When you keep staff members happy at your gymnastics center, you’ll benefit in many ways as the director. Not only will you be able to avoid dealing with the fallout from losing instructors and spending extra time hiring and training new staff members to fill those holes, but you’ll experience the many rewards that come […]
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Human Resources Tips for Gymnastics Centers: Keeping Staff Members Happy, Part 1
Among your many responsibilities as a director of a gymnastics center, hiring and managing staff members and schedules probably aren’t your favorite parts. However, if you have a high turnover rate among your staff, those tasks can take much more time and energy than they otherwise would. So it’s imperative to do what you can […]
Human Resources Tips for Gymnastics Centers: Hiring Quality Staff Members
One of the many difficulties of directing a children’s gym relates to managing staff. While the arena of staffing will always come with some challenges and tasks, the need for your involvement is intensified when employee turnover rates are high. Once you understand the basic issues that tend to lead to employee turnover, you’ll be […]
Stop Hiding Your Phone Number, Walmart.com
Looking for Walmart.com’s phone number? Yep, I’ve spent a lot of time looking for it too, and I’ve found it. Only catch is that even with this “magic phone number,” you’ll still end up listening to endless recordings and, quite possibly, get lost in the Walmart maze which is intended to drive you away from […]
Gymnastics Center Goals: Developing Physical Fitness Goals for Kids, Part 2
At your gymnastics center, you want to do more than provide one more “extracurricular activity” for the kids you serve: you want to help them establish healthy habits that will lead to lifelong physical fitness. In that endeavor, it’s important to not only understand what “physical fitness” entails but also the most significant areas of […]
Gymnastics Center Goals: Developing Physical Fitness Goals for Kids, Part 1
When it comes to physical fitness, do you ever wonder exactly what it entails? Or to pose the question differently, what constitutes a healthy lifestyle or suitable fitness goals for children? Especially where kids are concerned, the obesity epidemic may be a significant symptom, but it’s also only a symptom of a more pervasive problem. […]
Encouraging Healthy Habits in Your Childcare Center: Movement, Part 2
Movement is a healthy part of life for those of all ages (see Part 1), but it’s especially important for preschoolers. While educational standards soar, the youngest children are being robbed of the very thing that they need in order to lay the foundation for healthy emotional, social, and cognitive development. Exercise and Experience Many […]
Encouraging Healthy Habits in Your Childcare Center: Movement, Part 1
While seeing young children sitting quietly at desks and doing worksheets may seem like a great start to a successful academic career (see this previous post), that kind of setting is actually far from ideal for the developmental needs of young children. Instead, movement and sensory experiences provide children with what their bodies and brains […]
Encouraging Healthy Habits in Your Childcare Center: Imaginative Play
While it won’t make its way onto standardized tests or college entrance exams, movement is an important aspect of how children learn. Your childcare center has the important opportunity to help lay the foundation for later academic achievement by giving the children in your care opportunities to play, build, and create. While those kinds of […]
Incorporate Rest Time Into Your Daycare Center’s Daily Routine
Full-time childcare centers for kids aged five and under normally have at least one regularly scheduled daily rest time. This time for napping and relaxation is vital for a young child’s physical and emotional well-being. Overly tired children become distracted and irritable in much the same way as sleep-deprived adults. The major difference is that […]