A Great Place to Work Trainer’s Guide

Description

This guide gives you the tools you need to deliver a successful workshop on how to create engaging, inspiring, and productive early childhood work environments. It is built on the concepts and exercises presented in A Great Place to Work: Creating a Healthy Organizational Climate. The guide provides step-by-step instructions for planning and presenting a dynamic, informative workshop that will help participants understand why focusing on quality of work life issues is so important, how to gather data to measure and monitor a center’s climate, and appreciate the different perspectives of staff who work together.

This trainer’s guide includes the following:

• An overview of the workshop goals, audience, and learning outcomes
• The essentials of workshop design including training principles, room setup, timing and pacing of activities, and a list of equipment and supplies needed
• Workshop at a glance— a summary of the topics, activities, materials, and timing for this one-day workshop
• 19 learning activities with notes on how to implement them
• 13 handouts to reproduce for participants
• 6 sample flip-chart pages
• 36 slides for a PowerPoint presentation
• 3 follow-up assignments for participants to help make the concepts stick