Directors' Role
Person who wears many hats and keeps everything running smoothly in a childcare business.
What is the director?
A planning document for our income and expense
What is a budget?
The situation in which staff members are very glad they work for you and your organization?
What is staff engagement or high staff engagement?
A dollar amount that we might gain if we keep all of our slots full
What is Karen's $72,000 theory?
Three metrics that are wisely monitored by success early childhood organizations?
Two important attributes for early childhood directors
What is patience and love of people?
A document that tells what we own and what we owe.
What is a balance sheet?
"Questions" like to include in our discussion of staff satisfaction and retention.
Benefit of keeping all of our childcare slots full
What is financial success or financial sustainability?
The role that NAEYC says is most pivotal to quality of an early childhood program and success of an early childhood organization
What is the director?
Two important skills for early childhood directors
What is time management and finance?
What is separation of duties?
Phases which might describe staff members who are not engaged in their work
What are "quiet quitters", toxically disengaged, "time to be counselled out"
Two strategies for keeping slots full
What is effective marketing, happy parents, engaged staff, engaging, well organized facility, strong communications or many more!
Planning, organizing, setting aside moments to do important director work
What is time management?
Person who often works the longest hours in an early childhood center
Who is the director?
GPS when not related to guiding your car
What is Gap-per-slot?
What is community engagement?
Number of months in advance to plan for fall enrollment of slots
What is "at least 4-5" so we know where we have openings to market and fill?
Taking care of one's self in order to serve staff, children and families well and making time for what is important in work and life
What is work/life balance, avoiding burnout, learning TO-BE
A role many of us choose and love despite it's challenges
What is being a director and/or owner?
A document produced monthly that gives information on income and expense in that time period
What is a financial statement?
Actively involve parents and families in early childhood programs.
What is parent or family engagement?
A wise time-frame for monitoring enrollment
What is daily, weekly. or at least monthly?
People who work hard, learn well and have applied themselves to an ECRC project for success
What are "The Great Directors/Owners in BOSS!"