Your Licensure Hasn’t Told You Everything
You Need to Know to Run Your Daycare Business.

The State doesn’t require any of these documents, but you need them to ensure the stabilization of your business.

Without Standardization, Your Daycare is Likely Experiencing the Following:

• Owner working as the Director or as a teacher.

• Director having to repeat themselves over and over again.

• Staff stagnated in their career exploration and growth.

• Parents frustrated from lack of changes in the program.

• Staff treating job like a paycheck versus a career.

• Cash flow problems and inconsistent payments received.

• Owner has a lack of time to get things done.

There is Room to Improve Your Daycare in 12 Management Areas!

We Help You Reach Your Goals Faster

Lean is a simple and low-cost methodology that can save
your daycare time, energy, and space, which are three things that are very hard to get back, once they are used.

– Tamara Keeler, President, I Am Lean LLC

Principles of Lean

We encourage all of our daycare clients to agree to adopt these Principles of Lean.

Along with the NAEYC Code of Ethics, these principles should be included in every daycare’s employee and parent handbooks.

• 1. Respect Each Individual, all staff will be treated as the experts of the work that they do. They will ask their opinions about upcoming changes and asked to provide feedback for completed work.
• 2. Lead with Humility, all staff will be asked about how their day is going, what issues are they seeing, and what ideas do they have to improve the work.
• 3. Seek Perfection, all work will be continuously improved. Finished projects will be reviewed for ways to leverage successes in other locations or on other shifts, and annual planning, surveys, parent feedback will be used continuously improve how we get work done.
• 4. Focus on Process, all work will be defined in terms of processes and managed accordingly. People will not be the primary focus when things go wrong or when mistakes occur. We will look to understand if there are any process issues that can be corrected.
• 5. Flow and Pull Value, all work will be filtered through the lens of what is required, by whom, and when. Project work tasks will be prioritized using this principle.
• 6. Assure Quality at the Source, when incidents, accidents, or first time through failures occur within a process, we will look to the root cause and make corrective actions to assure that problem cannot occur again.
• 7. Scientific Thinking, Processes will be analyzed for root cause issues, goals, objectives defined, and problem-solving measures applied and checked. We will use tools like A3’s to track projects and help us in our thinking.
• 8. Constancy of Purpose, all strategy goals will be shared with entire team, action items defined, and progress measured daily, weekly, monthly, and annually.
• 9. Systemic Thinking, all branding, tools, processes, and strategy best practices will be shared and adopted at all New Day Family locations.
• 10. Create Value for the Customer, we will build a relationship with our customer and solve problems for them one after another after another each time creating additional value for them.

Our Services

• Live Weekly Family Daycare Group Coaching Program
• 1 on 1 Coaching for all types of Daycare Owners
• We write documents to get your program stable
• Assistance with meeting licensure criteria to expand
• Training of all staff in lean concepts & principles
• Help with Project Management
• Free Templates & Sample Handbooks

Our Results

• 100% of our daycare clients have hired at least 2 people adding addition jobs to the marketplace.
• 50% of our clients have received lean certification in operating procedures taking over 100 hours of training.
• 100% of our clients have increased their annual revenue potential by 3X to 12X.
• Our clients have executed over 100 continuous improvement ideas in their daycares making their processes more efficient.
• Several of our clients have expanded to additional shifts and 90% of them found additional time and confidence to plan the opening of their next or first child care centers.