Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/leading-our-schools-through-uncertain-times/5025430/
As I sat huddled around a table among my child care center leadership team in January buzzing with ideas, strategy and action plans for the new year, I felt a wave of overwhelming determination and clarity. My team was on fire and I knew they had the courage to see our plans through. We left that planning meeting with rock solid short- and long-term goals, completed marketing plans and sound budgets that would guide my four child care centers in 2020 with clear intentions.
Nonetheless, deep in my gut there was a tiny warning bell going off that a change would be coming. Some of my recent child care leadership conferences were discussing “recession-proofing your business.” Knowing I had gone through an anguished struggle to get my child care centers to the other side of the belly of the 2008 recession, I knew I had to be smarter this time. We were speculating months—maybe even a year or more—before a change in the economy would start its sweep. But, by the time two short months after our January meeting had elapsed, our annual plans might as well have remained just writing on a chalkboard. Uncertainty swooped in like an eraser, and we ...