Provides management suggestions for child care directors. Includes suggestions for criticizing colleagues, effective fundraising appeals, general fundraising, and techniques to motivate people. (RJC)

Suggests that child care competency and compensation evaluations should follow different performance review schedules. Benefits would include teacher growth; frequent and direct feedback; the separation of competency and compensation in the minds of administrators and teachers; and appropriate salary increases. (RJC)

Presents relevant ideas to administrators on the topics of employee needs and concerns, rule-making, pep talks, secretary-employer relationship, leading versus managing, requests for raises, employee group burn-out, dealing with anger. (NH)

A job description is a brief document that conveys to employees the importance of their jobs to the overall success of the day-care center. If properly written, it can contribute to effective employee motivation and supervision. (RJC)

Offers guidelines for developing a pregnancy plan for child care staff. Guidelines relate to physician's permission to continue working in the child care setting; the need to be fair to all child care staff; the need for flexibility; the importance of preparing to address questions from parents and children; and the need to prepare for unexpected…

Workshop examines school-age summer programs. Papers are (1) "No More Homework" (Linda Sisson), presenting National School-Age Child Care Alliance standards relevant to planning and evaluating summer programs; (2) "Staffing for Summer Programs" (Richard T. Scofield); (3) "Opportunities and Challenges" (Karen…

Focuses on the role of the board of directors within nonprofit child care centers and how the board and center staff can work well together for the agency. Outlines each partner's role in the four areas of center responsibility: financial oversight, program planning, resource development, and personnel management. (EV)

Gives suggestions for early childhood program directors who seek to develop people-centered environments where the needs of staff as well as children will be recognized and met. (NH)

Offers guidelines for makinng child care staff evaluations more trustworthy and meaningful. (HOD)

Offers advice on dealing with individual workers at childcare centers who whine, complain, and spread unsettling rumors. Suggests that coworkers resist the temptation to argue or immediately propose solutions to problems; accept the negative person as is; ask for "specific" objections to the ideas of others; and try to empower the…

Examines strategies to optimize hiring effectiveness for new employees. Discusses how to develop a philosophical, legal, and ethical personnel structure. Presents basic principles for making personnel decisions. Discusses basic steps in making effective hiring decisions, including identifying job prerequisites, looking at a reasonable number of…

Provides day care center directors with ideas on such topics as managerial courage, the process of handling the work environment, improved self-image, success secrets of good learners, high achievers, and chronic complainers.(BB)

Presents suggestions for ways early childhood administrators can respond to situations leading to termination of a staff member. Includes discussion of staff evaluation methods, the erosion of trust between the employee and employer, the importance of personally informing staff of a dismissal, directing staff to work together efficiently to repair…

The job of the early childhood director requires becoming comfortable in performing a wide variety of tasks. Being a director demands skills in many different areas, as well as the ability to focus one's attention in many directions at once. This is the broad description of the director's job, but very little attention has been focused on the…

Discusses different issues pertaining to leadership transitions in child care centers. Suggests that new directors should know that their actions may be received with reservation and suspicion and that they should avoid making or announcing sudden major changes. Proposes that new administrators operate as ethical models and assist other staff…