Tip: Exceptional Phone Service Can Make Your Child Care Center Stand Out from the Crowd. Attracting families to your child care center can be a challenge, especially if your center is located in an area with numerous other options. When it comes to making a good impression on prospective families, it’s important to consider phone […]
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Encouraging Healthy Laughter in Your Childcare Center, Part 1
With so many important aspects of child development to consider in your childcare program, it’s easy to forget about an extremely important ingredient in a healthy person’s life: laughter. That’s right: laughing might seem like an activity that doesn’t warrant a line on your ever-growing to-do list, but this often-undervalued activity has a lot of […]
Keeping Child Care Center Staff Members Happy, Part 2
A high degree of employee turnover can impact your child care center greatly — and in a not-so-positive way. Once you understand the most common reasons for turnover, you’ll have a better idea of how to avoid employee dissatisfaction and be in a better place to retain quality staff members for many years. Not only […]
Keeping Child Care Center Staff Members Happy, Part 1
If your child care center struggles with high rates of employee turnover, the fallout can be quite devastating. Not only will you have to manage the transition and find a new teacher, but you may also lose families as a result. While some employee turnover is inevitable, you can avoid high rates of staffing transitions […]
Tips for Child Care Centers: Hiring Quality Staff Members
One of the many issues that affect high rates of employee turnover in general can make a major impact on your child care center in a variety of ways. Finding staff members that are a right fit for your child care center will combine with other practices to help ensure that they desire to stay […]
Reasons Why Complaining About Work On Social Media Is A Bad Idea
Posting a long rant on social media about a person or situation at your workplace may seem satisfying, at least in the heat of the moment. You may feel like you’ve gotten your frustrations off your chest and perhaps taken a bit of sweet revenge against someone who has wronged you. In the long run, […]
How To Include Children with Special Needs at Your Gymnastics Center, Part 2
In Part 1, we looked at 3 principles that are important for your gymnastics center instructors to apply when working with children who have special needs: Interact with the Child Observe the Child Put Safety (& Comfort) First Now we’ll look at several more principles that build on those original 3. Principle 4: Be Flexible […]
How To Include Children with Special Needs at Your Gymnastics Center, Part 1
As modern medicine and societal norms continue to develop, your gymnastics center will be more and more likely to engage with children who have special needs. No matter how highly trained your gymnastics instructors may be in their area of expertise, no amount of skill will be able to compensate for a basic working knowledge […]
Business Professionals Making a Difference
Business professionals have been an important part of the volunteer team at Bridges to Community ever since 2003. We organize week-long service trips that are designed to complete much-needed projects in impoverished areas of Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. These professionals fulfill a crucial role in helping with fundraising efforts as well as building educational […]
Helpful Phone Etiquette Guidelines for Your Child Care Center, Part 3
This article contains some more tips for making sure your child care center employees are ready to communicate in a clear, positive manner over the phone (see Parts 1 & 2). You want them to be ready and willing to provide your center’s families as well as inquirers with the type of excellent customer service […]
Helpful Phone Etiquette Guidelines for Your Child Care Center, Part 2
In our first article, we sought to establish the importance of training your child care center staff members in proper phone etiquette. Not only will good phone etiquette potentially attract new business, but it can also help your current families to be content with your level of customer service. This article, as well as the […]
Encouraging Healthy Laughter in Your Childcare Center, Part 3
If someone asked you about the main characteristics that are important in a childcare center or that set your childcare center apart from others in your area, what would be on that list? If a prospective parent asked you for assurance that your center provided a safe and healthy atmosphere that encouraged children at various […]
Encouraging Healthy Laughter in Your Childcare Center, Part 2
Your childcare center takes care to provide a safe environment that accommodates the many and varied needs of the children for which you provide care. Among the many developmentally appropriate activities you offer, we hope that we’re convincing you to add a simple activity to that growing list. Arguably more influential to a person’s happiness […]
How Jackrabbit Can Help Your Dance Studio Get Organized, This Year
Your dance studio is your pride and joy. Most days. Of course, we’re guessing you already have several software programs and web-based services that help you achieve organization within your studio. But what if Jackrabbit could streamline all the processes and functions of those different platforms, allowing you to automate some tasks while also keeping […]
Customer Perspectives: Why Martha Loves Jackrabbit Software
In a February 2018 interview, Martha Hocutt of SwimMAC Carolina was asked why she chose Jackrabbit Class software for her organization’s class management needs — and why she’s become a loyal customer, years after her initial decision. As North Swim School Director, her perspective may help you make your own decision when it comes to […]