Thats a great post Geeg we can never stop learning we will never know enough there is always something more to be learned .
Ruby
Ruby
You know what? ....
I think it depends on the person...their abilities...what they want from their business etc...
I do think it is EXTREMELY important to get the best FOUNDATION course you possibly can....good foundations make for a stable building
If from there you a happy with your work, your clients are happy with your work and your business is what you want it to be...then I don't see a problem with not taking any more qualifications/training/courses....
But you can never have enough skills and qualifications.....and if you want to further your career to a higher level you have no choice obviously...
A sucessful nail technician in my opinion is someone who is happy, confident and has happy clients....preferably with a thriving business....
How many certificates or courses they have doesn't really come into it for me....but it certainly doesn't do you any harm to have as much education as you can handle :lol:
Most of us have allot more ambition than your first paragraph implies.
The problem is that this industry does not stand still and you need education to build up and to keep up. Clients wont stay happy for long when they come in and ask for something you know nothing about or a question you cannot answer.
How would you feel about going to a hairdresser who had not been on a course for 10 years and couldn't cut your hair the way you wanted it because she hadn't been on an update course for new techniques? THAT is further education and my hairdresser goes twice a year (probably why she has the best business on the Costa Blanca).
If ones mentality is "oh, they'll do. My clients are happy and I'm happy so I guess I'm OK." is thinking in the very short term and not at all smart. Your client base has to BUILD not stay static ... clients don't always have their nails done forever AND as a final point, it has been proved time and again that technicians (hair or nails or whatever) who take further education build their businesses by a corresponding 10% every time they do so. Their energy and enthusiasm is renewed and their businesses thrive from it.
Once you think you are 'sitting pretty' and laid back and without ambition is the day you will see your business go down the pan as everyone goes off to the newest brightest spark in town.
I don´t think your point has been missed, more that you´ve missed the point of what a foundation course is intended to offer, a foundation, nothing more and nothing less!You know what? ....
I think it depends on the person...their abilities...what they want from their business etc...
Doesn´t every technician want the best for their business?
If the said technician has reasonable ability isn´t it better for them to expand on their ability to make their business even more successful?
I do think it is EXTREMELY important to get the best FOUNDATION course you possibly can....good foundations make for a stable building
I totally agree :green:
If from there you a happy with your work, your clients are happy with your work and your business is what you want it to be...then I don't see a problem with not taking any more qualifications/training/courses....
However, a foundation is just that, a foundation, in order to build the house you need more than the ground floor, you would require at least the first floor if you were building a house!
I prefer to live in a tower block (relatively speaking) and strive to improve myself as much as I can, as I further my education so I get higher up the tower block, it´s better for my business, my skills, my techniques and also better for my clients, you will not learn the ´life skills´required for this business solely from a foundation course!
But you can never have enough skills and qualifications.....and if you want to further your career to a higher level you have no choice obviously...
A higher level than what? A foundation?
A successful nail technician in my opinion is someone who is happy, confident and has happy clients....preferably with a thriving business....
How many certificates or courses they have doesn't really come into it for me....but it certainly doesn't do you any harm to have as much education as you can handle :lol:
I don´t see how you can have a thriving business with solely a foundation course.
Of course the amount of education (and/or certificates) comes into it, you don´t get better by sitting on your a$$ doing nothing, you have to work hard to get better and you have to work hard to achieve more...
i think one point that has often been missed in threads like this is that CPD - Continual Professional Development need not always be about going on a course.
It could be about reading an article or tutorial and applying that in your practice.
It could be a 1-2-1 with another nail tech to share skills/review other products. Peer review their work (not just the end result say in a posted critique) but the whole of their routine.
Going to shows - free product demos etc - see educators from other companies - it really might open your eyes.
I have been a model on countless occaisions for all the big guns - and believe me you don't always learn as much on a paid for course as you do on here!
i keep a file with all of my papers, tutorials etc (my homework file!)- it really does help
i think one point that has often been missed in threads like this is that CPD - Continual Professional Development need not always be about going on a course.
It could be about reading an article or tutorial and applying that in your practice.
It could be a 1-2-1 with another nail tech to share skills/review other products. Peer review their work (not just the end result say in a posted critique) but the whole of their routine.
Going to shows - free product demos etc - see educators from other companies - it really might open your eyes.
I have been a model on countless occaisions for all the big guns - and believe me you don't always learn as much on a paid for course as you do on here!
i keep a file with all of my papers, tutorials etc (my homework file!)- it really does help
I don´t think your point has been missed, more that you´ve missed the point of what a foundation course is intended to offer, a foundation, nothing more and nothing less!
:hug:
I have taken many courses and continue to do so.....it's all about upping your skills and not just relying on the basics you were taught at foundation level.
To be a successful and sought after nail technician, you need to be updating your skills at least once a year and doing your own CPD, whether by networking here, going to the shows, attending workshops, reading trade press, that kind of thing.
Foundation level is foundation level and to be honest, it's very rare that I have come across nails from a tech with only foundation level qualifications who can really cut the mustard....obvioulsy there are exceptions to the rule, but in general IME I would say not.
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