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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Helpful Phone Etiquette Guidelines for Your Child Care Center, Part 1
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 […]
Short Term Community Volunteering in Masaya, Nicaragua
Masaya, Nicaragua is one of the locations which Bridges to Community seeks to assist in the areas of agriculture, education, healthcare, and housing. Though it’s the nation’s smallest department in land area, it boasts the greatest population density. Roughly an hour away from the busy capital city of Managua, the region is renowned for its […]
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 […]
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 […]