NEW: Management courses

ACORN CHILDCARE TRAINING

• Effective management skills: 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. For all supervisors or newly promoted assistant and deputy managers. Topics include the supervisor role, presentation skills, effective communication styles, identifying staff development needs, developing thinking skills and strengthening assertiveness.

• The effective room leader: one-day course for those new to this role. Topics include introducing a new child to your room, working with students and dealing with parents.

• Marketing support for small childcare businesses: half-day course that provides those running small childcare businesses with new skills and strategies for marketing and promoting their business.

• Sales support for small childcare businesses: three-hour course that provides promotional skills and strategies to those running small childcare businesses.

• Business support for childcarers: this course, spread over five 2.5-hour sessions, allows managers (both experienced and those new to management) and business owners (including childminders) to explore ways to expand and sustain their business.

• Creating an accessible environment: half-day course introducing issues relating to inclusion and accessibility.

• Employment law for childcarers: one-day course designed to give line managers an appreciation of how employment legislation affects their day-to-day activities.

• Performance management for those working with children: three-hour overview of the different techniques for managing performance.

• Personnel management for childcarers: one-day course for everyone with a management role in childcare, but little or no formal training in personnel management.

• Leadership and management for those working in childcare: an overview of the key skills for effective leadership and management.

THE CENTRE

In-house and open courses designed for people planning and managing in the early years and childcare sector:

• Strategic planning

• Project management

• Moving into management: taking on your first management role

• Moving up in management: extending your management skills

• Supervision skills: managing people and teams

• Building and leading a team

• Time management for administrators: managing time and workload

COMMON THREADS TRAINING

• All you need to know about management - in a day! this course provides a whistle-stop tour of the most important roles of a manager in a child-centred setting - devising and using aims and objectives, promoting and developing practice, time management, assertiveness and creativity.

• Creative thinking for managers: course looking at how to approach difficult situations creatively.

• Good recruitment practice: one-day course.

• Improving practice through evaluation: two-day course, endorsed by SkillsActive.

• Policy development: one-day course.

• Supervision and appraisal skills: two-day course.

• Leadership skills: two-day course.

CHILDCARE CONSULTANCY

• Self-evaluating in the early years: one-day course for all owners, managers and deputies who are on Ofsted's Early Years Register to gain greater understanding of how self-evaluation can be a catalyst for reflection and critical thinking.

• Handling enquiries and sensational show-rounds

• Aiming high: achieving sustainability for your setting/as a childminder

• Marketing your childcare setting

• Managing staff: introduction to leadership and management

• Effective recruitment

• Managing performance - appraising and disciplining staff

• Customer care and handling complaints

CRECHENDO TRAINING

• Management of early years practice: 60-hour course equipping qualified or experienced practitioners with an understanding of effective verbal and non-verbal communication, group dynamics, effective teamwork, team-building and conflict resolution.

• Management of early years settings: covers all aspects of professional business management, offering tuition on policies and procedures relating to the inspection and regulation of daycare settings under the Children Act 1989 (includes all updated legislation).

EARLY EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESOURCE CENTRE

• Encouraging and supporting other practitioners to develop their practice: a one-day course for teachers who are advising other early years practitioners. The course will include areas such as building collaborative relationships and planning.

EARLY EXCELLENCE

• Leading practice in the Early Years Foundation Stage - a focus on monitoring and evaluating practice: a one-day course offering co-ordinators of early years teams the opportunity to consider what is involved in monitoring and evaluating EYFS practice, enabling participants to develop shared understandings of what is meant by quality EYFS practice and providing them with practical evaluation exercises that support and facilitate the monitoring process.

EARLY YEARS ORGANISATION

• Committee management: this six-hour workshop (in two sessions) is specifically designed to meet the needs of management committees of early years settings and day care centres. It is particularly targeted at new members of management committees.

ELIZABETH JARMAN

• Communication friendly spaces (CFS): delegates will be offered new insights into the importance of the spaces in which we communicate across the age ranges, viewing programmes and projects that use CFS in a wide range of contexts.

EXPERIENTIAL PLAY

• Motivation day: this day is for all who are passionate about their jobs and who want to get together with like-minded professionals. There will be challenges, both physical and mental.

4CHILDREN

4Children offers a range of business support services, including:

• Payroll services

• Budget services

• Monthly accounting services

• End-of-year accounts services

HEMPSALL CONSULTANCIES

Hempsall Consultancies provides specially designed development training for anyone working with children and families, and early years and childcare practitioners in particular. Topics covered include working with parents and children, equal opportunities, promoting positive behaviour, involving and consulting, and assertiveness.

