Childcare Labor Crisis: Let’s Talk About It

In this webinar we welcomed Tony D’Agostino, CEO and founder of Inspire Care 360! Tony walked us through the changing landscape of staff hiring and retention, and what we need to do to keep up. He helped us understand the impact that rewards and benefits can have in improving recruitment and maximizing staff retention. He highlighted the main reasons that early childhood educators choose to stay at a center, and importantly, why they choose to leave. Tony left us with actionable strategies on how we can improve our staff hiring process, find better quality educators and improve the lifecycle of our staff. Finding quality staff is hard, but keeping them is even harder. You do not want to miss this webinar with Tony to learn more about improving staff hiring and retention at your center!

🎤Our Special Guests:

Tony D’ Agostino, CEO and Founder of Inspire Care 360!

Tony has spent over 10 years as an early learning and childcare owner and operator of up to six childcare centers in Western New York.  He has also led the development of over 6900 hours of early learning curriculum, the 9 Key Development Areas.  Prior to the early learning space, Tony led practices in Human Resources with close to 20 years of experience in adult training and curriculum development. 

Tony led employee engagement through extensive communications solutions and group purchasing with his own companies, OrlandoJobs.com and MSI Services. Corporate experience with Ernst and Young, Pearson Education, Drake Beam Morin, ACS and Xerox Corporation specialized in delivering managed solutions and outsourcing solutions to clients. These experiences culminated in the development and business services of Inspire! Care 360. The vision is to provide business owners with more time to develop and ready the children, as well as significant savings for their business

🧪Key Learning Outcomes from Tony!

• 40 – 50% turnover on average, extremely high industry turnover, 1 employee turnover can cost up to $10,000 USD
• When you recruit, don’t hire just for experience, hire for values/culture/fit
• People want love and belonging, and want to feel a sense of self-esteem – they are spending so much time at work, and this is where they need to satisfy some of their higher order needs!
• Wage-based recruiting- People come for the money, but are they quality and passionate employees? Is money alone enough to retain them if you don’t provide a good work environment?
• Challenges of recruiting and retaining– You need to focus on why they are with you.
• Most sought after benefits for employees (in order of importance): Remote work, health care, paid time off, flexible hours, paid family leave, four day work week, free food.

✨Resources

• [Website] – Inspire Care 360!
• [Webinar] – The Criticality of Staff Retention in Early Childhood Education.
• [Resource] Inspire Care 360 will waive a set-up fee for Healthy Advantage when you visit their site before January 31. Mention that you saw Tony on the HiMama Webinar and use code HiMama2022.
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