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Freeing Your Day Care Workers to Love the Children
In any business, how successful you are will to a large extent depend on your employees. So when you are running your own day care business, the people who spend every hour of their working day making that day care run smoothly are your lifeline to success. Unless your day care is just you and five kids, you are going to have to hire day care workers to help keep things running the way they should. In addition to being a small business owner and the one who calls the shots around your day care business, you also a boss. And what separates a good boss from a bad one is how well you can keep your workers focused on their goals and how well you reward good work in the staff you keep.
The first step of making sure you have people in your day care working for you that are going to make your day care a success is the selection process. The normal rules for recruiting apply including references, background checks and experience. But the interview may be even more important than any of that. You can tell a lot about the personality of the worker by making the interview informal and focused on the lifestyle of someone who works with children all day long.
This most important aspect of any worker you have is that they like children and that children like them back. Of course, their awareness of safety and health and their job of making sure the rules of the day care are followed are also important. But if your workers are going to make you a success, they must enjoy their time with the kids not only guiding them but playing with them. So one innovative approach to the interview process is to let the children interview them. You might even have a second interview that lasts half of a day and just let the prospective worker be with the kids in a "try out" mode to see how it goes.
The rational behind putting such a high priority on finding and retaining day care workers who have a natural affinity to kids seems obvious but there is a good business reason behind it also. Success in the day care business is measured in kids. The number of kids you have and keep coming back to be "citizens" of your day care community is what will make you successful. Not only that but if the children are happy in your day care center, they will want their friends there and they will tell their parents that they are happy which means referrals. All of that leads to long term success for your day care business. So making it possible for the children in your day care to genuinely enjoy the people who are there to care for them is not only your calling in life as a day care owner, its makes good business sense too.
There is a lot you can do from an administrative point of view to free your day care workers to love those kids and make their time with you a time they want to rush back to tomorrow, next week and next month. One big mistake many employers make is to burden the staff with a lot of administrative work such as filling out paperwork, dealing with maintenance or discipline issues that take them away from the larger population of children that they are there to serve.
If you have a child that needs special attention, create a culture in your day care where the primary caregiver knows to turn that special issue over to you or a dedicated staff member so he or she can return to caring for the group. Create an open atmosphere of communication with your workers so if there are either individual problems or problems that could affect the entire day care, those workers can come to you and talk about them. That ability to communicate will head off many problems and nip them in the bud.
There is a lot you can do to keep unnecessary worries off of the minds of your workers. By making it possible for your workers to focus on the kids, you keep them happy and you keep the kids happy. And that is a sure fire formula for success for any day care center.
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