Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.
-Kay Redfield Jamison, American psychologist and writer
In the latest issue of Exchange, Dennis Vicars observes... "spending time is spending our lives. Viewing time and life through that lens should place a much higher priority on how we conduct our daily business."
To help us examine if we are spending our time effectively Vicars suggests asking yourself questions such as the following:
- Do I allow people to command my time in unproductive activities?
- Do I have to do these tasks or can I allow someone else the opportunity to grow from the experience and free me up for critical activities that I should do?
- Do I do certain activities that are consistent with my body clock so that I maximize performance while minimizing time usage?
- Do I carve out time in the day where no one is allowed to bother me unless it is a life and death situation to a child, parent, or staff person?
- Do I work on my really important stuff first or do I look for feel good checklist stuff of low priority and little value to my job?
- Do I spend my time where my greatest rate of return will be (i.e., teachers and parents)?
- Do I spend more time doing what is important as opposed to doing what I like to do?
- Do we really need to have a meeting about this?
Exchange Leadership Tool Kit
Exchange has packaged six of its leadership resources into a single "Leadership Tool Kit" and is offering the entire set at a 25% discount — separately these resources would cost $156.90, but we are offering the entire Leadership Tool Kit for only $118. Resources in the kit include: - The Art of Leadership: Managing Early Childhood Organizations
- Leading People in Early Childhood Settings CD Book
- Learning to Lead: Effective Leadership Skills for Teachers of Young Children
- Targeted Leadership — Building a Team That Hits the Mark
- Beginnings Workshops Book #8 - Professionalism
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