Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Getting Back to Management Basics is the Best Way to Get Your Spa Business Back on Track (K.I.S.S)

When running your spa you can easily find yourself forgetting about the basics when it comes to managing your business and your people. Therapies change, complications arrive, theories evolve, but you need to make sure that you don’t get so carried away that you forget the basics that probably served you well before things got complicated.
What this means is not losing sight of the basic goal of business management, getting things done through skilled leadership, organization, communication, and planning. When carried out properly, using your basic management skills will effectively run or help any business.

This means applying the KISS principle to any business model or situation. An acronym for Keep It Simple, Stupid, it is meant to remind you that no matter how complicated things get, you can always address or solve problems by using simple methods. In other words, the best solution is usually the easiest or least complicated one.

Even if your spa business seems to be spiraling out of control, you can probably get it back on track again by keeping it basic and keeping it simple. Over complicating things in business, as in life, usually just leads to more complications and fewer resolutions.

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