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The essential manual on managing shiftworking Managing The Credit Crunch Changing shift patterns guide Consultancy in Staff Rostering Staff rostering projects Training in staff rostering Call centres Homepage |
The three training seminars outlined below are essential for all managers connected with operating a shift pattern.
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Changing to new Shift Patterns |
| If your company uses staff rosters, they need to be efficient. If they are not efficient, the costs are always going to be far more than they need be.
Unfortunately, it can take a long time to manually produce a staff roster without specialist help and appropriate software specially designed for this purpose. Training in Staff Rostering
can produce a company that is more productive and efficient. There is no other area of management that will help your company more than staffing the business correctly.
As everyone running a shift pattern realises, the biggest 'pain in the neck' is covering for absences and staff holidays. When essential staff can be absent without warning, or request long breaks for holidays, the effort involved in solving these problems can be disproportionately high. One of our specialities is showing companies how to manage for absences and how to accommodate holidays as an integral part of the shift pattern. One favoured option by many organisations is to introduce a Holidays Included Shift Pattern (HISP) which is one of our specialities. If you would like to know more about HISP's, please click on HISP email request. |
Information about Staff Rostering
| Large organizations | Total capacity flexibility | Examples | |
| Business plans | Saving Money | Mergers/Acquisitions | More: info1, info2 |
| 3 Case Studies -> | New venture NMEC | Acquisition/expansion | Expanding services |
When it comes to experimenting with Shift Patterns and Staff Rostering, there really is no substitute to using the computer. Visual Rota is a computer program that you can use to create your staff roster. And then, you can expand the roster for the next year and maintain it for a few minutes each day. It is all in the planning. If you are having problems making your staff roster work, ie it never seems to work out the way you want, have a look at the articles below and feel free to contact alec@visualrota.co.uk or phone him on 01636 816466. |
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Staff Scheduling. This is one of the most frustrating managerial tasks that has to be done. It can be made very easy.
I am often asked the question, how do I start a brand new staff schedule? It can be daunting to have the task of creating a brand new manning operation, budgeting for it, and presenting it to management.
All of us would like to think that there is a repeatable pattern of shifts that would only have to be done once.
How can you change over to using the computer, having done the staff roster by hand for years?
Staffing costs are the major expenditure of all businesses. We can tell you how to include them in your business plan.
If you need to keep records, have the computer generate them for you. Why not use the computer to do any calculations and presentations you have to have.
Considering A Merger or Acquisition? Many mergers are financial failures because the people aspects have not been planned and managed properly.
Holiday pay falls into 2 distinct variants, Did you know that?
Many organizations have pay rates that do not coincide with shift times.
Hotel Staff and Staffing A Hotel . Housekeeping, reception, porters, cleaning, room service, restaurant, bar, the list of departments is long enough, but each department has several grades of staff.
Visual Rota gives you the opportunity to cost out the labour element of running your establishment to as exact a figure as you like.
The EC Working Time Directive will have an effect on all Organisations. The Elements of the EC Working Time Directive That Will Affect You
Frequently Asked Questions about creating a staff schedule on computer.
Visual Rota compiles additional information to be used by the operations/financial manager to be linked into forecasting on the employment of staff and budget decisions.
Resistance to change is inevitable people will always question methods and evaluate what they are being asked to do.
All organisations need a manpower plan and the essential prerequisite for any manpower planning is a statement of demand for the products of the organisation.
Visual Rota enables you to perform 'What If..' analyses, such as; •What if - we decide on different hours per shift?
This article concentrates on one very important aspect of quality, how staffing levels are seen to affect the quality from the recipients point of view.
Short staffing is when the tasks to be completed on a shift are not completed because there is not enough staff available.
Productivity increases can leave your organization over staffed, Visual Rota can reduce your staffing, painlessly.
Direct E-mail to Alec at CDT Please e-mail any questions you have about Visual Rota
How to search the Internet
Organizations and Staff Scheduling The Basics Behind Efficient Organizations
What is it that people want, when they talk about staff records? It isn't what is available on the market at the moment.
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health & Shiftwork E-mail Alec Jezewski Management Savings Self rostering Delegate rostering tasks performed by Visual Rota FAQs EC Working Time Directive Managing Information Care Plans Example & Picture Homepage Management Fact Sheets Staffing and Workload Cash & Cash Budgets Daily Task Scheduling Total capacity flexibility Animations | Within this site, you will find information about how to create the most efficient staffing structures. We show how simple it is to create staff rosters from scratch, we cover how to manage when you think you are short of staff, or have too many staff. We cover holidays, how to calculate holiday entitlements and how to assign holidays to ensure that you are never short of staff. We show you how to use Visual Rota to meet budgets, monthly or yearly, both staffing budgets and cash budgets. We show you how to use Annual Hours to equalize staffing versus workload variations. We show you how staffing affects quality and how the staff can help with the roster. We provide a consultancy service so that you can have After you have reduced the time taken, and the effort expended, to a tenth of what it used to be, we will show you
how to use your new found time profitably, increasing the quality of the service you provide, increasing the profitability of your company,
and forming new strategies to become the best in your field.
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Tel: +44 1 636 816466 Fax: +44 1 636 816882 E-mail Alec Jezewski
| Large organizations | Total capacity flexibility | Examples | |
| Business plans | Saving Money | Mergers/Acquisitions | More: info1, info2 |
| 3 Case Studies -> | New venture NMEC | Acquisition/expansion | Expanding services |
Extract from the book Order form for the book Also available from Amazon, ISBN 9780955919800 |
How To Manage Your Shift PatternHolidays and AbsencesThe aim of this 234 page book is to provide you with the tools and techniques to make a shift pattern run smoothly. The main objective of any shift pattern is to ensure you have the right people with the correct skills when and where you want them. The major issues, which are going to prevent you from achieving this objective, are staff holidays and absences. Therefore the two key topics of this book are how to organise staff holidays and staff absences so that they do not effect the operation. In this eye-opening book CDT shows us how to effectively manage holidays, absences and create a shift pattern that actually manages itself. Key topics covered in this book include: · Calculating How Many Staff You Need · Different Types of Shift Patterns · Holiday Management · Holidays Included Shift Patterns · Holidays Excluded Shift Patterns · Shift Cover Arrangements · Banked Hours · Fatigue and Shift Work · Incorporate Training into your Shift Pattern · Terms and Conditions of Employment · Implementing a New Shift Pattern |
