Middle Bench Mastery with Rachel Supalla: The Missing Piece to Business Success Through Empowering Mentorship Programs

Rachel Supalla is a dynamic professional with a multifaceted role as a multisite child care owner, coach, presenter, and mentor. With a profound passion for mentoring, coaching, and teaching, Rachel thrives on collaborative efforts with fellow business owners, directors, and leaders in the childcare industry.

In 2020, Rachel's outstanding contributions to the field were recognized as she and Discovery Kid Zone were honored with the title of Innovative Business of The Year.

Her journey began in 2009 when she founded Discovery Kid Zone, a venture that swiftly expanded to encompass multiple centers, with a recent addition to the portfolio. Rachel's educational background includes a Master's degree in Early Childhood Administration, underscoring her commitment to excellence in childcare.

What sets Rachel apart is her international training in various childcare methods, including Montessori, the Reggio Emilia approach, and a focus on social-emotional development. With a career spanning back to 1997, Rachel Supalla's wealth of experience and dedication to advancing early childhood education continues to make a lasting impact on the lives of the children she serves and the broader childcare community.

Rachel’s coaching website Vision Tree Learning highlights her Practically Perfect Performance™ coaching classes, Mastering Mentorship, as well as the complete catalog of her coaching and mentoring offerings. If you would like to get in contact with Rachel Supalla, you can email her at rachel@discoverykidzone.com

In this webinar, Rachel Supalla shared the concept of the Middle Bench —your team's core group with untapped potential. We gained valuable strategies for recognizing and unleashing their potential: how to motivate, encourage and grow your Middle Bench to be high achievers and become tomorrow's leaders.

She shared secrets that will lead to higher staff retention and increased work satisfaction by effectively mentoring your Middle Bench. Rachel also gave tips on how to develop a collaborative workplace culture as well as how mentorship programs can be the cornerstone of organizational resilience and adaptability in the childcare setting. Furthermore, Rachel explained the Mentorship Tango and how you can use it to better guide your Middle Bench.

If you are interested to learn more, you can access the full recording here.