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Setting Goals Will Bring Life To Your Business

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As I write this blog post, I am in my bed preparing for my upcoming leadership meeting with my center directors. Every week we read a book or an article that inspires us all to Grow. This week’s article is an excert from a book that we are reading titled, The art of Leading by The Child Care Exchange.

The article that we are reading asks the question, Are you operating a Center or a Organization? Also, the article inspired me to delegate more and inspired me to consider setting a 5 year plan for my center.

At the beginning of 2024, I celebrated 25 years in business. In fact, I began to reflect on whether or not we have reached our peak or if we should still be building or not.

After reading that article mentioned above, and writing a 5 year plan for my center, I’m reminded that goal setting will bring life to your business.

Furthermore, As I wrote the 5 year plan for my Atlanta location, I literally felt life go back into the business!

When you’ve operated a business for over 20 years, you can easily get bored and lose vision. However, I want to inspire you to create a 5 year plan for your childcare business and bring life to your business again!

Feel free to share how this blog post inspired you!

Dr. Shiketa Morgan

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Business Management, Child Care Center, Child Care Organizations, child safety

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Training New Staff is a Vital Part of Building a Safe Childcare Program

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On April 9, 2024, I received a newsletter from my insurance courier, Markel. The newsletter was all about the importance of training new hires in childcare. Moreover, the newsletter included the following statistic: The U. S. Bureau of Labor statistics, as many as 78,000 Americans were forced to stay home from work each month during 2023 because of childcare problems.

After reading the introduction of the newsletter mentioned above, I thought about the fact that I have noticed a decline in experienced childcare professionals and the training demand that it has placed on the management team at my facility.

In fact, many years ago, you could hire a teacher that had formal childcare education from a local college. Today, that seems to be very rare and Owners or forced to provide on the job training, then provide professional development assistance to further education.

Today, it is vital that Childcare Owners, assure that new staff are trained well to assure quality care. Moreover, when you hire staff that are not properly trained, here are some potential risks that come with hiring inexperienced and untrained staff:

  • Poor supervision in classrooms and on the playground
  • The inability to provide proper first aid.
  • Work injuries
  • Broken equipment
  • Unmet sanitation standards
  • Inappropriate disciplinary actions
  • Transporation problems, safe sleep issues, etc.

You can reduce your business risk and take steps to assure that new staff are properly trained to assure safe childcare. Here are seven things that you must do upon hiring new staff:

  1. Conduct background screenings on all new staff members.
  2. Be sure that all new staff members have first aid and CPR training.
  3. Host an onboarding orientation and review all of your center policies and procedures at the orientation.
  4. Hold a training on safety and supervision.
  5. Assign an experienced staff member to train, work with and mentor the new staff members.
  6. During the 1st 90-days of employment, provide ongoing training in the following areas: medication administration, emergency preparedness, indoor outdoor safety, child abuse & neglect and child development.
  7. Provide the new staff with weekly childcare articles or resources to empower the staff member.

I hope that you found this blog post to be helpful to you and to also reflect on how safety issues could even affect your insurance rate. The next time that you hire a new staff member, keep the safety of the children in mind.

Source: http://www.markel.com |The importance of training New Hires in Child Care

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