What do we mean by Performance Management?

When we think about performance management, we tend to think of the annual appraisal process to ensure that targets have been met throughout the year, and set goals for the following  twelve months in line with organisational strategies and goals. However, this is becoming a somewhat more stagnant approach. Although the idea of an annual […]

How to use file notes when managing performance in your Early Years setting

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In terms of managing performance there are three approaches that you can take, the informal, semi formal, or formal approach.  Which approach you use is dependent on the severity of the situation that has arisen.   Files notes are used to document that an informal conversation has taken place with your member of staff.   […]

How to prepare a Job Description in a Day Nursery

Podcast on how to undertake an absence review meeting with staff who are on long term sick

Job descriptions are used to describe a role within your setting and are used predominantly during the recruitment and selection process. Job descriptions also have a life after the recruitment process, they are useful during induction and probationary periods. Here is our podcast on how to prepare a job description in your early years setting, […]

My supervisor is on a power trip

Podcast on how to undertake an absence review meeting with staff who are on long term sick

This is a situation we have come across quite regularly.  Sometimes nursery workers are promoted to room supervisor positions, only for the employer to find that they are not the best at managing people.   Here is our podcast on how to manage your room supervisors if this situation has happened within your Early Years […]

Discipline for under performance?

Here’s a question posted on social media today that caught my eye. “If a staff member consistently wasn’t completing their paperwork for their key children and other tasks and there are always discussions with this member of staff about stuff not being completed or followed through, would any of you go down the disciplinary route? If […]

How do I deal with borderline aggressive staff?

At work, there will be times when you hire someone with qualities such as: being able to lead the team make decisions handle difficulties and they then turn out to be borderline aggressive. You wanted confidence, what you appointed was aggression.  But they were fine at interview. At interview they wanted to put across how useful they […]

What’s the difference between Appraisal and Supervisions?

We are often asked what’s the point of having annual appraisals and more regular supervision meetings. The answer is that they are different and in this week’s blog I hope to explain why. Appraisals are as old as the hills. The idea of reviewing where an employee has been in order to plot where they […]