Montessori Principles for Leadership and Staff Engagement

Description

This is a 6-hour video-based course on applying Montessori-based approaches to improve engagement among residents and staff in care communities. The course is presented in 4 segments, with a short quiz after each segment. Presented by Cameron Camp, Ph.D. and Gary Johnson, MSW.

Attendees will be able to recognize how a Montessori-based culture affects engagement for staff as well as residents; how applying social scaffolding and a deliberately developmental leadership approach leads to greater staff satisfaction and productivity; as well as recognize potential long-term benefits of adopting and sustaining a comprehensive Montessori-based approach within care organizations.

After this course, learners will be able to

• Understand the application of Montessori principles to improving staff engagement.
• Describe vertical versus horizontal identity
• Distinguish between satisfaction and engagement
• Use key Montessori principles of creativity and change as applied to employee engagement
• Identify specific leadership and engagement strategies based on Montessori principles
• Understand what being Architects and Teachers entails
• Identify the support beams and rooms of your culture
• Use Personality Lingo as a technique
• Use Learning Circles as a technique
• Understand the value of coaching vs. annual reviews