KidCheck Secure Children's Check-In Shares Ten Strategies to Improve Active Listening

Ten Strategies to Improve Active Listening

Active listening is a key part of the foundation for success. Listening to others enables you to acquire information and a fresh perspective. It fosters trust, enhances communication, builds relationships, and helps to understand a person’s point of view. However, active listening is more than ...
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KidCheck Secure Children's Check-In SharesFive Tips to Engage Generation Alpha

Five Tips to Engage Generation Alpha

Your organization is filled with Generation Alphas, individuals born between 2010 and 2025. They are regarded as the most technologically savvy generation, having grown up with significant digital innovations like the iPad and numerous apps. They are also expected to become the largest generation in ...
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KidCheck Secure Children's Check-In SharesUsing SMART Goals to Boost Productivity

Using SMART Goals to Boost Productivity

When serving children and youth, there is no shortage of tasks competing for your attention. Lesson planning, organizing events, recruiting volunteers, and building relationships with families create a list that feels endless and overwhelming. This may make setting and achieving goals seem daunting. What if ...
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KidCheck Secure Children's Check-In Shares An Interview With KidzMatter

What Makes KidCheck Different? An Interview with KidCheck and KidzMatter

  Join KidCheck and KidzMatter for a fun discussion on the benefits of using KidCheck children’s check-in to help you manage your children’s area more efficiently. The conversation covers:   KidCheck’s added features and benefits around children’s, youth, and mobile check-in solutions, as well as volunteer scheduling. KidCheck’s unique mobile printing ...
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KidCheck Secure Children's Check-In Shares Ten Ways to Make This Year Productive

Ten Ways to Make This Year Productive

Are you looking at the new year and thinking about how to be more productive, healthy, and intentional? Or perhaps you’ve made resolutions and already broken them. Not to worry—you are not alone. The answer may lie in fewer, more manageable actions that help you achieve ...
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KidCheck Secure Children's Check-In SharesTips for a Successful Safeguarding Committee

Tips for a Successful Safeguarding Committee

A safeguarding committee is a powerful tool for keeping your children’s organization as safe as possible. A safeguarding committee is a group of people with varying roles and experience who work together to focus on improving child safety.     Some benefits of establishing a safeguarding committee include: It helps ...
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KidCheck Secure Children's and Youth Check-In Shares Ten Strategies to Recruit Volunteers in Fall

Ten Fall Strategies to Recruit Volunteers

Fall represents a change in direction and is the perfect time to grow your program and recruit new volunteers. Many of these strategies can be used throughout the year and are designed to attract a wide range of potential volunteers. However, people are drawn more ...
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KidCheck Secure Children's Check-In Shares10 Guidelines That Enhance Your Child Protection Policy

Ten Guidelines That Enhance Your Child Protection Policy

Children are vulnerable. That’s why having a comprehensive child protection policy (CPP) for managing safety concerns should be the foundation of your approach to protection and well-being. A CPP is a living document that should be used consistently, reviewed, and updated as often as necessary. It ...
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KidCheck Secure Children's Check-In Shares Ten Ways to Prevent Bullying in Your Organization

Ten Ways to Prevent Bullying in Your Organization

Previously, we shared information on how to prevent, address, and help bullied children and youth, but what about adults in leadership roles, volunteering, or on staff? Do they experience bullying? Unfortunately, yes. Per HRAcuity, 52% of employees have experienced or witnessed inappropriate and unethical misconduct towards ...
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KidCheck Secure Children's Check-In Shares Understanding Emotional Intelligence

Understanding Emotional Intelligence

Outstanding leadership includes several competencies, with Emotional Intelligence (EI) near the top. Several studies underscore the importance of having EI as a leader and its power to transform teams and sometimes entire cultures. If you are a leader or working to become one, the first ...
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