Team Building and Collaboration

The most difficult group that I left was a team of teachers that I worked with in a commercial childcare facility.  The administration was lacking and we had to make decisions for ourselves.  We relied on one another to get things done and run the classrooms.  I was promoted to Assistant director because the Director was not interested in doing the job.  If it weren't for my excellent team of teachers, that job would have been impossible.  What I realized is that both the director and the owner did not care for the children or their families.  They gouged the prices and instructed me to purchase subpar and used materials.  I found myself lying to parents and state agencies. Covering safety hazards and misdealings.  I did what I needed to do to provide a safe place for the children while supporting the teachers.  Soon I became so riddled with disappointment, I had to leave.  I discussed my issues with my teaching staff and they begged me to stay as I was the buffer and their advocate.  They knew that their jobs will get increasingly difficult in my absence. what made leaving difficult with that the teachers with parents and the children have become a small tight-knit community. We work together well we support each other and everything and we had a true and genuine affection for one another. Leaving them meant having to deal with the uncertainty of how they will be treated who would replace me and what would happen to the community that I left behind. But I could no longer contribute to the maltreatment that the administration was that hearing to this community that loved. It was making me physically sick to be a participant in it each day. it was then that I decided that I was going to go into business for myself using the principles in the philosophies that I hold it dear. When I made the decision to leave I informed my co teacher and my colleagues as well as the parents of the children many understood others took the news jorrihor. I spent the next two weeks making memories with the children everyday we did something that we could photograph and put on the wall and they could take home. on my last day at the job we had a party I had a party with the children I went to lunch with my co-workers and after work I went to dinner and drinks with my coworkers. I let them know that they will always have my support and if they needed me for anything at anytime I would do my very best to be there for them. Fast forward 3 years and I have my small child care center and I get to hire one of my former coworkers. And recently and my largest center I hired two more of my  former coworkers. They are now a large contributing factor to the success of my business I value them as much now as I did then