TIMETABLE FOR MOTB SHIFTS SEPTEMBER/ OCTOBER 2008

Please note because I cant figure how to post the timetable in the blog, for now i have emailed it to yo. The rest iof the information is on the blog

Kind thanks,

Mark

Key: MV = Mark, SL = Stef, TM = Tarah, KK, = Katya, PA = Panorea
Shaded areas are holidays/ weekends

Notes:

1. This timetable is provisional. Please check it a.s.a.p. and let me know if any dates or times do not suit you. Otherwise it is regarded as confirmed and cannot be changed.
   Also please let me know your availability for November, as you write exams at end November
2. For these first two months we will get you orientated, and massaging. If we get enough shifts, you may be massaging by beginning October.
   
3. Please note the meeting times
   
4. It’s realistic that some of these dates won’t happen due to weather. This is the procedure to follow:
   You sms me evening before, ill let you know weather prospects.
   You sms me again in early morning if there’s any doubt, and ill let you what’s happening here. Also, If I see a problem, I may sms you first, to avoid you coming though unnecessarily.
   If there is no doubt, you pitch, on time
   
5. Please note it can also happen that because eof the weather, some people can get time and others don’t, so if this happens really majorly, i.e. TM gets all shifts, and other days its all rain, then I will change things so you can all get orientated asap
   
6. Because it’s cooler now, we usually we finish latest 6pm.
   For these two months you pitch at my house at 830am, sms me or ring bell and ill open.
7. We will load car and go to be beach to setup. Bring a book, studies, your apprenticeship books, a snack, and top for a change of weather.
   
8. Be neat, clean and cool boardshorts if you can. If not plain shorts, Capri jeans acceptable, may get hot. Ladies, practical skirts are fine etc
   I will give you top uniform

UPDATE: 24 September 2008-09-24

Hello everyone, the following news:

1. Bon Aqua has renewed there sponsorship so we will have water for clients as from next weekend. We are waiting for Vida and CYBERSMART to respond to new proposals.
2. There’s quite a bit in the pipeline from sponsors, massage opportunities, to credit card facilities, but id rather let you know more when and if these materialise. But its looking exciting.
3. There is progress with the chairs, sandwich board, storeroom etc.
4. There is a provisional timetable on the blog, please check. It is your responsibility to get back to me asap, if there is a scheduling problem. If not I assume you have conformed your availability.Please note we work on the principle that once you confirm, you are booked. We don’t chop n change, it becomes a logistical nightmare for everyone, and eventually causes a problem, So when you are booked, organised your life around that please.
   
5. Please note we have a staff training session on this Wednesday coming. We will discuss updates, rate or pay, as well as carry on the lesson on Values. Please go over what we discussed before at the camp about marketing, advertising, value etcs. Panorea don’t worry we will get you to speed
   
6. We do not work 1 January, or on the day of the Argus Cycle Tour, but please note, we do work Xmas and Boxing day.
   
7. I have your client books, the books is which you record all your appointments. Please remind me for them. You will be shown how to write them up in your orientation
   
8. Please, send me your mini CV, those of you who haven’t. Stef and Mariska can you please update yours. We will take mini photos, for the website, probably next week. Please include all your contact details, and your main email address. Your CV should mention your qualifications and present studies, any relevant experience, and your skills and interests. Don’t panic if you don’t have much on your CV currently. It only needs to be 200-400 words. There is a reason why I have asked you to do these.
   
9. Last let me say, I am so thrilled to have you all involved for this season. There are ore people but there more possible opportunities coming to our door. I really believe you will have a great time, gain a lot and that MASSAGE ON THE BEACH will equally benefit from having you involved

Introduction to the Cirriculum for this year

This posting gives you some basic details of the program that has been worked out for you this year. This will all be explained on the camp and your questiosn answered. It is also a work in progress so something may change

Because there maybe some second year apprentices on the prgram this year, there is also an advanced program, (see below). This will involve some more advanced lessons, management reponsibilities and skills gained in teaching others.

