For owners of daycare and early learning centers, it is vital to have your directors and administrators pulling in the same direction. In order to achieve this, owners must set clear expectations and then follow through with accountability. Holding your team accountable is easier said than done. Let’s look at …
3 Ways to Show Your Staff Some Love
Here are two big reasons why business owners need to make their employees feel valued and appreciated: performance and retention. Employees who feel valued in their roles will be more passionate and motivated to do a good job. Further, employees who feel appreciated will want to stay with the business …
Managing Millennials: Top 5 Secrets for Success
Millennials – those born between 1980 to 1996 – make up more than 1 in 3 working Americans, outnumbering any other generation in the workforce. Although they are often stereotyped as entitled, indecisive, and lazy, millennials are huge assets to child care centers when they are managed properly and given …
6 Qualities of an Effective Servant Leader
The best childcare centers have created a sense of extended family, building trust, rapport and caring within the culture itself. Children and families can feel the dynamics of your team and they stick with centers that feel like a home away from home. But, how do you create that family-feeling …
Interviewing for Fit
In most industries, the interviewer is able to ask a potential candidate a standard list of questions about their experience that will provide a glimpse into who they might be as an employee. However, in industries like childcare, the interviewing model must shift to encompass a wider range of insights …