KIDSCAPE

• Personal development: includes programme development, circle time, friendship skills, self-esteem, assertiveness, handling conflict, pupil support, and guidance and welfare.

• Staff development: includes stress management, developing teamwork, counselling skills, assertiveness training and working with parents.

THE LONDON EARLY YEARS FOUNDATION (LEYF)

• Leadership and management: the essential tool kit for deputy managers (ILM accredited).

• Strategies for working more effectively with parents with high emotional needs:

Check with LEYF for dates.

MUDIAD YSGOLION MEITHRIN

• Management and organisation: will help volunteers in Welsh-medium settings to be effective members of management committees. Topics include appointing and supporting staff, financial matters, caring for buildings and resources, constitutions and policies, marketing and publicity.

NATIONAL DAY NURSERIES ASSOCIATION (NDNA)

• ILM Level 3 Award in First Line Management: aimed at Level 3 practitioners and managers and focusing on problem solving and a range of optional units that will fit within the PVI childcare sectors.

• ILM Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management: aimed at Level 3 practitioners and managers and focusing on problem solving and a range of optional units that will fit within the PVI childcare sectors.

• ILM Level 5 Award in Management: this course includes a number of days of distance learning. It is aimed at practitioners and managers of Level 4 and above, and will focus on managerial activities within a childcare setting. It will cover planning, problem solving, understanding change and achieving objectives through effective time management.

ILM-endorsed Awards include:

• Foundation Award in Workplace Mentors

• Intermediate Award in Workplace Mentors

• Effective Staff Induction

• Recruitment, Selection and Retention

NOEL QUINN

• Good leader, best team - an introduction to management and leadership skills: topics include staff motivation and delegation, working with others, developing the team and managing time and quality. It is ideal for first-time managers.

• Recruitment and selection: participants will develop the skills, knowledge and confidence to manage their own effective recruitment process and be able to ensure that they operate within the law and principles of good practice techniques.

• Employment law: looks at key legislation, and examines how the law and good practice should be observed in the workplace.

• Finders keepers - a guide to staff retention: looks at the costs to a business of losing staff and strategies to retain staff.

NORTHERN IRELAND CHILDMINDING ASSOCIATION (NICMA)

NICMA provides courses for developing a childminding business, including:

• Quality business start

• Development policies and procedures

• Good business practice

• Promotion of a childminding business

OSIRIS EDUCATIONAL

• Outstanding leadership in Early Years: this course will look at the realities of leading in times of rapid policy change, consider what constitutes oustanding provision and provide hands-on approaches to preparing for Ofsted inspections.

PLAYGROUP NETWORK

Contact regional associations direct for details of training on:

• Operational planning

• Administration

• Managing staff

• Committee work

PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE (PLA)

• Behind the scenes: series of three-hour workshops for all staff, volunteers, committee members and parents who want to develop new skills and cover aspects of managing pre-schools and parent and toddler groups. Topics include money matters, roles and responsibilities, the importance of written policies, appointing staff, health and safety, behaviour policy, insurance and the operation plan.

PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT (PSD)

• Management and leadership skills: two-day course covering the role of a manager, including the skills needed, planning and theory.

• Time management: one-day course on how to manage time, prioritise workload and negotiate time.

• Budgeting: one-day course covering budgeting skills.

RED SPACE COMPANY

• Workforce health check: two-day professional development coaching programme and toolkit, for staff managing and supporting teams in early years and children's centres. Supports Early Years Professional Status, graduate leader and quality improvement programmes.

• Communicating with impact: developing skills in communication with children, parents, staff and other professionals.

• Coaching for leadership: understanding and developing coaching skills in staff leadership and management.

STEPPING STONES TRAINING

• It's tough at the top: how to manage a team effectively - developing delegates' confidence and conflict management skills as well as teaching them to recognise the importance of investing in their staff and to deal professionally with performance appraisals.

TRAINING DESIGNS

• Dealing with conflict

• Building a successful team

• In a team? What does that mean? Team building for all!

• Being an effective and confident leader.

• Effective communication with stafff and parents.

• Tools and techniques to improve your performance at work.

TRAINING PACKAGES

Training courses for early years management teams to ensure effective leadership and management. Suitable for use at home and in group settings. Available from the website.