Opinion: To the Point - Managing graduates

Last week I attended a nursery dinner with various operators from the south-east of England, where we started to discuss the question 'What makes a nursery special?' I was pleasantly surprised when, uniformly, we all agreed that getting the right manager was the key to success. But we each had different reasons for coming to this choice. These included having teambuilding skills, having the right 'front-of-house' manner, managing staff, controlling bad debt - the list seemed endless. Eventually we agreed that the most important attribute good managers had was their...