The 21st century has seen much lower unemployment rates, but that hasn’t really helped everyone that I have talked to lately. Conversation everywhere around me goes to not being able to hire and/or keep employees (and they don’t even say “good” employees). There seems to be this swinging door of Lisa Jones getting a job
Category: Strategic Policies & Procedures
The Fabulous Functions of Staff Evaluations: Who Knew?
Do the words Staff Evaluations make your skin crawl? Is it because you are having it done on you? Or you are doing an evaluation of your staff member? Or you have to defend the evaluation done on you? Or you have to deliver the evaluation you did on your staff member? Pick any one.
How Much Orientation is Enough – or Too Much?
We did a survey a while ago and had nearly 500 responses when we asked numerous questions about the amount of time devoted to staff training for new hires. (These were hours beyond state mandated time.) As you can guess, the answers ranged from zero to continuous. Many made comments after they typed in the
Every Child is Welcome?
Every Child is Welcome? Is your center open to any child whose parents can pay the tuition? Should it be? This is probably a question that you wrestle with often. Only you can make this decision. Many might think that this question is speaking to excluding “children with disabilities”. This could include physical, social, mental,
Employee Evaluations – Step by Step Success (Part 4 of 4)
Employee Evaluations – Step by Step Success for Child Care Directors (Part 4 of 4) Employee evaluation should be a valuable exercise for both employer and employee. Five key elements to successful employee evaluation include: Set the Expectation Evaluate Regularly Use Appropriate Communication Provide Training Exhibit a Positive Attitude This section (Part 4) will examine the final two
Employee Evaluations – Step by Step Success (Part 3 of 4)
Employee Evaluations – Step by Step Success for Child Care Directors (Part 3 of 4) Employee evaluation should be a valuable exercise for both employer and employee. Five key elements to successful employee evaluation include: Set the Expectation Evaluate Regularly Use Appropriate Communication Provide Training Exhibit a Positive Attitude This section (Part 3) will examine the third, and
Employee Evaluations – Step by Step Success (Part 2 of 4)
Employee Evaluations – Step by Step Success for Child Care Directors (Part 2 of 4) Employee evaluation should be a valuable exercise for both employer and employee. Five key elements to successful employee evaluation include: Set the Expectation Evaluate Regularly Use Appropriate Communication Provide Training Exhibit a Positive Attitude This section (Part 2) will examine the first
Employee Evaluations – Step by Step Success (Part 1 of 4)
Employee Evaluations – Step by Step Success for Child Care Directors (Part 1 of 4) Do you hear the words “employee evaluation” and get a sick feeling in your stomach … even though you are the one doing the evaluation, not getting it? Most employers do. Evaluating an employee, and then sharing the evaluation with the employee,
Getting Parents to Pay Their Child Care Bill
Are You Having Problems with Parents Paying for Child Care? There are very few businesses that don’t have some problems with all of their customers paying on time. Sometimes it’s just a bad habit for people who not pay on time. However, more often the parent has a cash flow problem – maybe too many
10 Steps to Finding and Hiring the Best Child Care Center Staff
10 Steps to Finding and Hiring the Best Child Care Center Staff Unfortunately, very hard work and pretty low pay are not terribly attractive to job seekers. On the other hand, caring for and working with young children does sound great! Hiring new child care center staff is unquestionably a difficult job. Hiring a new, hardworking,