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*Effective Interviewing: Gold Member Audio
*Effective Interviewing: Gold Member Audio Discover: 4 success strategies for effectively hiring teachers and staff, 5 hidden personality traits, 7 questions to help you determine if a candidate is the right fit for your team and 3 ways early care and education leaders can generate excitement and attract new employees. . . . keep reading
Letting Go of Control and worry: Gold Member Audio
Do you ever struggle with really letting go of tasks? Do you hang on to worry and control because you're fearful of how tasks will be completed if you're not right on top of them? Over the years many leaders have shared with me these concerns. Child care managers often wonder how they can take a day off without worry because they are the only one who ensures that tasks and responsibilities are taken care of properly. . . . keep reading
Emotions At Work: Gold Member Audio
Emotional hijacking is an important concept to understand. Any child care director who wants to be effective needs to understand how their emotions can become hijacked by situations that arise. Situations such staff members calling out sick or a conflict with a customer. When you react in a way that is negative, you have been emotionally hijacked. . . . 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
Happy For No Reason: Conference Call
Happier staff, happier parents, happier children and HAPPIER YOU is what you'll get when you listen in to this conference call. Marci Shimoff joins us to share a powerful message for you and your staff. . . . keep reading
*Mediation: Audio
*Mediation: Audio

As conflicts and issues arise in early care and education programs around the world, leaders are challenged by the puzzle of how to most effectively mediate conflicts and help piece broken relationships together so their programs remain positive and productive. . . . keep reading

Performance Evaluation Forms - Conference Call Recording
Performance Evaluation Forms - Conference Call Recording
Listen in and discover: *Specific ways to improve your performance evaluation form.  *Time-tested ideas to make them most effective.  *Strategies to utilize your performance evaluation form as a tool for continued growth within your staff Additionally on this page are several sample evaluation forms and a new form created by our topic expert, Vicki Anderson. . . .
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