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ECI Retention Strategies
Information addressing critical issues related to attracting, preparing, and retaining ECI personnel across Texas.
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ECI Summits
ECI Summer Series 2024
2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 summit recordings, PowerPoint Slides, Handouts, and other resources
ECI Summer Series 2024
ECI Summer Series 2024
Recordings, PowerPoint Slides, and Handouts
Building a Sustained Personnel Pipeline (Dr. Dana Childress)
Positioning your organization for future growth includes building a sustainable talent pipeline to ensure that you have a ready supply of top talent at any given time. Building such a pipeline involves a number of essential strategic elements.
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Providing Formal and Informal Mentoring (Dr. Elizabeth Beavers)
Identify strategies for intentionally implementing evidence-based mentoring practices that impact the professional growth of mentees while supporting mentors.
Empathy Interviewing (Sheryl Wilcox)
Identify the purpose of asking open-ended questions with a focus on contributions/actions and impact/emotions and how this leads us to the unmet needs. Learn to listen by being present and not part of their story or thinking of our own experiences. Identify our purpose for utilizing this process and how to land on just two prompts that promote honest responses and keeps us focused on their perspective.
Enhancing Training and Development (Dr. Mary Beth Bruder)
Building an awareness system of personnel development for the early childhood workforce. Links to ECPC website and videos.
Supporting a Positive Program Environment (Sheryl Wilcox)
Supporting a Positive Program Environment (Sheryl Wilcox)
Supporting a Positive Program Environment (Sheryl Wilcox)
A positive workplace culture affirms the value, dignity, and worth of each employee, which benefits the individual and the organization. Employees also need adequate support, training, resources and space to perform their job.