Team Spirit!

Team Spirit!

by: Shay - 07-10-04 13:07

As an experienced, older, nursery nurse, who has been working in the field for several years, I am discouraged to see so many wonderful nursery nurses not getting along with each other in the work setting. After trying to be a mentor and struggling to calm tempers down, I do not understand why it is so difficult not to get along in a work setting. We all love working with children, and should be helping each other be the best workers in our industry. We receive negative reactions from the press, and Tellie, so therefore we should not be fighting with each other. I thought it would be interesting to have a nursery manager, supervisor, or debuty manager give some suggestions to help nursery nurses learn to work together as a team. How can we provide the best care to our children, show how important our job is, and fight for better wages, when we are fighting with each other? I would really appreciate several views on this matter, and perhaps it can help all of us who are in this situation.

by: Zoe_Boyce

I totally agree that in many Nurseries there seems to be degree of 'bitchiness', AKA talking behind other peoples backs or slagging them off. People may argue that this is down to the fact that this profession is made up mainly of women and that it is inevitable.

I agree that not everybody is going to get along at all times, and we are not all going to see eye to eye, but how hard is it to bite your tongue?

Team Spirit! - 21-11-04 18:51

by: Elli-Mai

as a manager of a creche, i have a lot of staff. I find that the majority of the bitching is by the youngest staff and it's genrally because they all want to be the most popular who the children love coming to, and thay all seem to want to be the best at their jobs, even if that means being a bitch. One solution is to give the ring leaders responsibility they soon learn that theres's more to the job.