Spa managers plan, direct, or coordinate activities of a spa facility. They coordinate programs, schedule, and direct staff, and oversee financial activities.

  • Respond to customer inquiries or complaints.
  • Schedule guest appointments.
  • Maintain client databases.
  • Coordinate facility schedules to maximize usage and efficiency.
  • Perform accounting duties, such as recording daily cash flow, preparing bank deposits, or generating financial statements.
  • Monitor operations to ensure compliance with applicable health, safety, or hygiene standards.
  • Plan or direct spa services and programs.
  • Develop or implement marketing strategies.
  • Sell products, services, or memberships.
  • Recruit, interview, or hire employees.
  • Assess employee performance and suggest ways to improve work.
  • Inventory products and order new supplies.
  • Establish spa budgets and financial goals.
  • Inform staff of job responsibilities, performance expectations, client service standards, or corporate policies and guidelines.
  • Train staff in the use or sale of products, programs, or activities.
  • Participate in continuing education classes to maintain current knowledge of industry.
  • Direct facility maintenance or repair.
  • Verify staff credentials, such as educational and certification requirements.
  • Schedule staff or supervise scheduling.
  • Check spa equipment to ensure proper functioning.
  • Develop staff service or retail goals and guide staff in goal achievement.
Work Context
  • Contact With Others — 100% responded "Constant contact with others".
  • Face-to-Face Discussions — 98% responded "Every day".
  • Telephone — 91% responded "Every day".
  • Work With Work Group or Team — 84% responded "Extremely important".
  • Frequency of Decision Making — 74% responded "Every day".
  • Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 64% responded "Very important results".
  • Deal With External Customers — 83% responded "Extremely important".
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Work Activities
  • Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
  • Assisting and Caring for Others — Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
  • Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
  • Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
  • Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others — Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
  • Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
  • Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others — Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
  • Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
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Detailed Work Activities
  • Train service staff.
  • Develop plans for programs or services.
  • Train service staff.
  • Evaluate employee performance.
  • Inspect equipment to ensure proper functioning.
  • Arrange facility schedules.
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Knowledge

Clerical
  • Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
Customer and Personal Service
  • Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Administration and Management
  • Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
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Skills

Monitoring
  • Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
Coordination
  • Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Speaking
  • Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Social Perceptiveness
  • Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
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Abilities

Oral Comprehension
  • The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Problem Sensitivity
  • The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
Oral Expression
  • The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Oral Comprehension
  • The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
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Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.
They do well at jobs that need:
  • Achievement/Effort
  • Persistence
  • Initiative
  • Leadership
  • Cooperation
  • Concern for Others
  • Social Orientation
  • Self Control
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Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Video creation and editing software
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Human resources software
  • Oracle Taleo Hot Technology
  • Elite Software Elite Salon & Spa Payroll
Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word Hot Technology
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Education

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