Tips for Making Staff Meetings a Positive Experience
                     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".
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.
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.
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 
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