This essential supports day-care centre management in coping with the stresses and strains at the workplace. Day-care centres today require special leadership skills to guide their employees, children in care, and parents through the crisis of appreciation. According to the new success principle "With appreciation to added value," we present five concrete steps for daycare centre managers to retain, qualify, keep healthy, motivate, and satisfy their employees. This aims to improve "living and working" conditions and enhance early educational quality in the daycare centre, kindergarten, and after-school care.