You have now found your first job as a barista and thinking how to grow and enhance your skills ?
Here are my 5 tips to take your coffee making skills to the next level and become a better barista:
1. Keep learning, never stop learning
If you think you know everything, you know nothing !
“A strong mind is built with learning, learning new things every day”
Most of the cafes in which you will work can arrange free training, with their coffee supplier, where you will learn heaps of free stuff and very important, different approaches to coffee making.
Gather informations from different sources, for comparison, to analyse different perspectives, always ask yourself why, and search for answers. Be curious.
2. Join the coffee community
Enter the coffee community ! You will exchange knowledge get connections which leads into more job opportunities, make new friends and always stay "up to date”.
Join events, there are tons of them, taking Melbourne as example. We are incredibly lucky to have them organised not only by the best coffee experts, roasters, cafe owners etc in the world.. but they also come to us for FREE and on a regular basis.
3. Read articles
The web is full of usefull resources to be used wisely, follow good instagram profiles, read content online.
4. Surround yourself with likeminded people
Surround yourself with likeminded people who can add value to your personal and professional figure, surround your self with positive people and enjoy the process.
5. Enter competitions
An amazing way to skip many steps and jump ahead straight away. The whole process of preparing and training will already give you a lot in terms of preparation, knowledge and experience. There are people made for competitions and people who are not. My suggestion would be give it a try, push your limit get out of your comfort zone. Definitely on my to do list.
If you would like to have a chat regarding in-depth details, tips, training methods and smart routines to take immediately your skills to the next level; Hit the “learn more” button now.
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“If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you”
All the above is based on our personal and professional experience, it is what we believe and what brought us here writing this guide.Onto the way to success there are no rules, just commitment and consistency.Ultimately the is no right and wrong but only different ways of thinking, different approaches and different methods.There is no perfection but only progression.Do not believe who says to know everything. Learning is ongoing and endless.What we believe is right today might be wrong tomorrow, stay always up to date.
Be curious.
I wrote this hoping to inspire others! If you made it to read all of this to the end..
THANK YOU !