Business Report: Tree House Child Care

When choosing a professional career, it is important to get a clear and precise understanding of what is required and expected of you in the chosen profession. Requirements and expectations include everything from education to work performance. By gaining this clear and precise understanding you will be able to do two things, operate effectively in the professional career and determine if the professional career is a suitable fit for you. In this paper we will explore the educational requirements as they relate to the profession of a Child Care Center Director. We will also discuss the results of an interview and observation conducted on a person who is currently employed in this professional career.

Like other day care facilities, The Kids Learning Centre strives to provide the best in child care. As part of their program to

Staff should observe, assess and plan to meet all children and young people’s needs, working with parents to ensure this is achieved

. The daycare and child development business is booming and profits are soaring. With more people looking at the child care field from different angles, these type of programs have more opportunities for more allies and partners, for funding and positive public relations, for improving, and “professionalizing” the programs that we offer to our children in our communities. Non-profit groups and higher education have increasingly partnered with schools, often including after-school hours.

The main functional areas of a business are marketing, human resource, finance, information systems and production. All these interact with each other in different ways but all contribute to effective management. Management would not be completely effective if one of the above areas are missing. They are all needed in different ways to make sure that the business reaches objectives, achieves effectiveness and efficiency and while doing this trying to get a balance in which they can satisfy different stakeholders.

The primary functions of the management process consist of planning and strategizing, organizing, leading and controlling. The planning process helps

Leaders motivate and communicate with employees, this involves daily personal contact with people to guide and inspire them toward

Leading HR – Shaping and driving themselves and other employees to deliver a valued service to the organisation.

The values and principles that underpin the childcare sector work along side the laws, rules and regulations that I follow in my everyday work at my setting. They govern things such as how many children can attend my setting, how many staff I have working each day, making sure that the children’s wants and needs are met and that they are always the main focus of any planning I do. For myself it means that I have to always make sure that I keep myself up to date with any changes in these laws and regulations and that I keep myself up to date with any training so I can always provide the best possible care I can. When planning I try to use many different curriculum’s but always making sure that they are flexible and is based upon the values

Management basics functions are planning, organizing, directing, lending, and controlling performance. Planning consist of the ability to create spreadsheets to work though of what has to happen (plan), and will consist of dates of when task are to be completed. Also spreadsheets will keep the business inline to achieve the goal in a reasonable time frame. Planning as well can be managing the schedule, adhering to the schedule forecast to have associates where they need to be a peak times of the business.

The four functions of management, planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, are very essential in building strong organizations and even stronger more effective teams. Planning, organizing, leading, and controlling are the functions of management. These function activities must be preformed by all managers regardless of their industry level, title, or the task they have at hand. These four management skill are used when ever a project or a task is at hand. Even in the field we are working in, many of us may have been using the four management functions and not noticed what they were, or we may have been a part of a team that was lead by the functions of management and not noticed what was

Management in my mind and as the book reinforces the definition to be, to plan, to organize, to staff for the process, and to control the process to the end. These are consider the primary functions of the management role (p.8).

There are four functions of management: planning, organizing, leading and controlling. The four basic principles of management found in all businesses and corporations. Management is a process designed to achieve an organization's objectives by using its resources effectively and efficiently in a changing environment.

This is because of the different emphasis: management accounting information is used within an organization, typically for decision-making.

The definition brings into focus the functions of management which are; planning, organizing, leading and controlling.