Episode 11

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18th Oct 2021

EP11 - CAREER PATHWAYS - PRACTICAL SKILL COMPETITIONS

In this episode around developing your career, I'm talking about testing your skills on the competition floor or in online competitions too.

As a means of skill growth competitions can make you challenge your day to day techniques, advance them, review them and WILL change how you work going forward.  

It shows ambition, drive and willingness to adapt to circumstances.  It shows you can work under pressure and still produce the goods.  For a prospective or current employer, having an employee that wants to compete can only bring positivity to the workplace.  Some larger businesses grow their teams through competition in the workplace as well as at regional, national or international competitions.  

I've been involved in competing, judging and managing nail competitions since 2006 and I love being on the competition floor.  Have to say I prefer my role as competition director than competing and love supporting the competitors as they hone their craft and help calm the nerves on the day. 

In my role with the Federation of Nail Professionals we are now collaborating with Professional Beauty and as this episode goes live on Monday I'll be on the competition floor for the second day of the London nail comp.  I'll be sharing pics and vids on my Inspiring Salon Professionals group so pop over to see what a nail competition is all about.

Find me on Facebook in my Inspiring Salon Professionals group or on Instagram as _sue_davies



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Inspiring Salon Professionals
The Podcast to Help Salon Professionals Grow Careers & Businesses
Welcome to Inspiring Salon Professionals, the Podcast that allows every salon professional, whether new or experience, to level up, build their business and career and reach for their dreams.

Inspiring Salon Professionals is a blend of host, Sue Davies, covering different topical subjects within the salon industry and interviews with salon owners, industry leaders and other professionals that can share their knowledge and experience on practical skills, business skills and creating a client welcoming space. Some of the areas the podcast will cover are: * Career Development * Mindset * Recruitment and Job Hunting * Inspirational Stories from Experienced Salon Professionals & Owners * Sales & Marketing * Client Experience * Building a Brand * Salon Development * Designing your Workspace * How to Start a Salon Business The podcast covers subjects from the beginning of your career to becoming an award winning business owner and everything in between. Sue Davies is an award winning salon owner and industry professional who has been in the salon industry for 20 plus years and has qualifications in nails, beauty, holistic therapies and the mind changing Control System, as well as an educator and assessor. She has gone from a home/mobile worker to self employed salon based, back home to a purpose built salon cabin and onto salon and academy ownership. Since 2005 Sue has held a few other roles along the way in trade association management, national nail competition management, judging internationally and nationally for practical nail competitions and business categories within the Scratch Stars awards system. Sue has spoken at Professional Beauty events on career development and the journey from mobile/home salon to salon owner and how to make the leap. Between 2020 and 2022 Sue was a co-founder and Deputy Chair of The Federation of Nail Professionals. In 2022 she sold her successful and award winning salon, Gorgeous Nail & Beauty Emporium in Bexley, Kent so she can take new directions within the industry.

In 2023 Sue became co-creator and founder of Salon Education Journal, as Editorial Director. SEJ was an innovative and collaborative education publication with a heavy lean into creating successful salon businesses and academies which was part of a business partnership that has now disbanded.

Sue's current business is Inspiring Business Excellence, of which the ISP podcast is part, which offers business mentoring, client journey/experience guidance and audits as well as helping business owners impactfully address their limiting beliefs with the Control System to make rapid change in confidence, anxiety, overwhelm, and many other mindset challenges. Find out more at www.sue-davies.com.

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