.”
Reflecting on the employment landscape during and post Covid-19 we knew that people were craving more flexibility with their working schedule and so we developed the opportunity to offer multi-employment. We now offer our people in Cheltenham and other salons the chance to be self-employed, or employed by one of our salons with the freedom to design their own working schedule enabling our team to have a better work-life balance.
