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Leadership, NEW

Calling all Educators, Co-ordinators and Staff Members...

If you are an educator, co-ordinator or staff member, do you convey mutual respect, equity and recognition of others’ strengths and skills? These staffing relationships are the foundation in developing warm, respectful relationships with children and families.

This session will help you to identify your own strengths as well as those of your colleagues; share your thoughts and listen to practical strategies to get the best out of yourself and the team around you.

Learning Outcomes

  • To learn how to convey mutual respect, equity and recognition of others’ strengths and skills.
  • To explore the value of developing genuine relationships with others.
  • To identify your own strengths as a valued member of the team.

Designed for: All educators. All service types

Quality Area: 4

EYLF Outcome: 1

Leadership, Miscellaneous
Calling all team members

A strong cohesive team is the cornerstone to success in any workplace. Whether you are a team member at your service, a leader who is responsible for a group of educators or the owner of your service, there are things you can do to make the teams in your workplace stronger and in turn your service a less stressful, and a more enjoyable and productive place to spend the day.

We will explore how you ensure your workplace atmosphere resembles that of a caring community of professionals where mutual support and appreciation abound as well as considering how your confidence in your own ability to think and cope with the everyday challenges of working within children’s services influence your teams esteem.

Learning Outcomes

  • To understand the value of teamwork and a strong team on your day to day operations.
  • To identify what makes strong teams as well as your own strengths as a valued member of the team.
  • • To learn how to convey mutual respect, equity and recognition of others’ strengths and skills.

Designed for: All educators. All service types

Quality Area: 4 & 7

EYLF Principles and Practices

Health and Safety, Leadership, Program Planning, Miscellaneous, Development
Celebrating diversity in the team

Take a look at what culture is and ways we can define this, appropriate interactions and customs we must use , practicing patience, using humor, looking at differences from alternative perceptions, being prepared to make mistakes, learning to be an ally, getting to know individuals, listening to others stories, asking questions, making an overall effort and being sincere.

Via identifying the needs of our culturally diverse co-workers and families, we can plan, ahead and gain an understanding of the importance of cultural consultation and support networks.

Learning Outcomes

  • To recognise various cultures in your team
  • To explore methods of utilising culture as a strength within your team
  • To develop strategies to be culturally safe and inclusive for all team members

Designed for: All educators. All service types

Quality Area: 1, 4 & 7

EYLF Practices and Principles

Health and Safety, Leadership, Program Planning, Miscellaneous, Development
Conflict in the Workplace

Discover the common foundations built around conflict situations, why we can and do argue, difficulties we face when dealing with conflict and how we can personally adapt and accommodate this within our job role and responsibilities.

Learn strategies and the utilisation of specific steps we can undertake when we are dealing with conflict and important elements we should and shouldn’t implement to ensure best possible outcomes and relationships within the workplace. Learning Outcomes

  • To identify the key elements in conflict in the workplace
  • To explore conflict resolution techniques and when to use them
  • To recognise the leaders role in conflict resolution in the workplace

Designed for: All educators. All service types

Quality Area: 4 & 7

EYLF Practices and Principles

Leadership
Educational Leaders in Action As a valued educational leader within your service, you would already have a sound knowledge of theories of learning and development, and you would be someone who has an interest in reading widely and sharing Information with other educators within your service.

This session is to bring together educational leaders to further enhance your skills in: - guiding others in reflecting on their practice; - to meet complex needs of children from a range of backgrounds and abilities; -to share personal qualities to listen, coach and mentor your team of educators.

Use this training opportunity to share and collaborate with other educational leaders.

Learning Outcomes

  • To guiding others in reflecting on their practice.
  • To understand and meet complex needs of children from a range of backgrounds and abilities.
  • To share personal qualities through listening, coaching and mentoring your team of educators.

Designed for: Educational Leaders. All service types

Quality Area: 7

EYLF Principles and Practices

Leadership, Behaviour
Effective Time Magagement

Discover ways to manage your time more effectively, plan your day, week, month and schedule tasks in order of priority. Time is a consistent barrier in which we all face regular restrictions within creating loss of direction, achievement of set goals we are working towards and those contingency plans we need to put into action.

When time doesn't permit our day to work out the way we had planned this causes stress, uncertainty and frustration as the following day will be doubled with work requirements, tasks and projects we may need to complete. Learn ways to prioritise, share the work load and be prepared for the unexpected.

