Welcome to the June 15, 2005 issue of The Total View

Your resource for cutting-edge news, tips, and tools to help you hire, manage,
and motivate top-performing employees.

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In This Issue
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1. Fifty Percent of New Teachers Leave in 5 Years.
2. Perfect Labor Storm Alert #409 to #413.
3. Learn How to Qualify Dozens of Candidates in Under 7 Minutes.
4. Go the Extra Degree.
5. Have You Downloaded our Complimentary DISC E-booklet Yet?

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The Total View is written and published each Wednesday by Ira S. Wolfe, founder of Success Performance Solutions. (Yes, Ira writes every article, every week!) and is distributed with permission by The Chrysalis Corporation.

Ira S. Wolfe 2005 - All Rights Reserved. Reprints and other distribution by permission only.

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1. Fifty Percent of New Teachers Leave in 5 Years.
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Better education is often cited as a critical component to solving the impending shortage of skilled workers. But the lack of enough skilled teachers might be another kink in the workforce armor.

The U.S. Department of Education reports that over the next decade, more than two million new teachers will walk into a classroom for their first day. Unfortunately, as the National Center for Education Statistics found, 666,000 of those new teachers will leave sometime during the first three years of teaching and one million of them will not make it past five years.

School staffing problems are primarily due to a "revolving door" - where too many qualified teachers are departing their jobs long before retirement. Attrition rates of this magnitude suggest that pouring money into recruitment efforts without fixing the retention problem is like pouring more water into a leaky bucket. First you have to fix the holes.

The cost of high teacher turnover and attrition rates is enormous. Every year, American schools spend $2.6 billion on teacher attrition.

Studies show that retirement and increased enrollment account for only a fraction of teacher shortages. Overall, the nation dramatically increased its supply of teachers during the 1990s and generally produces enough teachers to meet each year's new needs.

- Between the end of the 1999-2000 and the beginning of the 2000-2001 school years, about 67,000 teachers retired, accounting for only 24 percent of the 278,000 turnover and only 12 percent of the total turnover of 546,000 during that period. Rather, the data show that the demand for new teachers, and subsequent staffing difficulties, are primarily due to pre-retirement teacher turnover.

- According to a National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) survey of 8,400 public and private school teachers, the main reasons for high teacher turnover and attrition rates are with inadequate administrative support (38 percent) and workplace conditions (32 percent).

Teacher recruitment and other supply-side solutions may not only fail to solve the problem, but could also make it worse if recruitment strategies involve lowering teacher standards, or if the effect of increasing teacher supply is to deflate salaries or erode working conditions.

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2. Perfect Labor Storm Alert #409 to #413.
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Fact #409: Since the late 1970s, the number of obese adults in the United States has grown by over 50 percent. (Source: An Economic Analysis Of Adult Obesity)

Fact #410: Nearly 59 million Americans are classified as obese. (Source: An Economic Analysis Of Adult Obesity)

Fact #411: Obesity and its attendant sedentary lifestyle result in 300,000 premature deaths annually, a toll second only to the early mortality figure attributed to smoking. (Source: An Economic Analysis Of Adult Obesity)

Fact #412: The annual costs of medical treatment for obesity have been estimated at nearly $100 billion, or $732 higher on average for obese people than for people of normal weight.(Source: An Economic Analysis Of Adult Obesity)

Fact #413: Approximately half of the estimated $78.5 billion in medical care spending in 1998 attributable to excess body weight was financed through private insurance (38%) and patient out-of-pocket payments (14%). (Source: An Economic Analysis Of Adult Obesity)

Don't be caught in storm without all the facts. "The Perfect Labor Storm Fact Book: Why Worker Shortages Won't Go Away" is a must-read leading edge forecast that predicts workforce trends for decades to come. Get a copy today - $7.95 includes shipping. Follow this link to learn more:
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3. Learn How to Qualify Dozens of Candidates in Under 7 Minutes.
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4. Go the Extra Degree.
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At 211 degrees, water is hot.
At 212 degrees, water boils.
With boiling water, comes steam.
With steam, you can power a train.

As with sports, close is not good enough in customer service.
Professional golf tournaments are comprised of four rounds of 18 holes played over a four-day period. There are four major tournaments each year - The U.S. Open, The British Open, The PGA Championship, and the Masters.

Do you have a story about a manager, customer, employee, vendor, or supplier going the extra degree? Email us your 212 story by replying to this email. Readers who submit a story that is accepted for publication will receive a free 212 book.

Source: (212: The Extra Degree, S. L. Parker)

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5. Have You Downloaded our Complimentary DISC E-booklet Yet?
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<p>If you are new to the DISC behavioral model, or just want to brush up on your DISC knowledge, we invite you to download our complimentary e-booklet Teamworks: 42 Tips to Help Teams Thrive & Survive.</p>

<p>This easy reference pocked guide will provide you with a solid understanding of the DISC model in clear, concise language. You will learn:</p>

<LI>Four ways that people approach their work.
<LI>How to communicate with "challenging" people.
<LI>Secrets to reading a person like a book.
<LI>How to predict a person's behavior.
<LI>What motivates your boss and coworkers

Download Teamworks: 42 Tips to Help Teams Thrive Here.

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