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The Manitoba Child Care Program's newsletter, "An Eye on Early Learning and Child Care in Manitoba," contains an excerpt from a Canadian Child Care Federation book, Partners in Quality by Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminsky, which outlines steps a child care director can take to create a positive work environment...

• Smile, greet, and interact with each staff each day
• Model a respectful and harmonious work environment
• Acknowledge staff's accomplishments
• Create a culture of lifelong learning
• Develop a clear mission statement, goals, policies, procedures, and work responsibilities in consultation with employees
• Develop specific job descriptions that outline expectations and responsibilities for trained and untrained staff
• Do annual staff evaluations and encourage self-assessment and goal setting
• Identify training gaps for career development and in access to resources
• Offer to support professional development and post-secondary education, such as time off and paying for all or part of tuition and books
• Match staff's abilities, skills, and interests to program requirements
• Evaluate programs; ask for feedback on improvements; follow through on approved recommendations
• Delegate responsibility

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Our Manager's Tool Kit, containing the resources listed below, is now on sale on our web site:

• The Art of Leadership: Managing Early Childhood Organizations
• Managing Money: A Center Director’s Guidebook
• Stick Your Neck Out �" A Street-Smart Guide to Creating Change in Your Community and Beyond
• 250 Management Success Stories from Child Care Directors
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