Assessor Resource
SIHHTLS704A
Provide creative leadership to the hairdressing industry
Assessment tool
Version 1.0
Issue Date: April 2024
This unit applies to highly skilled senior hairdressers who have substantial experience across the industry. The job roles include creative or artistic directors who work for larger hairdressing organisations, a hairdressing products company or independently as a freelance session stylist and provide technical and creative leadership, training and support to colleagues and the industry.
In these roles, these individuals play an important leadership role in determining and leading future hair directions, and consequently supporting the development of innovative and creative thinking for the industry. They are able to operate at a national or international level.
A person undertaking this role applies a range of specialised technical, creative, conceptual and leadership competencies to plan, carry out, evaluate and take accountability for personal outputs and usually, those of others.
They possess a substantial depth of theoretical knowledge of hairdressing design elements and principles and highly developed and specialised technical skills. They possess the research skills to gather and synthesise future trends and technologies in related creative industries such as fashion, graphic art and product design to design and create hair designs influenced by these trends.
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to provide creative leadership for the hairdressing industry.
It goes beyond the knowledge and skills required to provide technical leadership within a hairdressing context. For an individual to provide creative leadership to the industry requires the development of effective research and leadership skills that promote and support the development of an innovative culture for the organisation and in turn, the hairdressing industry.
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