I have five staff and if I want them to train in something, I pay for the training and I pay them. However, some of those staff are part time and work form home doing beauty. One has just paid for herself to train in Brazilian waxing which (if she’s good enough) she will then do in my salon. This helps to fill her column, and a full column leads to a higher wage, so a win/win.
I’ve just paid a lot of money for my therapist to do electrical facial training. I also paid her wage while she was out of salon. By this time next week, she will be fully insured to offer electrical facials - particularly Radio Frequency which is currently very popular. An hour will generate £68. Currently her best earning treatment is a full body massage which generates £42 per hour.
As long as your contracts are in place so they can’t bugger off taking all their certs, I think it’s down to the salon to pay. However, everything is open to negotiation. But if they pay for themselves, or contribute, are you happy for them to then work from home/mobile, using the skills they’ve paid for? I am, so we can sometime negotiate paying half each etc.
Was it Richard Branson who said “train your staff well enough so that they can leave, and treat them well enough so they choose to stay” or something like that!!!
Vic x