Learning Outcomes

  • To identify a range a strategies to assist with time management
  • To explore the effect of poor time management on you, your room, the children and the service.

Designed for: All educators. All service types

Quality Area:4 & 7

EYLF Principles and Practices

Leadership
Eliminating Workplace Gossip The process of eliminating workplace gossip can bring about much stress and confusion. Stress for leaders in not understanding why gossip is still present in spite of their efforts to eliminate it. Stress for staff in not really knowing why their co-workers gossip or what they can do about it. These are challenges that face us all. That's right, gossip is a common problem! So, can workplace gossip be eliminated? Absolutely, however, typically, creating a “gossip free zone” will not solve your gossip problems alone. Join us as we present some key strategies for creating a working and learning environment that's free from workplace gossip.

Ideal for: Qualified Child Care Workers & Directors

Quality Area: 4 & 7

EYLF Principles and Practice

Leadership, Behaviour
Exploring Philosophical Approaches When planning and responding to children's needs and education, our ideas often come from a philosophical base or viewpoint. It is valuable to consider a variety of philosophical approaches when establishing what feels right to us as professionals when presenting programs to children. Such philosophies as Reggio Emilia, Steiner, Montessori and Te Whaki for example can lend many ideas and approaches for working with children in meaningful ways that embrace specific elements of early childhood education and alternate ways of programming. This interactive session will discuss and explore a range of philosophical approaches and how these can influence our ideas when working with children.

Ideal for: Qualified Child Care Workers

Quality Area: 1

EYLF Principles and Practice

Leadership, Miscellaneous
Friendships in the Workplace

Can you really be friends with everyone you work with? You may have nothing in common with any of your co-workers, but a professional friendship can benefit everyone in the organisation by creating a supportive environment contributing to productivity.

Join this session and see how you can benefit from workplace friendships in your organisation, and how you can be a better professional friend.

Ideal for: Qualified Child Care Workers, however appropriate to ALL levels

Quality Area: 7

EYLF Principles and Practice

Leadership
Harmony in the Workplace

Whether you are an employee at your service, a coordinator who is responsible for a group of educators or the owner of your service, there are things you can do to make your workplace a better and more enjoyable place to spend the day. A harmonious workforce can be less stressful and more productive.

Join this session to discuss the challenges of working with different personalities, and learn who to get the best from each member of your team, to create a harmonious workplace.

Learning Outcomes

  • To understand your role in creating a harmonious workplace.
  • To explore the various personality types, then to understand how to work alongside all personality types.
  • To identify positive strategies to create a harmonious workplace.

Designed for: All educators. All service types

Quality Area: 7

EYLF Principles and Practices

Leadership, Miscellaneous
Influences on Leadership

There are countless personality traits that distinguish us from one another, some inherited while others are learned. There isn't much debate about the idea that leadership style grows out of personality type. Just as the unique gifts associated with each personality type contribute to society, they also contribute to the many different types of leadership needed to keep the world moving forward.

Discover your own leadership style and personality traits by joining this session.

Learning Outcomes

  • To identify the different styles of leaders.
  • To recognise how your personality and the personalities of others influence you as a leader.

Designed for: All Qualified educators. All service types

Quality Area: 7

EYLF Practices and Principles

Leadership, Miscellaneous
Leading your Team Effectively Great leaders are captives. They are captivated by a clear sense of purpose and they rally others around that purpose.

Great leaders also have vision. Vision involves having a clear picture of a meaningful future that you are committed to and passionate about creating. If you are looking to enhance your leadership skills, and to improve workplace effectiveness, join us as we take you on a unique journey where you will make new discoveries about yourself and your work team, along the way.

Learning Outcomes

  • To identify the qualities of a captivating leader.
  • To recognize a meaningful, professional vision for yourself as a leader.

Designed for: All Qualified educators. All service types

Quality Area: 7

EYLF Practices and Principles

Leadership, Behaviour, Development
Managing Children's Behaviour There are no magic answers or secret remedies to make a child behave appropriately. There are however some techniques that will help to teach a child more acceptable behaviours. It is important that the educators involved with young children have the skills and knowledge to implement behaviour management techniques.

Managing challenging behaviours can be stressful on both educators and children alike. Join in this session and discover some practical techniques that will enhance your own strategies when dealing with challenging behaviours.

Learning Outcomes

  • To recognise techniques which will assist children to learn positive behaviour strategies.
  • To enhance educator skills in dealing with challenging behaviours.

