Three Training Seminars For Managers
In Organisations Running Shifts

Training Seminar: CDT01 How To Create: The Perfect Shift Pattern Wednesday, 17th February 2010 Location: Rolleston, Nottinghamshire, UK The seminar covers everything a manager needs to know about how to set up shift patterns to a criteria such as staffing levels, or staffing budgets, or financial budgets. The aim of this seminar is to provide a manager with the tools and techniques that will be applicable to any organisation that needs to set up a new shift pattern for a new application, or to improve the organisational efficiency of an on-going requirement. Examples of the most common shift patterns are provided along with instructions on how to manipulate these to your personal requirements. Detailed seminar agenda - click here

Training Seminar CDT02: How To Manage Your Shift Pattern Monday, 1st February 2010 Location: Rolleston, Nottinghamshire, UK The seminar covers everything a manager needs to know to manage holidays and absences. The aim of this seminar is to provide managers with the tools and techniques to make a shift pattern run smoothly. The main objective of any shift pattern is to ensure there are the right people, with the correct skills, when and where they are wanted. The main issues, which are going to prevent you from achieving this objective, are staff holidays and absences. It is applicable to anyone who manages shifts and would like to improve their methods for dealing with the day-to-day problems associated with managing shifts. Detailed seminar agenda - click here

Training Seminar: CDT03 How To Implement Your New Shift Pattern Monday, 12th April 2010 Location: Rolleston, Nottinghamshire, UK This is a comprehensive seminar covering how to implement a new shift pattern. It includes negotiations with staff, reward structures, costings, migration planning and task lists. The purpose of this seminar is to provide you with the correct approach to introducing your new shift pattern. Since shift pattern design is not included in this seminar it is advisable that all attendees have either some working knowledge of shift patterns or have attended our other seminars in the past. Once you have attended all of our seminars you should be able to assess your companies workload and create and implement a shift pattern to match it. Detailed seminar agenda - click here

New Businesses Making Money

Staffing costs are the major expenditure of all businesses and especially those in the service industry. Service industries include; nursing homes, care homes, hospitals, hotels, restaurants, government, etc. A business plan is about making money, accounting for costs and expenditure, taking financial advice and making a financial plan. Money is required to start a business and the business must make money. Visual Rota software is a tool used to forecast staffing costs and methods of optimising these costs.

2 Examples

The New Millenium Dome

The new Millennium Dome will have a spectacular show in the centre of the Dome. Several times a day, every day of the year 2000, the centre show will excite and thrill you.

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The show will use hundreds of staff from aerial riggers to lighting to wardrobe, working around the clock.

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The staffing rosters for the entire year are in place, the start and finish times of each shift are in place and the cost of the show personnel is in place.

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Now they can start hiring staff.

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All this has been possible using Visual Rota's Consultancy service

A New Nursing Home

A new nursing home is planned to be built on a green field site for 55 beds. Visual Rota Consultancy created the staffing roster, costed it out and made recommendations for saving staffing costs. In effect, we created two staff rosters, the first used the organisations current staffing system, the second used the optimum staffing roster. One recommendation concerned the staffing overlap in the middle of the afternoon caused by using 8 hour shifts. The difference in costs caused by the overlap came to £1,000,000 over the life of the home(20 years).

The Bank Manager

My bank manager called recently to discuss our plans for the future, as he occasionly does whenever the weather is perfect and he can sit outside The Old Vicarage, enjoying the sunshine and the magnificent views over the river. We showed him a few examples similar to the above and he literally exploded in excitement. 'These are brilliant!' The detail of staffing costs is just what he has always wanted from the business plans presented to him. 'Most plans use some arbitary factor for staffing, but we never know if the number have been plucked from the air, and these are just what the bank needs.'

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How To Manage Your Shift Pattern Holidays and Absences The 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