Course Overview
This programme aims to develop and improve “soft skills”, essential to your confidence and self-esteem, alongside gaining knowledge and understanding of the opportunities you can pursue to progress into a career in the hair and beauty sector.
The course has been designed to be taught in a classroom environment with a combination of delivery methods including presentations and interactive activities, there will be 1:1 support from the tutor alongside working with your peers.
Learners will have the opportunity to assess the impact of the programme by revisiting their goals, and creating a personal development plan on how they will:
- Gain employment
- Start own business
- Receive more responsibility at work
- Gain a pay rise
- Obtain promotion
What will I learn?
Our introduction to self-employment course includes the following units/topics:
- Recognising confident thinking/behaviour
- Becoming more aware of the impact of low-confidence
- Understanding how self-confidence/self-esteem are related
- Becoming aware of own confidence levels
- Understanding/applying a range of confidence improvement techniques
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of the role within the hair and beauty sector
- Identify different types of settings within the hair & beauty sector
- Understand communication techniques within hair and beauty settings
- Principles of Business in the Hair and Beauty Sector
- Business Communications and information in the hair and beauty sector
- Upholding excellent customer service standards in the hair beauty sector
- Solving Problems and making decisions
Eligibility
This course is government-funded, and you must meet the following criteria to be able to study for free:
- You must currently live in West Yorkshire (Courses to be held at LCG Hair & Beauty Academies based in Huddersfield and Leeds)
- You must have been resident in the UK/EU for 3+ years for purposes other than study
- You must be over the age of 19