Daycare Overhaul: Doing Childcare Better!

Setting expectations and ensuring those expectations are being followed through with is crucial to running a successful child care center. Our guest, Mandy Doy, COO at Daycare Team, joined us today about how she sets expectations for her 12 schools and 200+ teachers.

Mandy talks about setting goals, communicating consistent reminders in order to help her staff achieve those goals and letting them know ‘what is in it for them.’ Not only is it important to set clear expectations and encourage follow through, but it is also important to give grace and allow them to understand why sometimes goals are not met.

Listen to all that and more in today’s podcast!

Caroline and Justina are so excited to be back for Season 2 of Daycare Overhaul! Listen as they discuss what they have been up to the past few months along with exciting plans for this season of Daycare Overhaul. See if you can hear when a train, alarm, email and thunder also made an appearance (talk about having to pivot)!

Take notes as they share ways they have seen the industry and clients pivot through this adversity. In this episode you will hear 7 different ways centers can be innovative through this global pandemic.

Being an owner and/or director at a child care center can be very rewarding; but it can also be incredibly stressful.

Making sure you have good stress resilience and maintain a healthy lifestyle can directly impact your daily life. In today’s episode we are joined by personal trainer, Jennifer Schmit. She talks not only about your physical health, but your overall wellness and things you can do while you are at work to maintain a healthy lifestyle!

Listen now for her best tips and tricks!

Advocating for your child care center is very critical, even more so now since the pandemic. Our guest today is one of the biggest advocates we have met and today, she talks about the importance of being an advocate for your center when it comes to make sure those in our legislature can fight for the money that it takes to be able to successfully run your center.

Cindy Lehnhoff, Director at NCCA talks about the importance of being an advocate for child care as well as why and how you can make a difference! She talks about the importance of being informed of what is happening, before it happens on a federal level as it pertains to increasing regulations without budgeting enough funds to be able to act on them.

Hiring child care teachers is becoming increasingly hard. It is now more important than ever to not only attract the best, qualified candidates, but to also make sure you are sharing your vision for your child care center and how this potential new employee will fit into that vision. Paint the picture of your vision for them, and make sure you follow through with that vision.

Listen today as our guest Heidi Gaugert, Curriculum Director - Leap Academy Childcare, talks about sharing that vision with potential teachers. Not only does she talk about sharing a vision and making sure the new employee is comfortable with that, but she also talks about how she sets them up for success.