Please find all details below and contact Karla@nabtraining.com with any questions you might have. We look forward to seeing our Member School Instructors & Staff for another great weekend of inspiration, motivation and lots of FUN!

Leadership Conference

Ticket Prices: $59/ Per Person (book through mariah@nabtraining.com)
**Last day to purchase tickets is Monday July 2, 2012
Hotel: Book under the CEA Group Block by following http://www.swandolphin.com/groupres/cea/

Event: Cocktail Meet & Greet
Date: Thursday July 26, 2012
Time: 7:00 PM
Dress: Business Casual

Event: Full Day of Classroom Session (Includes Breakfast & Lunch)
Date: Friday July 27, 2012
Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00PM
Dress: NaB Tee

CEA Conference

Event: CEA Registration
Date: Friday July 27, 2012
Time: 5:00 PM – 8:30PM

Event: CEA Conference
Date: Saturday July 28, 2012 – Monday July 30, 2012

Event: NaB Cocktail Event in Hospitality Suite
Date: Saturday July 28, 2012
Time: 9:00 PM

The other top 4 nominees where:

(in alphabetical order)

Camalita Glover, Evergreen Beauty College

Coral Trujillo, Career Academy of Beauty

Dana Simoneau, Hays Academy

Kim Reed, Honors Beauty College

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Every one of these nominees are worthy of the title!

All 5 nominees were recognized on stage during general session on Sunday at the 2011 Leadership Conference, where they were presented with their Top 5 Team Leader of the Year Certificates. The winner (Jessica Kimball) was announced on Sunday night on the big stage under the bright lights of the Nabbies.

The judging was done slightly differently this year due to the many, many, many different variables that come into play when trying to quantify what it means to be a great Team Leader. We decided that the fairest way to do it would be to have the NaB team vote for there top 5 candidates in a number of categories, including but not limited to the following four:

1. Attending & Contributing to the bi-monthly TL Conference Calls

2. Responding to TL e-mails & requests for correspondence

3. Sending in Monthly & Quarterly Calculators

4. Overall Energy and Commitment to the NaB Programs & Philosophy

This inspiring story was sent to us from one of our member schools, Gill-Tech, in Appleton, Wisconsin. The following was taken from their Newsletter:

When Sandra Wagner accepted her new position as Gill- Tech’s Admissions Director, she already had a prior commitment: to meet her father in the Ukraine for a working vacation. She never imagined that the collision of these two events would turn into The Dream Project.

Sandra was excited about the opportunity she was about to have working with The Hope Center, an extension of the U. S. group Global Action. The Hope Center is a non-profit educational facility that takes in orphans and helps mentor young women looking for sustainable careers. Currently, the lack of education and resources available to young women results in these women turning to abusive relationships or prostitution to support themselves.

As Sandra prepared to leave, President of Gill-Tech, Sheryl Fisk, expressed her interest in doing something to help the situation for young women in the Ukraine. This thought by Sheryl set the dream in motion.

Sandra was unprepared for what she was about to encounter. She found the situations of the women more dire than she could have imagined. She quickly became involved in a mentoring project that the Educational Director of The Hope Center was working on. The Director was trying to come up with skilled professions that the women could learn at the orphanage and then take back to their villages as a way of supporting themselves long term.

Unaware of the position that Sandra had recently accepted with Gill- Tech, The Hope Center’s Educational Director thought the career of cosmetology would be a good option for the women. Sandra thought to herself “Wouldn’t it be great if we could bring one of these women to the U. S. to learn the trade of cosmetology at Gill- Tech?” Sandra couldn’t get the dream out of her mind.
Sometimes dreams take a little perseverance, as Sandra would quickly find out when encountering obstacles in bringing over a student that did not speak English, had no support system or reason to go back to the Ukraine after she completed her training. These obstacles led to the decision to train Anya, an interpreter for The Hope Center, who would come to Gill- Tech and learn the career and take it back to the women at the orphanage. Anya had a favorable family life in the Ukraine and a support system to return to . . . and Anya was comfortable with the English language. The project was beginning to have momentum.

The next step was finding a way to bring an exchange student over the border to study at Gill-Tech. Enter Homeland Security . . . not as easy as dreaming it so. With the help of Fox Valley Technical College and Marie Martin, who came up with the option that FVTC could subcontract with Gill-Tech to educate the student, the dream was kept alive–Anya came to Gill-Tech to study and the Dream Project was born.

Anya will study at Gill-Tech for the next year, and live with a host family during her stay in the U. S.

Upon graduation, Anya will return to the Ukraine and assist in creating a cosmetology education program at the Hope Center. The program will consist of vocational training for 15-20 young women, combined with training for practical life skills such as: cooking, laundry and financial responsibility. After completing the program, the young women will continue to receive mentoring through the Hope Center as they build a life for themselves outside the Center’s walls.

Gill-Tech will continue to research ways to remain involved in the effort to help these young Ukrainian women. Currently, there are at least three Gill-Tech students interested in traveling to the Ukraine to help start up the cosmetology program. The hope is that Gill-Tech Academy, FVTC and the Hope Center can create a program that will educate the young women of the Ukraine, as well as train the young women of the U. S. to reach beyond their boarders and help their fellow females realize their dreams. For more information about The Dream Project contact Admissions Director, Mz. Sandra.

The Nuts and Bolts Business Student of the Year Awards will be held at the ISSE Show in Long Beach, California January 2012. You can download rules, regulations and application forms by clicking/right-clicking the link below and as always they are available in the member section! (Soon to be “NabLive” as of November 21st, 2011)

DOWNLOAD THE IBSY RULES, REGULATIONS, AND APPLICATION

Criteria for this competition includes:

Attendance
Overall GPA
% of Customer Service Checklists completed correctly
% of guest up-services
% of retail to service sales
% of Color Service Sales (for Cosmo) OR % of Chemical Service Sales (for Esthetics)

And don’t forget about the 3-5 minute video portion!

Please encourage your students to get as creative as they would like for the video portion of their submission; students may do a skit, song, role playing, etc…anything they would like as long as it conveys and answers following questions:

What has the student learned from the program?
How do they plan to use the teachings of Nuts and Bolts in salon /spa life when they graduate?
Describe the lesson from one of the four NaB programs that was the most impactful to you and how you identify with it.
Where do you see yourself in 5 years and what steps do you plan to take to get there?
How has the NaB program made you a better business person?

To get some ideas, read the interview with the 1st place Esthetics Winner from the 3rd Annual IBSY awards, Nikki Hynek. You can also view her amazing video submission, feel free to share it with your students.
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT INFO:

To qualify, a member school will choose a student from each of the above disciplines from each campus to be their Business Student of the Year for Cosmetology and /or Esthetics. The student entrant(s) MUST:

1. Be enrolled in a cosmetology or esthetics course in CY2011 and performing guest
services daily on clients through their graduation date.

2. Be chosen from one of the 12 Business Student of the Month winners.

3. Submit scores from their winning month.

Please do not hesitate to email us or call us with any questions regarding the NaB International Business Student of the Year Competition. We are looking forward to receiving the submissions. Remember, the deadline to submit is 5:00pm PST Monday, December 12, 2011