Working in the childcare space is no doubt a high stress environment. Making sure your centre is operating the way you want – keeping children safe, communicating and supporting parents all while delivering quality care, it sure is hard. It is known that working on a close-knit team with an effective leader will make life in the childcare business much easier. It starts with people wanting to share the same vision and goals. We talk about how things like staff values, training/onboarding, communication contribute to building the ideal childcare team.

Staff Values

Creating staff values is really important for getting your team on the same page. As a leader, you should start off by sharing your vision what goals you wish to accomplish. This includes deciding what behaviour is expected to accomplish those goals. An example of staff values could be the willingness to give a helping hand, put in effort into your work and taking accountability. These values should develop not only from you, but your team as a whole.

Training/Onboarding

The key to embedding these values is your training and onboarding processes. Walking through training procedures with your team and having consistent meetings is a good way to communicate with your staff. If there are any issues that arise, having these discussions with your team will help you get back on track. Training and Onboarding is really important, laying the groundwork for your team will ensure all staff values are aligned.

Open Communication

Building the ideal team, communication is of utmost importance. Constantly communicating to your team is key to understanding your staff. We want members within a team to be transparent, this helps with overcoming barriers. Everyone being able to express their opinions and concerns, this will help you run your childcare operations more smoothly.

Take the time to plan out your vision and the goals you wish to accomplish and communicate this with your staff. Dedicating a bit of time and training, there is no doubt you can form the ideal super team!