Early childhood directors manage through relationships. What You Need to Lead an Early Childhood Program guides a director through the steps to build respectful, dynamic, and welcoming relationships with families and staff. This important book covers all traditional early childhood administration topics, from financial management to marketing and development, while also recognizing and exploring the human side of management and the critical role of emotional intelligence in effective leadership.
Table des matières
Preface Part I—Forming: Setting Up the Program and Yourself for Success Chapter 1 Five Essential Leadership Competencies: You Heard It Here Chapter 2 Smart Heart-to-Heart Leadership: Honoring Emotional Intelligence Chapter 3 Making Tough Decisions: The Art and Science of Decision Making Chapter 4 Leading on Purpose: The Road to Making a Difference Part II—Storming: Identifying, Preventing, and Addressing Resistance to Change Chapter 5 Getting Started: Wherever You Are Is the Place to Begin Chapter 6 Partnering with Change Chapter 7 Preventing Legal Issues: Policies and Procedures Chapter 8 Creating a Community of Problem Solvers: Winners, Not Whiners Part III—Norming: Establishing Management Systems Chapter 9 Supervision and Staff Development: Social EQ in Action Chapter 10 Financial Management: Holding the Purse Strings Chapter 11 Do No Harm: Building Safe, Sustainable, Healthy Learning Environments Chapter 12 Curriculum Choices: Roots and Wings Chapter 13 Marketing and Development: If You Build It, They Will Come Part IV—Performing: Putting Principles into Practice Chapter 14 Every Child’s Family: Building Partnerships Chapter 15 Quest for Quality: Professionalism Isn’t Just a 15-Letter Word Part V—Re-Forming: Renewing, Refreshing, Dreaming of What Might Be Chapter 16 Leadership Principles to Take with You: Learning to Love the Questions
A propos de l’auteur
Holly Elissa Bruno, MA, JD, attorney and keynote speaker, hosts the online radio program Heart to Heart Conversations on Leadership: Your Guide to Making a Difference on bamradionetwork.com. She teaches graduate leadership and law courses at Wheelock College and National Louis University’s Mc Cormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership. Having served as assistant attorney general for the state of Maine, assistant dean at the University of Maine School of Law, and dean of faculty and associate professor at University of Maine–Augusta (UMA), she was named UMA’s Outstanding Professor. Holly Elissa’s keynotes engage and inspire audiences from Reykjavik, Iceland, to Budapest, Hungary, and from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Anchorage, Miami, Chicago, Austin, San Diego, Tulsa, and Spearfish, South Dakota. She believes early childhood leadership is one of the most powerful positions anyone can hold.
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