Elisabeth’s Reviews > The Business of High Quality Child Care: How to Establish and Maintain a High-Quality & Profitable Childcare Business > Status Update

A saying I’ve adopted—and that has never failed me—is “if it starts bad, it ends worse.” Overlooking your nonnegotiables is a surefire way to hire the wrong person for your team.

Now that we’ve discussed maintaining quality instruction and professional practices among your team, it’s crucial to address the importance of hiring right from the beginning. As mentioned earlier, desperate times do not call for desperate measures. Establishing a clear set of nonnegotiable for your team members is vital.

When you’ve completed your observations, implemented action plans, and verified with follow-up measures, yet an employee still fails to rise to the occasion, you must dismiss them without delay

After completing your observations, a well-crafted action plan will help you quickly determine whether you’re dealing with potential that needs to be nurtured or performance that requires immediate attention

When you can confidently say that the person who is not meeting your expectations with their work performance knows what those expectations are yet is not meeting those expectations, you can confidently hold them accountable. With accountability, they will either improve quickly, or you must make the decision to remove them from the organization, even when you may see perceived potential.