Training 1

Employment How to Dress for Success.

Dressing for success is not just limited to the way we wear our clothes, it also refers to the way we think and act.

When looking for a promising job, we must always remember, PRESENTAION IS EVERYTHING. How we present ourselves is a direct reflection as to the types of people we are.

When working for H.C.Y.S. there are standards to which our employees must uphold while working for H.C.Y.S.

Attitude: Things turn out best for People who can make the best of The way things turn out.

When coming to work, you must have an Attitude for Success.

I.

We looking and dressing the part. a. We wear clothes that are clean and presentable. Showing our best effort when walking into work. We make sure that our clothes reflect the type of person that we want to be. b. We do not wear clothes that promote a negative message or image. Since we work with children, we are role models. We want then to emulate everything positive that we have to offer.

II.

We Walk and Talk the Part. a. We use positive language when address the children and each other.

When children learn to speak, they learn from what they hear.

b. We don’t not promote negative images and messages around our children.

Children learn how to deal with other children from the adults they observe. If your child is misbehaving ask yourself “am I showing him/her a better way?�

Strategies for Working with Youth.

Self, Space, Time and Task Far to often when we have a child that is acting out, we often look at the child’s behavior as something that they are doing for no reason. When you stop and analyze the WHYs of that child’s behavior you are more able to settle and calm the child down. Maybe your child has come in this morning and is acting out. But instead of looking at WHAT they are doing, ask yourself WHY are they acting like that.

Sometime just pulling the child aside and just talking to them may reveal the WHYs to WHAT they are doing. By addressing the WHYs of that child’s behavior we may be better able to help that child calm down. When looking for the WHYs of a child’s behavior ask yourself four important questions.

Self: When planning your activates for your children have you taken the time you need for yourself? have you taken all the time you personally need to come into work doing your best? Have you got all the rest that you need to handle the activity level of your children?

When you try to understand why a child is acting out you may find that it is not the child having the issue but yourself. Something from the previous day you may have carried over with you to work while the child is just doing what the child naturally does.

Sometimes our personal issues come with use to work and we can inadvertently cause the very problems we seek to avoid.

Space: When planning activities for your children have you planned for the use of space properly? Have you taken into account the use of space by other groups and other people? Have you make back up plans incase your space is being use for other purposes.

If you have limited space, try making the activity utilize other areas. Like maybe the park or the backyard. Try being creative when using space. Try to find space that is relevant to your activity.

Time: When planning your activates for your children have you taken into account the amount of time needed for preparation completion and clean up? Have you made sure you have a back up activity?

When activates fail, sometimes it’s due to poor time management. When activities do not flow with some kind of order, gaps appear and these gaps create opportunities for children to loose focus, or if the activity is rushed through too fast and children have not had time to process what they have done.

Task: When planning your activates for your children have you plotted out all your tasks? Have you called all the people and make all the contacts you need to make to make the activity a success?

Sometimes the best ideas fall apart because we were not on task. Because something fell through the cracks, the activity failed. Children know when you are NOT prepared and will sometimes use that time to get into other things. Also you loose credibility as someone who can create activities that they will enjoy.

When you look back on all of the above you may learn that children react to their surrounding and the people they interact with. If you come in on task and prepared for the day, you will find that you will have a lot less behavioral issues.