Laser Lessons - Lesson

Understand working relationships in Early Years

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In this tutorial you will learn:

That we need to be able to work alongside all kinds of people
The difference between a working relationship and a personal relationship
How to resolve conflicts and issues in a calm and professional way

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Click on the icon to the left to read 'Conflict resolution skills' from the Helpguide website. The article aims to help build skills that can turn conflicts into opportunities.
If you feel it would help your working practice ask for some training in your workplace or see if there is an external course in conflict resolution available.
Take some time to create a list of conflicts that have occurred in your setting and those that you could see occurring. Try to write a process for resolving them, discussing your ideas with a trusted colleague, your line manager or your tutor to see if your process would result in a successful resolution.
You may wish to work through this free course called ‘Thinking about how I work with other professionals’ which is part of the Open Learn resource provided by the Open University.
This article is called ‘Ask a Childcare Advisor: Managing challenging issues with families’ and looks at issues, challenges and conflicts in childcare. It was written for the National Childcare Accreditation Council in Australia.