Professional Development

BrownRichards & Associates has assembled a team of expert facilitators in the areas of Child Care, Leadership, Parenting, Wellness and Elder Care.
BrownRichards Professional Development Training:

Our Approach

BrownRichards training understands and respects the unique needs of adult learners. We know that adult learners:

  • Prefer self-directed learning,
  • Bring with them a wealth of experience and knowledge,
  • Have learning needs related to real-life situations,
  • Are motivated to acquire knowledge and kills that can be applied to their current
  • work situation.
  • Our training is built upon a foundation of respect, collaboration, support, trust and fun. We honor the individuality of each participant by creating a learning environment that is safe, stimulating, and learner-centered. This environment fosters critically reflective thinking and opens doors to innovative application and problem solving.
Our Expertise

Our deep field of facilitator's expertise enables us to craft training that meets your specific needs around any topic related to the field of early care and education. Our packages include:

  • Start up Package for New Centers
  • New and Experienced Managers Workshops - re-energize your team
  • Emerging Leadership
  • Organizational Climate
  • Leadership for Managers
  • Conference Planning and ongoing training

Our Connections team is ready to craft learning events that meet your specific needs. In addition we offer a Train-the-Trainer course for organizations seeking to create an in-house solution to ongoing professional development needs. Our events range from one-hour seminars to multi-day conferences depending on your needs. We guarantee that Connections will exceed your expectations by delivering professional development that makes a difference!

Here are some of our most requested topics…

Leadership

  • What Top Notch Directors Know
  • Weather Makers: What's the Forecast for Your Organizational Climate?
  • Shared Leadership: Helping Yourself by Empowering Others
  • Building a High-Functioning Team: Five Essentials You Can't Do Without
  • Release, Recharge and Refocus Your Energy and Spirit
  • Taming the Turnover Tiger – An Eight Step Plan of Attack
  • Leading Change, Inspiring Buy-In, Celebrating Collective Accomplishments

Child Care

Preschool Topics
  • Dramatically Increasing Children's Complex Thinking Skills
  • Creating Classrooms Where Behavior Problems Don't Exist – No Kidding!
  • Children's Literature as a Springboard to Provocative Learning
  • Enhancing the Development of Perception, Thinking and Math
  • Meta-Cognition: Approaches to Learning in Action
Toddler Topics
  • Understanding Toddlers – Working With Them Not Against Them
  • Boosting Toddler Brain Power
  • 100 Best Brain-Compatible Toddler Activities
  • Engaging Toddlers' Thinking Through Quality Children's Literature
  • Busy, Busy, Busy…Creating Toddler Environments That Work
Infant Topics
  • Brain Development and Baby's First Year
  • Creating Optimal Environments for Infants
  • Please Understand Me: The Nine Temperaments
  • Well-Being and Distress: Decoding the Signals
  • Powerful Early Language Boosters: Twenty Tips for Teachers


Parenting

  • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families
  • Long-Term Parenting Strategies: What Works in the Short-Term Can Be Misleading
  • Top Ten Ways to Family Peace and Joy
  • A-Z of College Success: A Comprehensive Plan for Getting There and Staying There
  • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families

Wellness

  • How to Lighten Up Without Losing Out
  • Optimizing Your Life…Balance is the Key
  • No Time for Self Care? Beware!
  • Cool Relief from Burnout: Renewal that Really Works!
  • 3 Easy Steps to Mastering the Stress in Your Life

Elder Care

  • How to avoid staff turnover and burn out.
  • What administrators of assisted living facilities need to know.
  • Relieving stress in a highly charged emotional enviroment
  • Improving professionalism ensuring quality.