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The Total View
A Blueprint for Success

January 15, 2003
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-- Eventually one in five Americans will be retired.
-- "Unemployed" people on your payroll.
-- Work distractions.
-- Here today, gone today.
-- Weathering the impending Perfect Labor Storm.
-- NEW! Develop Effective Teams in 3-Easy Steps.
-- There's still time to register -
-- FREE audio tape from WJJZ interview.
-- Featured Books
-- Boosting morale is more important than ever
-- "There was not one minute that was not useful" - Rescheduled for March 14-16, 2003

Greetings!

"I've fallen and I can't get up."

Afraid she'd lose her job if she took another personal day, Joanne shows up to work. But while at work, she spends hours on the phone trying to place her mother in a nursing home. When she finally finds a facility, the calls continue because a friendly nurse on the floor reports her sheets are not being changed, she is not receiving her medications and her dirty towels are not being replaced.

Eventually one in five Americans will be retired.
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The number of people aged 65 years and over relative to the number aged between 20 and 64 years - is expected to double in the next five decades to almost 50%. In addition to more people living longer, 44 percent of the Sandwich Generation - ages 45 to 55 - have children under 21 years of age and living in-laws or parents or both.

Click here to read about how one solution - retaining older workers - may come with a high price tag.

"Unemployed" people on your payroll.
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The National Alliance for Caregiving estimates that between 22 million and 25 million Americans care for an older or disabled relative.

· 72 percent of relatives who provide care are women, mostly wives and adult daughters. · Between 20 percent and 40 percent of caregivers are in the "sandwich generation," caring for children under 18 as well as a disabled older relative. · Between one-third and two-thirds of caregivers also work outside the home.

The Perfect Labor Storm is hardly over. Click here to schedule Ira S. Wolfe to speak at your next association, workforce, or Chamber meeting on how to weather the Perfect Labor Storm.

Work distractions.
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Even the workers like Joanne who do show for work may be present only in body. Their minds are anywhere but on their work. These distracted and many times absent workers on payrolls are costing businesses billions of dollars in lost productivity each year and the situation is only going to get worse.

The estimated dollar cost to U.S. employers is $17 billion a year or $2500 per caregiver per year. Included in these costs is time missed from work and the cost of replacing those who quit to care for relatives.

Here today, gone today.
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When push comes to shove, caregiving effects work performance and it is becoming one more drain on productivity. In a recent study of caregivers, 69% of participants reported arriving late or leaving work early. 67% took time off during the day to attend to an elderly dependent. 64% used sick days or vacation time for caregiving duties. 22% took a leave of absence. 20% reduced their career from full- to part-time. 16% quit their jobs.

Weathering the impending Perfect Labor Storm.
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Patients don't die from AIDS. They die from complications of other diseases and illnesses because they don't have the ability to fight off infection. Healthy individuals recover quickly from the common cold and the flu. For the AIDS-infected individuals even the common cold is deadly.

Likewise, organizations don't die from the "infection" of turnover and low morale. They go broke by diverting their attention from investing in growth and competitiveness to pouring dollars into retaining unproductive employees and then replacing them with more of the same. While the competition is investing in growing a healthy and dynamic organization, the "infected" organization is always fighting off another potentially fatal challenge. The healthy organization rebounds quickly, the infected organization dies.

Weathering the Perfect Labor Storm requires fresh, innovative and comprehensive solutions. There is no better firm than Success Performance Solutions. Contact us today.

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There's still time to register -
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- but you need to act fast. If you or your managers have been heard saying:

1. If I want something done right, I need to do it myself. 2. What do I have to do around here for anyone to pay attention to what I'm saying? 3. We wouldn't have problems getting our work done if our employees would just use their heads to think. 4. If other people would only get out of my way and let me do my job, I could get my work done. 5. I'm a pretty good manager considering the quality of employees I have to work with. 6. What was wrong with the way we used to do it? 7. Employees today just don't have the same work ethic as when I started here. 8. Why do I need to say "thank you"? Isn't paying them to do their jobs good enough? If you answered "yes", it's not too late to register for Managing to Excel 2003 beginning February 19, 2003 at The Lancaster Chamber. Call us today at 717.656.4632 to register or receive the complete schedule.