The Early Childhood (EC) and Early Intervention (EI) operating landscape is highly dynamic, with ever-evolving changing expectations and requirements from various stakeholders, e.g. parents, regulatory authorities, etc.
In response, EC / EI leaders need to have strong leadership and performance management skills to lead their staff to adapt accordingly. At the same time, EC / EI leaders will also need to build a continuous learning and performance culture which makes it easier for staff to better to adapt and respond to meet the expectations and requirements.
This workshop is intended to help EC centre leaders, curriculum / pedagogical specialist and lead teachers to recognise the importance of their leadership roles, as people-managers and developers. This involves finding and getting the right people into their teams, helping them to become proficient in their roles, delivering the expected outcome and results, and preparing them for future roles as they grow in their teams.
Participants will learn how to make the best use of the Skills Framework, as a valuable resource to establish selection criteria for making hiring decisions, establish a skills onboarding plan for their new staff, set and communicate work expectations and desired behaviours, and diagnose learning & performance gaps to help staff to improve.
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
- Recognise the importance of their role in people management and development as a leader
- Recognise important factors to effectively manage staff performance in organisations
- Determine selection criteria for identifying suitable candidates for talent attraction using Skills Framework
- Establish a skills onboarding plan to guide and manage the skills development of their new staff using the Skills Framework
- Set work standards and expectations using the Skills Framework
- Deploy documentation techniques to accurately record staff performance for feedback and coaching purpose
- Apply appropriate technique to rate staff performance consistently
- Use appropriate tools and available resources to facilitate professional development planning with their staff
Outline
- Role of an EC / EI leader in people management
- Why is people management and development an important and integral part of leadership
- Essential people management practices that contribute to building a high performing team
- Talent Attraction: Selecting the right person for the role
- How to identify relevant job and skills criteria from Skills Framework for making hiring decisions
- Onboarding: Building the right foundation for performance
- How to be systematic in helping a new staff to quickly learn on the job
- How can the Skills Framework be useful in structuring a skills onboarding plan for new staff
- Setting clear job expectations for performance
- How to set work standards and expectations using the Skills Framework
- What type of goals to set and which goals to prioritise?
- How to communicate work targets using SMART
- How to identify and communicate desired work behaviours
- 5 ‘Ps’ of Gold Standard© / Professionalism
- Checking-in for monitoring and guiding performance
- How can regular coaching and timely feedback help in staff engagement and goal achievement
- How can you monitor and track your staff performance in the most productive way
- Evaluating staff performance consistently
- How to apply appropriate technique to rate consistently
- Scope of appraisal discussion
- What should be discussed and what should be redirected to other discussion setting
- Preparing for appraisal discussion
- How to sequence the discussion in order to build rapport, motivate the staff, and get positive response from the staff towards improvement
- Process and techniques to manage different staff in appraisal discussions
- Common types of staff and their behaviours towards the appraisal discussions
- Strategies to manage staff and their behaviours
- Developing an individual professional development plan
- How to identify relevant skills for closing performance gaps using the Skills Framework
- How to establish a development plan for staff with GROW ME resource & Individual Professional Development Map (IPDM)
