Here is a thought from another leadership consultant whose blog I follow. All to often, we are so focused on the latest trend in childcare, we can not keep up with trends in management, let alone let our mind create. But still, we are managers and leaders, and more importantly so because we lead teachers…
Today Japanese surgeons report the world’s first successful surgery using IPS cells. These are cells taken from the patient’s body, and treated so that they act as if they were stem cells. They were then implanted in the patient’s body to repair damage elsewhere, in this case, the eye. A couple of years ago a…
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From Dan Rockwell (http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/distinguishing-the-wise-from-the-foolish/) The most talented fool in the world only brings misery and destruction. Business is more than numbers and results. Leaders go astray when they neglect character at the expense of abilities. The gifts and talents of fools makes them dangerous. Wake up call: It’s possible to be talented and foolish. Wisdom…
Last week I shared my 3 secrets for hiring good staff. This followed the big insight on the one big secret to time management for the center director. This week, my 5 biggest mistakes directors make when they train their staff. You will begin to see why staff don’t do what you want them to…
What does it take to be a great educator? Better formal training? Natural talent? A love for children? Kindness? Moral excellence in order to think of the children’s needs and the family’s needs and the center’s needs before one’s own? Or faith for a child to achieve academic excellence? Or what? How do you rate…
Choose any of the following topics. Print the 2 pages, get the book Peace Skills: Swim with the Dolphins, not with the Sharks from www.amazon.com, fill out the quick questions, send in a copy of them (with a self-addressed, stamped envelope) and get your Clock Hours. And be proud that your self study was real,…
One of the blogs on leadership and management that I like to read is Dan Rockwell’s Leadership Freak http://www.facebook.com/LeadershipFreak Today he asked the question here what is necessary in times of disaster. He was thinking of Japan, but I’m just thinking in general terms — for a director of a CDC or a prinicpal or…