The document discusses reasons why teaching is a great profession and provides benefits of being a teacher. It lists 7 reasons: 1) autonomy in the classroom, 2) summer vacation time, 3) job security as teachers are in high demand, 4) schedule works well for families, 5) staying mentally young by learning about students and trends, 6) impacting students who will be the future, and 7) finding humor and enjoyment in teaching daily. It promotes teaching as a fulfilling and rewarding career.

1. Transforming Your
Organization
Prof. (Dr.) MP Poonia
Director, NITTTR
Chandigarh (India)

2. Why Teaching is a GreatWhy Teaching is a Great
ProfessionProfession

3. Once a teacher closes the door of
his classroom and begins
teaching, he really is one who
decides what is going to happen in
the classroom. Not many jobs
provide an individual with so much
room to be creative and
autonomous each day
1. Autonomy in the Class1. Autonomy in the Class

4. It is the only
profession where
you have summer
vacation, winter
holidays, and
weekends which
can really be a
huge benefit and
provide much
needed rest time
2. Summer off2. Summer off

5. In many communities
teachers are scarce
commodity. It is
certain that you will
be able to find a job
as a teacher if you
have proven yourself
a successful teacher.
3. Job Security3. Job Security

6. If you are married and
have children,
academic calendar
will typically allow
you to have the same
days off as your kids.
4. Conducive to Family Life4. Conducive to Family Life

7. Being around young
people everyday will
help you remain
knowledgeable about
current trends,
fashions and ideas.
5. Staying Younger5. Staying Younger

8. When you are
teaching in a class,
you, in fact, are
also exercising
your own
influences upon
your students who
are our future.
6. Affecting the Future6. Affecting the Future

9. If you have
positive attitude
and a sense of
humour, you will
find things to
laugh about each
day. So find the
fun in your class
and enjoy your
7. Daily Humour7. Daily Humour

10. 7. Daily Humour (contd.)7. Daily Humour (contd.)

11. You will never
learn a topic
better than
when you start
teaching it.
8. Teaching Helps You8. Teaching Helps You
Learn a SubjectLearn a Subject

12. It can be a means of
great happiness
when a student who
did not understand a
concept and then he
learned it through
your help.
9. Student Success and9. Student Success and
Teacher’s HappinessTeacher’s Happiness

13. Unfortunately, not every student will succeed in
your class. However, this fact should not stop a
teacher from believing that every student has the
potential for success. This potential is so existing
that each new year presents new challenges and
new potential successes.
10 Student Potential10 Student Potential

14. Just be Thankful for Your JobJust be Thankful for Your Job
and Loveand Love
to Your Jobto Your Job

15. You are not an ElectricianYou are not an Electrician
in Chinain China

16. ......or a Plumber......or a Plumber
in Hungary …in Hungary …

17. …………or a Deodorantor a Deodorant
Tester inTester in
Germany…..Germany…..

18. or a Ditch Diggeror a Ditch Digger
in Poland …in Poland …

19. ………….or A Mobile Toilet.or A Mobile Toilet

20. But have IntegrityBut have Integrity
and Loyaltyand Loyalty

21. Punctuality andPunctuality and ResponsibilityResponsibility
SHOWSHOW

22. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives

23. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
Employee “Zim” in an organisation walked up to his
manager and asked what my job for the day?

24. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
The manager took “Zim” to the bank of a river and asked
him to cross the river and reach the other side of the bank
and bring the box back in less than an hour without using
the bridge.

25. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
“Zim” completed this task successfully by taking a
shared boat for $10 and reported back to the manager
about the completion of the task assigned in 55 minutes.
The manager smiled and said

26. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
Next day Employee “Sandil” reported to the same
manager and asked him the job for the day.
The manager assigned the same task as above to this
person also.

27. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
The employee “Sandil” before starting the task saw
employee “Sam” struggling in the river to reach the other
side of the bank. He realized “Sam” has the same task.
Now “Sandil” hired a moto scooter for $30 and crossed
the river and also took “Sam” along.

28. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
“Sandil” reported back to the manager that they did the
job in 30 minutes and the manager smiled and said,

29. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
The following day employee “Mark” reported to the same
manager and asked him the job for the day.
The manager assigned the same task again.

30. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
Employee “Mark” before starting the work did some
home work and realized “Zim”, “Sandil” & “Sam” all has
done this task before. He met them and understood how
they performed (time spent 2 hours)

31. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
He realized that there is a need for Standard Operating
Procedure (SOP) for doing this task as there was huge
time and money variations.

32. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
He sat down and wrote down the detailed SOP for
crossing the river, he documented the common mistakes
people made, various means of achieving the tasks, and
tricks to do the task efficiently. (Time spent – 4 hours)

33. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
Using the SOP he had written down he crossed the river
and reported back to the manager along with SOP
material. The manager said,
Awesome
“Mark”

34. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
The following day employee “Steve” reported to the
manager and asked him the job for the day.
The manager assigned the same task again.

35. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
“Steve” studied the SOP written down by “Mark” and sat
and thought about the whole task (5 minutes). He realized
company is spending a lot of money in sending the
person over when they can just ask the boatman to bring
the box.

36. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
He decided not to cross the river, negotiated with the
boatman who agreed to do the same for $3, sat down and
enjoyed his beer while the boatman brought his box in
the assigned time. He went back to his manager and said,

37. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
On Steve’s performance, the manager smiled and said,

38. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
What is the difference between Zim, Sandil, Mark &
Steve????
Many a times in life we get tasks to be done at home, at office, at play. Most
of us end up doing what is expected out of us. Do we feel happy? Most
probably yes. We would be often disappointed when the recognition is not
meeting our expectation.

39. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
From a company point of view “John” has saved time but
spent huge money on something that was not critical.
While he achieved the task in 50% time of the assigned
task, he was focussed on the task and not on the
relevance of it.

40. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
“Mark” created knowledge base and more paperwork for
the team. More often than not, huge procedures, timelines
and methods exist without questioning the rationale. This
knowledge creation for the team is of immense help but
always needs to be preceded by the question WHY???

41. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
Now to the outstanding person, “Steve” made the task,
what it was anyway, irrelevant; he created a Permanent
Asset to the organization, freeing up precious time for
more useful work – saved time (full one hour eliminated)
and money (only spending $3) too.

42. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
If u have notice ‘Sandil’, ‘Mark’ and ‘Steve’ all have
demonstrated “team spirit” over and above individual
performance; also they have demonstrated a very
invaluable characteristic known as “INITIATIVE”. Initiative
pays of every where whether at work or at personal life.

43. Take InitiativesTake Initiatives
If you put initiative you will succeed. Initiative is a
continual process and it never ends. This is because this
year’s achievement is next year’s task. You cannot use
the same success story every year. But always work for
the organisation.

44. Honesty PaysHonesty Pays

45. Honesty PaysHonesty Pays
A business man was growing old and knew it
was time to choose A successor.
He called all the executives together.
I am going to give each one of you a seed
today - a very special seed.
To plant the seed, water it, and come back
here one year from today.
Jim, like the others, told his wife the story.
She helped him get A pot, soil and compost
and he planted the seed.
Every day, he would water it and watch to see
if it had grown.
After three weeks, other executives began to
talk about , Jim kept Checking his seed, but
nothing grew

46.  Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still
nothing.
 Others were talking about their plants
 Jim didn’t have a plant and He felt like a failure.
 He just kept watering the soil
 A year finally went by and all the young
executives of the company brought their plants to
the CEO for inspection.
 Jim told his wife that He wasn’t going to take an
empty pot.
 But she asked him to be honest About what
happened.
 When Jim arrived, he was amazed At the variety
of plants grown by the other executives.
 When the CEO arrived, Jim just tried to hide in the
Honesty PaysHonesty Pays

47.  He ordered the director to bring Jim to the
front.
 The CEO asked him what had happened to
his Seed.
 Jim told him the story.
 The CEO asked everyone to sit down except
Jim.
 ‘Here is your next Chief Executive! His name
is Jim!’
 I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it,
and bring it back to me Today. But I gave you
all boiled seeds; they were dead - it was not
Possible for them to grow.
 Jim was the only one with the Courage and
Honesty PaysHonesty Pays

48. TeamworkTeamwork

49. Good old lessons in teamwork
from an age-old fable
The Tortoise
And
The Hare

50. Once upon a time a tortoise and a
hare had an argument about who
was faster.

51. They decided to settle the
argument with a race, they
agreed on a route and started
off the race.

52. The hare shot ahead and ran briskly for
some time. Then seeing that he was far
ahead of the tortoise, he thought he’d
sit under a tree for sometime and relax
before continuing the race.

53. He sat under the tree and soon fell
asleep.

54. The tortoise plodding on overtook him
and soon finished the race, emerging as
the undisputed champ.

55. The hare woke up and realized that he’d
lost the race.

56. The moral of the story is that slow and steady wins
the race.
This is the version of the story that we’ve all grown
up with.

