Empowerment and strategic planning can help overcome challenges. To empower employees, define roles, build trust through consistency and listening, and learn what motivates each person. Strategic planning involves establishing goals, getting team involvement through fun activities, and breaking plans into initiatives with due dates. The process includes determining priorities, brainstorming ideas, assigning action items and responsibilities, and following up on progress.

1. Implementation
through
Empowerment and
Planning

4. How to Overcome?
1. Empower Employees
2. Strategic Planning
Process

5. How do you
EMPOWER
your
employees?

6. Company Structure
Eric Fisher Academy Organizational Chart
Eric Fisher
Founder
Laurie Mason
Director
Erin Sutton Alexis Salas Jennifer Maddox
Assistant Director (Corp) Marketing Manager (Corp) Human Resources
Manager
Julie Carlson Jessica Beck Patti Black Cheryl Nelson
Admissions Leader Student Salon Floor Classroom Education Guest Services
Supervisor Supervisor Manager/Retail Buyer
Devon Jolly
Student Services Brooke Massey
Coordinator Taylor Brown Katy Epperly Guest Services Asst. Manager
Color Bar Lead Esthetics Instructor
Amanda Anderson Technician Katrina Gillenwater Margaret Harris
Financial Aid Rep Mary Osoba FT Guest Services Technician
Cosmetology Learning Leaders Esthetics Learning Leaders
Misty Merideth Full Time Garnis Armbruster
Administrative Coordinator Christina Franklin Esthetics Substitute LL PT Guest Services Technicians
Georgia Poe
Melissa Meyer
Stephenie Westmoreland
Part Time
Jen Bradley
Jen Fry
Lindsey Simon
Instructors in Training
Jessica Spohn
Jordan Inman

7. Define Roles & Responsibilities
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
S:AdministrativeHuman ResourcesRoles And Responsibilities.Docx
Patti- Classroom Supervisor:
Lindsey:
Classroom Coordination/
*L’Oreal Color Specialist
Observation
Certified L’Oreal Trainer
*Pure Forms Curriculum
Retakes
*Pure Forms Staff
Field Study
Training
Requests/Salon Tours
Classroom Specialist
State Board Testing
Christina:
Milady Master Educator
Schedule Demos
Coordinate Advanced
Men’s Cutting
Education
Lead Dept. Meetings
JenB:
Maintaining High
Runway Show
Standards for Education
Dept.
Jen Fry:
Jessica–Floor Supervisor:
Pure Forms Curriculum
Management of Salon
Floor and Dispensary
Stephanie:
Staff Scheduling
Lead Dept. Meetings Prep Sheets
Pure Forms Curriculum
Salon Floor Coordination
State Board Testing
& Observation
Curriculum Updates
Maintaining High Georgia:
Standards for Education State Board Testing
Dept.
State Board Inspection JessicaS:
Drill Prep Sheets
NaB
Mel:
*L’Oreal Color Specialist
NaB Team
Leader/Quarterly Taylor- Color Bar Technician:
Calculator Distribution of Tips to LL
Lead in Competitions by Zone
*State Board Drill Student Kit Packing &
Update Zone Clean-up Inventory
tasks Back Bar Inventory
Sassoon Photo Shoot Purchase Orders

8. Provide a safe environment
for open discussion
No repercussions
No retaliation
Respectful
Confidential

9. - Build Trust through
Consistency and Stability
- Learnabout employees and
ask about their interests
- Listen

10. What
Motivateseach
individual?
a
What
Languagemotivat
es them?

12. Establishing
goals and
implementing
a plan
Strategic
Planning

13. DON’T TRY TO DO IT ALLYOURSELF
• Break it down
• Get your team involved
• Have fun with it
• Assign initiatives and due
dates
• Consider a facilitator

14. How is this accomplished?
????

15. Set the date
-No interruptions
- No students
- Pick a day the school is closed
Make it FUN!
- Bring in lunch
- Go off site
- Go out for drinks afterwards
- Have out prizes for great brainstorming ideas

17. Determine key members
of staff to participate
* Guest Services
* Admissions
* Educators
* Financial aid
* student services
* Marketing
* director
* Owner
A Facilitator[if needed]

18. Departmental Priority
planning
*Play the Priority game within each
department
* Each department manager turn in priority
game to facilitator
* Facilitator compiles list of priorities
* The Priorities become your goals for
strategic planning

19. Items needed!!!
• Post-it flip chart & easel
• Colored markers
• Post-it notes
• Room with walls or glass
• Spacious area

20. Now let’s get started!!!
• On flip chart write your first goal
• Ask the individual team member to take a
post-it note and write ideas to achieve
the goal. One idea per post it note.
• Collect the post – it’s from all members
• Take a minute to sort post it’s into
categories (many will be duplicates)
• Great ideas become your action items

21. Action items!!!
• Under the goal write one idea at a time
• Brainstorm as a group
• What needs to be done to achieve this
action item and accomplish the goal
• Write ideas on flip chart
• Assign who is taking responsibility
• Assign a due date

22. Strategic Planning Template
TARGETS:
GOALS: MEASURES:
A.
B.
C.
Action Plans: Due Date Responsibility
TEAM:
STRATEGIC VISION:
UPDATED:

23. Follow up and Follow Through
• Distribute Strategic plan to all
participants.
• Each month at a departmental
meeting touch base with staff
on any progress.
• Are there obstacles?