Online training, or e-learning, is the future of employee education, and it’s what national corporations in most every industry are using to teach company procedures. In fact, more than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies are now using educational technology for formal training. Now, you can utilize a proven online training system to make teaching your salon procedures simple, efficient and consistent.

MyTracks training is like a Smart Tan certification that you can customize to your indoor tanning business to teach and test opening, closing, cleaning, sales, problem areas, product info — whatever you need.

Creating MyTracks trainings is easy:

1. Create the material. This can be a video you shot or a document you created.
2. Upload the file.
3. Add a supplemental file, if you want. Have a handout related to the training you want your employees to keep? Just upload it!
4. Create a test, if you want. Want to make sure your employees really understand the traiing? You can choose to create a multiple-choice test for them to take.
5. Assign the training. Just like you would assign a Smart Tan training. You can also track who took the training and how they did on the test.

Since productivity is directly linked to the training you provide, training is an opportunity to change how your team manages their time. Create independent workers by using the new MyTracks training in combination with Smart Tan’s certifications. While the certifications teach essential skills and knowledge that apply to all indoor tanning businesses, MyTracks allows you to create your own videos, documents and test for the salon-specific items your team needs to know.

Instead of taking time out every time a new employee is hired, owners and managers can develop their own custom trainings and assign them to employees as the need arises. Show them how to open and close, clean, or sell your latest special with a consistent, time-effective training of your own. You can even use MyTracks to share special announcements from management or train the staff on new equipment — the options are limitless!

“We use MyTracks on a regular basis in our salons,” says Hannah Hipps, owner of Sun Station Tanning Studios. “If we feel that an issue is coming up on a regular basis, we create a training and assign it as a refresher. We’ve also created lotion trainings, and overviews on customer service and salon tours.”

If you’re doing it right, training isn’t just a one-time event during orientation. It’s an ongoing process that grows with your business and each member of your team. That initial training inspires curiosity that owners and managers should foster by continuing to challenge each employee. Certifications and personalized MyTracks trainings allow you to submerge employees in your brand so they become more invested in the work they do.

MyTracks is available as an add-on to your Smart Tan membership. Call your Smart Tan representative today for more information.