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Looking Out for Number Two: Working with an Assistant.
Maggio, Karen – Child Care Information Exchange, 1995
Suggests ways to increase the effectiveness of the role of the director and middle manager in a day-care center: (1) define complementary roles; (2) let requirements of the center dictate responsibilities; (3) let positions reflect the strengths, and the individual needs, of each person; (4) keep each other informed; (5) present a unified front;…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Organization, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role
Evaluation of Director by Staff.
Child Care Information Exchange, 1990
This Exchange Evaluation Instrument is designed for the staff of a day care center to use in evaluating the center director. (DR)
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Evaluation, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education
Ideas for Directors.
Child Care Information Exchange, 1989
Provides ideas for child care directors on such topics as: (1) increased productivity; (2) testimonial letters; (3) legal guidelines that prevent problems; (4) persuasion practices; (5) decision making; (6) common mistakes of nonprofit organizations; and (7) fundraising success stories. (RJC)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrators, Day Care
Ideas for Directors.
Child Care Information Exchange, 1989
Provides management suggestions for child care directors. Includes suggestions for criticizing colleagues, effective fundraising appeals, general fundraising, and techniques to motivate people. (RJC)
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Effectiveness, Day Care Centers, Fund Raising
So You're a Director--What Else Can Go Wrong?
Neugebauer, Roger – Child Care Information Exchange, 1989
Discusses pitfalls that plague child care directors; these include failure to: (1) share managerial responsibilities with other staff members; (2) keep in touch with the world outside the center; (3) be aware of center-related problems; (4) withstand stress and move forward; and (5) plan for growth. (BB)
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Effectiveness, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Center Director Evaluation Form.
Child Care Information Exchange, 1989
This form provides for positive or negative evaluations of aspects of the center director's performance. Evaluation topics include organizational leadership, planning and evaluation, staff supervision and development, curriculum development and implementation, the administrative system, relations with parents, and marketing and public relations.…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Evaluation, Day Care, Day Care Centers
Ideas for Directors.
Child Care Information Exchange, 1990
Offers a small business person's guide to nichemanship and ideas about ending a speech, selection of a committee, and managers' behavior. (BB)
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Guides, Committees, Day Care
So Long, It's Been Good (Not So Good) to Know You: Communicating with Parents when Staff Leave.
Greenman, Jim – Child Care Information Exchange, 1996
Departures of child care staff often create an emotional climate that affects everyone. This article advises directors on communication strategies to inform parents of staff departures, including a case study on the well-handled departure of a staff worker who resigned without notice. A sample letter to parents is also provided. (EV)
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Early Childhood Education
Power Lines: The Use and Abuse of Power in Child Care Programming.
Zeece, Pauline Davey – Child Care Information Exchange, 1996
Summarizes French and Raven's five bases of supervisory power; then discusses common misuses of power by early childhood program directors, such as "do as I say, not as I do," hiring down, and "the clique heard round the center." Provides pertinent questions for self-examination to break free of these destructive trends. (EV)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Behavior, Administrator Effectiveness, Day Care Centers
Ideas for Directors.
Child Care Information Exchange, 1989
Presents a variety of ideas and guidelines for day care directors on such topics as managing a procrastinator; improving annual reports; quality commandments; mini fiestas for children, parents, and teachers; selective reading for directors; morning exercise programs for the staff; and suggestions for successful fundraising. (BB)
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Guides, Annual Reports, Day Care
Understanding and Managing Negativity in the Workplace.
Riepe, Linda – Child Care Information Exchange, 1995
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…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Attitude Change, Day Care Centers, Educational Environment
Exceptional Times Call for Exceptional Directors.
Neugebauer, Roger – Child Care Information Exchange, 1996
Early childhood centers today are buffeted with unprecedented financial, organizational, and societal challenges. This article profiles "exceptional directors" who have responded to these challenges through their skills in leading people, working with parents, developing programs, managing their organizations, and advocating for…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Behavior, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Effectiveness
Evaluating the Child Care Center Director.
Ratekin, Cindy; Bess, Gary M. – Child Care Information Exchange, 1997
Discusses the child care center director evaluation process when conducted by a board of directors to enhance the director's effectiveness. Considers frequency of evaluation and assessment criteria for center and leadership and managerial objectives. Describes the evaluation process, including reorientation meetings, information gathering,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Behavior, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Evaluation
The Paradoxes of Leadership--What We've Learned.
Neugebauer, Bonnie; Neugebauer, Roger – Child Care Information Exchange, 1998
Discusses paradoxes of leadership, including (1) directors need to enjoy their work, but cannot avoid disagreeable tasks; (2) staff protection of directors ultimately proves harmful; (3) when directors are most discouraged, they need to be most motivated; (4) humor can help accomplish serious results; and (5) the longer a director is employed, the…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Qualifications, Administrators, Collegiality
How Are You Doing? A Center Director Self-Review Tool.
Talley, Karen L. – Child Care Information Exchange, 1997
This self-review tool for center directors consists of a seven-part survey which analyzes the program, work environment, budget and finance, public relations and community outreach, family relations, planning and administration, and professionalism. The survey was developed to assist onsite directors in their professional growth via personal and…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Evaluation, Administrators
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