Team work is very important in every aspect of life. In school, teamwork comes to play in how assignments get done. Students can help each other with subjects they don't understand. Teamwork is important because when people work together they can get more done. It takes less time and effort to clean a room as a group then as an individual, but only if the group is working as a team. If everyone is fighting about how something should be done, then nothing will be done. The same principles apply to our work environment.
In a salon, teamwork is very important. A good team will help each other out when working. They will assist other salon members who are behind in work, maybe by blow-drying a client, or just sweeping up excess hair. The stylists can also learn from each other. Different schools may teach slightly different ways of doing things. One stylist may know a really good system of keeping supplies in order or a new way to do a clipper cut. She can share this with her coworkers to make their lives easier. Another part of working as a team, is to not be possessive of your clients. If Mrs. Jones is your client and you don't want her to even look at another stylist in the salon then you will probably lose her. You may go on vacation; if you don't recommend someone within the salon to her, she probably won't go to them for fear of it getting back around to you. To whom will she go? A different salon, a salon that she may like better and wouldn't have had an excuse to visit otherwise. "A well-knows fashion magazine once interviewed salon clients about the salon experiences. Every woman interviewed said she would go to a new salon before she would change stylists within a salon." Another way you might lose this client is if she starts really sensing the tension, jealousy, and possessiveness in your salon because you are not working as a true team. She may be one of those people who can't stand tension and feels really uncomfortable sitting in your chair. Part of being a good team is realizing that you need to look out for the salon's benefit above your own. If you do recommend Mrs. Jones to another stylist while on vacation, she may decide she likes their work better then yours. That hurts, but at least she is still in your salon, and you still have a good reputation with her. She may recommend her friends to you, or if she brought someone with her to the salon and they didn't want to wait for her stylist, they may come to you if you are free. When you work as a team in the salon, not only do things get done better, you have a more "unified, professional salon image," that will draw clients in. Then you, and the rest of the salon, will "enjoy greater success and career opportunities." |