Why Your Team Meeting Isn’t Working (And What To Do Instead)

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The Five Meetings Your Salon Actually Needs

You’ve sat down to run a team meeting. You’ve talked about goals. Everyone nodded. And then nothing changed.

So you stopped doing them.

This is the conversation between Larissa Macleman — founder of Salon Owners Collective, 20-year salon owner — and Janine, an operations and leadership expert who’s spent the last decade transforming how salons run. They’ve known each other since they were both baby salon owners trying to figure it out. Now they’re breaking down the five meetings that actually move the needle.

Not five random meetings. Five specific meetings, each with a real purpose, each designed to build accountability without you having to chase people around. Because the real problem with most salon meetings isn’t the meetings themselves. It’s that owners are running the wrong ones, running them without purpose, or running them so inconsistently that nothing sticks.

What you’ll discover in this episode:

  • Why most salon owners dread team meetings (and how one structure flips that in a week)
  • The daily nine-minute huddle that moves your financial needle faster than anything else you could implement
  • The one meeting most salon owners skip entirely — and why it’s costing them their top talent
  • How to build real accountability and follow-through without becoming the person chasing every task
  • How to structure meetings differently depending on your team member’s development stage
  • What the owner’s actual role should be in meetings (it’s probably not what you think)
  • Why consistency beats perfection, and how to start if not everyone’s there

THE FIVE MEETINGS:

  1. Daily Huddle (9 minutes, daily)
  2. All-Team Meeting (60 minutes, weekly)
  3. One-on-One / Talent Development Meeting (30 minutes, weekly or more/less depending on experience)
  4. Talent Development Workshop (monthly minimum, skills training)
  5. OMA — Owner-Manager Alignment (fortnightly, 30 minutes, if you have a manager)

This episode is for any salon owner who’s been running meetings that feel pointless, who’s stopped doing them altogether, or who’s wondering what they should actually be talking about.

If you’ve ever thought a meeting was a waste of billable time — this reframes that completely.

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3 Reasons Every Salon Owner Should Listen to This Episode:

     ✅ Discover the one nine-minute meeting that moves the financial needle faster than anything else you could be doing

     ✅ Find out which meeting most owners skip entirely (and why it’s costing them their best people)

     ✅ Learn the real role you should play in meetings — and why you’re probably doing it all wrong

About the author, Larissa

With 20 years as a Successful & profitable Salon Owner, leading a team of 30 and developing industry-first technology.

I’ve dedicated my career to helping salon owners achieve Finiancial & personal success.

After selling my salon, I founded the Salon Owners Collective and created the Salon Mastery Program, empowering owners to grow $1M+ in revenue with Rockstar Teams and powerful profits.

When I’m not running a team of 11, developing growth programs I’m a mum of two, and renovating our family home

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