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Working Styles
Have you attended our Understanding Yourself and Others team workshop? If yes, you’ll already know your style – here is a cheat sheet to help you bring out the best in others!
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10 Amazing Ways To Spend Your LDCPDP Funding
Well-managed professional development can be both rewarding and motivating for staff. The key to motivating and rewarding professional development is to ensure it is meeting the overall developmental...
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7 Staffing Myths In the Children’s Services Sector
Myth 1: You have to pay candidates for a trial. Actually, you don’t. Candidates should always be asked to do an unpaid trial to assess their suitability for the role. The candidate should always be...
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7 Staffing Myths In the Children’s Services Sector
Myth 2: You have to give 3 warnings before terminating the services of a staff member. Not true. An employer doesn’t have to give their employee 3 warnings, or even 1! However, an employer should...
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7 Staffing Myths In the Children’s Services Sector
Myth 3: Educators should be motivated to come to work. Motivation and engagement need to be cultivated and embedded in the service’s policies and practices. It’s critical that you create an...
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7 Staffing Myths In the Children’s Services Sector
Myth 4: Leaving a child alone unsupervised is grounds for instant dismissal. One-off incidents are rarely grounds for instant dismissal. Instant dismissal (summary dismissal) is reserved for the most...
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7 Staffing Myths In the Children’s Services Sector
Myth 5: You can never discover the true characteristics of an applicant from an interview. Well, sort of! You can find out the true characteristics if you follow a robust recruitment process: Do your...
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7 Staffing Myths In the Children’s Services Sector
Myth 6: If an educator has injured herself at netball, you need to provide light duties if the doctor states it on a medical certificate. Not the case! Provision of suitable duties for non...
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7 Staffing Myths In the Children’s Services Sector
Myth 7: You only need to manage the performance of your poor performing staff. Not true! You also need to keep your high performers developing, challenged and engaged. If you don’t, they may either...
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If your team were a mode of transport, what would that mode be?
Over a year ago on trip to Gili Trawangan, I made it to my accommodation travelling by helicopter, moped and donkey. It started me thinking about the tools we use to move our teams forward. In our...
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