Julie Bartkus helps leaders manage, motivate and retain great staff through eliminating destructive communication patterns and mindsets that keep teams stuck.
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Welcome Child Care Directors, Owners & Administrators!

For over a decade now Julie has been developing customized programs and products especially for the child care industry. She is well in tune with the challenges that you face every day and has developed solutions to help you in your leadership role.

Julie offers:

*On-site customized programs
*Keynote Presentations
*Full day retreats for leaders and staff
*Group coaching
*Private one-on-one telephone coaching
*Membership to her Inner Circle

On this page you'll find a summary of our most requested services to help you manage, motivate and retain great staff in your child care program.


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1. Join us for a One-Day Leadership Retreat.
Join Julie for The Staff Motivation Retreat and discover a step-by-step plan of action to help you create the positive and productive workplace that you desire and deserve. You'll gain transformational strategies that you can implement immediately to manage, motivate and retain great staff. Julie is currently planning to facilitate 5 Leadership Retreats over the next 3 months. Click here for more details!

2. Solutions To The Challenges You Face Daily
You're invited to join our inner circle (also known as the Leadership Connection). This by far is one of most popular services for leaders in the child care industry. Every month our members receive a CD featuring a new leadership topic, a staff appreciation idea and a team building activity. We've been in production now for over 8 years and every single audio program we produced is posted on this site for your to access. Right now we are offering a $1.00 trial for 21 days so you can log in immediately and search for answers to your current leadership challenges. Click here for more details!

3. Save Time, Money and Stand Out as The Child Care Program of Choice
We have just launched a new membership plan that many of your colleagues are raving about. It's our Platinum Plan and it includes:

*Done-for-you newsletters
*Online Hiring Assessment System
*Monthly Staff Training

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4. Bring Julie in for an on-site program
Whether your team needs a total transformation or just a positive boost consider a team retreat to rejuvenate your working and learning environment. This program is also referred to as Build Constructive Communication Patterns. Objectives: The main objective of this interactive program is to help child care professionals, who work together, function as a dynamic team. This includes: building constructive communication patterns and eliminating those destructive ones (like gossip) that seem to tear teams apart and cause much unwanted stress, frustration, and anxiety. It also includes breaking down communication barriers between staff and leaders, and between co-workers. The program provides immediately applicable strategies and helps participants feel motivated to make change happen. Yes, this program helps participants feel motivated to make change happen, a very important element in achieving long-lasting, positive results. Click here for more details!

5. Resources for your program
Julie is the author of an 11-step Workplace Gossip Elimination System. This system was developed specifically for the child care industry. Click on the banner below for more details.

6. More Resources
On this site there are over 70 audio programs posted for members of our inner circle to benefit from. We also have articles and a forms resource library. Click on the button below to learn more about what you'll find once you become a member of this site today.


Featured Resources
Keys To Eliminate Workplace Gossip: 60 Minute  AUDIOKeys To Eliminate Workplace Gossip: 60 Minute AUDIO
Leaders, I've heard your frustrations with gossip and I understand how draining the process of trying to eliminate gossip is. Is there a way to eliminate gossip for good? ABSOLUTELY! You'll Discover: *11 steps to create a gossip free workplace *6 main reasons workplace gossip happens *7 gossip zones that employees get caught up in *5 strategies that employees can implement daily to help stop gossip *Communication barriers that keep workplace gossip alive. . . . keep reading

Child Care Directors Deal With Inappropriate Work Behaviors Effectively:  Cell Phones, Thongs and Dancing on Tables!  AUDIOChild Care Directors Deal With Inappropriate Work Behaviors Effectively: Cell Phones, Thongs and Dancing on Tables! AUDIO
Do you struggle with staff using cell phones, dressing inappropriately or behaving less than professionally at work? Discover specific strategies child care directors implement to deal effectively with these inappropriate work behaviors. After implementing the strategies presented on this audio program one leader reported a decrease in staff using cell phones at work by 95%!! . . . keep reading

*Eco-friendly Child Care*Eco-friendly Child Care
Creating an Eco-friendly Child Care is a smart decision that will boost your child care marketing efforts and it's an easy way to impact the lives of the children, your staff, parents and, of course, you! Hester Dooley, National Program Manager for Eco-Healthy Child Care, joins us to share easy ways to go green in your child care program. Through her efforts children throughout the nation benefit from the reduction of harmful environmental toxins in child care facilities. . . . keep reading

The Staff Motivation Retreat For Child Care Directors
How would you like to receive a step-by-step plan of action to help you manage, motivate and retain great staff?  Would you like to discover what exactly is keeping your team stuck and what you can start doing right away to make your task of motivating your staff a joyous journey?  Child care directors, you're invited to join us for a live event and gain an experience that just might possibly change your life.

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Legal Issues Child Care Directors and Owners Face: Audio
"Today, child care directors and owners are required to navigate through a maze of regulatory and statutory law, which may not only be confusing but also conflicting based upon differing regulatory and judicial interpretation. For example, inconsistent interpretation of state licensure regulations may stifle a child care center's ability to conduct its business." -- Randall Strause . . . keep reading