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Effective management remains key to tackling the sector's ongoing challenge of recruiting and retaining enthusiastic and capable early years practitioners ACORN CHILDCARE TRAINING * The effective early years manager: five-day course exploring management skills and techniques and how to apply them. These include planning, objective-setting, questioning skills, communication, reviewing performance, influencing skills, managing stress, monitoring and control, effective meetings, leadership and time management. * The effective deputy manager: three-day course for inexperienced deputies. Topics include the supervisor...