57. The story continues…

58. The hare was disappointed at losing
the race and he did some soul-
searching. He realized that he’d lost
the race only because he had been
overconfident, careless and lax. If he
had not taken things for granted,
there’s no way the tortoise could
have beaten him.

59. So, he challenged the tortoise
to another race. The tortoise
agreed.

60. This time, the hare went all
out and ran without stopping
from start to finish. He won by
several miles.

61. The moral of the story?
Fast and consistent will always beat the slow and steady. If
you have two people in your organization, one slow,
methodical and reliable, and the other fast and still reliable at
what he does, the fast and reliable chap will consistently climb
the organizational ladder faster than the slow, methodical
chap.
It’s good to be slow and steady; but it’s better to be fast and
reliable.

62. But the story doesn’t end here…

63. The tortoise did some thinking this
time, and realized that there’s no
way he can beat the hare in a race
the way it was currently formatted.

64. He thought for a while, and then
challenged the hare to another race,
but on a slightly different route. The
hare agreed.

65. They started off. In keeping with his self-made commitment
to be consistently fast, the hare took off and ran at top
speed until he came to a broad river. The finishing line was
a couple of kilometers on the other side of the river.

66. The hare sat there wondering what to do. In the meantime
the tortoise trundled along, got in to river, swam to the
opposite bank, continued walking and finished the race.

67. The moral of the story?
First identify your core competency and then change the playing field to
suit your core competency.
In an organization, if you are a good speaker, make sure you create
opportunities to give presentations that enable the senior management to
notice you.
If your strength is analysis, make sure you do some sort of research, make
a report and send it upstairs.
Working to your strengths will not only get you noticed, but will also create
opportunities for growth and advancement.

68. The story still hasn’t ended…

69. The hare and the tortoise, by this time,
had become pretty good friends and
they did some thinking together. Both
realized that the last race could have
been run much better.

70. So they decided to do the last
race again, but to run as a
team this time.

71. They started off, and this time
the hare carried the tortoise till
the riverbank.

72. There, the tortoise took over and
swam across with the hare on
his back.

73. On the opposite bank, the hare again carried
the tortoise and they reached the finishing line
together. They both felt a greater sense of
satisfaction than they'd felt earlier.

74. The moral of the story?
It's good to be individually brilliant and to have strong core
competencies; but unless you're able to work in a team and
harness each other's core competencies, you'll always perform
below par because there will always be situations at which
you'll do poorly and someone else does well.
Teamwork is mainly about situational leadership, letting the
person with the relevant core competency for a situation take
leadership.

75. There are more lessons to be learnt from this story.
Note that neither the hare nor the tortoise gave up after failures. The hare
decided to work harder and put in more effort after his failure. The tortoise
changed his strategy because he was already working as hard as he could.
In life, when faced with failure, sometimes it is appropriate to work harder
and put in more effort. Sometimes it is appropriate to change strategy and
try something different. And sometimes it is appropriate to do both.
The hare and the tortoise also learnt another vital lesson. When we stop
competing against a rival and instead start competing against the situation,
we perform far better.

76. When Roberto Goizueta took over as CEO of Coca-Cola in the
1980s, he was faced with intense competition from Pepsi that
was eating into Coke's growth. His executives were Pepsi-
focused and intent on increasing market share 0.1 per cent a
time.
Roberto decided to stop competing against Pepsi and instead
compete against the situation of 0.1 per cent growth.

77. He asked his executives what was the average fluid intake of an
American per day? The answer was 14 ounces. What was Coke's
share of that? Two ounces. Roberto said Coke needed a larger share
of that market. The competition wasn't Pepsi. It was the water, tea,
coffee, milk and fruit juices that went into the remaining 12 ounces.
The public should reach for a Coke whenever they felt like drinking
something.
To this end, Coke put up vending machines at every street corner.
Sales took a quantum jump and Pepsi has never quite caught up
since.

78. To sum up, the story of the hare and tortoise teaches
us many things:
Never give up when faced with failure
Fast and consistent will always beat slow and steady
Work to your competencies
Compete against the situation, not against a rival.
Pooling resources and working as a team will
always beat individual performers

79. Let’s go and build stronger teams!Let’s go and build stronger teams!

80. A Paradigm About EmployeesA Paradigm About Employees
1. You can buy people’s time;
2. You can buy their physical presence at
a given place;
3. You can even buy a measured number
of their skilled muscular motions per
hr.
4. But you cannot buy the devotion of their
hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

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