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• Let’s not kid ourselves: The real reason for employee turnover

  Roberta Matuson Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  I recently received a call from a CEO who was concerned about the sudden increase in employee turnover in his organization. He couldn't understand why anyone would leave his firm. He then went down a laundry list of perks he recently added. I let him speak and then said, "Tell me something. Is this turnover happening throughout the organization or is there a particular area where you've noticed a spike?" He thought about it and said, "It seems most of the turnover is taking place in Bob's department. There are a few leaders in his operation who can be a bit abrupt at times — maybe even a bit abusive, but they're hitting their numbers." Boom! There you have it.

• Are classroom sizes hurting students?

  Patrick Gleeson Education

  Is there some point beyond which every student added to a classroom reduces the overall result? As a former teacher, I've watched the growing debate over class size in American primary and secondary education with interest and some alarm. My instinctive response is that class size does matter and that we’re headed in the wrong direction, but does the evidence bear this out? A National Education Association study, for example, reported that funding cuts for education required increasing class size limits in Georgia and Fairfax County, Virginia, which already had larger-than-average class sizes.

• How to geocache while RVing

  Cindy Belt Recreation & Leisure

  Geocaching is the perfect activity when RVing. Geocaching is a modern version of a treasure hunt using either a GPS unit or your smartphone. As you travel the country, you can find these treasures in state parks, rest areas, towns, country roads, or really anywhere. There are classes teaching geocaching at many state parks, but this article features basic steps with some hints.

• 5 tips to create blog posts that get shared on social

  Emma Fitzpatrick Marketing

  If you're already spending the time creating good content on your blog, you want to do everything you can to get more eyes on it. One of the best ways to do that is by creating blog posts that answer the questions you hear most from your customers and leads. Of course, you’ll want to sprinkle a bit of long-tail keyword research in there for good measure! It can be as simple as typing in the phrase you think you want to write about into an incognito browser and seeing what other search terms arise. From there, a few tweaks to how you format your content, write your title or determine your word count could be just what you need to increase the social shares for your blog posts.

• Tips on how school counselors can use technology to up their game

  Christy Conley Education

  In a time when school counselor caseloads can vary from the desired ASCA model number of 250 students per counselor to a caseload of over 900 students, counseling offices are constantly searching for avenues to produce large results with limited time and resources. Utilizing new technology is a great way to reach the masses and leave a lasting impression. New apps and websites are constantly hitting the market and can help counselors work smarter and not harder. This article features a few of my favorites.

• Oakland, California, teachers’ strike helps define new era for education…

  Michelle R. Matisons Education

  2018 was a year of unprecedented labor actions that rocked the education world. Now, one year after the West Virginia teachers' strike, we see Oakland, California’s teachers’ union, the Oakland Education Association (OEA), on the picket line with very serious and locale-specific demands. Bay Area housing costs are too high to retain quality educators in local public schools.

• The great proposal: Solutioning to strengths when faced with a recompete

  Lisa Pafe Civil & Government

  The great proposal did not start out great. In the beginning, 15 months prior to RFP release, there were the usual problems we faced when preparing for a recompete. Red flags included project startup issues that resulted in mediocre CPARS ratings, difficult client relationships, competing stakeholder demands, customer turnover on the acquisition side, and no dedicated Capture Manager or Capture Plan. Since this recompete represented the company’s largest federal contract, the CEO knew she had to take action.And that’s when the trajectory, which had been turning towards a possible proposal loss, started to reverse course.

• When do you owe too much on your credit cards?

  Patrick Gleeson Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Putting the title of this article another way, how much can you owe on your credit cards before it lowers your quality of life? There's never an absolute number — if you're living on your Social Security, it could be as little as $5,000 on a single high-interest-rate credit card. If you’re Amazon's Jeff Bezos, currently the world's richest person, there is no such number. But for the rest of us, there’s a point of credit card indebtedness that will cause the credit-rating agencies to lower your credit score enough to make your life more difficult.

• Gap analysis improves associations

  William D. Pawlucy Association Management

  The dictionary defines a gap as an incomplete or deficient area. A gap analysis is what an organization conducts to identify these incomplete or deficient areas in order to move from its current state to its ideal and desired future state. Every nonprofit can benefit from a gap analysis annually and in conjunction with reviewing its strategic plan. So, how do you perform a gap analysis while integrating it into your organization's strategic plan?

• Who to refer your young patient to if he or she has a lazy eye

  Tammy Hinojos Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Primary care physicians (and especially pediatricians) are often the first to see conditions in patients that ultimately need to be referred out to a specialist for treatment. If your patient has amblyopia (lazy eye), the specialist he or she will need is a pediatric ophthalmologist. And even though amblyopia affects about 2-4 percent of children in the U.S., it’s likely your young patient’s caregiver has never heard of this pediatric vision condition. If you are familiar at all with amblyopia, you probably know this eye condition by its more common name of lazy eye; not to be confused with crossed eyes (strabismus).

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