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Leadership: Communicating with families

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  • Tuesday, November 28, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Effective communication with families is essential for every good nursery. Settings should establish a strategy for meaningful, ongoing dialogue with parents that will build on in-person conversations.

Appointing an ambassador

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  • Tuesday, September 26, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Celebrity ambassadors can bring a wealth of benefits to charities, helping to raise an organisation’s profile and boost fundraising while reaching wider audiences and connecting with service users.

Leadership: Investing in essential skills

Boosting the essential ‘soft skills’ of your team can increase their engagement, effectiveness and long-term commitment to your organisation – and don’t forget to develop your own skills.

Leadership: How to be a social leader

Those working in the early years have a shared goal to give children the best possible start in life. Here are six essential elements of leadership that define the social purpose to make a difference.

Putting research into practice

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  • Tuesday, January 31, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Understand which interventions really work through research, and make sure the findings are used by those who can implement policy and practice changes to make a difference in children and families' lives.

Leadership: Developing new services

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  • Tuesday, November 29, 2022
    • | CYP Now
In a time of stretched resources it has never been more important for organisations to ensure new services meet real needs and can show positive outcomes for children, young people and families.

Leadership: How to win grants

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  • Tuesday, September 27, 2022
    • | CYP Now
With statutory funding in short supply, grants can enable charities to continue to deliver vital support. But making grant applications stand out requires a range of skills and techniques that must be honed.

How to be an adaptable employer

Flexible working approaches adopted during the pandemic point to how organisations can embrace the many advantages of being an adaptable employer that welcomes and supports disabled employees.

Leadership: Swearing in the workplace

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  • Wednesday, December 22, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Leaders must set clear standards of behaviour for all staff to follow and establish a robust complaints and disciplinary procedure to ensure a safe workplace environment for employees and service users.

Embed a culture of safeguarding

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  • Tuesday, August 31, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Embedding a culture of safeguarding means that it becomes an integral part of how an organisation operates at every level, from managers leading by example to equipping staff with the skills they need.

Flexible working

With flexible and agile working here to stay, it’s important to take stock of the lessons learned during the pandemic in how to operate remotely while remaining committed to the best outcomes for children.

Leadership: Aiming high

Only by having honest conversations about the values and strengths of our performance can we turn aspirations of aiming high into an achievable reality for the people we work with and support.

Rethinking job titles

Job descriptions and titles play a huge role in what we expect of professionals and how they perform. Unleash staff’s untapped potential by reconsidering titles that restrict their ability to work effectively.

Tackling presenteeism

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  • Tuesday, January 5, 2021
    • | CYP Now
A culture that encourages stressed staff to turn up for work while ignoring their health can be more costly to employers than absenteeism. Leaders must learn the skills to safeguard workplace wellbeing.

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