Tips for Making Staff Meetings a Positive Experience

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Tips for Making Staff Meetings a Positive
Experience
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While traveling to one of my centres (6 hour
drive) I love listening to pod casts and YouTube
talks. I started listening to "Why happiness is
the new productivity" by Vishen Lakhiani Mindy
Valley. He talked about 10 things to do in your
company. One of those steps was called an
"Awesome Report". This replaced their weekly team
meetings - now doesn't that sound more fun than a
"staff meeting".
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I thought about how this could be tailored to our
staff meetings in childcare, as these meetings
can seem to be taken up by a lot of negative
housekeeping chatter. The idea is to change the
meeting to an uplifting positive experience.
Some ideas would be Have upbeat /
inspirational music playing up at the start of
the meeting as your educators start arriving.
Create a slide show presentation of fun things
happening at the centre throughout that month.
Get educator's to take turns in telling the group
what their most awesome memory of the month was
it can be either personally or professionally or
even both.
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This will start the meeting of in a positive
happy note. You will find educators will be more
willing to participate in conversations when they
are feeling happy and positive. Also I would
recommend that you always finish on a positive
note, you could finish it off with a video clip
on something that will inspire your team. It does
not need to be related to childcare just
something that is inspiring, you will find if you
staff are happy and inspired, they will work
together as a team more effectively. If you have
meetings that are always negative and concentrate
on what does not happen properly then that will
set the mood for the workplace culture at the
centre.
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Below is the link to "Why Happiness is the new
productivity" for anyone interested in listening
to it. I would love to hear about what people do
at their staff meetings to make them positive
fun, please post ideas below or on our facebook
page- https//www.facebook.com/giggletree
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