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Child Care & Preschool Business Workshops

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Workshops List

Provide early childhood programs in your area with a customized training on business and leadership topics. Contact Early Education Business Consultants to discuss your needs, find out pricing and set a workshop schedule. Most are intended to be multi-day events, spread out over several weeks or months.

Human Resource Management  - Train the Trainer

This incredible workshop will empower you to impact the success of an entire community’s childcare businesses. You’ll gain the tools to train early childhood business coaches on the best methods and approaches for change. Learn the nuances of the early childhood business model, helping coaches work more effectively and impactfully with these businesses to stabilize their staffing, reduce employee turnover rates and reach full student enrollment. We’ll focus heavily on supporting childcare providers through the workforce crisis—helping them save time and money through automation and technology. You’ll also learn organizational best practices, based on early childhood research, for recruitment and retention.

 

Participating in this workshop gives you annual access to all materials, presentation files, tools, and templates developed by EEBC.  For more information, contact Lauren Small at lauren@earlyeducationbusiness.com.

The Right Staff (half day or full day)

Get energized to collaborate and tackle challenges around STAFFING. The overarching goal of this bootcamp is to reduce employee turnover rates. You’ll learn new strategies to attract the best employees—and keep them! We’ll also explore ideas, from simple and substantial, to make your existing employees eager to stay part of the team. This all-day workshop is designed to help busy owner/director with things you can do immediately to build a warm, world-class culture that creates long-term employees.You’ll also enjoy camaraderie with fellow directors as you network and share experiences on what’s working and what’s not.

 

By participating in this workshop, you’ll get annual access to all materials, presentation files, tools, and templates developed by EEBC.  For more information contact Lauren Small at lauren@earlyeducationbusiness.com.

Building World Class Culture as a Recruitment Tool for Staff

Learn strategies to build lasting positive workforce culture that attracts staff that stays. Use that culture to create job ads and career pages that work together to attract the right fit for your center.

Participants will:

• Understand the most critical aspects of building a long-lasting workplace culture

• Learn how to focus on the most essential elements of culture by automating staff surveys and conducting STAY interviews

• Build a happier, healthier, and higher-performing team using pedagogical leadership strategies

 

By participating in this workshop, you’ll get annual access to all materials, presentation files, tools, and templates developed by EEBC.  For more information contact Lauren Small at lauren@earlyeducationbusiness.com.

Effective Job Descriptions and Job Advertisements

Busy early childhood directors and owners will learn the difference between a job description and a job ad, and what each of them is used for.

  • Understand how to craft a compelling job description, including the components needed to make it effective.

  • Practice turning that description into an competitive job ad that gets many viable applicants—and doesn’t get buried within the job board algorithms

 

By participating in this workshop, you’ll get annual access to all materials, presentation files, tools, and templates developed by EEBC.  For more information contact Lauren Small at lauren@earlyeducationbusiness.com.

Screening and Interviewing Processes

Busy early childhood directors and owners will practice using technology for quickly screening applicants and learn how to manage the application process for recruit

  • Find out how to streamline the application process to quickly attract qualified applicants and move them through your hiring process.

  • Understand interviewing techniques that help identify the most viable applicants (people who are good fit for your team).

Discover how to create a clear vision of the teacher you’re looking for, then develop questions that align with your vision.

 

By participating in this workshop, you’ll get annual access to all materials, presentation files, tools, and templates developed by EEBC.  For more information contact Lauren Small at lauren@earlyeducationbusiness.com.

Keeping on the Pulse of Key Business Metrics

Keeping on the Pulse of Key Business Metrics 

Busy early childhood directors and owners can quickly assess how their center is performing, once they understand the most important business metrics

  • Understand how to do a financial assessment of your center, including benchmarking.

  • Learn to make decisions based on those metrics & financial forecasting.

 

By participating in this workshop, you’ll get annual access to all materials, presentation files, tools, and templates developed by EEBC.  For more information contact Lauren Small at lauren@earlyeducationbusiness.com.

Reducing Accounts Receivable and Increasing Tuition Prices

Busy early childhood directors and owners will learn how to run financial scenarios that help them  understand what they can afford, and also how to make the business model work.

  • Understand the importance of developing parent tuition policies—and sticking to them.

  • Discuss industry-recommended practices on parent tuition payment policies and fee agreements.

  • Find out how childcare management software partners with you to keep accounts receivable low.

 

By participating in this workshop, you’ll get annual access to all materials, presentation files, tools, and templates developed by EEBC.  For more information contact Lauren Small at lauren@earlyeducationbusiness.com.

Financial Forecasting for Wage Increases

Busy early childhood directors and owners will reduce financial stress by understanding their financial model.

  • Learn to identify potential financial problems before they develop.

  • Receive step-by-step guidance on how to prepare and update a financial forecast and budget.

  • Discover the gaps in your financial forecast and how to fill them.

 

By participating in this workshop, you’ll get annual access to all materials, presentation files, tools, and templates developed by EEBC.  For more information contact Lauren Small at lauren@earlyeducationbusiness.com.

More Strategies for Decreasing Accounts Receivable and Increasing Tuition Prices

Busy early childhood directors and owners will work on making their business model work better, as they practice additional financial scenarios. 

  • Work on your parent tuition policy and develop customized ways to enforce it.

  • Fine-tune your fee agreements and related payment policies.

  • Explore options in childcare management software partners.

 

By participating in this workshop, you’ll get annual access to all materials, presentation files, tools, and templates developed by EEBC.  For more information contact Lauren Small at lauren@earlyeducationbusiness.com.

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