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*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
*Effective Interviewing: Gold Member Audio
*Effective Interviewing: Gold Member Audio
Child Care Director's Guide to Effective Interviewing. You'll discover: 4 success strategies for effectively hiring quality child care staff, 5 hidden personality traits, 7 questions to help you determine if a candidate is the right fit for your team and 3 ways child care directors and owners can generate excitement and attract new employees. . . .
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Child Care Directors and Owners Struggle With Collecting Tuition: Conference Call
If you're like many child care directors and owners who struggle with collecting tuition, listen in as several experts give you their advice for making the process easy. You'll discover 9 strategies for collecting tuition and how to get over the mental blocks associated with asking people for money. . . . keep reading
*Customer Loyalty: Gold Member Audio
*Customer Loyalty: Gold Member Audio "In spite of my efforts to try to make my customers feel like I care and that my organization is a wonderful place for children and their families, I still have parents who spread negative gossip or they just leave my child care program without giving any notice." JoAnna Brandi joins us to share many fantastic strategies that you can implement immediately to help you build customer loyalty. . . . keep reading
*Budgeting Strategies: GOLD Member Audio
*Budgeting Strategies: GOLD Member Audio What scares you about the budgeting process? Is it not knowing if you have enough money to meet all of your needs? Is it the fact that you don't have a budget and pay your bills as money comes in? Is it that you may have an unplanned expense that will throw your entire budget off? Or is it not knowing how to create and manage a successful budget? Karen King joins us to answer all of your budgeting questions. . . . keep reading
*Prosperity:GOLD Member Audio
What does prosperity mean to you? What does it look like? What does it feel like? These are questions I asked child care leaders in more than 30 different child care programs. Some of the responses related to having more money to invest in resources for children, staff and parents while other responses related to a feeling of enthusiastic involvement from parents, staff and the community.Hillary shares a wealth of information on how to become more prosperous in one's personal and professional life. . . . keep reading