Investing In Your Future
A FREE Business and Leadership Training Series
In Partnership with DCF Office of Licensing Child Care
Building Next Level Performance for Unprecedented Times
What Will Drive Your Decision Making?
You easily wear your educator hat . . . but what about your business owner hat? Now is the time to learn new strategies to fuel your business and cover your actual cost of care.
This FREE training series is for YOU!
Are you up for the next challenge, filled with opportunities for business growth? This series of powerful business and leadership development workshops focuses on the “business of your child care business”. The operating environment that you face as an early learning child care entrepreneur, operator or educator is challenging, especially during these unprecedented times.
The Investing in Your Future training series will take a deep dive into the five most important areas that impact your business performance:
This 12-week virtual training series, held on Zoom, includes instructor-led workshops and follow-up live virtual coaching for each topic. There will also be live in-person coaching sessions where you can expand the conversation and ask specific questions. Training sessions will have both English and Spanish facilitators who are part of a team of subject matter experts and child care business representatives who have experience and expertise in the topic area.
You can register for the entire series or individual sessions based on your needs.
A certificate of completion will recognize the sessions you have attended. You will receive this certificate following the final session. A survey will be administered at each topic session.
Topic #1
Getting Started
Virtual Workshop:
Wednesday March 29, 2023 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Virtual Coaching & Conversation:
Wednesday April 5, 2023 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
New sessions have been designed just for you!
Topic #1
YOUR child care program is a business. What mindset should you have as a business owner and what are the benefits of thinking like an entrepreneur?…
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- Appreciating your role as a business owner.
- You are not your business: Taking care of yourself in an uncertain economic environment.
- Growing an asset of value for the long term.
- DCF licensing requirements: Achieving and maintaining compliance.
- DCF as an important resource.
Topic #2
The Finances Of Your Child care Business
Virtual Workshop:
Wednesday April 12, 2023 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Virtual Coaching & Conversation:
Wednesday April 19, 2023 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Topic #2
Are financial statements confusing? Do you understand your true financial circumstance? Your financial statements tell the story of your business…
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- Growing your business to become an asset of value.
- Reading a balance sheet using a new approach.
- What an income statement can tell you about your business.
- Introduction to the BaSIS Board.
- The five fundamental elements of finance R-E-L-A-X
- The elements of the Value Cycle.
LIVE IN PERSON
Everything about the business of child care
Conversation, coaching, topics recap and moving forward . . .
*Light dinner served
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Wednesday April 26, 2023
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
5768 South Semoran Blvd., Orlando, FL 32822
Topic #3
A new perspective for operating successfully inside economic realities
Virtual Workshop:
Wednesday May 3, 2023 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Virtual Coaching & Conversation:
Wednesday May 10, 2023 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Topic #3
There is a new economic reality in the business of child care. The necessity of competitive wages in a tight labor market along with escalated real estate, utilities, food . . .
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- Analyze the performance of your business.
- Identify sources of funding and using funds effectively.
- Determine systems and practices to create solutions.
- Disruptive or unexpected events that threaten the business’s reputation.
- Recording and reporting events.
- The importance of maintaining best practices.
Topic #4
Marketing to a future of opportunities . . .
Virtual Workshop:
Wednesday May 17, 2023 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Virtual Coaching & Conversation:
Wednesday May 24, 2023 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Topic #4
You’ve designed a created future, fully expressing yourself through your child care brand. How do you narrate your forward . . .
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- Understand performance and action as it relates to a created future.
- Determine financial, operational, and marketing priorities.
- Design a marketing strategy to fuel future growth.
- Discover strategic tactics to achieve your marketing strategy.
Topic #5
Talent recruitment and retention in the new work environment
Virtual Workshop:
Wednesday May 31, 2023 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Virtual Coaching & Conversation:
Wednesday June 7, 2023 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Topic #5
The future child care workforce looks different from the past. Employees have a shift in priorities and expectations both monetary and . . .
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- Finding the talent that fits the brand and the business vision.
- Key Federal Labor Laws you need to know.
- Engaging and motivating employees.
- Training, development and performance management.
FINAL TOPIC
Putting it all together
You’ve learned a lot in this training series, now design your created future understanding your roles and responsibilities as an entrepreneur. Be determined to grow an asset of value and start with identifying the true financial circumstances of your business. Forecast the actual cost of care to fulfill on your vision and design the marketing strategy to support this vision. Finally let’s share how you envision recruiting and retaining the right talent to join you on this journey. This is an exciting time in the industry of child care with new opportunity. Be prepared to create a powerful future for yourself, your team and the children and families you serve.
VIRTUAL
Wednesday June 14, 2023
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
In Partnership with DCF Office of Licensing Child Care
The Business Leadership Institute for Early Learning, Inc. (BLI) focuses its expertise in the business of early learning childcare and understands the challenges you face through its work with owners, operators, educators and other stakeholders in the Early Learning Childcare Industry.
Contact Us for more information
For more information about requirements to successfully complete this workshop please contact the BLI Team at info@bli4el.org
This training is supported by the Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five Initiative (PDG B-5) Grant Number 90TP0068-03-02 from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Child Care.