How To Create Systems From Your superpower

I had a really good time serving my community. But then things begin to get real. And when I say get real, my payroll was more than what some people make in 12 months. I had to have that type of money every 30 days. And a large percentage of my income went out to operating expenses like facility operations and also payroll so when those big dollar ticket items started being prevalent in my journey, I realized I got to start thinking more like a business owner and be more effective. Having a love for children is required but what’s also required that I didn’t have was the effective skills of owning my business. So then I had to self-grow and develop and I had to figure things out. So today I’m gonna give you what I did to figure these things out. 

Number one, the first thing that I learned to do was recognize my top-producing skill set. 

Now for me, I enjoy teaching. I mean, I loved it. I went back in my mind and I started thinking about when I was like six years old. I used to play school. Other kids play house, and I play school, so I will get baby dolls and I would name my baby dolls, take attendance and teach a lesson from in front of the baby dolls. And when I would teach my lesson I would give them little worksheets that I created and then I will do the worksheet myself and make some mistakes intentionally so I could go back and teach the baby dolls. 

Furthermore, I created my own flashcards, number cards, my own circle time, community boards, and bulletin boards I’ve created so much content, including children’s books, workbooks, and coloring books. I’ve done all of that because teaching is what I love to do. That’s my top-producing skill set. 

So what I had to do was figure out how I can systemize my top producing skill set and change the way the business is operating and change how I operate my business. So then that’s when I started realizing over time that I need to take myself from the classroom, from the director seat, from the admin seat, and operate in my top performing skill set which is teaching. So then I systemized my calendar with a 10-week teacher training program. And with that 10-week teacher training program, allowed me to use my top producing skill which was to train my teachers on how to operate my business work, do my curriculum, use my workbooks and use my coloring books within my facility. 

By doing that I was able to position myself in my community as Brunswick’s #1 childcare provider because I use my own proprietary systems that I created and then I systemized it and taught it to my team. I systemized it, meaning I organized it so that it can be repeated over and over again by someone else. I also included myself as the trainer of my program. I began to train my teachers on my curriculum, all my program operations, and all my program systems on customer service, I began to train my team on all of the expectations that I have for my program.