Why this Boot Camp matters
At Acorn we believe good change happens when people, data, and purpose connect. The Management Team Boot Camp puts that belief into action for Head Start and Early Head Start leaders who are juggling new performance standards, staffing challenges, and ever‑growing compliance demands. In just one concentrated learning event your management team will:
- Learn evidence‑based motivation tools that keep teams engaged
- Consider unified and simplified data language that helps the whole team communicate successfully
- Explore management by walking around and the associated skills that help leaders connect with staff on a daily basis
The Acorn Three‑Step Experience
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Step |
What Happens |
Your Return on Investment |
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1. Leadership Consult |
Senior Acorn faculty meet with your executive & program leads to tailor scenarios, metrics, and language to your culture. |
A shared vision for the Boot Camp in the context of your own program |
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2. Live Boot Camp |
Acorn provides a three-hour Zoom-based learning event that is fun, fast paced and packed with actionable tools and takeaways for the leadership team |
Managers leave both activated to use the content and with an operational plan to sustain the training in practice |
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3. Debrief & Next Moves |
We debrief the Boot Camp and discuss next steps (e.g., Manager Skills Certificate, Data Literacy Credential, Data Capacity Assessment). |
Momentum is protected and folded into ongoing Acorn supports, so learning sticks. |
What managers walk away able to do
For Individuals
- Understand the basics of motivational science in the workplace.
- Develop and deploy unified and standardized “data language” in the program
- Practice the art of “management by walking around”
For Programs
- A reinvigorated leadership team speaking a common management language
- Clear priorities for data‑backed quality‑improvement projects
- A stronger bench of leaders who can champion future Acorn initiatives (Data Camp, Manager Skills Certificate, etc.).
How this Boot Camp fits inside the Acorn ecosystem
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Challenge you’re solving next |
Seamless next step inside Acorn |
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“We need a deeper bench of data‑savvy leaders.” |
Data Literacy Credential – eight‑week flipped‑classroom experience for managers ready to turn data into stories. |
| “Managers need support supervising our people on a daily basis.” | Manager Skills Certificate – a series of hands-on leadership workshops for those directly in charge of others. |
Timeline
Pre-training consultation: 1 hour with senior leadership
Online Training: 3 hours on Zoom
Post-training debrief: 1 hour with senior leadership
For Individuals
- Understand the basics of motivational science in the workplace.
- Develop and deploy unified and standardized “data language” in the program
- Practice the art of “management by walking around”
For Programs
- A reinvigorated leadership team speaking a common management language
- Clear priorities for data‑backed quality‑improvement projects
- A stronger bench of leaders who can champion future Acorn initiatives (Data Camp, Manager Skills Certificate, etc.).