Ideal for: All Qualified/Trained educators

Quality Area: 5

EYLF Outcome: 1,3,4

Leadership
Motivating Your Team

Have you ever wondered what it takes to create a dynamic, motivated, high-functioning team? Well, you are not alone! The wonderful news is that there is a specific plan of action that you can implement immediately to help you manage, motivate and retain great staff.

However, the road to transforming your workplace is exactly that – a road, not a quick fix – rather a long term solution for the motivational challenges children services leaders face.

This session will assist you to understand what motivates your team, and the steps you can take to coach your team to accomplish great things; to be the program with a motivated, dynamic, high functioning team!

Learning Outcomes

  • To identify strategies in managing and motivating your team.
  • To learn long term solutions in motivational challenges.

Designed for: All Qualified and Trained educators. All service types

Quality Area: 4 & 7

EYLF Practices and Principles

Leadership, Miscellaneous
Reflecting on yourself and the curriculum

Have you ever taken the time to look at yourself in a mirror and reflect on yourself as a leader? What style of leadership reflects back at you? Some of us may be searching for the impossible, and that is a clear, prescriptive answer to becoming a perfect leader!

The capacity to reflect on any action is to engage in a process of continuous learning. This is one of the defining characteristics of professional practice!

Join this session to reveal to yourself and others your qualities as a leader. Come up with your own “prescriptive answer”, who knows you may just find the winning solution!

Learning Outcomes

  • To recognise the importance of reflective practice on a daily basis
  • To engage in continuous improvement through reflective practice.

Designed for: All Qualified educators. All service types

Quality Area: 7

EYLF Principles and Practices

Leadership, Behaviour, Miscellaneous, Development
Supporting Children with Autism It may seem that more and more young children are now being diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. Whether mild or high-functioning, children affected often find it difficult to communicate, both linguistically and socially, and have difficulty with imaginative play and flexibility. Children may also go through times of acute stress and experience ‘melt-downs’.

This session will outline the different kinds of Autism Spectrum Disorders, how to recognise symptoms and more importantly how to support both children and their families.

Learning Outcomes

  • To understand the importance of supporting children with autism
  • To understand the importance of supporting educators ideas, strategies and knowledge

Designed for: All educators. All service types

Quality Area: 1,3 & 5

EYLF Outcome: 1,2 & 3

Leadership, Behaviour
Team Building Working in child care requires teamwork. Duties are rotated, schedules coordinated, resources shared. But are you really a team or simply a group of people attempting to work under the same roof? Does your workplace atmosphere resemble a caring community of professionals where mutual support and appreciation abound, or is it more like a dysfunctional family full of tension, suspicion and resentment? Lack of teamwork leads to a joyless, stressful workplace and ultimately to poor quality child care.

Ideal for: ALL Child Care Workers

Quality Area: 5 & 7

EYLF Principles and Practice

Leadership, Behaviour
Team Esteem Who you believe your team are, is the foundation for everything your team will do and experience. In so many ways, your team’s poor self image can literally prevent you from achieving and even setting goals that could make your work life an accomplishment-filled adventure.

This session will consider how confidence in your own ability to think and cope with the basic challenges of working within children’s services influence your teams esteem.

Ideal for: Qualified Child Care Workers

Quality Area: 4 & 7

EYLF Principles and Practice

Leadership
The Cross Generational Workplace For the first time in history, four distinct generations are employed side by side in the workplace. Intergenerational differences can cause conflict and misunderstanding. By understanding the traits of each generation, you can gain insight into why your co-workers behave the way they do. The new multi-generation workplace is a complex and dynamic organism that requires flexibility and skill from everyone, especially from leaders. People of all ages can work side-by side and draw from the rich mixture of skill and experience – the key is understanding!

Learning Outcomes

  • To understand about the 4 generations currently potentially working at your service.
  • To explore your role in managing a multi-generational workplace

Designed for: All Qualified educators. All service types

Quality Area: 4

EYLF Principles and Practice

Health and Safety, Leadership, Program Planning, Miscellaneous, Development
Working with Conflict Resolution Join other child care professionals to discuss practical information to assist in helping children to resolve their conflicts with each other. We will identify how conflicts can be the beginning of something new and good! By children talking, listening and working things out together, peace can be protected.

“It takes two to work together, but it also takes two to fight. And often, it only takes one to begin the first step towards a peaceful solution. (Scholes & Ingpen, 1989)

Ideal for: ALL Child Care Workers

Quality Area: 4 & 7

EYLF Outcome: 1,3,4