{"id":6752,"date":"2023-02-13T10:53:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T00:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1placechildcare.com\/au\/?p=6752"},"modified":"2024-07-15T10:05:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T00:05:25","slug":"nurturing-and-retaining-staff-with-kerri-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1placechildcare.com\/au\/nurturing-and-retaining-staff-with-kerri-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurturing and retaining staff with Kerri Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6759 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/1placechildcare.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Nurturing-and-retaining-staff-with-Kerri-Smith.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/1placechildcare.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Nurturing-and-retaining-staff-with-Kerri-Smith-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/1placechildcare.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Nurturing-and-retaining-staff-with-Kerri-Smith-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/1placechildcare.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Nurturing-and-retaining-staff-with-Kerri-Smith-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/1placechildcare.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Nurturing-and-retaining-staff-with-Kerri-Smith.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We talk to Kerri Smith, Head of <a href=\"https:\/\/sesamelane.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sesame Lane<\/a> Care &amp; Kindergarten, about nurturing and retaining staff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In this episode we cover<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Kerri&#8217;s career pathway from hairdressing to early learning and childcare<br \/>\n&#8211; Managing people<br \/>\n&#8211; Helping educators get the time to reflect and add value<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our quote of the episode<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very fortunate to have worked for employers and for leaders where my values have aligned with the mission. If they hadn\u2019t aligned, I wouldn\u2019t have stayed with the organisation. For example, I loved working with Anne and John Glasson \u2013 amazing people who I still talk to, even though so many years have passed since our time working together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen now on your preferred platform:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-small-player-tags-12\"><\/div>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' charset='utf-8' src='https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2032472.js?artist=&#038;container_id=buzzsprout-small-player-tags-12&#038;player=small&#038;tags=%2312'><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Episode highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Early experience in ECE &#8211; putting children first<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[06.55] Best advice for managing people<\/li>\n<li>[08.05] Balancing career with family<\/li>\n<li>[09.06] Understanding and supporting the parent experience<\/li>\n<li>[11.14] Growing and incentivising innovation<\/li>\n<li>[14.00] Increasing inclusion of indigenous culture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Subscribe to us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2sfb3nYeLjeKPzN9JDOGP5?si=1bf248164ac344dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/269-early-learning-leaders-aus-102112835\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iHeart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talk to Kerri Smith, Head of Sesame Lane Care  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[42,83],"class_list":["post-6752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-early-learning-leaders-australia","tag-podcast","tag-retaining-staff","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1placechildcare.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1placechildcare.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1placechildcare.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1placechildcare.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1placechildcare.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6752"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/1placechildcare.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7924,"href":"https:\/\/1placechildcare.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752\/revisions\/7924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1placechildcare.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1placechildcare.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1placechildcare.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1placechildcare.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}