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Empowering Your Team

I believe that if you want a successful Child Care Business and if you want quality, it is vital that you empower your teachers.

Teachers that are not empowered will require lots of correction and feedback. In fact, teachers that are not empowered may be an major situation waiting to happen.

On the other hand, teachers that are empowered, need very little supervision and they are empowered to provide Quality Care.

Let me ask you several questions?

1.Are your teachers empowered to implement quality care?

2. Do you have a system in place that Empowers your teachers?

No matter what your answers were, I want to share with you five ways to empower your teachers:

  1. Upon hiring your staff, be sure they are training by an experienced and appointed staff member.
  2. Follow up with the teacher until He or she has mastered their duties.
  3. Inspect what you expect. This could simply be a weekly observation of each teacher.
  4. Reward the behavior you want to see. This could be lunch on you, gift cards; etc.
  5. Issue resources that empower your team weekly and inspire staff to share with oneanother.

Happy Empowering!

Shiketa Morgan

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Employee Management, Leadership, Marketing, Staff Meetings

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Retaining Staff Begins with Good Leadership

I recently placed an employment ad on Indeed. In fact, the ad was only open for three days and I did several telephone interviews.

One of the questions that I asked potential employees was this:

Why are you leaving your current job and all the applicants told me: Management!

That reminded me of a phrase that I hear often: ” People leave management not the company.” In fact, I was reminded to keep growing as a leader and creating a great place to work. In this economy, most companies are seeing a high turnover, however, I have found that when you take good care of your employees, they will be loyal to you.

Today I want to share with you 5 ways to take good care of your employees:

  1. Be a positive leader. People want to work for positive people.
  2. Create a family live environment. Encourage the staff to support and check on one another. Afterall, thats what family do right?
  3. Offer extras to your staff such as: stock your break room with refreshments, provide lunch often, bless your staff with random gifts, etc.
  4. Celebrate staff birthdays. Everyone wants to feel special on their birthday. Besides, if they have to work on their birthday, it might as well be a special day.
  5. Get to know what your employees like and talk about that often with your staff. Afterall, they support your dream, so why not support what they like?

Once you create a place where employees want to be, your employees will love to report to work and you will get to see what it feels like to have a dependable and loyal team.

What has been your experience with retaiI look forward to your feedback on this post.

With your Success in mind!

Shiketa Morgan

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Leadership, Marketing, Staffing

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