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3 Ways to Activate Your Faith for Business Building Success!

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Keep Building, Keep Dreaming and Keep Succeeding….

I hope that you have been enjoying my blog series: Building Your Child Care Business by Faith. In fact, I hope that you have been inspired to either: Start up your child care business or Keep growing your Business.

Moreover, I have found that when we have dreams and goals; thoughts of self doubt or fear will keep us in our comfort zone. Also, Fear of what could go wrong, causes us to shrink back and stay right where we are.

I can remember, when I had the opportunity to move my Center into a larger location. I was so excited to finally have a building where I could have infants, toddlers, preschoolers and school age children all in one building.

However, when I drove up to the building, I was worried about how I would get 99 kids enrolled in the center and I was concerned about managing more employees.

I was so worried about the wrong things. I should have been thinking about how much more money the business would be making and how I was getting ready to meet the need of child care in that community.

When your Faith is small, you will second guest yourself or even talk yourself out of an opportunity that is great for your Business.

As I began to activate my Faith, the Best was yet to come…

Today I want to share with you, 3 ways to activate your Faith for Business Building Success!

  1. Get your mind together! If you tend to talk yourself out of an opportunity, its time to recondition your mind. The moment that those self sabotaging thoughts enter your mind say aloud: I can do this. I will have what I need to start or grow my business. You will find that your thoughts will come in alignment with what you say.
  2. Check out your belief system. Do you believe that you can do it? Do  you believe that you can handle the success? I know this for sure, we tend to have what we believe that we can have. So if you believe it, you will achieve it!
  3. Its time to change the way that you Talk. Eight years ago, I bought a book titled, The Law of Confession by Dr. Bill Winston. That book changed my Life. In fact, after reading that book, I learned that your words create your reality. Also, your life will only go in the Direction of the words that you speak out of your mouth. Now before I speak, I consider the Law of confession in my personal life and in my Business. When I found my dream location, I walked up to the door, I placed my hand on the door and I said: This will be the next home of Learning Days! Within a week, My lease proposal was accepted and we moved in the building within 90 days.

As you can see, walking by Faith in Business is a result of things that you cannot see: How you think, what you believe and the words that you speak. Moreover, Faith is simply the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things that you cannot see. So what are you hoping for?

I shared those Faith building principles with you, to get you motivated to Do Business by Faith. Furthermore, I believe that it is your Faith that will empower you to Succeed in Business!

If you have  a dream of starting-up or expanding your Child Care Business, I would love to be your coach. Be sure to contact me soon to schedule a coaching session. Click here. Feel free to leave a comment below if this blog series as inspired you!

To Your Success,

Shiketa Morgan

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Business Expansion, Expansion, Marketing

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No More Boring Meetings

According to Effective Meetings.com, “When the average employee is asked to attend another meeting during their busy day, the natural response is to run like the wind or at least fake a scheduling conflict. ingesting a little fun into your meetings might be just the right thing to encourage participation and creativity.”

Only Call Meetings When  Necessary

Meetings are necessary to bring the staff together, to discuss goals and to be sure that everyone is on one accord. However, if you just call a meeting just to talk about a long list of issues, that is simply a waste of  your time.

Establish a goal for your meeting and make it a teachable moment. Meetings are a great way to train staff, invite staff to share and laugh together.

Sample Meeting Agenda

Twice a month I create a 30-minute meeting agenda and I only focus on 3-5 topics. The main focus of my meetings is to discuss classroom practices, review quality care indicators and to get feedback from my staff. Here is an example of how I conduct my meetings:

Topics:

1. Share Positive News/Praise/Share funny stories

2. Review what we discussed at last meeting and progress

3. Quality Care Discussion: Promoting self-help skills, Art Activities, Issue handouts

4. Our next meeting, Upcoming events

5. Staff feedback

Having a meeting agenda helps you to stay on track and gives the meeting a focus. I really believe that my staff view our meetings as a time of fellowship, because we simply chat about the programs goals, their desires and we enjoy coming together in a fun and professional manner.

My meetings have not always been fun and interesting. Several years ago, I had a teacher that would bring her work to the meetings and I literally stopped the meeting to tell her, that she must be attentive to what is being said at the meeting. She was there in body and not there in spirit.

This encouraged me to develop my meeting management skills and to get to the point. Moreover, I  learned to never share  bad news at meetings and to keep it positive.

Save negative or sensitive information for private meetings, unless the news affects the entire team.

5 Ways to Liven up Meetings

  1. Hold meetings after Lunch breaks
  2. Always have something funny to share
  3. Praise staff members as a group, tell them how proud you are of them
  4. Be understanding
  5. Let them know the purpose of the meeting and what you need for them to do
  6. Maintain good eye contact of each employee
  7. Invite feedback
  8. Invite staff to share Professional Development Success
  9. Problem solve as a team
  10. Conduct meetings as a Huddle; call the plays and encourage them to carry them out!

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