Finally rememebr that this program aims to deevelop your value, and to put you on course to fully relaise your abilities and personal dreams. it is a unique program that goes beyond your current massage training

Ist YEAR APPRENTICES

1. Opening assessment (where are you now)

2. Orientation to MOTB
Inventory management
Opening and closing
Weather and weather management
Client procedures
Working procedures
Policies: IP, communication, emergency, food,

2. Introduction to the Apprenticeship process
Systems management:
-Patterns and causal relationships
-Data gathering

Value
-The value equation
-Value creation
-Money and Value

Flow
Basic digital skills

3. Self Mastery
Vision work and planning
Communication
-Spoken
-Written
-Team style

Mindfulness
Stress and time management
Creativity and problem solving
Ladder of inference
Intrapersonal dynamic
Myers Briggs

4. Business Acumen
Strategy
Marketing
-What is marketing and advertising
-Branding
-Formulas for quality and satisfaction – measures of marketing success

Resources management
Financial Management
-3 major documents of finance.
-Completing a cash flow
-Cash budgeting
-Knowing the difference between asset and liability
-Mercedes principle
-Costing
-Laws of compound interest
-NPV

Social Capital
Event planning
Strategy revisited

5. Assignments
Data book-Weekly reflections
MyersBriggs
Brand research assignment
Visonwork and personal strategy

2ND YEAR PROGRAM

1. Organisational finance

2. Value creation workbook

3. Project planning

4. Management practice

5. Data structuring

6. Managing growth

FOR BOTH
1. Massage
Floor work
Postural assessment
Critical algorythym
Hand technique
Passive manipulation

2. Medical
Emergency

3. Closing assessment
Including 360 degree assessment
Weekly reflections
Personal strategy

There will be a reading list for both years, although different for each

News about this weekends camp

As you were informed last week, the camp is happening this weekend from Friday 12th till Sunday 14th.

Here are relevant details:
We will start 3pm on friday afternoon, meeting at vida cafe in Camps Bay.
The camp will finish by 12 on Sunday with a breakfast and final debrief. (I will let you know this week-friends and parents will either be invited to the breakfast or the dinner on the Saterday night before)

As we will be overnighting at my home in Camps Bay for the first day of the camp, you are Welcome to come to my home first at 230pm to drop off stuff there.
Depending on weather an dfinal arrangements to be made, we will be spending day 2 either in Camps Bay or in Hout Bay at the battery. I have to still confirm arrangments

You wont need much, but here is what you should bring:

1. Duvet and pillow.
2. Pyjamas or sleeping tracksuit
3. Basic clothes for 2 days. If the weather looks good for the weekend, bring whatever you would wear to the beach.
4. Some basic toiletries
5. A small amount of cash just for personal expenses

Bring little, the less you have the less you ahve to worry about. We wont be in the middle of nowhere, so whatever we dont have , we will be able to organise.

You do not need to bring:

1. Food (unless you wnat to bring a favourite snack)
2. Massage bed or oils
3. Pens or writing or books

You need to let me know the following:

1. Confirm you are on the camp
2. If you have any allergies, especially to dogs or food
3. If you are vegetarian or if there is any food you do not eat
4. If one of you can bring your car.

The aim of the camp is to use dedicated time to give you a combination of lessons and skills in massage and bussiness, whilst introducing you to Massage on the Beach and getting you be more familar with each other. The camp will balance work with fun, so fear not, this will not be the stuff of headaches. In fact, the aim is to give something of incredible value and a great memory.

To keep an element of suprise, i wont tell you eveything about the camp, but what I can tell you is that we will be covering some topics of massage, bussiness, teamwork and self mastery. You will receive details about the cirriculum of the apprenticship itself (See next posting). We will be covering some aspects of this on the camp.

Mariska and Stefan, your knowledge and experience will be used to contribute to the camp and there is a seperate, more advanced cirriculum for you that has been prepared to take your abilities further.

Have a great week

Mark

Welcome to your own blog!

This blog is purely for you, the apprentices of the HandUp, HandsOn Massage apprenticiship. this program is now in its 3rd year and things are changing and growing.

It is planned that on this blog, you will receive you timetables, notes, assignments etc. There will be a seperate blog for customers and clients, http://www.massagethebeach.blogspot.com/, the one you have been to before.

Your blog will require a passcodew hich will be given to you. for now it is open access.
Both blogs will be embedded in the website.

I will often cue you when something new is on the blog, but please get into the habit of checking at least weekly

Finally please remeber that the future vision of the HandUp, Hands On program is that it will be grow and be taken on by people have passed through the program. So you are entering a unique opprtunity which will have a postive effect on your life and future and the lifes and futures of others. In this life, we really are our own brothers keeper, and nothing we achive in this world will be possible without others

Thanks

Mark