Our Story
My name is Caitlin and with my business partner Courtney we are the creators of THE Apprentice Planner & our newest planner THE Salon BOSS Planner.
We have owned our salon in Tasmania for over 14 years and have employed over 15 apprentices. In this time, we have obviously made lots of mistakes and learnt A LOT!
Our Planner Story began when our personal lives and salon got busier than ever and tracking our apprentices progress and helping them grow became an impossible task we just couldn’t keep on top of, and the apprentices themselves found it increasingly harder and more and more overwhelming!
This was when we made our very first Apprentice planners.
The instant organisation and change in our apprentices was just incredible, they had more clarity, direction and knew exactly where they were at and where they needed to be!
Not to mention the shift of ownership of their apprenticeship and real motivation to be their very best! It was obvious to us that we couldn’t hide this secret, we need to share it with EVERYONE!
AND SO…. THE APPRENTICE PLANNER was born!
After the feedback from our first year of launching THE APPRENTICE PLANNER , we got straight on to working on one for salon owners as let’s be honest, we get overwhelmed too!!!
AND SO …… this year we are also bringing you ….
THE SALON BOSS PLANNER !
We use the planners for:
- A base for our weekly meetings
- Pre-plan and book in courses for our staff for the year
- We track the apprentices targets, record and make plans on how to reach & make achievable goals
- Our apprentices can plan models for their school lessons in advance and write down any notes from teachers or homework they need to remember to work on.
- Social Media Planning in advance.
- Stop micromanaging and giving the apprentices real ownership of their goals and apprenticeship.
Bottom line our planners are great at keeping your staff accountable and delegated jobs you would normally complete so you can focus on other salon growth.