A successful, renowned and profitable Montessori nursery is what all nursery owners strive for when setting their business goals.
“A business is only as good as it’s people” – Kathryn Minshew
The people you employ within your nursery are the most important asset in achieving your business goals. Here are 4 ways you can follow to improve the staff performance of your Montessori setting and achieve your business goals in 2022:
Review your staff’s performances while they are in action and see if they are doing it correctly. Are they demonstrating the practical shelf correctly? How do they speak to the children? How do they handle an overly anxious parent? Note their strengths and weaknesses and share your feedback immediately. Follow this exercise regularly and provide pointers on how to improve their practice.
This will benefit both – the employee and your setting.
If an employee completes their level 3, your team receives outstanding parent feedback or your nursery aims to achieve 90% occupancy this term and achieves it, ensure you recognise this effort and celebrate it by treating the team or team member. This could be through verbal recognition within your staff meetings or an incentive scheme such as vouchers to their favourite restaurant or online shop.
Acknowledge that your employees’ views are important. When you create an environment where managers clearly know the company values communication and employees feel comfortable speaking up, they will feel like more than just a cog in the machine. Your employees are right on the front line of your child and parent service, so they are always the first to notice the future needs and demands of your children and parents. When you take the time and energy to gather their thoughts and observations, you increase your nursery’s chances of staying agile and innovative.
It is good practice that educators attend refresher training in Montessori or additional training when required to ensure the setting is operating as a true Montessori nursery. Training your employees can increase their efficiency and productivity in completing their daily work tasks. It can also help your setting achieve greater consistency in process adherence, making it easier to project outcomes and meet business goals and targets. Plus, with happy, qualified staff who are up to date with industry-standard best practices you will be giving your competitors a run for their money! Check out our blog 3 reasons to invest in training in 2022
Montessori Apprentice Academy has supplied training to hundreds of happy nurseries with tangible results; so much so, that many of them use us for all their staff training requirements.
Montessori Apprentice Academy offers high-quality, affordable, CPD accredited training courses tailor-made to suit staff at all levels. From our Montessori online course which is a great way to upskill unqualified staff to understand the philosophy and work as a qualified Montessori assistant.
To our Montessori Diploma CPD level 3 top up is fantastic for higher level staff who already hold a level 3 early years qualification.
We believe that the Montessori method of education is the best for children, and it is paramount that Montessori settings employ passionate and educated Montessori practitioners to drive this vision.
If you would like further information about our Montessori courses, please contact our friendly team at info@montessoriapprentice.co.uk or give us a call on 01923 463 927 Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 4:30pm.
